Abstract Expressionism began in the periods of the 1940s and 1950s in New York. "It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academic painting. However‚ there is no such thing as good painting about nothing." which is described by Mark Rothko‚ who was an early abstract expressionist. Its development started back to the 1930s which were being shaped by social‚ political and geographical calamities: internally
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still from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The early twentieth century was a period of wrenching changes in the arts. In the visual arts‚ such innovations as cubism‚ Dada and surrealism—following hot on the heels of symbolism‚ post-Impressionism and Fauvism—were not universally appreciated. The majority of people in Germany‚ as elsewhere‚ did not care for the new art which many resented as elitist‚ morally suspect‚ and too often incomprehensible.[2] Under the Weimar government of the 1920s‚ Germany
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Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso‚ and later joined by Juan Gris‚ Jean Metzinger‚ Albert Gleizes‚ Robert Delaunay‚ Henri Le Fauconnier‚ and Fernand Léger‚[1] that revolutionized European painting and sculpture‚ and inspired related movements in music‚ literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of
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Henri Matisse led one of these styles‚ known as Fauvism‚ even further away from loyalty to visual illusionism by proposing that painting was an end unto itself. The Fauvist approach to art can be summed up in Matisse’s own words: “Why must a painting imitate nature‚ when painting can be nature?” In the
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(1750-1850)………………………..........6 • Romanticism (1800-1850)…………………………........7 • Realism (1850-1900)…………………………………....7-8 • Impressionism (1860-1890)………………………....8-9 • Post- Impressionism (1880-1910)…………………...9 • Expressionism (Early 1900s)………………………9-10 • Fauvism (1900-1910)…………………………………….10 • Cubism (Early 1900s)……………………………………..11 • Futurism (Early 1900s)……………………………..11-12 • Dada
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is substitute * Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany‚ in 1910. As an international movement‚ expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval art forms and‚ more directly‚ Cézanne‚ Gauguin‚ Van Gogh and the fauvism movement. * The most well-known German expressionists are Max Beckmann‚ Otto Dix‚ Lionel Feininger‚ George Grosz‚ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner‚ August Macke‚ Emil Nolde‚ Max Pechstein; the Austrian Oskar Kokoschka‚ the Czech Alfred Kubin and the Norvegian
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A Remedy for Fear? Though Darwin and Picasso came from different professional backgrounds‚ they both challenged their own fields in fundamental ways by destructing the notion of a narrative in institutional settings. Religion has always been an important social institution which profoundly affects people’s lives. Religious texts provide ultimate guidance on thinking and acting properly‚ while routine practices reinforce people’s reliance upon and trust in the texts. Though art may not impact people’s
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Lights‚ camera‚ paint brush‚ action! The thrill of creating a story through the lens of a camera and the fine hairs of a paintbrush was the life of Norman Rockwell. Capturing the small-town life of an everyday American scene was Rockwell’s way of creating the world that wasn’t perfect into his own view of a place that was. With the Rockwell creativity of drawing his perspective of an American perfection; Edward Hopper created otherwise. Creating more realistic and expressed his feelings into the
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Corot’s piece was painted during the Impressionist period and is comparable to several well known Impressionist paintings. For instance‚ Olympia‚ by Edouard Manet‚ contains hard outlines and little to no modeling by chiaroscuro. If there is modeling‚ it is done with muted colors and still contains hard edges. Corot’s painting also contains hard edges around the figure‚ but has slightly more modeling with shadows and highlights. At the time Impressionism was starting to become more popular‚ more and
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Unit Title and Theme: Exploring Identity through Sculpture Finding meaningful links between students’ self-discovery and individual identity and the way they relate and interact with society as a whole‚ while building on their current knowledge of 3D art and introducing new ways to think of sculpture. Key Vocabulary: Universal Identity Symbolism Diversity Metaphor Tolerance Interdependence Stereotypes Discussion Topics: Over-arching ideas that will be addressed throughout
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