Timeline Byzantine 350 -450 Medieval 400-500 AD Surrealism 1920-1930 Beginning in the mid-1920s‚ Surrealist captured the Modern imagination. In essence‚ Surrealism began as a direct spillover from the Dada movement in art and culture. The Surrealists wanted to explore through poetry and prose the psychic dimension of the human mind. A huge source of inspiration was the groundbreaking work of Sigmund Freud. Continued Surrealism 1920-1930 What is important to understand is
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Modern Art There is no way to simply define Modern Art into a sentence or so‚ for the collaboration of genres within Modern Art expand from the 1890’s to1970 with many influences of philosophy and other styles and denotations. Modern art is known as intellectual and individual where the idea is primary‚ and the object is secondary. Formal filters were used‚ such as line‚ shape‚ color‚ form‚ and texture. These filters were created among traditional formats‚ such as easel painting‚ pedestal sculpture
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Realism versus Pop Art In this life‚ there are many forms of art or art “movements” to speak of. How we interpret art is a very subjective thing. What a person sees and feels when looking at art greatly depends on their upbringing‚ their values‚ and even their mood at the time of viewing. Could something dark and lacking color be art? What about a comic strip in the newspaper or the billboard down the street? Again‚ interpretation and taste in art is individual. I elected to explore into the two
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ART HISTORY ASSIGNMENT 8 Part I American abstraction emerged from the background of Regionalism and Social Realism in the middle 1930’s.(1) The development and characteristics of Abstract Expressionism began with the Surrealist phase in which artists took an interest in myths and dream and in effect‚ unconscious creativity. From Expressionism‚ artists gained a passion for the “expressive qualities of paint.”(1) From Surrealism and Expressionism‚ Abstract Expressionism was born
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side‚ the 60s gave rise to the consumer and environmental protection laws. The arrival of the Beatles (1964) from the United Kingdom forever changed the music culture in the United States. The 60s also saw major works of art from artists such as Andy Warhol. Significant scientific and technological achievements were also made during this decade as a result of the space war. Political The Cold War and space war with the USSR‚ the election of President Kennedy and his assassination‚ the beginning
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In each period of art history‚ there is a story. For Baroque art‚ the story is why the period has been classically misunderstood. In the early 1600s‚ artists and intellectuals worked in academies to explore humanism begun in the Renaissance‚ classical thought (i.e. Plato and Aristotle)‚ and new trends in human thought and expression. But why does the word “Baroque” have a negative history? The original translations of this word include Italian for “tortuous medieval pedantry” and Portuguese for “deformed
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Contextual Studies 19 August 2013 “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” - Andy Warhol But is it art? The popularised adage to the interrogation of much of today’s conceptual art seems most appropriate in assessing the body of art that Andy Warhol is most famous for. In a sense‚ the perpetual question was born out of a similar dissatisfaction that characterised the rise of Pop art. Born out of a culture of consumerism
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they do) Balance (symmetrical‚ imbalance‚ asymmetrical‚ bilateral‚ pure/formal‚ and pictorial) Functions of art Vocabulary of art (Visual elements‚ principles of design‚ style‚ form‚ and content) Canon of proportion/Golden mean Images: 1. Andy Warhol‚ Four Marilyns‚ (Fig. 1-9‚ pg. 7) 2. Judy Chicago‚ The Dinner Party‚ (Fig. 1-10‚ pg. 8) 3. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith‚ Eclipse‚ (Fig. 1-24‚ pg. 16) 4. Faith Ringgold‚ Tar Beach‚ (Fig. 1-27‚ pg. 17) 5. Jackson Pollock‚ Number 14: Gray‚ (Fig. 2-2‚ pg. 27)
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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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He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers - Henry David Thoreau The Violets in the mountains have broken the rocks - Tennessee Williams "You have to die a few times before you can really live." — Charles Bukowski "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." — Pablo Neruda "great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. - Charles Bukowski "to fight for each minute is
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