Henri Matisse Henri Matisse (3 November 1954-31 December 1869) "What I dream of is an art of balance‚ of purity and serenity‚ devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter‚ an art which could be for every mental worker‚ for the businessman as well as the man of letters‚ for example‚ a soothing‚ calming influence on the mind‚ something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." – Henri Matisse-
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POST IMPRESSIONISM - THE ROOTS OF MODERN ART VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) ’View of Arles-Orchard in Bloom with Poplars ’‚ 1890 (oil on canvas) Post Impressionism was not a formal movement or style. The Post Impressionists were a few independent artists at the end of the 19th century who rebelled against the limitations of Impressionism. They developed a range of personal styles that focused on the emotional‚ structural‚ symbolic and spiritual elements that they felt were missing from Impressionism
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Artist Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15‚ 1887‚ on a small wheat farm located in Sun Prairie‚ Wisconsin. From the young age of ten she developed a passion for art and knew that that is what she wanted to do in life. As she once said “I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for. Meaning that art was an outlet for her to express feelings and emotions she had a hard time dealing with.When she became older she left her agrarian home and
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Sunflowers by Vincent [b]Van[/b] "The sunflower is me in some way." -Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" are among his most famous paintings‚ but few realize that many sunflower pictures‚ not only the most famous "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" and "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers." These were canvases he decorate the Yellow House in Arles in anticipation of the visit of his friend Paul Gauguin‚ and hope that others will follow him and form a utopianArt community. Some of the paintings of Vincent’s
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movements‚ then select one work from the textbook or lectures that is representative of this movement and explain why. (10 points) Some of the artistic movements that developed between 1900 and 1950 include dada‚ Surrealism‚ primitivism‚ cubism‚ purism‚ futurism‚ constructivism‚ and more. The artistic movement that I will go over is primitivism. Primitive is usually referred to as “the widespread tendency among Modern artists to scour the art of other cultures beyond the Western tradition for inspiration”
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forms inspired the works of modern masters such as Pablo Picasso‚ Henri Matisse‚ and Georges Braque. However‚ these artists came into contact with just few of these art forms and made a big issue out of it; the birth of art movements such as cubism and expressionism. These pioneers and other important figures looked to Africa for solutions to formal and aesthetic problems. But how come artists from the original home of such inspirational art forms are not using them to their advantage? Maybe we have
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LECTURE NO 2 1=RENAISSANCE The word "Renaissance" derived from the term "la rinascita"‚which means rebirth‚ first appeared in Giorgio Vasari’s Vite de’ più eccellenti architetti‚ pittori‚ et scultori Italiani (The Lives of the Artists‚ 1550–68) Historians often divide the Renaissance in Italy into three phases.[3] Whereas art historians might talk of an "Early Renaissance" period‚ in which they include developments in 14th century painting and sculpture‚ this is usually not the case in architectural
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on June 18th ‚1964. His artistic influences ranged from Cézanne to Henry Rousseau and from Picasso to André Derain . However‚ early on he was influenced by the work of French Post-Impressionist painter Cézanne‚ cubism (20th century avant-garde art movement) ‚ and futurism (early 20th century artistic and social movement) and this caused Morandi to develop a very unique‚ independent style. His number one influence come from Paul Cézanne whose emphasis on form and flat areas of colour intrigued
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advertising‚ logos and brand labels are extensively seen in pop art. An example of this would be Campbell’s Soup Cans‚ by Andy Warhol. Pop art in America used detached‚ normal reality‚ parody‚ and irony to eliminate the personal symbolism of abstract expressionism. Meanwhile‚ England used irony‚ but more academically. English pop art was fueled by the symbolism of American pop culture‚ when seen from a remote point of view. As advertising became more complicated and complex‚ artists searched for more dramatic
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Duchamp: Marginality and Modernism and The Questioning of the Androgynous Self Both Dada and Surrealism cannot be understood as just new art movements‚ but also social ones. During the 1960s‚ the whole notion of what constituted art underwent a profound change‚ accompanying this questioning of the aesthetics of the art object; this was also a time when massive acceleration took place in the extent to which sex was discusses and sexual images‚ produced. One of the main developments that came out
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