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) Identify the work. Who is the artist? The title? The date? Do you know the medium that was used? Artist: Nathan Oliveira Title: Stage #2 with Bed Date: 1967 Medium: Oil 2) If the artist is known, are we aware of anything about the artist's life or personality that may have affected his/her creation of the work? Nathan Joseph Mendonca Roderick, born in Oakland in Dec 1928, was the only child of Elvera Furtado and Joseph Roderick, natives of Portugal whose short-lived marriage was shattered…

meaning of “stenographic” because they assumed it was just a synonym for “abstracted,” but according to the author of an article titled The Artist and the Analyst: Jackson Pollock’s Stenographic Figure, “the work actually refers to the activity of stenography in its depicting of a female stenographer directed by a male figure.” During his time with his analyst, Pollock experimented with Jungian motifs and reflected upon their meaning to explore psychoanalysis and its correlation to art.…

How did techniques within abstract expressionism emerge as a result of the social influences of World War II? As the arts express the feeling of the time, abstract expressionism emerged in the mid 1940s to the 1950s to express the personal feelings, and larger spiritual feelings of the artists. This style of painting cannot be described with a specific style, but rather against realist and traditional styles. The common element in their artwork was the emotional component that drove their…

Art is in everything we see, do, and create. We buy it, sell it, display it in our homes, go visit it in galleries and museums. It’s a talent that has been influencing minds for centuries and the tradition is by no means being hampered in our modern-day world. With so much art out there, it is getting continuously more difficult to define “contemporary art”(Kimball). It is making increasingly less sense to discuss avant-garde art or even the future of art, as if all art were going in the same…

Folio: ART INSIGHT: ABSOLUTE ABSTRACTION Heading: Creator of Mesmerizing Abstracts Intro: A gifted abstractionist, Ajay Choudhary, an IPS officer, wears many badges of honour; he has showcased his creations in the top art galleries in the world and has won many accolades from art aficionados. Being a self-taught artist, he has given wings to his childhood passion of painting, surprising all with his delft strokes on the canvas. His source d 'inspiration for his paintings is based on experiences…

Stylist Analysis Jackson Pollock the world renowned drip painter is often one of the artists that almost everyone knows on the spot. Cathedral, 1947 is a painting held in the Dallas Museum of Art and was created using enamel and aluminum paint on canvas. Measuring at a 71 1/2 x 35 1/16 inches, this is no small painting. Cathedral, is comprised of organic shapes rather than geometric. The entirety of the work is the product of paint dripping off of a paintbrush. This controlled chaos is…

John Chamberlain. Sweet William, 1962., and the ones adjacent to it were two other sculptures created by Edward Kienholz. Pollock unique art dripping style is magnificent however, an artist who made a name for himself for being a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement has already received enough attention. Chamberlain exquisite metal work sculptures were very impressive but it was Kienholz’s sculpture that captivated my…

Abstraction can be defined as an art in which the subjects of a painting or sculpture are symbolic with the emphasis of specific elements including form, line, and color. The rise of abstraction varies according to each region around the world, as well as the impacts made on societies by local and global events. In my opinion, the catalyst for abstraction in art history was during the 1800’s when art became reactionary. This was during the time of industrialism and revolution. In response to…

Short Circuit, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Weil, Elaine Sturtevant Short Circuit is a mixed-medium artwork created by Robert Rauschenberg in 1955, and it was further modified in 1968. It possesses a three-dimensional cabinet structure with two swinging doors, and internally smuggled two artworks by other artists. They are an untitled painting by Susan Weil and An Original Sturtevant flag painting by Elaine Sturtevant. The Circuit is sized 41.5 by 38.25 by 4.5 inches. This type of work…

according to the time, place and context in which each movement was introduced. The Religious Abstract movement is from the Classical Religious art to the symbolic, figurative Religious Abstract art. Religious Abstract artworks are created through the artist representation of a religious text or of a complex spiritual idea creating an evolving sub art movement. This is displayed throughout history from the first abstract religious painting by Hilma Kint to the use of traditional Japanese Medias…