Avant-garde

was his dramatic, yet expressive personal style he added on to his work. Van Gogh was an art dealer, teacher, and evangelist before he decided to pursue being an artist. When Van Gogh moved to Paris, it led to him gaining exposure to the Parisian avant-garde. From there, Van Gogh tailored Seurat’s pointillism, by applying brilliant colored paint in multi-directional strokes of impasto. (999) This technique gave Van Gogh’s pictures in my opinion a very powerful emotional energy and a “palpable…

Lezley Saar was born in 1953 in Los Angeles California. Saar became known for transforming old books into assemblages. She attended the L'Institut Francais de Photographie in Paris, she also attended the San Francisco State University and received her B.A at the California State University at Northridge. In 2000, she won an award at the California State Senate Contemporary Art Collection. Saar’s artwork has been exhibited at many places such as the MOCA Museum, the Ackland Art Museum and the…

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting the exhibit Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, 1909-1929: When Art Danced with Music at the National Gallery of Art. But this was not my first experience with this exhibit, no for I had the opportunity to perform in honor of this exhibit this past summer where I performed right outside the entrance the to the showcase. I performed the roles of the Faun in Vaslav Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Faun, and Prince Ivan in The Firebird. The two performances…

Noir injected a bleakness into American cinema, a desolate quality that distinguishes it from the optimistic Hollywood productions of the 1930s, with their flat lighting, tidy narratives, and satisfying conclusions. In Hollywood Genres, Thomas Schatz attributes this bleakness to social condition in World War II America: “This changing visual world . . . reflected the progressively darkening cultural attitudes during and after the war. Hollywood’s noir films documented the growing…

Gustave Courbet. The revolutionary of Manet works is that he would often flattened out the figures in his paintings under the influence of the Japenese prints that he knew and admired. With Manet being championed by other artists as a leader of the avant-garde, he was like that by just being loose, open brushwork and sometimes in commonplace subjects. Some other revolutionary works that involved impressionism through artists were Claude…

When it comes to art made from glass no one stands out more than Dale Chihuly. His art stands out for not only the dazzling design, but also for the aura that it emits. Several people have attempted to describe his work however few have succeeded in their endeavor. For this paper, I am going to look at Linda Norden’s description of Chihuly’s work, a video interview of Chihuly, as well as an article from Clement Greenberg for comparison. From these, one prominent writer, Linda Norden, evaluated…

One of the most adventurous pianists and inescapable presence in the scene is Matt Mitchell, who, besides his own work, is a fundamental piece in Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, Dave Douglas Quintet, Darius Jones Quartet, and Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls. The cover of A Pouting Grimace, his latest work, exhibits an intriguing collage of figures that assume different forms, textures, and colors. This illustrates Mitchell’s compositional style and music. These forms sometimes live by themselves; other…

relatively conventional en plein air painter, as evidenced by his earliest surviving work, Landscape at Rouelles, painted in 1858. While this is an accomplished and tranquil vision, painted under the direct influence of Boudin, Monet soon learned that avant-garde critics were ‘absolutely opposed to the softly curving forms and delicately composed tones of Landscape at Rouelles. These critics were advocates for a new type of realism in painting, one that declared its radical artificiality even as…

Vassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, writer, teacher, art theorist and the father of abstract art. Being a trained musician, he used music in his approach to color which he made sing from the canvas. A major turning point in his style of art came after he viewed Claude Monet’s “Haystack at Giverny” at a Moscow exhibition. Over the years he perfected his style of abstract art. He inspired other artists, wrote books on his theories, worked with museums, and ballet’s, experienced his work…

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