Art movements

Cataract 3 is a 88.5 x 87.5 inches which is approximately the size of a double glass sliding door. Riley was widely know for painting in black and white until 1967, the year Cataract 3 was created. This piece is considered Op Art because it creates an optical sensation of movement through the manipulation and reposition of lines. Riley uses both horizontal and diagonal curved lines with different scales. The lines widen and close throughout the canvas to create the illusion that the lines are…

Surrealist movements. “New Encounters” specifically analyses the problematic portrayal of the female body and black culture largely within this one painting in a way that questions the overwhelming praise and status typically associated with it. Conversely, “Poetics of Everyday Life” reviews the ways in which Dada and Surrealism had been unsuccessful in engaging in effective political change on the scale of everyday life despite their overall social and cultural impact on future movements.…

Art has multiple meanings depending on the artist, for me, art is the application of color in a scientific manner to create magic in a canvas. Art is harmony, but harmony that can be found in the science of color. As most of the artists that are part of the salon and those whose art is denied or ignored, I am a Parisian and an even though I am a very patriotic and conservative person, I utilized Art to evade traditionalism and to express my original style. I am a learner every day, but Art has…

Century, art styles such as realism and romanticism were most popular in the world of art, these traditional and academic art forms were seen as the highest and most desirable form of art; the result of great skill and control. At this time artists focused on creating artwork that was visually accurate and which were true depictions of the world and their surroundings. In the 20th century however, art styles changed dramatically with the development of modernism, and a number of artistic…

In this portion of her text she also draws a line between the current text called An Artist Looks at Ethnographic Exhibitions, Sacred Circles, and her work Fragments (1976-78). Fragments is a archival installation which consisting of 186 gouache drawings, 210 potsherds, photographs, charts, diagrams and handwritten and typed text. This chapter is crucial to be read, it is quite dense and full of information that I believe really determines her position as an artist and everything else that she…

artwork that both have the same medium. The two pieces that stood out to me at Willards Art Center in Idaho Falls Idaho were Elise Wilding's tree painting and Bernadette Regnier's flower painting. Both artists, Wilding and Regnier, use the medium of paint to create their beautiful art. While they both use the same medium in their art, they have do have different styles. Wilding uses an expressionism style in her art to connect with her viewer, whereas Regnier uses impressionism in her painting. …

Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970. She was schooled in Kalamazoo, where she received her bachelor degree in Art, and continued on to receive her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 1997 (Artnet). She lives and works in Harlem New York with her artist and partner (Plagens). Mehretu works on drawings influenced by architectural plans and aerial maps. She adds many layers to increase complexity. She relates the layering to herself as parts of who she is. She…

Art is defined in the dictionary as “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2015). But with time and through changes in society also come changes in the way that art is perceived. Fountain, which was a urinal upon which Marcel Duchamp wrote the initials “R.Mutt”, and the category of art he coined “ready-mades” were some of the most innovative pieces of art for a few reasons. First of all, they gave…

of Frank Lloyd Wright relates to the modernist movement by analysing Wright’s work in detail with reference to modernism and other movements. The movement of modernism follows the ideology that the traditional style of creating art, architecture and literature was becoming old fashioned so a new and experimental approach was taken to allow the different forms of art to be compatible with the changes in the world being more industrialised. This movement was a key paradigm shift of the twentieth…

German Romanticism is a movement in both the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century. Goethe’s Erlkönig, and ETA Hoffman’s The Sandman are both German Romantic pieces of literature. The creators of each of these pieces would view Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a German Romantic play even though it predated the movement. This is because Shakespeare’s Macbeth implements many of the same techniques which Goethe and ETA Hoffman employ throughout their works and which were…