To the general public‚ both Michelangelo’s David and Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase‚ shock was the initial response. The statue of David depicts a nude man which was much less acceptable at that time than in recent days. Other negative reactions were brought on by its political significance. Duchamp’s painting also raised shock in its viewers. The painting was meant to portray a nude woman as she ascended a staircase although it looked like anything but. This caused the public to
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his home in the 1920s and 1930s‚ and in the 1940s he crossed the Atlantic once again‚ spending periods in New York and Hollywood. His art spanned painting‚ sculpture‚ film‚ prints and poetry‚ and in his long career he worked in styles influenced by Cubism‚ Futurism‚ Dada and Surrealism. He also successfully navigated the worlds of commercial and fine art‚ and came to be a sought-after fashion photographer. He is perhaps most remembered for his photographs of the inter-war years‚ in particular the camera-less
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Nicholas Nickleby is a messy novel‚ drifting‚ digressive and infrequently an added with short stories which have no genuine bearing on the plot; its quality lies basically in its comedies and in its splendidly unpredictable characters. Dickinson presented the dingy showy organization keep running by Vincent Crummles enables him to express something of his own interest with the nature‚ and mindset of Victorian on-screen characters. The Victorian Theater includes a significantly more liquid and creative
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painting. 17) The artist is one of several who are known as the Post Impressionists. 18) Derain and Metisse were dubbed fauves by a critic in 1905. 19) The fragmenting of the figures in an important element of the movement known as cubism. 20) This painting represents the abstract phase of surrealism. 21) This is an abstract painting in the strictest sense. Didn’t get numbers 4 or
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he spoke frankly about "Les Demoiselles d ’Avignon‚" his greatest painting and a touchstone of 20th-century art that is 100 years old this summer. On this occasion‚ Picasso did not address the subjects that transfix art historians -- the origin of Cubism‚ the supplanting of old avant- gardes‚ and the impact of non-Western art. He cut through academic dissertations to offer one of his most heartfelt admissions about why he made art. He spoke of artworks as "weapons . . . against everything . . . against
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The Museum of Modern Art mounted shows including "Cubism and Abstract Art‚" "Fantastic Art‚ Dada‚ Surrealism‚" and a major retrospective of Pablo Picasso. And 1939‚ the opening of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting‚ called the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum later‚ which blustered an vital collection of
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There are generally two types of paintings- representational and abstract. While representational painting portrays recognizable objects‚ abstract painting does not look like a particular object. Instead‚ abstract art is made up of designs‚ shapes and colors. (http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/ ) The meaning of abstract art is‚ in its most simplified form‚ art that relies on the emotions of the artist and the elements of design rather than exact representation. This broad definition allows
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My expressive essay concerns the portraits of two artists‚ Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso. Two such protraits are "self protrait" 1971 by Bacon and "weeping woman" 1937 by Picasso. I believe that both these paintings have been strongly influenced by their own life experiences. Francis Bacon was born on the 28th of October 1909 and he died on the 28th of April 1992. Bacon was born in Dublin‚ to parents of British descent. Captain Anthony Edward Mortimer Bacon‚ his father‚ was a veteran of the
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History of Graphic Design Nour Abou Ibrahim 201104212 Research paper Paula Scher BRIEF OPENING Paula Scher‚ also known as America’s first design lady‚ is a graphic designer‚ illustrator and art educator. The Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia is where Paula Scher majored in illustration and finished her BFA in nineteen seventy. As a student Scher abstained from graphic design as she was short of the required tidiness artistry‚ and she did not like aligning Helvetica on a framework. “The
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Chapter 28 Vocab 1. Bauhaus – A German interdisciplinary school of fine and applied arts that brought together many leading modern architects‚ designers‚ and theatrical innovators. 2. dadaism – artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct. (p. 933) 3. Dawes Plan – the product of the reparations commission headed by Charles G. Dawes that was accepted by Germany‚ France‚ and Britain‚ and reduced Germany’s yearly
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