Abstract art

created in New York in 1919. The painting was created by using oil paint on a canvas. There was no texture added, so the piece seems to be quite smooth. The canvas is 35 x 29 inches. It is displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The artist painted an abstract piece, and it does not contain a straightforward or well known subject. There are a variety of curved lines that create oval-like shapes that originate from the bottom right corner of the canvas. Your eyes tend to be drawn right…

and make art now a days. Without these two monumental art figures, the art we know and love today would be very much different. Both of these artist share fantastic attributes that make them great and also have differences that are each great in their own spectacular, interesting, ways! The two are almost like puzzle pieces how they complement each other in their art forms…

a teenager turned his attention from music into visual arts. In 1898 he went to the Academy of fine arts in Munich. On 1905 he developed his own signature techniques like drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass. Later on between 1903 and 1905, he did a set of etchings called Inventions that would be his first exhibited work. The themes used were place and space, Representational vs. Non-representational (Realism vs. Abstract) and Materials and Process. On his painting Revolution…

In the 1960’s an art movement known as Pop Art had begun. Pop art was meant to be simple to aid the audience in creating their own interpretations of the pieces. Two of the leading artists were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol was a fan of women, unlike Warhol, Lichtenstein was inspired by culture; their paintings are both Pop Art but they are different because Warhol’s paintings are mostly of women and Lichtenstein’s are of famous cartoon characters. Warhol and Lichtenstein were both…

Joan Mitchell’s Chamonix 1962 painting appears to be a mess at first glance; paint violently pushed across canvas, no focal point and seemingly just no point to this piece. However, by giving a name to this abstract mess, we are able to begin to use our imagination to begin to see shapes take form to see that Mitchell has made an abstraction of a French mountain and it is our job as a viewer to use our minds to make a story of her canvas. Mitchell’s 200 by 217.2cm canvas overtakes your vision…

May Gallery for my first arts review, I was inspired to go home and mess with my own camera. After taking some photos of the scenery by my house on my phone’s camera, I became curious about the history of photography and wanted to discover how the art changed over time. Naturally, I did some research on the origins of photography, on how and why it adapted, and finally looked into modern adaptations and uses. Less than 200 years old, photography is a relatively new art form that has continually…

For my painting series I wanted to explore the Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist mindset of creation in conjunction with my current body of cosmic work. As these two movements are based primarily in the individual experience, I chose to create this series based upon how I experience and process the world as a mentally ill, LGBTQ+ individual. Creating eight acrylic-on-canvas paintings, four resembling Surrealist art and four Abstract Expressionist, I focused on emotions and experiences that…

between music and art was unbreakable and clearly represented in all aspects of this work. The link between the two was new, and therefore showed off his individuality in the art world, and his ability to break artistic expectations. “Blue Poles”, an artwork created by the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, redefines art expectations at is rectified his controversial practice. “Blue Poles” spread five meters across and over two meters high, is a clear example of abstract art. Originally…

writing this post, I read an article about abstract art discussing Piet Mondrian views on art. Mondrian was involved in the De Stijl art movement, an art style focused on isolating a single visual style that would appropriate to all aspects of modern life. The style resulted in implementing geometric blocks of primary colors and vertical and horizontal lines. Mondrian's art theories greatly affected his abstract art style & his quote about abstract art stuck out to me when looking at this…

For this art analysis I decided to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art. After an hour or so of visiting through the many and various exhibitions and galleries offered at the SAMA I stumbled upon a gallery that caught my attention, the Latin America Modern Contemporary exhibition. At the gallery the first art piece that I observed was “El Brujo de Malasia”. “El Brujo de Malasia” is an art piece from the Mexican artist Sergio Hernandez. “El Brujo de Malasia” is a painting composed of oil and sand…