Art movement

After looking for so long at the two very different pieces of art I understood that there is no way these can be compared. The website Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton is a website where people open themselves to the world to who they are, to how they feel and what do they make of themselves. The photo of the person is there to just go with the story, some visual for others to see. Each story gives a sound of hope for the future no matter what is the present or the past was. These stories…

John Farrer Winter Scene in Moonlight Visual Research Project Monica Whitney CREA 232 Art from the Fifteenth Century Professor Stavros March 22, 2015 Winter Scene in Moonlight is Henry Farrer’s first known watercolor painting. This painting was painted in 1869 and can be found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Henry Farrer used techniques from the Pre-Raphaelite Association to paint this drawing. This watercolor painting is of a…

generated through art-related events, billions of dollars, $27.5 billion to be exact, in revenue is funneled towards local, state and federal governments annually, a number well beyond the $5 billion in yearly arts allocations collectively (“The Economic Impact of America’s Nonprofit Arts and Culture Industry”1). The arts are a major contributor in the grand scale of a global economy, supplying the balance that is much needed in order to maintain a stable system of monetary movement and…

Dance is an art form which demands the extremes of human movement. The dancer’s body appears to glide with effortless grace across the floor, whilst constantly challenging the laws of balance, force and motion. The purpose of this paper is to examine how a dancer moves, the way muscles are used to create and control movement, how dancers work against the force of gravity to leap into the air, spin without toppling over and balance on the toe of a single pointe shoe.…

Late 19th century American art was influenced by a number of art movements such as, impressionism, realism, and symbolism. Some artists were inspired to create genre paintings to enforce their significance in subjects from everyday life including figures, landscapes, and objects. These scenes of everyday life in America did not, however, include people of color. Thus, this segment of the population was being portrayed in an infelicitous angle due to the prejudices of the period, with biased…

southern Spain on October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His impressive artistic talent and inexhaustible inspiration made him a legendary figure in the 20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso had done as much as 37,000 artwork, which includes 1885 oil paintings, 7089 sketches, 2000 prints, and 6121 lithographs. Picasso’s representative works are "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Kahn Weiler…

The Anti-war Movement was one of the largest movements that exists till today, as African Americans, Asian Americans, women, students, hippies, the clergy were part of this movement. The movement focused on the American military’s involvement with Vietnam and the killing of innocent lives. It showed the true representation from America and their dishonesty. Rock music was a main commodity in the music market’ since its emergence it has always been insurgent and incorporating things the youth…

From January 31 to June 5, 2016, The Instant as Image : Moments of Action in Photography from the Permanent Collection at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase exemplifies the simplicity and beauty of motion. Curator, Chelsea Spengemann incorporates works from fourteen different artists as a response to Barbara Morgan’s motion images of modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. It features the works of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, John Cohen, Elliott Erwitt,…

Diego Velazquez is the artist that I would use to represent Spain’s biennial exhibition of Baroque art. According to http://www.spanish-art.org/spanish-painting-early.html Spain has produced some of the world’s most famous painters and they have produced some of the world’s most famous paintings. Furthermore, Spanish painters have been instrumental in the development of many different art movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Mannerism and Romanticism, according to…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…