Black Arts Movement

This spring semester in my 1301 art class we attended the Martha Fenstermarker Memorial Art Gallery at Laredo Community College. I must say that my attention was captivated by the art that was being displayed though out the gallery. Although the paintings on the wall were smaller than expected, they each had amazing detail. “Beirut Sea and baby” by Lahib Jaddo is a stunning acrylic on panel art work that caught my eye and blocked out the rest of the exhibitions. This acrylic on panel piece…

like method, creation, and technique come to mind. The different approaches to the creation of art were reflected in the variety of artistic movements that defined the period between 1900 and 1980. Two different pieces that encompass varied approaches to art are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. Both of these works are largely influential in the span of modern art for their innovation in representation and method of depiction. Pablo Picasso is perhaps…

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,…

Staying true to the ideologies of street art, he's built many celebrated bodies of work, all permanent and impermanent, that utilizes satire, sabotage, dark humor, and irony to create significant social, political, and humanist messages for the population on a public level. He mentions in his book, Wall and Piece (Wall and Piece, Mark Bryan), that as he was starting to do graffiti, he was always too slow and was either caught or could never finish the art in the one sitting. So, he devised a…

Good Photographer? “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art” –Ambrose Bierce. The perception of a beautiful painting is projected from the artist’s mind, feeling and mood; and a major part in completing the artists vision is the way he places the object in his art. Contrary to that some of the most beautiful pictures happen when objects naturally fall into place alas the natural movement of the sun from east to west can create many beautiful versions of the painting…

MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art. It is located in 770 North East 125th Street, North Miami, Florida, 33161. The museum currently displays an exhibit of Peter Wayne Lewis. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica; West Indies. He moved to The United States in 1962 where he studied and graduated in 1979 in the San Jose State University, earning his MFA in painting. He is an art professor in the College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. Peter has his works scattered through various parts of the…

representational art, which is an ordinary figure, which one can recognize, but not a rational figure. Many of Baskin’s works of art were made by woodcut, using a slab of wood and gouges or knifes to create the work of art. Baskin also created the Gehenna Press, which was able to allow the printing of books…

The artist Pablo Picasso has greatly impacted the development of modern and contemporary art. His work includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings and much more. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, In Málaga, on the southern Spanish coast. Picasso’s father, José Ruiz Blasco, supported the family by teaching drawing at the local art school. At the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. His father was a traditional,…

artist, and his work plays a vital part in the new woodcut movement which illustrated the social context of China in the 1930s. Li Hua also is Lu xun’s friend, and he said Lu Xun is the father of a revolutionary woodcut movement. One of his woodcut Lu Xun und Kakichi Uchiyama in August depicted Lu xun’s role in the woodcut movement. (figure 4) This is one of the early work of the Li Hua which capture a moment of Luxun in the new woodcut movement. On this painting, Lu Xun was in the center of the…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…