Abstract expressionism

An art gallery featuring paintings by Cindy Vojnovic was held in ESU’s Fine and Performing Art Center this past Wednesday. Vojnovic stated that she had gotten into painting when she was around three years old, after visiting an art exhibit with her parents, because she was “completely lost in the brush work”. Vojnovic’s paintings told the story of a forgotten steam-boat fire that happened on June 15, 1904. The sinking of the General Slocum, or the General Slocum disaster was the burning of a…

When I took Art Appreciation back in high school, my art teacher, Jane Huebner, also known as “Heebs had told us a quote that I can still remember to this day; I need da money to buy da gas to make the Van Gogh. From there on out I started to like this artist that had stood out to me. This artist was Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He is known as a post-impressionist artist still to this day (2). He had a not so great life and had only sold one painting (4). Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the…

Vincent van Gogh was born as Vincent Willem van Gogh on March 30 in 1853 in groot- Zundert, Netherlands. His mother, Anna had inspired van Gogh because she was a moody artist and she loves nature and drawing she had passed her love for the arts on to her son, but his father had nothing to do with the arts he was a country miner. Van Gogh’s education was at royal academy of fine art for one year in 1886 and then at Willem II collage from 1886 to 1888, he was a post-impressionist painter, his…

In Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Petra distinguishes herself by abandoning the traditional facets of women. It is her perseverance and self-sufficient attitude that make her the true embodiment of the modern woman. Impressionism on the other hand, reveals realistic depictions of modern life. Modernity in Impressionism however, has a different meaning in comparison to Ibsen’s modernity; this style of art simply reflecting modern life does not in any way display anything unconventional. The…

Viewing Burtynsky’s work was an unusual experience that made me question my role as a human being on the planet. Most of Burtynsky’s work especially that related to oil brought to the forefront problems that most of us choose to neglect, the deterioration of our environment. My first reaction to his work was disbelief at the unfortunate predicament that faces our civilization. His unique photographs that capture the industrial and modern landscape moved me with the clarity that captures color as…

Formal Analysis : Aspiration by Aaron Douglas Aspiration, an oil painting with dimensions of 60in by 60in, hangs in the de Young Museum of San Francisco. Originally, the modernist, Aaron Douglas, created the artwork as a four-part mural for the Texas Centennial of 1936.1 This was painted of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a major cultural art movement that aimed to showcase the talents of African Americans in order to replace the derogatory images that circulated in pop culture at the…

in a parallel way. This technique which helps connect the foreground to the background, could be seen as an influence to the Cubism movement of the early twentieth century, which -like Cézanne- was described as avant-garde. This contrasts with the abstract look of plate 1.3.22, keeping with the theme of nature there are no sketch marks or underdrawings visible. This helps build that very raw and rustic look of the painting as a whole. Paul Cézanne’s paintings were the first of their kind. He…

First of all, I could instantly notice how this image is different than that of Andy Warhol’s, whose painting was clearly the inspiration for this one. From the very first glance I felt weird because I kept comparing the original painting to this one. The main thing that was odd to me was the gender swap. Instead of Marilyn Monroe’s face, you could see an old man. It made me feel quite uncomfortable, even though everything else besides that was exactly the same as the original. The painting uses…

Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich are both successive influential Russian painter that contributed to the art of abstraction through their distinctive use of colours. Thus both artists are acclaimed with their abstract works, they have dissimilar and coherent sensations for colours. Both artist used similar tones within their work and they all wanted to stimulate acoustic responds from their audience with their use of colour. However, Kandinsky hold a strong opinion towards the connection…

The Modern art movement was started by many people and has had a major impact on not only on our modern lives but has also made an impact on history itself. One of the artists that helped pushed the movement was a man called Clive Bell, who believed that art should be made with aesthetic emotion and “Significant forms,” instead of Renassiance like artwork. Clive Bell was not only famous for his artwork but also for his critiquing of other artworks that were being made during his era. The ideas…