French Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the late 19th C. ©Werner Hammerstingl‚1998‚1999 Before the emergence of Impressionism we can see a major political and social transition in central Europe which has demonstrable artistic and literary consequences. The major aspects of this change include: The 19C industrial expansion which took away opportunities of individual farming and craft practice and replaced them with paid labour in factories. Governments across Europe are exploring
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Art Assessment – The many images of Christianity: Historical artwork: The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci Practice (5 marks). Background information‚ nationality‚ style of general artworks‚ influences‚ major concerns in art‚ techniques/ materials used: Describe the artwork‚ what does it say about Christianity (use of compositional‚ stylistic and symbolic devices to achieve this)‚ materials & techniques to communicate meanings of Christianity: The first notes on the design of the painting
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Critical Review of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Constantly updating and mastering his style‚ he was known as the pioneer of cubism (“Pablo Picasso Biography”). By his death in 1973‚ over twenty-two thousand pieces of wok have been documented (“Pablo Picasso and his Paintings”). The Life of Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio
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Chapter 28 – The Age of Anxiety 1) Uncertainty in modern thought a) The effects of World War I on modern thought i) Western society began to question values and beliefs that had guided it since the Enlightenment. ii) Many people rejected the longaccepted beliefs in progress and the power of the rational mind to understand a logical universe and an orderly society. (1) Valéry wrote about the crisis of the cruelly injured mind; to him the war ("storm")
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America‚ as a relatively young country‚ has had to create its own art scene from the already booming French Romantic style. Regarded as “at best a brave but crude beginning and only an experiment in the evolution of realistic painting” ‚ American Impressionism was a short-lived flash on the art scene‚ lasting from about 1880 up until the rising Jazz phenomena in the early 1920s. Characterized by rough brush strokes and soft pastel colors and emphasizing light and en plein air techniques‚ the term
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represented the opposite. Dada’s intention was to offend and shock common sense. (“Pop art/dada”‚ 2013) Dada artists developed the collage‚ photomontage‚ assemblage and readymade techniques. The collage‚ which imitated the techniques used during cubism through the pasting of cut pieces of paper items to include items such as transportation tickets‚ maps‚ plastic wrappers in order to represent features of life instead of still life. Photomontage – this technique used scissors and glue rather than
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Cubism and Picasso Paris‚ the world center of art‚ is a thriving city full of artistic activities that provide unparalleled conditions for the exchange of creative ideas throughout history. Paris has been the avant-garde in art and culture. This inspiring city witnessed many artistic movements that had a huge impact on world culture. During the 1920s after WWI‚ a wave of artists of all nationalities gathered in French capital to investigate a way to make their art different. The desperation and
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represented “how romantic moonlight had been surpassed by the light of the modern electric street light.” The painting is an example of art from the artistic Avant-Garde movement of Futurism which was founded in Italy in 1909‚ by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and ended in the late 1920s. One key feature of Futurism was that Futurists strongly rejected traditional forms of art‚ and were instead‚ fascinated and dedicated to everything they perceived as new and revolutionary. Futurists aimed
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Summary of the Lecture “Cubism as Fashion Art” The lecture focuses on a controversy associated with cubism: Is it “skillful art” or “fashion art”? 1.All art movements begin as new ideas represented as clearly as possible; novelty is a key element in art. - Great art must also be skillful; otherwise it is just an invention‚ like a new machine. - Good art has always been a balance of skill and novelty. 2.Fashion art is a new idea. - Artists create it because they want something
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The ∫ntegral Stage Acrylic on Masonite‚ Cardstock‚ Fabric. Approx : 3.75ft by 4ft The Integral Stage presents a look into how my mind works‚ but attempts to tell a story all the same. I attempted to recreate how I feel‚ without making the painting about myself through the usage of everything that has affected me in life‚ . Each of the scenes is a snippet of how I envision my thoughts. The title”The ∫ntegral Stage” can be taken in many ways‚ but each is a descriptor in what I have done in this
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