History of painting

displayed, it was also a controversial time since most people thought that none of the pieces on display were art. Since most of the pieces were different it brought an extreme amount of media attention to the exhibit. The exhibit had over one thousand paintings on display for the general public to see, and not one of the pieces was something that the public was used to seeing. In the beginning of the 1900s…

century, new artistic styles sprang up all over the European continent, whereas many gifted painters executed numerous sensational works of art that not only shock the world, but also started an aesthetic revolution which represented a landmark in art history. It was headed by Fauvism leader Paul Cézanne, and then avant-garde artist Henri Matisse, as well as the pioneering Cubist Pablo Picasso. In my opinion, Paul Cézanne was the true begetter of modern art and a major influence in inspiring the…

Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were inhabited by distorted, emaciated beings inspired by El Greco. [5]. Boy Leading a Horse, is one of Picasso's most direct citations from El Greco. He took much of the painting from El Greco's Saint Martin and the Beggar, including the painting's proportions, the horse’s rendering of the legs, the bleak background, limited palette and the exaggerated, elongated bodies.…

asks me what have motivated my life, my answer would be this: “The two gears that have been driving my life are art and social engagement.” Since childhood, I have experienced various genres of art, covering classical music, traditional Korean painting, and creative writing. With all these experiences, I fell in love with art, more specifically with the delights generated from expressing my imaginations and communicating others with the language of beauty. In the mean time, I have had…

physical haptic feedback. The interaction between viewer and artwork has been one of the most important things throughout the history of all art forms. Every branch of arts has described it in its own conventions. But in the general view as Dixon noted: “All art is an interaction between the viewer and the artwork, and thus all artworks are interactive…

I like this painting of the Odyssey because I read all of the stories of the Odyssey in 8th grade. I really like the story of the Odyssey because it was filled with adventure and how they had to fight off a one-eyed beast, Calypso, Circe, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and Poseidon. All of the monsters that I named were in the path of Odysseus to prevent them from going back to their home land. I like this painting because it has a wide variety of color to it and shows Odysseus being a brave and…

Bartolo (Figure 2). In this painting, the demons tormenting the damned gluttons share just as many physical similarities with their prisoners as they do differences, and it seems as though an equal amount of time was spent painting the bodies of the demons and the…

Prior to the 20th century the world lived a transcendentalist time period, a idyllic place and paintings would include the aesthetic grasp of nature, and a painting emanating a positive vibe, then an abrupt turn to chaos came upon Americans and paintings went from nature to humans in agony , poisonous orange backgrounds and negative vibes, this period is known as Modernism. Scientific innovation, industrialization, and world war I are all factors that which led to the dismantling of…

A fine art, as suggested by the name is the purest form of art. It’s an expression of oneself presented in term of aesthetics and design principles. It can refer to anything made by someone considered an artist, yet the definition of an artist has evolved over time and varies based on context. In Ancient Greece, the term for art was "techne," though that word did not peg art in the modern sense and was instead applied to human activities, especially handicrafts and technical work. The most…

The qualifications for art are very subjective. What one individual may call beautiful or a profound critique on modern society another may completely disregard. Andy Warhol, who has come to be considered “as one of the 20th century’s major artistic innovators” (8-7), was not initially recieved with as much respect and admiration. The general opinion initially given to Warhol’s art is likely similar to the opinion Hap, the dairy farmer in “The soul of Capitalism,” would have held. Although Hap…