Academic art

In Mark Rothko’s 1961 Orange, Red, Yellow abstract expressionist colour field artwork, displays the colours yellow, orange and red. The disembodied colours are piled up together creating this feeling of the colours hovering on the canvas. Orange, Red, Yellow by Mark Rothko evidently describes the abstract expressionist style. The media use of acrylic paint affected the style of the painting. The lack of form in Rothko’s painting can be evidently seen as Rothko painted three rectangular shapes…

Nijedka Akunyili Crosby’s mixed media exhibition Predecessors, being showcased at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati Ohio from July 15th to October 1st of this year, is composed of work completed in the past five years including pieces of the same name, Predecessors. These two pieces which make up Predecessors are composed of acrylic paint, colored pencil, charcoal and photo transfers on paper. Hanging side by side, the pieces both complement and contrast not only each other but also in…

Turrell in 1999. It was made for the purpose of connecting two of the main Museum of Fine Arts buildings in Houston, and it is directly beneath Houston’s Main Street. Along that space, there are lights with the sole function of guiding you through the pitch black tunnel while keeping you on the dark pathway, and away from the edge. While going through this tunnel, you will experience Turrell’s favorite aspect of art - light. In this work, the artist uses light to guide you through the…

print that is 6 ¼ in. x 9 3/16 in. and titled “Knees” from 1927. I chose this piece of artwork because I find Weston’s work to be quit intriguing. It is all very detailed and the lighting he uses is simply amazing. Weston has a lot of nude works of art, but I think it really shows the beauty of the human body especially in relation to other things in nature. We see a lot of his nude photographs trace back to his photo “Pepper” from 1930. I believe this photo is linked to it, as well. I’ll…

Graffiti is a form of art used to convey a person's independent thought. I believe that the painter of the graffiti I chose wanted to associate the flower to the lack of nature of New York City. New York City sometimes referred to as the capital of the world. The city has a low concentration of nature. Nature can only be found in places such as Central Park or Battery park, but even there you can see the lack of nature considering everything is so organized and nicely placed, a clear evidence…

I remember when I was in third grade our teacher had great passion for the arts. She introduced us to many artists and one of the one Jackson Pollock, an American abstract painter. His art amused me because to many all those splattered paints meant absolutely nothing but a “mess” some would say but to me this art had so much expression in it. The fact that he took different meaning to everything he painted was what made me admire him. I even remember the class doing group projects and my group…

Roberto Matta was a surrealist artist that was born in Santiago, Chile in 1911. He grew up in Chile and attended a Jesuit university there. He studied architecture and interior design. After graduating from the program in 1935 he began travelling the world. He first stayed only in Central and Southern America, but he then decided to join the Merchant Marines. This enabled him to travel around the world. Although architecture was his passion and what he was taught in school he also loved to…

pays attention to his dreams, freezing them through art, and analyzing them as well. As Freud said, “A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not opened (Bell, 1984). Picasso took the opposite approach to art. He inherited the gusto for ugliness, scandal and chaos of the Dada movement and the automatic surrealists (Bell, 1984). Picasso rejected the craft to become primitive, deciding that the ingenuity of childhood is the basis of art (Bell, 1984).…

Lithuania in 1918. Telesforas entered the Kaunas Art School after being encouraged by his art teacher in grade school. Telesforas studied woodcuts in Japanese when he took his brief visit to Paris. Telesforas worked in art his whole life after school, beginning with his part time job as an artist at Kaunas Textile Company. Later in 1942 he became a teacher at Vilnius Art Academy as well as the head of the Department of Printmaking. He continued with his art career in Toronto when he became a…

When i was a kid " about 12 years old" i discevered music, not really good music but still music, it was back in 2008 ,crazy, it was 9 years ago so you could say i have about 9 years of listening intensely to music, i first started listening what i thought was "cool" at the time , wich in todays world is litteraly and i mean extremely bad. It was called hiphop back in the day and what it was, basically you take a mixing board and smash it with a hammer , get someone to sing the same thing, and…