American modernism

Summary and Response to “What is ‘Art’? Part 1” In the section “What is ‘Art’? Part 1” of the book An Introduction to Art, Charles Harrison explores the birth of art in human history and discusses how we define and differentiate artistic creations from other things. He uses a hand axe which was made around six hundred thousand years ago as an example to demonstrate that humanity’s creativity does date back to ancient times and what he calls as ‘aesthetic sense’ was already developed in…

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…

As a boy, Roy Lichtenstein was inspired by advertisements and comic strips. Lichtenstein was able to make his art work look like it was printed off a giant printer. He was recognized as one of the leaders in the Pop Art movement which included Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenbirg. Lichtenstein’s art provoked debate over the ideas of originality and the fine line between fine art and entertainment. Roy Lichtenstein’s most famous works would be his collection of comic strips,…

Jeff Koon was born on the 21st of January, 1955, in York, Pennsylvania. Jeff is a painter, illustrator and a sculptor. Before Jeff became famous from his everyday installations, he went to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In 1974, Jeff saw an exhibition of Jim Nutt. From seeing Jim Nutt’s artworks he exchanged to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago then moved back to Maryland Institute. After graduating with a BFA in 1976, Jeff sold memberships in the Museum of Modern…

The Margaret Esherick House and the poem “Order Is”1 are both considered famous works by the renowned architect Louis I Kahn, however, the ideas put forth by each respective work seem to contradict each other as well as some of his principles. There are several instances where we can see that the ideas seen in his construction do not accurately reflect his ideas and instead go against them. It is these clashing principles that have prevented the Margaret Esherick House from achieving its full…

Postmodernism In The World Of Bob’s Burgers Fox’s critically acclaimed animated sitcom series, Bob’s Burgers, focuses on the life of a family who runs a hamburger restaurant. The Belcher family—which include parents Bob and Linda Belcher, alongside their children Tina, Gene and Louise—are the center of the show. The restaurant, conveniently named ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ is the center of where the majority of the episode plot occurs. Bob, who is the owner and chef of Bob’s Burgers, just wants to run…

(1986), later completed by PhD degree (1993). His iconography, full of equally cute and psychedelic representations, is often seen as a weird amalgam of East and West mass culture, inspired by anime and manga, comics and cartoons, as well as the American Pop Art. Takashi Murakami has conquered both international art scene and commercial media, exhibiting his work since 1988. Some of his first shows were "Jan Hoet's Vision" (1991) presented in Fukuoka and Ishikawa, followed by the Venice Biennale…

works gradually disappeared and turned into pure abstract signs he invented himself. In 1957 Zao visited his brother who lived in New Jersey and he met with abstract expressionism artists in New York. Affected by the straightforwardness he saw in American paintings, Zao began to paint in broader and more fluid brushstrokes on larger surfaces after he returned to Paris in 1958. Since then the invented signs in his paintings disintegrated into deliberate arrangement of light and space composed by…

Jeff Koons was born in January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. From an early age, he obtained an interest in the arts from his father who was a furniture store owner and interior designer. After high school, he attended Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974, he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), it was thereafter that he…

Jackman Responses The first response is from pages 195-210 from Ian Jackman’s book, “The Artist’s Mentor.” Throughout these pages there are various quotes and examples of what it means and feels to be an artist. Jackman states that if you truly want to be an artist that you will do anything to try and create something. For example, Jackman uses a quote from Mary Frank, she sates “for me, the reason to do art is that it is compelling. Art is a drive, a very complex desire and need, urgency and…