guilt‚ of no personal experience or memory of the Nazi regime.” He grew up in a time when Nazi regime and the war had ended. There was only post-war trauma that prevailed. The surroundings forced him to make it a theme for his work. He used German history and the ancestral tales of life‚ death‚ and the cosmos to reinforce lessons of the past. Georgia O’Keeffe was an American (1887-1986) whose character developed to be quiet‚ introspective‚ and independent
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school’s newspaper. As a reader he was interested on the elite universities of the east coast and turned down several scholarships from art schools to settle for an undergraduate study in art history at Columbia University in New York in 1931. While in Columbia‚ his two majors were literature and art history where he was well informed from the latest trends in visual arts and theory. Meyer Schapiro an iconic American Historian of art known for his Marxist
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THIHA SOUL “How is the concept of Art influenced by the culture you are in?” Thiha Soul -13597 FAN 5 C Lau Sheow Tong History of Arts and Ideas I D-FA203 THIHA SOUL THIHA SOUL No one can deny that art is always changing and affecting the all society of entire world and art has acted as a dramatic reflection of the social and political events taking place in regions in recent decades. So‚ what is art? ‚ Art is a variety of human activities and the products of these activities;
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felt in love with art. When I arrive at the museum I enter the first exhibit as my friend and I were talking around the corner one beautiful painting caught my attention. The name of the art piece was Los Sueños Rotos (Broken Dreams) by Rocio Caballero. This painting stood out to because of how realistic this painting looked. I told my friend that this painting was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen‚ my friend also liked it. Rocio Caballero is a figurative painter who was born in Mexico in
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those things from two paintings: Camille Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre（Afternoon‚ Sunshine）and Diego Rivera’s A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park. The two images above are excellent examples of different styles of the Impressionism and Mexican Muralism. While the content is relatively similar‚ such as natural background‚ bright color‚ and even both of them depicted a scene happened in the afternoon‚ the feeling of the two paintings is remarkably diverse. The painting Boulevard Montmartre
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specialized in painting interior scenes‚ which was popular amongst the middle class. These interior scenes allowed the viewer to conceptualize and understand the private lives of the rich and the cultured (Arthur Wheelock‚ Encyclopedia Britannica). Johannes Vermeer is praised for his masterful use of lighting‚ and one piece which captures his lighting greatness is Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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good at their craft. Some of these people are recognized during their lives but a good amount of them are rediscovered only a long time after their death. No matter when or how they are discovered‚ they still hold an important place in art’s long history. Two of these significant people happen to be Vermeer and Caravaggio. Vermeer was a Dutch painter‚ born on October 31‚ 1632‚ in Delft‚ Netherlands. Not much is known about him as he was only made famous a long time after his death. What is known about
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19th century were significant in the history of art. Some of the well known artists of the Baroque were Caravaggio‚ Rubens‚ Rembrandt and Velazquez. From the Impressionist period were Monet‚ Renoir‚ Cezanne and Degas. Velazquez was a Spanish artist and was one of the most important artists of the Spanish Golden Age. His works of art primarily took place in during the contemporary Baroque period during the 17th century. He was known for his portrait paintings and was influenced by the naturalism
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Japanese‚ “How can one be Japanese!” and in this quandary‚ they manifested Japonisme‚ an interest for things Japanese. Various Japanese artists’ works found their way into the hands and minds of French artists to forever change the course of art history and made a heavy impact upon their art from subject to form. Through the pictures of kimonos‚ illustrations of stereotypical samurai‚ or artistic styles derived from Japan’s art‚ Japanese inspiration had seeped into the brains of French artists‚ from
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June 1940. He was considered as a talented Swiss and German painter.The artwork created by Klee had dramatically changed over his years of developing his paintings. The timeline below demonstrates the changes over his working years of creating abstract art. In the Style of Kairouan: ‘In the Style of Kairouan’ shows Klee’s first pure abstract painting‚ created in 1914. Klee used a simple combination of coloured shapes to express a musical tone. He combined the use of coloured rectangles and circles
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