...Modern Art History Modern art represents the headiest period in all of art history--a span of no more than 110 years that saw an explosion of movements from Realism, to Impressionism, to Cubism, to Abstract Expressionism to Pop and Op, with dozens of others in between and around the world. Hard-Edge Painting: Art History Basics 101 Hard-Edge Painting emphasizes the flat surface of the canvas or paper with clean, clear abstract shapes and surrounding fields of colors. These shapes and fields can be rendered in black and white or brilliant colors. The unity of the composition creates a unified presentation in the art work itself. Color Field Painting: Art History 101 Basics Color Field Painting is a branch of Abstract Expressionism that concentrates on colorful shapes and expanses of color which emphasize the literal flatness of the canvas or paper. Cubism - Art History Basics 101 An early twentieth century art movement that rebelled against Renaissance one-point perspective and illusionism through an emphasis on geometricity, simultaneity, and passage. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism's ideas and style. Abstract Expressionism - Art History 101 Basics Abstract Expressionism or "AbEx" (a.k.a. Action Painting; a.k.a. The New York School) exploded onto the art scene after World War II with its characteristic messiness and extremely energetic applications of paint. To the contemporary audience, the whole enterprise seemed like youthful antagonism--hardly...
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...Paper Assignment II Art and Society: Renaissance to Modern Art University of Houston Dr. Sandra Zalman Due: November 13 by midnight via turnitin on Blackboard - http://www.uh.edu/blackboard/ This paper asks you to compare two works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to consider how nineteenth-century artists departed from past academic works to take interest in the new urban spaces of modernity. Go the MFAH and find the following two paintings: Berthe Morisot, The Basket Chair, 1885 (Room 222) Gustave Caillebotte, The Orange Trees, 1878 (Room 222) In your paper, you will analyze the visual relationship between modernism, class and gender, considering both the formal characteristics and subject matter of the paintings you will examine. While attending to the formal characteristics of each work, analyze the ways in which gender and class may play a role in relation to subject matter, composition, and the intended audience. How are the spaces of modernity depicted in these scenes? If the flânuer is the quintessential modern artist, but cannot be embodied by a woman, what is the role of gender in these works? How does the representation of gender factor into the aims of these artists? Construct your argument based on a visual analysis of these two paintings, paying particular attention to how the artist constructs the spaces of modernity, who is depicted and in what way, and how the viewer is, or is not, accounted for. In your a conclusion, consider...
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...1. What is Modern Art? What does it mean to you? Though it would be difficult to decide the starting point, generally modern art movement is regarded to have started since the twentieth century. Before that, art was primarily concentrated on ‘painting,’ which carries out the role of depicting the real world. So, for instance, an artist was considered to be a good painter if his drawing had resembled an object or landscape like that of photography. With the advent of photography, however, this traditional value of a good art has radically changed. Art to reproduce the real world merely had significance any more. Thereby, art has been progressing into various directions with a focus on the essence of an object, rather than the physicality of it. Modern art has become conceptual and philosophical. Many artists express their ideas with preposterous materials and methods. Some artists do not even express an idea explicitly because they emphasize the philosophical idea and thus de-emphasize the actual act of depicting. When I go to modern art museums, I often see art pieces that seem to require very little artwork. Looking at an aluminum scrap installed in the center of the exhibition room, people say “I could do it too. I can pick up an aluminum scrap from a trash heap, and bring it here. And, people say it is art. It does not seem that difficult at all to become an artist!” This is the thought I once had, as well....
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...How did the feminist art movement influence expressionism? Gender equality is an issue that has gradually become a day to day affair in our society; it’s near impossible to avoid seeing it or hearing about it. However, gender equality as an issue is often associated with politics, not art, but as a result of it, feminists began to illustrate the issue through expressionist art forms. Feminist art was used to shock, educate and mock, as well as be used as an outlet for women to tell their story, which, through traditional values, was almost impossible. As a result, the expressionist art form evolved more than anyone could have ever imagined. The amount of new mediums and outlets that were explored and created as a result of feminist art was phenomenal. However, like with any other significant change, there were many critics that wished it hadn’t. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Traditionally, men were the dominant gender; the boss, and women were mere selfish pleasures used to sexually gratify a man. She must also cook for him, clean for him, bear his children and just simply act as the man’s object. These values carried over into the art world, where, female artists were virtually unheard of, they were only art works; objects of the male gaze. When women appeared in art, the majority were only half dressed or nude, as well as being placed in a vulnerable position; waiting for the man do dominate her. It was as the snowball effect started of feminist movements...
