American modernism

When art is being processed there exist within the person a sensation of affection, and this affection towards the object is understood as good or bad. When in the instance of good the object is said then to be agreeable or beautiful. The division of which is the topic of this paper, namely that Kant and Bullough outline their distinction of agreeable and beautify, as well as the agreement that when considering art; both agreeable and beauty are two different forms of appreciating art. Art when…

At first glance of Elke, by Georg Baselitz, there is a negative atmosphere coming from the portrait. The deep hues of blue give an undertone that is depressing. The upside composition makes it look as though everything in the world has been turned upside down, and therefore gives feelings trouble. The way Baselitz does not paint all the way to the edges completely gives a feeling that the portrait is an illusion or memory. Larry Gagosian says his “iconic “upside-down” paintings, in which bodies.…

The art of the 1980s was a simple, colorful, yet controversial time for most artists. It was often simplistic and easy to produce for most of the art was repetitive and at a glance plain. Critiques questioned the definition of art and what defines art since art started to become a bit more abstract and restrained from imitating life. For example, a very controversial artist from the 1980s, Andy Warhol was often looked down upon by others seeing that his pop art included much repetition of the…

During the 1950’s in both Britain and the United states a new art movement emerged under the title of pop art. To create pop art the artists would combine many images from popular culture. This included things such as advertisements or images from comic books and even things as simple as soup cans.. This material would sometimes be isolated and combined with other images that would have no visible correlations to each other. Pop art was widespread reaching countries from the United States to…

Panicked Paper Against Shrouded Software How has art adapted to the modern technological age? An important factor of art is displaying it so it can be admired, but each style of art has different ways it can be stored for later uses. In contribution, long-term, the environment is by some means affected due to the media used. Generally, art can be beautiful, strange, and many other things, but it's the journey it captures that holds meaning. Preservation of artwork is vital to upkeep the piece’s…

Painting with a Meaning People have claimed time and time again that a picture is worth a thousand words. These words don’t always slip right off the tongue because the piece may have been created to cause debate, help strive for social justice, is just based on a taboo subject that most people choose to ignore and forget about, or, if it’s abstract art, is created with the intent of inflicting certain thoughts and emotions from a viewer, which is just code for made up of the artist’s lack…

The work of art I decided to write about is Tree by Evan Lindquist, at the Sara Howell Studio and Gallery. Lindquist is an expert artist-printmaker who specializes in intaglio – the art of printmaking. Lindquist is a Jonesboro resident and a former Professor of Art, teaching printmaking and drawing, at Arkansas State University for forty years, 1963-2003. In 2003 he retired from the university to focus solely on his art. Almost all of Lindquist’s works on display, including Tree, follow the…

suits in each scene, and his face expression shows that he is serious. Starting from the first part on the left side, the scene shows the president in the background bending his head to left in an attempt to be seen, and he is saying “My fellow Americans..”. in front of him is a man who…

Modernism means “integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity.” This quote by Paul Rand demonstrates the bias towards modernism. However, there are pros and cons for both traditionalism and modernism. While traditionalism holds to conventional morals and ideas, modernism explores new concepts and leaves room for imagination. This is shown by the vaccine controversy, the short story “Everyday Use," and…

Reflection on Matisse Henri Matisse was born in 1869, the year the Cutty Sark was launched. The year he died, 1954, the first hydrogen bomb exploded at Bikini Atoll. Matisse lived through some of the most traumatic political events, worst wars, greatest slaughters, and the most demented rivalries of ideology. Yet, this did not affect his artwork. He never express his political opinion or experiences living throughout the horror of the 20th century, instead his painting were “the equivalent of…