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Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried both are working out of the modernist perspective in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This perspective is a framework that describes how art could be understood during this time period. Modernist art in both Greenberg and Fried’s perspectives appeals to the concept of medium specificity, how this ends up affecting the pictorial space and in the end the meaning of the work as understood by the artist/viewer. In this writing a discussion on the relevant aspects of this…

Vincent van Gogh, who is amongst the most famous Post-Impressionist artists, who paintings are exceptionally unique. One characteristic that made Van Gogh’s art unique 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…

(Alsdorf, 316). Cézanne wanted to show the “experience of the painter through his art” and the viewer is able to experience that by seeing all the detailed brush strokes on the canvas and the materials he used by just looking at the artwork (Metropolitan Museum). Gallace paints with the same precision Cézanne had, because she believes painting is about doing a lot of thinking and staring. Gallace portrays emotion by spending “a lot more time thinking about and looking at paint and paintings than…

Midnight in Chinatown In SFMOMA, the work that attracted me the most is “Midnight in Chinatown” taken by Williard E. Worden in 1903. As the name suggests, the photography depicts the Chinatown at midnight by using a long shot. There are Chinese traditional buildings along on the sides with dim lantern lights reflecting on the surface of ground. The photograph has a grey tone overall, which enhances a sense of quietness. The photographer uses the technique of perspective to suggest the endless…

Edouard Manet and Alexandre Cabanel may have both been taught by academic teachers but when it comes to their paintings and techniques they are in two completely different areas of art. Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel is a painting about a biblical story that many people knew compared to Edouard Manet’s The Ragpicker which is a painting of a regular day person that people could walk by on the street without much thought to them. In Edouard Manet’s oil painting The Ragpicker Manet used a…

Where do we keep the all prominent art works? (hoping that children’s answer will be museum) 2. Can you tell me why do we keep prominent artworks in museums? 3. What would happen if we wanted to go to a museum? Or how we can visit a museum? 4. What are the number of museums in our home town? (Google search) 5. How far the museum from out school? (Google Maps) 6. What are the visiting hours for this museum? (Museum web page) During this activity, teacher keeps notes on Microsoft on the one part…

The artist David Hockney painted American Collectors in early years in Southern California 1968. He painted acrylic on canvas. American Collectors, it is double portrait of man and woman, who is Fred and Marcia Weisman with their collection of art works. Including a sculpture by Henry Moore and William Turnbull, which are the stack of stones in front of the man, and native American totem pole next to the woman. The woman, Marcia Weisman wears pink long dress with a smile on her face. She stands…

Tyler LaLima Prof. Mieke Bahmer ART 100 October 8th, 2015 Marble Statue of an Old Woman The Marble Statue of an Old Woman is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic statue made somewhere in between fourteen to sixty eight A.D by the artist Julio-Claudian. The Marble statue of an old woman is also known as “The Old Market Woman”. It is a stone statue made from Pentelic and marble. The Marble Statue of an Old Woman is believed to represent an old but proud woman on her way to the festival of Dionysus. The…

The first time I saw Rembrandt van Rijn, Self- Portrait, 1659, I found I wanted to both, avert my eyes and remain transfixed. In this particular portrait, Rembrandt is fifty-three years old and even though he is a man well into his middle age his gaze remains powerful and gripping.(pg. 90 THTTA) Rembrandt painted himself near a hundred times over his lifetime but I will focus on this particular portrait which shows a Rembrandt in the midst financial ruin after some bad business decisions. (pg.…

Your Name Professor Name Subject Name 04 September 20XX Vincent van Gogh as a Mad Genius Vincent van Gogh is celebrated as one of the most influential Western artists in history, but he is also one of the most complex. Born in the mid 1800s in the Netherlands, van Gogh spent the first portion of his life intent on studying theology but turned to art only a decade or so before his death. While he created over two thousand pieces of artwork that are revered today, he was not considered a famous…