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...inclined towards expression through many artistic media. Early art mainly focused on expressing the form of humanity, rather than the emotions and thought that make us human beings. When art, specifically sculpture, shifted towards what we know as the modern movement, it was somewhat shunned, or touted as being inferior to traditionalist styles. My research paper will focus specifically on the difference between modern and traditional styles of art, the dynamic between them, and how both styles contributed to how we view art today, as well as the vilification of modern art in the eyes of the art world. My interest in this topic mainly stems from my own personal interest in art, because it’s what i want to...
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...Representation of Working Class in Modern Art As the development of modern art era, the representation of working class in modern art works had experienced a process from scratch to flourish. Since Jean-Batiste Simeon Chardin began to paint his still life paintings and introduce the art to the public, more and more artists have begun to shift their focus from the luxury and ideal life of aristocracy to the rough life of the working class. Among all the artists that were discussed in the lecture of modern art history, Jean-Batiste Simeon Chardin, Jean-François Millet, Gustave Millet, and Vincent van Gogh are the artists that contributed the most to the shift in representation...
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...The Art of Photography: Mania of Modern Society or Human Salvation I. The art of photography as mania of modern society A. The art of photography become widespread. B. It looks fashionable when you have a lot of good photos. C. If you have a professional camera, it doesn’t mean that you are professional. II. The art of photography as Human Salvation A. Statistics show that in recent years the percentage of visits to galleries has increased. B. This art has an ability to freeze time in a second. C. Written language changes but not the language of photography. III. The art of photography in modern days A. Trash starts to be considered fine art photography. B. People try to express themselves with the help of the art of photography. C. There are a lot of courses for amateur hobby photographers. Nowadays the art of photography has become widespread among young people. They go to clubs and galleries, fashion shows and marts to take photos, for which they earn money and some become famous. And the idea that the presence of a professional camera makes you a professional photographer put into heads of modern youth. It is difficult to say if this is good or bad for photography as an art form. The modern attitude towards the art of photography has changed the art itself. Now it is a part of mass culture. And this is good because statistics show that in recent days the number of visits to galleries has increased. People thus spend more time touching the beautiful and...
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...MODERN ART The realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The realist painters rejected Romanticism, which had come to dominate French literature and art, with roots in the late 18th century. The Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), and ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905; from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloissonism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. Expressionism...
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...ASIAN CUBISM 1910 ASIAN CUBISM 1910 YŌGA late 1800s YŌGA late 1800s NIHONGA 1898 NIHONGA 1898 Word Count: 790 Word Count: 790 Xueyan (Jessica) Wu Professor Hong Kal FA/VISA 2340 02 March 2015 ASIAN MODERNITIES EXIST IN “THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABSTRACT ART” Asian modern art has been largely neglected by Western audiences; a simple reference to Rita Gilbert’s “Living with Art” timeline confirms this notion. As such, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. neglected to include Asian modern art in his seminal 1936 map, The Development of Abstract Art, and consequently, I have provided a revision. Barr’s depiction epitomizes a European-dictated arrangement of art history, which excludes all versions of modernity not part of ‘his’ visual. I question the legitimacy of this omission. Modernity is not a singular definition, not solely manifested in one structured European interpretation. It is not necessarily residing in one place, but migrating and shifting, following the social conditions and traditions which surround different geographical contexts. One may contend that Asian modernist art does not belong within Barr’s space or that it does not fit any prescribed definition of modern art. There are valid reasons for this belief; the most widespread insisting it is merely a ‘copy’ of European modernity, and therefore, already included within Barr’s interpretation. This is untrue on many levels. Tatehata Akira writes in Why Cubism, that “…we must admit that a large part of Asian...
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...pious or spiritual narrative) 10. Renaissance (The awareness of visual elements and their composition, the connection of geometry, spatial relation, Birth of perspective and awareness of 3rd dimension along with study of anatomy in visual representation. The rise of individualism due to advent of humanism) 11. Baroque Painting & sculpture. 12. Rococo art and furniture/ interiors. 13. What is semiotics and semantics? Understanding the impact of industrialization and New Technology and the origin of it, the ‘enlightenment’. 14. Romanticism & Realism: in relation with the fall of Napoleon and outbreak of the war, French revolution, Darwin, Karl marks, birth of photography and change in perception of visual experience 15. What is modern? What is modern art? Impressionism and Expressionism Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Edward Munch, Henri Matisse, Kandinsky, Sculpture-August Rodin. 16. Development of capitalism in modern western societies. Encroachment of commercial values upon all aspects of cultural practices. Art as anti establishment practice (Dada as anti art a nihilistic movement). The art of Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Jackson Pollok (additional...
