Fauvism

Imagine you are at an art museum and you find yourself in the abstract art section, the cubism, surrealism, fauvism. You gaze at the paintings with confusion, questions, and wonder trying to figure out what they mean. You look around and catch a glimpse of others around you with similar expressions. These sights of confusion, questions, and wonder are constants in my life. Similar to an abstract painting, people are confused by my appearance, and yet I have no discombobulated body like a…

Fragmented. Multifaceted. Innovative. Georges Braque co-instigated the development and usage of the cubism movement. Much like his paintings and his work in other mediums, his life was also multifaceted and complicated. His art mimicked his life and vice versa and culminated in one of the more significant developments in modern art as we know it today. Georges Braque, the father of cubism, was born on the 13th of May in 1882 in Argenteuil, France. Sired by a decorative painter, Braque took…

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…

Comparing Bonheur de Vivre and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to The Large Bathers Comparing Bonheur de Vivre and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to The Large Bathers Introduction I would like to begin by examining how 'The Large Bathers' was unique compared to the classical forms and how Cezanne had impacted the later artists, including Picasso and Matisse. Similarities between the three paintings are its subject: the human bodies. Since the period of Renaissance, the human body had been sacrosanct and…

During the late 1800’s, several art movements began, one of which influenced Amedeo Modigliani, who was a Post-impressionist that painted and sculpted with hints of symbolism. The era led this artist into the twentieth century, where he lived in one of the major epicenters of the modern art movement in Italy. Amedeo Modigliani painted and sculpted numerous pieces of art, one of the most famous pieces being Anna Zborowska. Humans are most commonly products of their era and culture. During the…

art in New York until 1981. Over time he visited Paris, Picasso had moved as many artist called the city of the arts in 1904. In this city he met and shared with great artists such as Henri Matisse, who had a friendship with the master of French Fauvism. Inspired by amazing works such as Paul Cezanne, he developed together with George Braque and Juan Gris, the Cubism style. In this artistic movement, the issues are on the basic geometric and several views of an object or a person is the same…

Some artists set out to challenge their audience through a subversion of artistic conventions and an innovative approach to their artmaking decisions and actions. Two such visionaries are the conceptual artists Marcel Duchamp and Antony Gormley who have successfully experimented with both the form and philosophy of art. Marcel duchamp defied the traditionalist movement, through challenging the conventional styles which have been around for centuries. Nevertheless, becoming the founding father of…

Rejection, depression, and art these are a few words that describe the life of Vincent van Gogh. Born March 30, 1853 Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch artist who most was known for his painting Starry Night, The Bedroom, Irises, Wheatfield with Crows and multiple paintings of sunflowers. Vincent van Gogh was born to a pastor name Theodorus van Gogh and an artist named Anna Cornelia Carbentus in Groot-Zundert, Holland. According to (Vincent van Gogh Biography. (2002).…

1. Modernism: Comparison Europe/Australia Europe was the frontier for Modernism in the art world, with the movement emerging mid nineteenth century from artists like 19th century painter Gustave Courbet . Modernism began during the Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid change in technology which profoundly affected social, economic and cultural life in Europe. Impressionism was most prominent around this time. Impressionism in Europe often depicted the beautiful architecture and used…

Vincent van Gogh once said, “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process” (“Vincent Van Gogh, and His Paintings”). The only thing a lot of people know about Vincent is that he truly did lose his mind and that he cut his own earlobe off. They don’t know anything about his work or his history. Vincent was a unique and unusual man, yet he truly was an artistic genius. Like so many, though, this wasn’t realized until after he had already passed. The oldest of six…