In his essay After the Great Divide. Modernism‚ Mass Culture‚ Post Modernism‚ Andreas Huyssen argues that “since the mid 19th century‚ the culture of modernity has been characterised by a volatile relationship between high art and mass culture.” The writer states that Modernist artists strove to distance themselves from the “l’art pour l’art” movements of the turn of the century like Art Nouveau‚ Symbolism and Æstheticism. This type of art pandered to the tastes of the middle classes striving to
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understanding of something new. This art added so much detail and made places‚ things‚ and paintings more visually pleasant. Although some people see the work as just decoration‚ they all had very important meanings. Like in 1849-1850 at the Courbet‚ Burial at Ornans the painting was almost a split image of the actual event which was a perfect representation. One of my favorite art forms comes from the period of 1887-1889 which is the Eiffel tower. It was the most famous iron structure from
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Introduction The paper aims to trace the development of painting through the following periods: baroque‚ neoclassicism‚ realism‚ impressionism‚ post-impressionism‚ cubism‚ geometric abstraction‚ and surrealism. They make up the history of painting and help to understand the stages of its development and why modern painting looks like it looks. Baroque: (1600 - 1750) Baroque was a characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century. Baroque
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ART SUMMARY TERM 2 FRAMES Cultural This view is concerned with understanding how an artwork is influenced by the values of the society it is produced in‚ and‚ in turn‚ how the artwork influences the values of the society. This includes examining the historical and cultural context in which the work was made‚ and religious and/or philosophical beliefs‚ which may have influenced the work. Subjective This view is concerned with examining an artwork from a personal perspective. This might
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particular painting would bring him. Manet was an artist with a novel approach to art‚ contrasting with other artist of his time‚ which were following the mainstream approach to painting‚ he decided to paint the ordinary life of every day people. And like Courbet‚ he had decided to paint about the social issues going on in France. Because of his social attitudes during this time period the painting would be largely overlook by the critic’s. His painting "The Old Musician" would serve as a duality of man’s
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Analysis of Edgar Degas’ L ’Absinthe Edgar Degas was born in Paris France‚ on 19 July 1834 and died on 27 September 1917 at the age of 83. He was a painter and a sculpture. He was considered one of the founders of "Impressionism"‚ although he didn’t like that term and preferred to call it "Realism". Unlike his Impressionist colleges‚ Degas was more of an urban artist. He liked to paint the small stage spaces of shows‚ everyday activities and leisure areas. Edgar Degas’ painting of L ’Absinthe
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ART is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting‚ sculpture‚ printmaking‚ photography‚ and other visual media. The term ‘Western art’ largely describes the art of western Europe‚ but is also used as a general category for forms of art that are now geographically widespread but that have their roots in Europe. Art historians describe the
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Smith Oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ New York Landscape with Tree by George Smith is an example of American realist painting of the 20th century. The realist style has origins that trace back to the 19th-century French artist Gustave Courbet. Smith is one of the few American artists still engaged in the realist manifesto‚ which rejects abstraction as a corrupt‚ elitist form of art. Landscape is an asymmetrical composition. The work achieves a sense of balance through counterbalancing
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The French Painter Edouard Manet Table of Contents 1. Introduction --------------------- 1 2. From Renaissance to Impressionism --------------------- 2 3. Manet ’s place in the history of art --------------------- 4 4. Manet: life and legacy --------------------- 9 5. References
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"Is that a Monet?" As a nine-year-old boy with minimal knowledge of the arts‚ I wasn’t exactly sure what I was being asked. I turned around to look at the painting on my grandparents’ wall and saw the writing "Claude Monet 1903" in the bottom right-hand corner. I politely answered my aunt’s question‚ "Yes‚ I believe so." After we both looked at the painting for a few moments‚ she commented on its beauty and praised Claude Monet as a "great artist." I liked the painting myself. The different shades
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