American modernism

painting that launched his artistic career and got him into the mainstream of modern art as we know it today. The Dance is known to be a key example of modernism since it satisfies the quota that art critic Clement Greenberg has set forward for us and paves a new direction in modern art for future generations to follow. According to Greenberg, modernism in painting should have a strong focus on the basic structure presented in each artwork rather than just reproducing an illusionistic copy of…

If the output of interdisciplinary dialog between psychology, art history and aesthetics was to offer a more open-ended notion of ornament, one that mediates an aesthetic “vitality”, it would still be up to artists and architects at the time to debate over what was the “vitality” that to be conveyed, what role did the artist play in this mediation and ultimately what value would this creation possess. The inherent “modern” characteristic of such a vitality was closely intertwined with everyday…

Describe: This portrait is an oil painting on canvas. It is located in the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. The subject in the foreground is an African American man mounted on a rearing horse in the style of Napoleon Bonaparte. The painting has a decorative, Baroque theme that looks very much like wallpaper in the painting’s background, reminiscent of luxurious French fabric. The background is also filled with tiny paintings of sperm which is Wiley’s way of parodying the style of art…

Almost anything can define art. It can appear like virtually everything. It just depends on who is the creator. Jackson Pollock was a creator of abstract expressionism. The style drifts from the realistic drawing and heads more for pure color and configuration. Not everybody cares for the style and discussions have risen on whether this manner of abstract expressionism represents art. Even though the first look makes Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles painting seem like child's play, a closer…

My artist is Salvador Dali His paintings a lot of times are compared to the horror genre. The painting that inspired me is The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1946 I really like this piece because of the oversized proportions and the amount of detail in the painting the more you observe it the more things you notice and wonder, like the giant elephants lead by the giant horse that inspired him to do certain things. Other things I like is the naked person holding the cross with a halo on his head,…

Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Paul Cezanne’s The Bathers all depict scenes of nudes, but in very different ways. Matisse builds upon Cezanne’s use of color and form to depict his own interpretation of bathers while Picasso uses color in his depiction of a nude scene in a very different way. Paul Cezanne’s, Large Bathers, depicts a moment in time as impressionist’s were apt to convey with their work. However, the women shown are drawn abstractly.…

The work of photographer Jeff Wall utilizes previous art in order to give his photographes meaning. One of Wall’s pieces of art is A Sudden Gust of Wind, and it takes inspiration from another famous piece of artwork by Hokusai named Ejiri in Suruga Province. The two pieces of art share a very obvious resemblance to each other being that Wall’s purpose was to recreate Hokusai’s previous work. Wall finds a very similar landscape to take his photo at, and he even finds a similar tree. The…

Piet Mondrian was born March 7, 1872, as Pieter Cornerlis Mondriaan. He is well known for his involvement in the Dutch art movement De Stijl which “advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color” (Neo-Plasticism and De Stijl). This means simplified shapes, ideally composed of just vertical or horizontal directions, and only primary colors in addition to black and white. From this concept, Mondrian produce many famous abstract paintings made up of…

cultural identity. The Great Wall is only ten minutes away from me. I have seen and passed by it many times. The mural by Judith F. Baca started something that depicts the unity of a community, the pride and struggles for Chicanos living in an Anglo-American society, and the education one can attain from a painting on the wall. The mural is not just there for display; instead it takes on an environment and creates it into a site where everyone can connect and visually study the efforts and…

When you are evaluating artwork subjectively, you want to look at the creativity that the art piece expression and what feelings that the artwork brings out of you. Take in account how much space that the drawing takes up, what tools were used to create the artwork, and the amount of difficultly involved in creating the art piece. Subjectively evaluating artwork is mostly about personal opinion and relates to your feelings. When you are evaluating art objectively, you want keep personal opinions…