Modern art

When Jackson Pollock's career began to take sail, the artist sat down and answered questions about his art at a special place in the new American art scene. Without any doubt, Pollock's work has invented a new pictorial language not only in America, but also became the newest Avant Garde in the world. When talking about Pollock, the term action painting or drip painting has become the peak of his cereer; however, such success came from a tremendous stylistic development before 1947. The work…

Revivalism and Eclecticism Architecture has undergone many changes and developments throw different eras as a result of major movements that influenced architecture and fine art as well, example (Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical), and that paved the way for the appearance of various styles ancient and modern ones , Egyptian Architecture ,Sumerian Architecture , Early Irish Architecture , Minoan Architecture , Greek Architecture , Roman Architecture , Byzantine Architecture , Gothic…

Not until in 1948 did he develop an Abstract Expressionist style, he painted in a modern delicate, figurative manner. Kooning has used the techniques of New York Action Painting to make both abstract and the energetic intense images of massive women for which he is best know. His series of huge women was inspired in part by female models…

Franz Roh, a painter and an art critic in Germany during1920s. Later the term was used by Central American writers such as Alejo Carpentier in their works during 1940s and after that in 1955 the term was employed by Latin American writersAngel Flores and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and gradually it drew worldwide attention. Although the term took its root in Europe later it revolutionized Latin America. Therefore all the periods are inter-linked with the mode of literary art. Magical Realism: The…

A. Camfield (1996): 64-90. William A. Camfield writes about Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as one of the most famous and equally infamous objects in the history of modern art. He goes over the history of ‘Fountain’ in high detail and answers all the questions surrounding this work. He mentions how people denied that ‘Fountain’ is actually art, is relevant and if Duchamp even was even the artist behind this work. Camfield writes about how the initial response at its first exhibition was met with…

Focusing on the first section, it is a decent landscape collages which arouses contrasts of gender and art medium within a miscellaneous frame. On the canvas, the brownish panel is framed by rusty white paints, which they softly blended together. When a stroke of rusty yellowish green was painted over the upper right corner, a thin white stroke was extended…

The 20th century expanded the definition of art could be, among the new possibilities was that art could be an experience. The following artists created multi-sensory experiences for their audiences that subverted traditional notions of space and time. German artist Joseph Beuys “sought to rehumanize both art and life by drastically narrowing the gap between the two”(455). Being that Beuys was a Fluxus artist, it was not long until his art turned into performance. Beuys believed that there was…

Throughout our lives, we encounter many people, groups and ideas who leave a sort of impression on us, both positive and negative. Similarly, in art history there have been multiple preceding artist movements like the impressionists, who have impacted artists that were a part of other subsequent movements, like the fauvists or expressionists. The similarities between Maurice de Vlaminck's "Chatou Bridge" (1907) and Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) reflect some impressionism qualities…

a) Describe the main differences between a Commercial Gallery, Public Gallery, Artist Run Initiative and curated online Gallery. A gallery is a space allocated specifically for the display and exhibition of works of art. Commercial galleries are exclusive art spaces created for a specific selection of (usually) well known and established artists, displays can run for long periods of time, they do not hold permanent ‘collections’, either do ARI’s the main difference between commercial…

Deciding which famous artist to write about is a lot like choosing which kid is your favorite, for this assignment, I have chosen Vincent Van Gogh. The paintings I will write about are his “Starry Night” which may be his most well-known and possibly his last painting “Wheatfield with Crows.” I have chosen these paintings because of the importance they represent and the story behind them. In this essay, I will breakdown the paintings, compare and contrast them and give a brief background of the…