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...TRACES OF MODERNISM IN ART The ancient parallel between literature and visual arts –i.e. painting, sculpture and architecture becomes newly relevant in the twentieth century. Painters were the first to explore the revolutionary possibilities of modernism, so that painting became the leading art form. Modernism refers to the style and ideology of art produced between the 1860s and the 1970s. As traditional art forms had become outdated due to industrialization, modernism emerged in Western Europe out of a need to reject tradition and embrace the political, social and economic change of the industrial age. Modernism was embodied by a new generation of artists whose work was characterized by a variety of styles and subject choices that flew in the face of accepted convention. While, generally speaking, it challenged a number of aesthetic principles, modernism ultimately gave rise to a variety of movements and styles. The great progenitor of modernist revolt was the impressionist movement in the second half of the nineteenth century in France. Impressionist painters made colorful style of painting, characterized as impressionism. Impressionism attaches great importance to our perception of contrasts and light, something that is accurately expressed through the seasons. Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral in full sunlight was a famous painting, other than this Pierre Auguste Renoi, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec are among the most important impressionist painters...
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...Beginning in 1907 the Cubism movement was set into motion by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; this would eventually become the most internationally influenced movement of the 20th Century. The movement has roots dating back to European traditions of the Renaissance, which can be seen it its illusionism and deconstruction of linear perspective. The Cubism movement can be broken down into two primary styles of Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, each equally influential in their own way. First up was Analytical Cubism; this references the artist objective of analyzing and breaking down of the form and space within the picture plane. Analytical Cubism was the period from 1907 to 1912; it was formed primarily at the hands of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and George Seurat. Analytical Cubism was a period of exploration in separating the perceived reality of what we can view and the intellectual reality of what we know. These characteristics include flattening the pictorial surface and simplifying the picture plane to only a basic geometric fragmentation of the subject. Additionally, minimal color was used in order to further flatten the subject. Flatness was a key characteristic of Analytical Cubism; lack of warm and cool hues prevented the subject from becoming dimensional and eliminated any single focal point. With the goal of Analytical Cubism being to separate realities, artist used easily recognizable items or ordinary subjects. Things used were often just found around the artist...
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...shaped by history, ethics, philosophy, and law, but from the late 19th century onwards, scientific approach to study politics gradually emerged. Comparative politics, in my view, do not study and analyze big issues of politics only. It also provides us the stage to study and analyze the political, social and economic situation of a particular society or state from the lens of art, literature, cinema, dramas, etc. Not only that, art and literature are the mirror of the society, so to understand particular society and political system, studying and analyzing art, literature is important. Being a student of comparative politics, here I have a good opportunity to study and compare three distinct images of a particular society. In this term paper, I am going to study three distinct pillars of Indian art and literature, which represent three different images and ideas. Satyajit Ray, MF Husain, and Arundhati Roy are an Indian film director, painter, and writer respectively which represents the postcolonial Indian society. Introduction: India is the country with the world's ancient civilization; however the modern political history of India was shaped only after the India's independence from the British Raj. On one hand, India is the home of the world's second largest population and on the other hand, based on the number of an electorate, India is also...
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...Art and intention Art and Intention Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. Critics and art magazine were offing the public monies just to find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They felt it was defensive due to the fact that male genital exposed. That was during a time were woman and children were considered fragile. Over a period time when it was finally out to it resting place in the front of the seat of government in Florence they covered his male genitals with and it varies from the original which was a bronze leaf to the replicates of white leaf. But even the leaf that was chosen meant something. What did contemporary viewers find objectionable about each work? Duchamp’s Nude descent carried the same puzzlement due to the fact that a visible recognized woman could not be found. He wanted the viewer to stretch their imagination to see the woman. The objections to the statue David was the same all over the full frontal and back of David. To capture the full form of a nude, young, vital male, was to sexual and obscene for those time. What are the reasons behind Duchamp’s innovative approach to human form? I believe he wanted to combine...
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...lasting effect on the arts? Why or why not? The 1913 Armory Show was an International Exhibition of Modern Art organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors to display an amalgamation of independent and unregulated art work. The 1913 Armory Show is known to be the first large exhibition of modern art in America -- boasting a significant number of paintings, sculptures, and decorative work done by some 300 plus European and American artists (“Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show”, nd). Since its occurrence, the Armory Show event has made a lasting impact on American art in general. Many lauded it as one of the most influential events in the history of American art (“Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show”, nd). As a result of the impact of the event, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased and displayed pieces from the show. It was not customary for traditional museums and art galleries with Gilded Age concepts and perspective on art to purchase ‘freestyle’ ‘rebel’ art. The Armory Show became somewhat of a true ‘trend-setter’ for modern art. Furthermore, according to Doss (2002) “In the five years following the Armory Show, some 34 galleries, and organizations mounted more than 250 shows of American and European modern art.” These occurrences following the Amory Show has been a testament to the effects the event has on modern art in America. References: Doss, E. (2002, April). Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art. Cary, NC, USA:...
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