German Expressionism

Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Post Impressionism was different from Romanticism due to its still visible and disconnected which Romanticism was the complete opposite to the sleek, blended strokes associated with Romanticism and its painters. Expressionism was the 20th century movement towards distortion…

From cowboys to Indians, art has evolved over time. Once known as (Artifacts) hand-painted objects found in caves have branched out on too many other things besides rock. Art in its own sense has become the trend of expression. It’s the Art that drives us to the point of insanity! The focus of this paper will be Cai Guo-Qiang gunpowder artwork’s connection to the field of cosmetology. Cosmetology is a field that was created to be an art form and the uniqueness of haircuts are like Cai Guo-Qiang…

William Morris was an English painter, designer fabrics and furniture, book designer, a developer of typographic fonts, poet and socialist. He was behind the concept of synthesis, the key concept of the new art. Morris was the founder of the "Arts and Crafts Movement," which took shape as an artistic style in the second half of the 19th century. All participants in the movement united in the belief that artistically designed human environment - pleasing to the eye of the building, artfully…

Photo Art Service Photo Art Service indicates that photographic painting of an image. Photographic painting is a work of art. An art is related to the topics of painting to describe its feature by an acrylic painting. It denotes the theme of something to understand it logically and physically. It is one kind of replica of an image as like as show the feature of an image. Art is different from capturing image; it is take by creative manner of his/her mind lowing feature. To describe something…

Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse Artists often are inspired and influenced by the people, places and circumstances surrounding them but artists each tend to imbue their own sense of personality and ideas into their works. For example, Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers. Beginning with the prominent piece that is to have influenced the other two works,…

The short film Gould Meets Gould is an example of seamless realism. This short film opens with a black screen and white letters showing the film’s title, Gould Meets Gould. It is literally about Glenn Gould, who argues with himself about the roles of artist and audience. Gould Meets Gould is a film written by Gould in which he interviews himself. Since seamless realism tries to disguise the illusion of realism, this film is an excellent example of the form. In the film, Gould is…

In the Philadelphia Museum of Art there is a masterpiece titled No. 22 by Jackson Pollock, who is known for his unique style of drip painting. He was a pioneering, influential painter in the abstract expressionist movement (Seed). Art critics usually regard Pollock’s works as images of chaos, lacking a rigid structure and harmony (Chave 100). In No. 22, Pollock employed his usual manner of pouring and dripping paints on canvas. As Chave pointed out in her essay, “there is no center in his…

How to Be 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 Number 11, 1949 by Jackson Pollock is one of Pollock’s paintings from his famous “drip period.” The painting is large but not huge, it is about 45 inches tall and 47.5 inches wide, so it is a little bigger than the size of an old TV. This painting does not depict anything in particular. It is an abstract painting, there are no figures present. Instead of containing figures, the painting contains forms. The forms in the painting are created by the many layers of different colored…

In the mid-1800’s to the early 1900’s two artists are responsible for the modern art movement these two artists are Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. These two artists have very distinct style of painting, however, they both helped to shape the direction of painting would go over the following century. Monet and Van Gogh painted their lives on a canvas and in their thoughts and words. Through both of the men’s paintings we can understand the struggle as artists during this time in history. The…