Abstraction

of his abstractions and methodical practice. Beginning in 1904 he had become a landscape painter. He was influence by Jan Toorop and caused him to paint in a Symbolist manner. Mondrian worked in series, which allowed him to focus on one object at a time. “Mondrian was drawn toward the syncretic and universalizing ideas of Theosophy. Theosophy combined aspects of Christian and Jewish mysticism with Eastern practices” (Arnason 263). Artists that were drawn to Theosophy taught that abstraction…

The world in which we live in is something that is constantly changing. Nothing ever stays the same. And with these changes in the world, there comes changes in painting as well. Painting has come a long way, and as the times change, the style, subject matter, and characteristics of painting change as well. The Baroque period took place between the years 1600-1750. There are two main characteristics that seem to be representative of baroque painting. There seemed to always be a sense of…

Postmodernism/ Modernism Modernist artists can be viewed as a new way of thinking that started in the 1860’s and ended in the 1970’s that sought to view art thru fresh eyes. Modern art focused on actual items in nature but sought to abstract it. Post-Modernism is almost the anti-modernism. It went to go against anything modernism stood for. Asking more questions than it answered postmodern artists sought to simplify and recreate past styles and converge low and high art into one. In this essay…

Locke is one the most important philosophers when it comes to the western world. He was used in his political views for the creation of the declaration of independence. Besides his political views this paper will be talking predominantly about his metaphysical ones: the first one is of his view of the human mind and how we are blank slates and use primary and secondary qualities to create our experiences, second is his points on freewill and how we choose our freedom, and the state of nature and…

size large shirt is larger than the medium size shirt. Another comparison can be the pink dress is similar to the purple dress. Finally, ideas that become generalized are abstractions. An “abstractions are formed when we recognize a certain characteristic that a group of objects has in common” (Palmer, p79). Examples of abstractions are shoes, shirts, pants and accessories, which are all simple ideas. These simple ideas are abstracted in one’s brains as one complex idea, like a clothing…

or straight talk as Pound called it, was also one of their main goals. By turning poetry into a spoken art, common speech became their new unit of rhythm. Trivial, commonplace topics were as valid as precious Greek urns or elusive nightingales. Abstraction was to be avoided at all costs” Harmer mentions that, “The exact word does not mean the word which exactly describes the object in itself, it means the exact word which brings the effect of that object before the reader as it presented itself…

The topic of Zizek’s talk is not the so called notion of “Virtual Reality”, but according to zizek the more important idea today is to understand the opposite, “The Reality of the Virtual”. Here, to proceed we need to make these two ideas distinct, "Virtual Reality" is a reality that contains the effect of actual reality but it’s not authentic. It's a kind of a simulation, a potent one. On the other hand the reality of the virtual is by which the actual effects of causes, which are not of the…

Robert Rauschenberg was a remarkable contemporary artist whose art style makes the name “Andy Warhol” and the like come to mind, developing artwork at similar time frames and sharing similar techniques. Unlike traditional popular culture artists, Rauschenberg created prints with a hybrid technique of photography, printmaking, and papermaking. He refers to his artwork as combines, because of the three dimensional effect observed when viewing these unique prints. Rauschenberg is classified mainly…

“For the Anniversary of My Death” and “The Nail” are considered as the main turning point in W.S Merwin’s use of stylistic approach to poetry. In almost all of his poems, he virtually uses no punctuation of any kind as his choices of words are simpler. Still present in these poems are the poet’s fascination with death, the spiritual, ruination, and the natural. These poems capture the facets of Merwin’s 1960s style and the use of imagery. They are also presented in stanzas, which are irregular,…

The Heroes however, live by the martial code, which is a code much different than the mortal civil code shown in the first city on shield; but is still linked to the central plot-line. On the shield we read of the second city—a city under siege. The residents of this city are resilient and ready to fight to protect their city, Homer describes their mentality as “. . . armed for a raid, hoping to break the siege—loving wives and innocent children standing guard on the ramparts, flanked by elders…