Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work‚ Impression‚ Sunrise (Impression‚ soleil levant)‚ which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible
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A Response To: Modernist Painting by Clement Greenberg & Post-Painterly Abstraction by Clement Greenberg In this paper I will be summarizing two essays by Clement Greenberg‚ one entitled “Modernist Painting” and the other “Post-Painterly Abstraction.” After summarizing the articles I will discuss and respond to them. In the first reading “Modernist Painting” Greenberg describes Modernism as being a method in which a discipline is used to criticize the discipline itself‚ for instance
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Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was considered the greatest artist of the 20th century because of his unique styles and techniques. Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was born in Malaga‚ Spain on October 25‚ 1881 to a professor of art named Jose Ruiz Blanco and his wife Maria Picasso Lopez. Because of his fathers’ occupation‚ Picasso’s talent was quickly noticed and appreciated. Don Jose‚ an art teacher‚ moved Picasso and his family to La Coruna and then to Barcelona where he was Picasso’s instructor at the fine
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In “Weimar Cinema and After”‚ Thomas Elsaesser explains expressionism as not only the style of films created in the early 1920s‚ but as a “generic term for most of the art cinema of the Weimar Republic in Germany‚ and beyond Germany‚ echoing down film history across the periods and genres‚ turning up in the description of Universal horror films of the 1930s and film noir of the 1940s.” The influence that Elsaesser is referring to is of great importance to both film noir and horror films. This influence
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Neoclassicism‚ one of the major art movements‚ began around the middle of the 18th century and lasted until the first part of the 19th century. Just before the beginning of the Neoclassic movement the public ’s interest in the Renaissance and Classic Greek and Roman art began to come back to life. Along with the public ’s newly found interest in the renaissance and Greek and Roman art the public also began to oppose the previous styles of Rococo and Baroque (Sayre‚ 2010). Along with the public ’s
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the avant-garde artists of Paris and later resulted in Cubism. Cubist art is abstract and focuses on the effects of light and perspective‚ and geometric forms. Though Georges Braque main field of art was painting‚ his other fields included drawing‚ sculpture‚ and printmaking. His paintings of 1908 to 1913 reflected his new interest in the geometry and simultaneous perspective that is found in Cubism. Braque painted still-lifes‚ because they are more accessible
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This piece was especially remarkable because it was the revolutionary piece that began the art movement known as Cubism . Picasso created Cubism with another artist named Georges Braque. Cubism is the art form where an object is broken up into pieces and 2 then reassembled in a completely different order. The events of Picasso’s life were a source of inspiration for his art. Picasso’s Blue Period began in 1901 and illustrated
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life. Expressionism is the presentation of events with a unique emotional distortion that stirs the audience’s mood. This can take shape in the form of art‚ music‚ architecture‚ theatre‚ and literature. Naturally‚ those living in my generation are very fond of controversial issues in society being displayed in an emotionally grueling scene. This was not always the case and its origination manifested in early 20th century Germany. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari was the epitome of expressionism in post
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on life‚ Pablo Picasso became one of the most influential pioneers of Cubism during the 20th century alongside Georges Braque. His innovative masterpieces opened countless amounts of doors for artists during and after his career. Picasso was considered radical in his work not only in his paintings‚ but he allowed himself to experiment in different mediums such as sculpting‚ printmaking‚ ceramics‚ and even stage designing. Cubism became a new language for artists that allowed them to communicate in
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of art. In these eras‚ styles of painting changed and many of the different painting styles contrasted one another. Painting styles help to give a sense of the culture and history. Three of these eras: Neoclassicism‚ Impressionism‚ and Abstract Expressionism are just a few that reflected the differences in the painting styles‚ as well how the painting styles show the different ways of life. During the age of Neoclassicism‚ people were beginning to identify with the values of Greek and Roman
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