An Artist of the Floating World

source 1, the German artist Kurt Schwitters created art that he called Rubbish. To make this art called Rubbish, he collected torn pieces of paper, ticket stubs, and even bits of string that he found walking along a street. During World War II, the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso hoarded “junk” such as bicycle frames, mattress springs, and some gardening tools which he then turned into sculptures. In 1942 he created something…

The Proto-Renaissance period began in the early 13th century in Northern Italy, where artists started to move away from the rigid Medieval style towards a more realistic Renaissance style. Proto-Renaissance has more natural light and modelling, leading to paintings that look more realistic. Figures now look heavy and fill out their clothing, rather than just looking like paper cut outs. Paintings are simple, uncluttered and have a spiritual and physical gravity. (Ruf Rice, 2015) Paintings like…

Magritte was among the most important and well-known artists during the 20th century. He used very unique and intellectual techniques that not many understood but envied quite so. A vast majority of his paintings hold a mystery that is not the easiest to solve but is pleasing to the human eye. A painting of his that I personally saw at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas was an oil on canvas painting called The Invisible World. The Invisible World was completed in 1954, thirteen years…

creature that reflects our world. We all have a same world, but different culture, different experience and different character cause us view the world completely different. Art is the thing that allow us express our emotion and dream, it gives us a chance to depict the world in our eyes through beautiful colors and unique shapes. Whether it is cubism or abstract, realism or impressionism, they are all part of the beauty. Those thoughts and styles make up some segment of the world we see, art…

need for instantaneous media access accompanied with the escalation of the social acceptance of "casual" piracy, it is no secret that file sharing, legal or illegal, is on the rise. For most folks in their twenties today, they may not be aware of a world without piracy. In fact, they may not even be aware that certain kinds of file sharing is illegal and punishable by law. To understand why file sharing is so prevalent in modern society, the background of this kind of sharing needs to be…

The twentieth century was an incredible period for the development of psychology. This era was full of many promotions in the area of psychology. These advances in turn influenced artists and writers in the art and literary community. Psychological progressions in the area of dreams and the subconscious inspired the surrealist movement that came about during this time. Literature also felt the influence of the newly discovered deeper mind and often alluded to, or symbolized, new age theories in…

Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe was American female artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous…

Tensho Shobun was an artist that was friends with a great line of artists during this period, including Josetsu and Sesshu. He became very familiar with the Ma-Xia style and used this strong Korean influenced in this works. His ax-cut rocks are influenced by Ma Yuan and his trees are of those of Xia Gui. The Song Dynasty inspired many works in this period and contain many of the similar attributes. The use of mistiness is incorporated throughout this screen as well as far away mountains. The use…

will discuss how the artist Alexey Steele, has used the human form as an integral part of his art making. Alexey Steele was born in 1967, in Kiev, Ukraine he is currently forty-nine years old. When he was younger, he worked with his Father a well-known Russian painter, Leonid Steele in an art studio. He then continued his art education in Moscow, at the Art Institute of the Soviet Academy of Arts, during this time he was able to work with Illia Glazunov an international artist. He moved to…

completely magical world of colour.” During the video the man slowly freezes, floating above the water then turns into the shape of a fetus resembling a new form life then disappears into the distance over time. The film took two years to develop and has been shown in galleries worldwide expressing viola’s perceptions and his personal experiences in the subjective video, He utilizes video to explore the wonders of sense recognition as a road to self-knowledge. Viola as an artist has always been…