Black Arts Movement

Klimt’s art. Through it he conveys the essence of human form and the nature of it’s existence. In his work he explores a range of human emotion like suffering, love and hope through poses, expressions and gestures, until reaching a peak of emotional intensity. Whist working he used an adjustable easel allowing his to draw from various angles. To develop the female’s languorous bodies in a floating-like manner, he often posed models on beds; a motif very common in his art. Klimt’s taste in art…

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…

For this art analysis I decided to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art. After an hour or so of visiting through the many and various exhibitions and galleries offered at the SAMA I stumbled upon a gallery that caught my attention, the Latin America Modern Contemporary exhibition. At the gallery the first art piece that I observed was “El Brujo de Malasia”. “El Brujo de Malasia” is an art piece from the Mexican artist Sergio Hernandez. “El Brujo de Malasia” is a painting composed of oil and sand…

“Graham Todd: Imaginary Spaces” is a memorial exhibit at the McMaster Museum of Art celebrating artist and McMaster Studio Art professor Graham Todd passed away in June 2013. This memorial exhibit features twenty sculptural works from 1982 to 2013, and also includes six of Todd’s sketchbooks. Each work is placed against a white backdrop and under soft spotlights. The works featured at the exhibit are from collections of Lorraine Samuel, Karen Hendrick, and Briana Palmer. In collecting…

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.…

During the interwar period between World War I and World War II, artists began to focus their art on political expression; a common theme amongst artists of the time was to protest against fascism, dictatorship, and war. Many of the horrible events that occurred during World War I and the resulting new governments and political philosophies inspired artists to express their own feelings about the political direction of the world. Spanish Pablo Picasso continued to work throughout the 1920s…

really appealed to me. In this painting, the use of lines played a vital role in the positioning of the man and woman within the piece. There were colors like gray, brown, black and mustard within the piece. The use of various different and uniquely shaped materials keeps your eyes moving from one place to another creating movement throughout the piece. Columns are relatively abundantly used in this piece, along with numerous straight lines. These…

writing this post, I read an article about abstract art discussing Piet Mondrian views on art. Mondrian was involved in the De Stijl art movement, an art style focused on isolating a single visual style that would appropriate to all aspects of modern life. The style resulted in implementing geometric blocks of primary colors and vertical and horizontal lines. Mondrian's art theories greatly affected his abstract art style & his quote about abstract art stuck out to me when looking at this…

Prompt #2 From Margins to Center The Structure of “Gaze” and Women in Art Throughout the recorded history, we have lived in patriarchal social systems. Male artists dominate the art world and art is made for male audiences. Not only are women represented in singular and passive ways, but also some works were transgressing against females. Men maintain a studio system, which has excluded women from training as artists, a gallery system that has kept them from exhibiting and selling their…

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 collaborations in art history. After her husband died in 1946, she…