Minimalism

Diego Velazquez was born in the 1600’s, and was a renowned painter of the Baroque period. Known most famously for his painting, Las Meninas, Velazquez inspired and was emulated by numerous artists. Beginning in 1611, for six years he apprenticed at the hand of Francisco Pacheco, acquiring skills on how to paint with an idealized style. However, after his apprenticeship, Velazquez shifted techniques to paint with a more realistic manner. Following his first commission by the royal family of…

When it emerged in the sixties among the crush of several other art movements (Pop Art, Minimalism, among others) Land Art came to be an anti-gallery artistic offshoot that straddled the domain between architecture and sculpture. It had no manifestos nor schools nor leaders and it was not quite a movement; the artists who were involved with it were also involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual…

Theresa Mossholder Ainesworth Clark AAST/HIST 263 February 11, 2017 America: Home of the Oppressed Martin R. Delany and Frederick Douglass are both abolitionists born in the early 1800s. They were colored men raised during a time when the Negro had to fight for his freedom. While Delany was born a free man in Charlestown West Virginia (Virginia at the time), Douglass was born a slave, however he escaped to Massachusetts in 1838. Delany moved to Pittsburgh at the age of 19 where he attended high…

As a result of the rapidly declining cost of computing power in the 1980’s and 1990’s, visual effects technologies encountered an unprecedented period of rapid growth, innovation and improvement. This period of advancement bled-over into the 2000’s with the rise of consumer and prosumer software programs, which were becoming more and more intuitive, while still remaining cost effective for smaller productions. The science fiction genre changed rapidly throughout the 2000’s, as a result of new…

The practice of writing-whether it was to contextualize their own work, or that of their peers through analytical and critical writing-became an increasingly common practice among artists during the 1960’s. This was perhaps a consequence of the sudden increase in accessibility of university education and graduate degrees in fine arts in the mid 20th century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than…

INTRO This research project explores how interactions promoted through thoughtful architecture may be beneficial when placing a low-income project in an area consisting largely of high- to medium-income population. The location initially selected for the project is on the corner of 23rd Ct. and Ray Street, which is a site that presents interesting circumstances. With a bowl-like topography where the site grades down ten feet from street level, it houses a beautiful array of ponderosa pine…

Tamm (1995: 1) cites that Eno drew freely on 'the resources of many types of music and ideas' such as 'rhythm and blues and rock’n’roll, progressive rock, punk, and new wave, as well as African, Middle Eastern, and Asian styles', in addition to 'minimalism, experimental new music, post-Cage avant-garde ideas, and electronic music'. In…