Painting Styles ART 101 April 1‚ 2012 Painting Styles Neoclassic Art‚ Impressionist Artworks and Abstract Expressionism are very identifiable by their form‚ painting style and the era they speak of. All three have some comparisons and some very evident contrasts. The Neoclassic era of art reflected resurgence in the interest of the Greek and Roman Eras. People of this time were interested in seeing woman as more upstanding. They were also going back to a high moral tone‚ recognizing
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alcoholic‚ manic-depressant and often an uncontrollable‚ angry and insecure man. However‚ through one woman and when he painted‚ he found a sense of freedom and peace‚ a release from his anger and sadness. Out of tragedy he helped create a movement in Abstract Expressionism. This essay will focus on how this movie showed his last years as an artist‚ the art and movement he created‚ it’s tragic end and what as a student I have learned from this. The movie starts with Pollock living with his brother in
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that gives meaning to my life. Therefore I will end this by adding that I live only when I paint. The rest is but a wait‚ a preparation mixed with prayer for crossing the threshold from life into the experience of life.” Gulgee being realistic and abstract in nature acquired totally a different meaning and entirely new sensitivity to the painting world. On his canvas the dynamic forces of creation and expression unite and energize a new being. At first he did all kinds of style of paintings. In the
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During this time and after Mural‚ his primary style did a full shift to being increasingly more abstract‚ and by 1947 he was dripping and splashing paint on the canvas regularly. This was the start of his major rise to fame in the art world. Back in 1945‚ Krasner and Pollock were now married and were looking for a home and a studio to work in. They
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Color field painting‚ an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s following Abstract Expressionism‚ is characterized by canvases painted primarily with stripes‚ washes and fields of solid color. The first serious and critically acclaimed art movement to originate in the nation’s capital‚ Washington Color School was central to the larger movement. During the early sixties‚ painting was the term used to describe younger artists whose work were related to second generation abstract expressionism yet clearly
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Higgs Dr. Watson HUMA 1153 4-22-10 Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist‚ whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level‚ Kandinsky’s maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work‚ with an impressionistic flair‚ to his later work‚ which was pure abstraction‚ Kandinsky was an innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the fantasy pastime
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City to the rise as a center of art in the world‚ making it stand out even from Paris‚ which seemed impossible to compete with. As an abstract expressionist‚ a title that he often refused to be associated with‚ he played a significant role amongst his contemporaries in glorifying the Second World War art movement that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism (Wechsler‚ p. 71). Rothko’s style of art‚ as a pioneer‚ was referred to as color field painting‚ which immensely utilized the
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Abstract Expressionism was started in the middle 1930’s. The first time the term was used was to describe a painting by Kandinsky. The term usually describes New York School of Painters. Most often there are uses of no figurative and no representational figures used in the works. Arshile Gorky was the most instrumental in the Abstract Expressionism period. His work often is dictated by his studying of nature. In his work you can see the brush strokes which create a sense of movement. Jackson
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In America around the 1930’s‚ 40’s and 50’s emerged a new kind of Abstract painting style dubbed as ‘Abstract Expressionism’ with a man named Jackson Pollock being‚ as what some may call‚ the ringleader and starting point of the movement with Blue Poles‚ formerly known as number 11‚ being one of his most famous works of art. But the question or stigma that still remains around the painting is ‘is it actually real art’ with some regarding it as being something that the skill of either a child or a
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country rich with culture and tradition. He found instead a country that was losing its culture. Upon his return to Paris‚ he created Mahana no atua from memory. He divided the painting into three horizontal sections. In the top section (the least abstract of the three)‚ Gauguin depicts the statue of a god with Tahitians on the beach behind it. In the
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