Paul Cezanne was credited with saying‚ “When I judge art‚ I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or a flower. If it clashes‚ it is not art.” I believe in was in Cezanne’s style to focus on natural things‚ trees‚ bodies‚ water. And it is apparent that other artists‚ throughout time have also focused on these things but have also channeled into Cezanne’s inspiration‚ dug deep down in order to muster their own images. Matisse’s Bonheir de Vivre and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles
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What is Modernism? It is a general term applied retrospectively to the wide rage of experimental and trends in the literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century‚ including symbolism‚ futurism‚ expressionism‚ imagism‚ vorticism and surrealism along with the innovations of unaffiliated writers. Modernist literature id characterized chiefly by a rejection of the 19th century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader. In fiction‚ the accepted continuity of chronological development
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In my research paper I choose a piece of art done by artist Eric Fischl an American artist. The piece of art I chose is called Slumber Party which is currently located at the Chicago Art Institution. Fischl is most famous for his incredible pieces of art that are located around the world. Some I have personally observed and chosen to do my research paper over. I chose to look at a piece of art Fischl had created called Slumber Party which was constructed in 1983. Fischl’s art really caught my attention
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Art and Graphic Design in the Silent Generation Reaching adulthood between 1946-1963‚ the Silent Generation had witnessed the Great Depression and World War II in their youth. Following the Greatest Generation and all their accomplishments‚ the Silent Generation had big shoes to fill‚ but they preferred to consume rather than create. Although it was named the Silent Generation‚ not all the generation were silent‚” there were some loud people of this Generation that spoke out for civil and women’s
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Schufftan had to develop a method that would allow him to do so. A plate of glass was placed in front of the camera lens‚ Schufftan then used the camera’s viewfinder to trace an outline of the area where they desired to place the actors. German Expressionism is often defined by a distinctive‚ heavily styled‚ artificial aesthetic result in surrealist‚ subjective imagery that convey characteristic themes such as confusion and madness. Metropolis was shot on an entirely constructed set‚ specifically designed
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American Art and Architecture Two opposite forces have coexisted in American art since the establishment of the first colonies. On the one hand‚ American artists have been aware of their European cultural heritage and of continuing innovation in Europe; on the other hand‚ they have had to adapt European forms to the exigencies of their native situation. This interaction between rival forces is hardly unique to American art--all art grows within a tradition--but what distinguishes the American
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influential focus was on the notion of “formal purity” and how that affected the work itself in a painting just being a painting and “orientating itself to flatness” as modernist paintings had. Additionally‚ Clement Greenberg found interest in Abstract Expressionism and how Greenberg’s strictly outlined theories on art would inspire artists of the Minimalist and Pop Art movements to respond in kind with their own art as a rebuttal. In the 1950’s artists began to stray away from the politics of art and push
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differently. In America‚ it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art as a response by artists using impersonal‚ mundane reality‚ irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism. By contrast‚ the origin in post-War Britain‚ while employing irony and parody‚ was more academic with a focus on the dynamic and paradoxical imagery of American popular culture as powerful‚ manipulative symbolic devices that were affecting whole
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formalism of his earliest works‚ and the impressionism of his later works‚ are works experimental in nature. With reference to one of these ‘typical’ experimental works‚ “Young Lady with a Parrot” (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ 2000–‚ December 2008)‚ a perspective on Manet can be simply stated: Edouard Manet’s work exhibits the essential hallmarks of modernism. In fact‚ by bridging and combining the styles traditionally thought of as impressionism‚ realism‚ and modernism‚ Manet can rightfully
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Impressionist movement by the time he decided to make a change. Renoir is known to have experimented with “dappling light effects and broken brush strokes”[1]. Impressionism was an art form that was an attempt to record a visual reality through momentary effects of light and color. In the early 1880s‚ Renoir had begun to become dissatisfied with Impressionism because all of his works started to look too similar‚ so he decided to shift his focut for a few months and decided to visit Italy. He became fascinated
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