Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was possibly the most prominent and influential art critic of the twenty-first century. Greenberg’s intensely influential focus was on the notion of “formal purity” and how that affected the work itself in a painting just being a painting and “orientating itself to flatness” as modernist paintings had. Additionally‚ Clement Greenberg found interest in Abstract Expressionism and how Greenberg’s strictly outlined theories on art would inspire artists of the Minimalist
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If you could travel back and meet one famous person who would that be? I definitely consider that it is an outstanding notion to travel back in time and meet Marilyn Monroe. In addition‚ she is one of the most celebrated and enduring icons of all time. Furthermore‚ Marilyn was an American actress‚ singer‚ model and a showgirl. She is an inspiration and a role model for girls from all generations. Nevertheless‚ this woman hasn’t always been the platinum blond shade fashion icon which we all recognize
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Night‚” in the fall of 1970‚ while he was working for the Berkshire School District. He was living in the Sedgwick House‚ a Federal style house in Stockbridge‚ Massachusetts. The Sedgwick family included Edie Sedgwick‚ an interesting figure that Andy Warhol filmed in the 1960s. McLean wrote “Vincent” in his apartment‚ which was full of antiques. After looking at a book about Vincent Van Gogh one morning‚ the inspiration for “Vincent‚” came to him. He studied a print of Van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night
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“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough‚ it loses all of its meaning” – Andy Warhol It is widely accepted that advertisement plays an important role in today’s society and our life style. Since the advertising is ubiquitous‚ it also affects and influences people in thought-provoking and encouraging ways to get action after they are exposed to a certain advertisement. People also tend to buy any particular type of product pertaining to the feeling vis-à-vis the extent to which of how they
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BMS122: APPRECIATING LEISURE LIFESTYLES Types of Art: Main Periods 1. 2. 3. Visual Arts Appreciation Part 2 4. 5. 6. 7. Pre-historic Ancient Medieval (Middle Ages) Renaissance Baroque / Rococo 19th Century 20th Century 6. 19th Century Art 19th Century Art: Neo-classicism Includes: 1. 2. 3. 4. Neo-classicism Romanticism Realism Impressionism Rebirth to the art of ancient Rome and Greece‚ and the Renaissance Costumes‚ settings‚ and details depicted with much
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Is Fashion Art? Everybody questions art. You would think art is merely created for admiration‚ but its not. The average person would describe art as a drawing on a piece of paper‚ and this quote by Clement Greenberg (1909-1991) suggests why: "The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art‚ any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby‚ each art would be rendered pure’ " "Painting is not sculpture it is two-dimensional;
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The fascination of images: How do images teach us to desire The culture in which we live teaches us to‚ and what to desire. It does so through the works of psychoanalysis‚ interpreting the unconscious‚ free associations‚ fantasies and dreams. Interpreting these in a way in which to make the viewer the resolute to the images. The basic human needs are different to that of what we desire‚ we need food‚ water‚ shelter‚ yet we do not desire these things in a way in which we desire love and sex
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Samantha Torres Professor Kelley Writing 101 2 February 2013 Exit Through the Gift Shop In todays society there are many different kinds of art. As well as many different meanings art. Exit Through the Gift Shop was a very interesting documentary that I have ever seen. It was very empowering in a way. This documentary was mostly based on graffiti‚ from how it started and how it ended. Now the question is‚ is graffiti real art? I certainly think that graffiti is real art. I think any art
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READING ART- UNDERSTANDING ICONOGRAPHY The four basic roles of the artist is to record the world or keep a historical record‚ to give form to ideas and concepts‚ as well as feelings and philosophies‚ to reveal the hidden or universal truths and to show the world in a new way. History can be recorded visually. Back when much of the ancient art was created ‚ it was believed that most of the population was illiterate. So any form of art could serve as a record of that time and the population
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in a way‚ modernist art followed the rudimentary progression of general modernity‚ which involved the “creative destruction” in all spheres through the “negation of the old and the creation of the new.” Towards the 1950s‚ enervation took hold as modernity failed to deliver on its historical promise to deliver an unprecedented future of prophetic works of art. Reactionaries like Dwight MacDonald hated these changes. In his 1952 Theory of Mass Culture‚ he likened contemporaneous art as akin to
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