Abstract art

exhibitions. External Reflections- Internal Wars and True to Form: Works from Chicago Sculpture International will be displayed six days a week at the Brauer Museum of Art until December 11th. The reception was filled with elderly art lovers, art majors, and freshman looking to fill one of their seven required fifth hour credits. Being both an art major and a freshman seeking to fill her fifth hour requirements, I found the reception simultaneously mundane and intriguing at the same time.…

Appropriation, narrative art and snapshot aesthetic. The narrative element is interwoven into the exhibit. The artist provides spectators with the general story of the subjects, drunk girls. However viewers are clueless to the individualized stories of the girls. As well as the relationship between the subjects and the photographers. Viewers can’t help but create or ponder the possibilities of the relationship the that exists between them. The exhibit is also part of appropriation art, as…

Pop art is an artistic technique that portrays to a viewer a sense of being in a particular era (Osterwold, 6). This is due to the inspiration that the artists drew from popular culture. In order to evaluate this artistic movement it will be necessary to first look at the pre-pop era. This era occurred during the 1950s. During this time, two prominent artists, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, stepped outside the dominant technique of abstract expressionism. Both of them drew inspiration…

It is undeniable that culture impacts art. When it comes to modern art, some of the most notable causes of changing are the World Wars, the corrupted society, and polluted environment. A lot of modern art paintings are abstract, which helps deepen the understanding and interpretation. Besides, it does not matter where it is in the world, art takes the same drive for innovating. This analysis will talk about two paintings in two different countries: “Dancing Mutants” by the Filipino artist Ocampo…

Paper 2 - Scholarly Article Art is a medium in which the visual enticing elements entitle a connection between artist and viewer. In the articles, Modernist Painting, by Clement Greenberg, and, The American Action Painters, by Harold Rosenberg, the two major art critics, influentially contributed to the interpretation and understanding of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Through contrasting beliefs based on their assertions on the new expansive painting styles to emerge in the early 1940s,…

Though suprematism was a short lived movement in the art and design worlds, it’s leading theories and principles helped to shape what we see today. Beginning in 1913 and being heavily influenced by the avant-garde poets of the time, Suprematism revolves heavily around the “Zero Degree” of painting, in which artists would aim to push the medium they were using as far as they could, in order to emphasize the material itself rather than what it depicted. The movement’s founder, Kazimir Malevich,…

On April 26th from 4:30-6 I attended an art show at the Tennessee School for the Deaf. All of the featured pieces were created by students attending the school. The pieces were created by high school students in an art class. Overall, there were approximately 100 pieces ranging in all different styles and designs featured on display. The pieces ranged from paintings to sculptures, pots and figurines made out of clay. For example, there was a painting of a snake, but the snake's head was the sign…

grew up in a time of economic scarcity and political upheaval to a tendency “to give top priority to economic and physical security” (215). Perhaps it was why the world was so ready to embrace this movement of Pop Art that emerged in the mid-1950s, just as World War II ended in 1945 (“Pop Art Movement”). It’s important to consider this period of the Great Depression that troubled most of the country economically, then transitioning into a time of war that stressed the importance of recycling and…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…

Continually popular, art is a platform for social and political ideas, in addition to expressions of beauty and harmony. However, countless other media exist today that may improve on a story being told. As a result, painting as an art medium is a fraction of what it used to be. Over the centuries, art styles, and the interpretation of art, shifts. Today, we have contemporary art, pop art, minimalist art, to name a few, but the artistry of painting is still present. Consequently, painting is no…