In an effort to describe the modernist painting, Clement Greenberg in his publication The Collected Essays and Criticism, makes simplified and exaggerated claims. Despite his best efforts, most of his assertions are shrouded in oversight and lack the necessary premises to be adjudged as an entirely objective and salient. His comments on modern art’s effects on human senses and relations with space, are one of said claims. He states: “The Old Masters created an illusion of space in depth that…
The beautifully wise words of an American painter, Robert Motherwell, could not have described abstract art any better I strongly believe. He intricately and sophisticatedly describes the breath-taking style of abstract art as follows, “The function of abstraction is to get rid of a lot of reality. You start with as much richness as you want, and subtract, and then you arrive at the residue of essences that you’re interested in.” This description really allows the reader to visualize the artist…
atmosphere right away gave a sense of Arizona’s culture and seemed calming. Next as I walked further into the NIACC Auditorium Art Gallery and I saw Rita Kirsch Dungey’s Moving Beyond Boundaries that was rich with vibrant hues of abstract painting. From there I noticed other abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings that were less detailed but more vivid in colors. Rita’s work represented a cheerful and more modern atmosphere. Overall I didn’t understand the connection between the two…
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). Who was Jackson Pollock? Was he an artist? Was he insane? Was he a drunk? No matter how you see him, he was a brilliant artist with a multitude of problems. One of his problems was with people and that made him socially awkward. The relationships he did have with people were very unhealthy. In the film, Pollack (2000), a common theme is Codependency. Codependency is a learned behavior that is usually passed down from generation to generation. It’s an emotional and…
Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…
Essay Question 1 Representational art reference objects from the real world, like the pipe in a smoke backstage and events in the real world. Abstract art is work that represents natural objects in a simplified, distorted, or exaggerated way. Nonrepresentational art presents visual form with no specific reference. An example would be Grey Night Phenomenon because it has a variety of forms, composition, and moods. 1. In Composition VIII that artist wanted to simplify a cow but still have the…
Allison Yi 2/8/18 AP English Period 9 Expr ssiobalims in many different types of art forms Many artworks show, expressionism. According to the art story, this art movement is a modern artistic movement that shows things from a subjective perspective in order to show a change in tone. This movement usually distorts reality to convey a certain tone. Expressionism was created in many cities across Germany in response…
Replacing the windows in your Long Island home may seem like an overwhelming challenge. But the positive improvement can make a dramatic difference in the way your home looks and your daily comfort. Our Renewal by Andersen customer have personal reasons for deciding it is time to update existing windows, but we have seen some common goals, like bringing in more natural light, improving indoor comfort, curbing heating and air conditioning costs and even saving time on cleaning and maintenance.…
Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an American abstract artist, writer, critic and educator. He studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York (1931–35), and painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School (1936–37). He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Karl Anderson in 1936, worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1936–39), and was a member (1937–47) of the American Abstract Artists group. Reinhardt…
outdated machines because they cannot afford to upgrade. It is not in their budget, so Microsoft systems that run 2003??? May still be infected with the Conficker virus. Conficker affected Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems. It then patched the “hole” at Port 445 to inhibit other malware from exploiting the system’s vulnerability (Krepinevich, 2012). Conficker’s logic includes…