Expressionism

According to Al Hirschfeld, “ Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” Art has changed increasingly, and it is still changing. In this essay, I will list some of the art movements in detail from the following time periods: 1860-1915, 1916-1960, and 1965-1975. The first time period we are going to look at is 1860-1915. Impressionism came first. Impressionism is when artists are very expressive, and they use movement, angles of vision, and light pretty often (Wikipedia).…

Abstract Expressionism is like nonrepresentational art in that did not portray a clear defined picture. This type of art was made popular by Jackson Pollock; One example of his art is, “number 1” made in 1949. This type of art used heavy brush strokes or a drip technique used by Jackson Pollock. This movement was a rebellion against cubism, nonrepresentational, surrealism, and dada. It started in New York in the early 1900’s after world war 2 as a new way to look art. Bauhaus…

Some art goes slightly glanced at, seen at the surface level as just art rather than what it is and why it’s like that. Most art even finds itself largely taken for granted, being a large part of our lives. We live in a world made up of and by art, for instance, all around us we see paintings, architecture, sculpture, fashion, and even technology. However what is art really? How did it become such a big part of our lives? And what would our lives be without it? This research is to find out…

induvial experiences, intuition, and imagination. Realism was romanticism’s polar opposite, instead favoring the day to day lives and experiences of ordinary people. Impressionism took to nature for inspiration, and fauvism which is a small part of expressionism, “describes any style where the artist’s subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation” (Getlein 484). Cubism concentrated on forms, while surrealism focused on the irrational and incongruent. Finally, futurist were…

spiritual vision of the world through paintings. Toward the end of the era came cubism, also around the early 1900s. Cubism is known as the first abstract style of modern art. At the turn of the 20th century, art movements such as impressionism, expressionism, and cubism reflected the history and culture of Europe through the paintings of nature and modern life. The…

To this day, The Starry Night still remains as an elusive work of art to art critics and students since its creation. Because Van Gogh's intentions of painting this piece were not known, critics tend to break down and analyze the painting through several different lenses. Some critics view this work as a religious piece depicting a story from the Bible. Others contend that Van Gogh was driven by the historical influences and public fascination with astronomy and astrology at the time. I, however…

Ms. Bromley October 2, 2016 Artist Essay Paul Klee Paul Klee was a German and Swiss artist best known for his amount of art influenced by expressionism, surrealism, and cubism. Paul Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, on December 18, 1879. He was involved and influenced by many artistic movements, including cubism, surrealism, and expressionism. He taught in Germany until 1933. His family then fled to Switzerland, where he died on June 29, 1940. In his early life he loved to play the…

In this essay I will discuss the ways that Vincent Van Gogh’s, The Night Cafe, 1888 was used as influence for Ernest Ludwig Kirchner’s, Street, Dresden, 1908. To prove my point I will provide visual analyzations of the pieces, some background to the artists and the art movements they were associated with, and events that happened around the time the paintings were created that affected many artists and the work they created. Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Night Cafe, depicts a scene a cafe with…

Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw it. Another style of art work is expressionism. “The scream” painted in 1893, Munch is incredibly famous painter that he expressed the style of expressionism through his…

artist and viewer. In the articles, Modernist Painting, by Clement Greenberg, and, The American Action Painters, by Harold Rosenberg, the two major art critics, influentially contributed to the interpretation and understanding of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Through contrasting beliefs based on their assertions on the new expansive painting styles to emerge in the early 1940s, Greenberg focused on the limitations and elements that constitutes the medium of painting, while Rosenberg…