Geometric Art

I found my visit to the Tampa Museum of Art to be enjoyable. I really enjoyed seeing older pieces of art like the red and black figure vases and greco-roman statues. I loved the few ancient marble pieces they did have and I wish there were more of them. I do however wish the museum’s collection was larger and I was surprised when I came into to the last section of the museum to realize that it was the last room. Even though the museum did not have a large collection, I did still the enjoy the…

to art when he was a child. After studying drawing at school as a child, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg, studying painting at the “Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts”. It was at this time where Chagall released one of his earliest works “A Dead man” (1908) – depicting a geometric, expressive representation of mourning. Chagall’s Jewish identity was important to him and therefore influenced much of his artwork, having them depict religious traditions with styles of modernist art.…

compositions, forms, work of works, as well as colors. Formal analysis is not necessarily means how the viewer see the world but the way he or she goes through the work of art. The color also signifies in making connections among senses of configurations and movements. While Fry conducts careful studies on awareness of visual arts, but he decides on doing is his own studies on natural science instead. At the end, Fry then returns back to his work of “Still of Life”. 2 The artwork is…

Pottery”). Art in Ancient greece changed throughout the years from the travelers that came and went that inspired all the work that was created. The most popular time period for art was the classical time period (“Greek Art”). Art was a form of expression in ancient greece and represent…

clay that no other ceramist would've pondered. By pushing clay past it's normal plasticity levels, Mason created extravagant sculptures. He also makes geometric sculptures, like one of his most famous clay pieces; the Red X. I chose John Mason because I found it impressive the way he thinks of and makes clay pieces. He believed that making an art piece was like dancing; sometimes you're taught how, but sometimes you improvise. Even though he was born in 1927 in Madrid, Nebraska; Mason was…

Qing Dynasty and a devoted Daoist disciple. Since Zao was still a child, the Daoist thoughts, a theme that would permeate throughout his oeuvre, had been rooted in his mind when he just started exploring the world of art. Enthralled by both Chinese literati paintings and European modern art that he saw on the postcards his uncle brought back from Paris, Zao showed great talents for painting at a very young age. In 1935, he started his study in National School of Fine…

identify commonly known Greek pottery styles, where they are from, and what time do they date back to in Greek history. In order to distinguish these factors, research was conducted on four commonly known types of Greek pottery—polychrome style, geometric style, black-figure style, and red figure style pottery. Following this, research was completed to be able to…

southern Spain on October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His impressive artistic talent and inexhaustible inspiration made him a legendary figure in the 20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso had done as much as 37,000 artwork, which includes 1885 oil paintings, 7089 sketches, 2000 prints, and 6121 lithographs. Picasso’s representative works are "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Kahn Weiler…

Sol LeWitt was a leader of the Conceptual Art Movement. According to page 240 in textbook Sol LeWitt he defined Conceptual Art as that which is made to engage the mind of views rather his eye or emotion. Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928. He was an American, he studied at Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts. He was known for painting, drawing, and sculpture. He became famous with his art in the late 1960s. He has been in several Museums for his work since 1965. He was born in…

viewer what people appreciated and how they represented it through art. I have notice a change in the body forms during the Archaic period, Classical Period, and the Roman empire. When it comes to the human form, it is always changing and the best way to see it by looking at sculptures. In the Archaic period, the politics of Athens when through a series of serious changes during its period. Most of their art work had a geometric style. The Kouros (ca.590-580 BCE.) for example, represents a…