Pop Art vs. Abstract Expressionism • Characteristics of Abstract Expressionist Paintings-optical buzz‚ all-over composition‚ Matisse sometimes painted images on large canvases‚ as did Picasso but paintings still retained an object like character- the viewer needed to stand back to see the complete composition. Abstract expressionist paintings‚ on the other hand‚ draw the spectator into them. The field of vision is thus larger than the field of vision of the spectator‚ who finds himself in a world
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Expressionism refers to a movement that began with the focus on paintings and the theatre. “Expressionism had begun around 1908…appearing in other European countries‚ but finding its most intense manifestations in Germany” 1 The expressionist movement became very popular for having a unique style that was instantly recognisable. “Expressionism was one of the several trends around the turn of the century that reacted against realism and turned towards extreme distortion to express an inner emotional
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German Expressionism: “Nosferatu” vs. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” German expressionism is a movement that started post World War 1‚ and before the Second World War. It used a unique technique of shadowing and distinctive camera angles. The films during the movement told stories that mimicked the forbidding reality of the German’s life. For example‚ in “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari‚” the set design was painted to get the specific diagonals and claustrophobic atmosphere. Throughout the film‚ the
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The Cubist painter renounced the work of artists who drew only what society wanted to view as art. Instead of painting for the appraisers of conventional art‚ Cubist painters assembled shapes and movement from different angles to create a completely innovative artistic perspective. Like the Cubist artist‚ Gertrude Stein‚ a modernist writer of the 20th century‚ rejected the expectations of a society that required writing to model the speech of the English language just as it required art to model
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1).She brought dance‚ theatre and German expressionism together. A blend of raw emotionalism‚ stark movement‚ earthly pathos and humor. She developed a mixture of dance and theatre that was totally unfamiliar at the time (this was around the 1970s). In her pieces‚ the performers not only dance‚ but they spoke‚ sang and sometimes cried and laugh too. But this strange new style succeeded and redefine dance throughout the world. And this global success can be attributed to the fact that Pina make
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all the avant-garde movements contributed to the emergence of expressionism. Expressionism refers to art that is the result of the artist’s unique inner or personal vision that often has an emotional dimension. This contrasts with art focused on the visual description of the empirical world. This was a rejection of Renaissance sensibilities that had governed the western art world for the previous 500 years. The term expressionism was popularized in the avant-garde journal Der Strum. The editor
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Girl with a Mandolin Pablo Picasso Cubism Painting In 1907‚ Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque founded the art movement known as Cubism. This style of painting revolutionised modern abstract art during the 20th century. Pablo Picasso was a Spanish Painter who was born in the 19th Century. His talents were recognised at an early age for his realistic technique. During his adolescence his painting style changed drastically as he experimented with different theories‚ techniques and ideas. Picasso
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is determined to rob a grocery store to get the money that will ensure him his life. Desperate to keep her beloved safe‚ Lola accepts the challenge and runs to his aid. The film explores three possible outcomes all ending differently. German Expressionism was the result of a country in shambles after a devastating defeat in World War 1. The defeat left Germany
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pacing‚ while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. (Nevertheless‚ it was) hailed for its production design‚ depicting a retrofitted future‚ (and) it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre” (Wikipedia). Ridley Scott utilized German Expressionism in the film by transforming some real location shootings into gloomy backdrops of a claustrophobic futuristic city‚ and gritty techno studio-created urban landscape. In particular‚ the interior of the ever popular Bradbury Building (featured at
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may say a thousand words‚ a panoramic view of the same subject would utter a hundred thousand more. Realizing the human desire to know and understand what they witness in full‚ artists such as Pablo Picasso began a style known as cubism between 1907 and 1914. Cubism acknowledges the idea that objects (and perhaps ideas?) are three-dimensional and should therefore be expressed as that. The cubist theory drives itself into the minds of artists of numerous mediums including literature. But in bringing
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