Takashi Murakami, born on February 1, 1962 is a well-known contemporary Japanese artist based in Tokyo. Murakami’s style of art is based on popular culture using a Nihonga-style of modern Japanese painting. He uses colorful graphics and manga style cartoon to show a darker subject material. He uses “hopelessness”, as his main subject with all of his art work. He shows this through the use of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and animations. The “Hustle ‘n’ Punch by Kaikai And Kiki”, was made in…
experiment of ideas in the arts. Rosalind Krauss challenges many modern artists and art eras accusing them of coping one another, doubting the originality of “avant-garde” work. The question of originality in art is one that has is the main issue of the essay; perhaps it is most accurate to say that she has pushed the way thinking of art in another direction. Krauss, however, using the three examples of Rodin’s sculpture, Monet’s painting, and the widespread use of the grid in modern painting,…
educator. He studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York (1931–35), and painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School (1936–37). He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Karl Anderson in 1936, worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1936–39), and was a member (1937–47) of the American Abstract Artists group. Reinhardt later continued his studies at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts…
Art is in everything we see, do, and create. We buy it, sell it, display it in our homes, go visit it in galleries and museums. It’s a talent that has been influencing minds for centuries and the tradition is by no means being hampered in our modern-day world. With so much art out there, it is getting continuously more difficult to define “contemporary art”(Kimball). It is making increasingly less sense to discuss avant-garde art or even the future of art, as if all art were going in the same…
Houston Museum of Fine Arts (HMFA) with my sister several times since I came here. All the collections are beautiful and marvelous, especially the collections of paintings and sculptures from the Renaissance to the 19th Century. I have a tremendous admiration for artists from that time. The museum also displays several artworks from a vast array of cultures and eras, from Aztec…
Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…
For centuries art is what brought the eye closer to reality. Art and freedom of expression extremely complement each other. The freedom to express anything through art has been around longer than the freedom to express through writing. New ways of making art are being created all the time for instance around the early 1900 's when printmaking first started; one of its many uses was to be used as political awareness. For example, many people in the towns of Mexico were illiterate, so these…
have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had countless solo and group shows. At present he works at Studio Olafur Eliasson, a…
It is undeniable that culture impacts art. When it comes to modern art, some of the most notable causes of changing are the World Wars, the corrupted society, and polluted environment. A lot of modern art paintings are abstract, which helps deepen the understanding and interpretation. Besides, it does not matter where it is in the world, art takes the same drive for innovating. This analysis will talk about two paintings in two different countries: “Dancing Mutants” by the Filipino artist Ocampo…
The concept of “Art for Art’s Sake” helped transform and modernize art in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It helped to transform art to be the way that it is today. “Art for Art’s Sake” is the idea of making art only for the purpose of art and nothing else. During the late nineteenth century the concept of “Art for Art’s Sake” remained important in contemporary discussions about censorship and the significance and nature of art. During the early twentieth century art started to…