German Expressionism

During the middle of the twentieth century, kinetic art pushed traditional boundaries with its composers seeking actively to engage a different part of the viewer's brain. Throughout the course of art history, one can see that as time progresses, artists become more and more fond of moving towards a form that utilizes new ways of interpreting art—drawing further away from traditional values and precepts and creating a refreshed modern feel to their works. The kinetic art movement does not fall…

Chronological/Timeline: Vincent Van Gogh (Dyson) My name is Vincent, Vincent Van Gogh.I am am a Dutch artist who lived in the 1800s I was not very known or popular in my time but later down the road I became well know in the art community world wide. People never really treated me the best of all people but I got some respect from other artist.I was always depressed, and later became mentally unstable because of life problems,The biggest were with my luck with women,I did not have the best luck…

This is where his art began to take on the style that would make him famous. He discovers Impressionists and Post Impressionists, discussing art with some of the most avant-garde and influential artists of his time – painters like Gauguin, Bernard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. He was using more color, applying the paint with thick, bold brushstrokes, and painted all that surrounded him. Van Gogh arranged to show his work, to positive reviews, but was still unable to sell any pieces. Vincent lived in…

An art gallery featuring paintings by Cindy Vojnovic was held in ESU’s Fine and Performing Art Center this past Wednesday. Vojnovic stated that she had gotten into painting when she was around three years old, after visiting an art exhibit with her parents, because she was “completely lost in the brush work”. Vojnovic’s paintings told the story of a forgotten steam-boat fire that happened on June 15, 1904. The sinking of the General Slocum, or the General Slocum disaster was the burning of a…

When I took Art Appreciation back in high school, my art teacher, Jane Huebner, also known as “Heebs had told us a quote that I can still remember to this day; I need da money to buy da gas to make the Van Gogh. From there on out I started to like this artist that had stood out to me. This artist was Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He is known as a post-impressionist artist still to this day (2). He had a not so great life and had only sold one painting (4). Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the…

Vincent van Gogh was born as Vincent Willem van Gogh on March 30 in 1853 in groot- Zundert, Netherlands. His mother, Anna had inspired van Gogh because she was a moody artist and she loves nature and drawing she had passed her love for the arts on to her son, but his father had nothing to do with the arts he was a country miner. Van Gogh’s education was at royal academy of fine art for one year in 1886 and then at Willem II collage from 1886 to 1888, he was a post-impressionist painter, his…

In Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Petra distinguishes herself by abandoning the traditional facets of women. It is her perseverance and self-sufficient attitude that make her the true embodiment of the modern woman. Impressionism on the other hand, reveals realistic depictions of modern life. Modernity in Impressionism however, has a different meaning in comparison to Ibsen’s modernity; this style of art simply reflecting modern life does not in any way display anything unconventional. The…

Viewing Burtynsky’s work was an unusual experience that made me question my role as a human being on the planet. Most of Burtynsky’s work especially that related to oil brought to the forefront problems that most of us choose to neglect, the deterioration of our environment. My first reaction to his work was disbelief at the unfortunate predicament that faces our civilization. His unique photographs that capture the industrial and modern landscape moved me with the clarity that captures color as…

Formal Analysis : Aspiration by Aaron Douglas Aspiration, an oil painting with dimensions of 60in by 60in, hangs in the de Young Museum of San Francisco. Originally, the modernist, Aaron Douglas, created the artwork as a four-part mural for the Texas Centennial of 1936.1 This was painted of the Harlem Renaissance, which was a major cultural art movement that aimed to showcase the talents of African Americans in order to replace the derogatory images that circulated in pop culture at the…

Although plates 1.3.20 and 1.3.22 by Paul Cézanne have the same subject matter, the composition of the paintings has turned out completely different. One similarity is the way they are painted. Cézanne was described as the “founding father of modern art” (Jones, 2014) and these plates are clear examples of this. In 1.3.20 he used short brushstrokes to build up the scene. It has been described as a “rich mosaic of coloured strands” (Keller, 1980, p246). This compares to the cool toned…