Modern art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French Impressionist painter whose eye for beauty made him one of the movement's most common practitioners. He is best known for his paintings of bustling Parisian modernity and leisure in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Renoir discover Renaissance painting in the middle of his career, which led him to incorporate more line and composition into his developed works and create some of his era's most timeless canvases. He could influence from…

naked to get into the Met. Museum?” – Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Selections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female (The guerrilla girls). Throughout history the role of women in the creative industries and the cultural sector has drastically changed. Historical quote: Marina Sauer, L’histoire des femmes à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1880- 1923, tells for how long it was impossible to integrate the fine arts, then under conditions and finally they could fully participate.…

2006 for the world record price of $140 million (Learnodo-Newtonic). Yet, the drip period from 1947 to 1950 formed only a brief part of his self-discovery journey that spanned over two decades, starting from traditional representational art and ending in abstract art. His journey resulted in a significant body of work that encompassed mainly paintings and murals. Pollock drew his initial influences from American Indians and Mexican muralists, followed by Picasso, Miro, Cezanne and other cubist,…

19th century and it is the period after impressionism. It is the result of the reaction which was against impressionism in the late 1880s. Impressionism started in France. By reference to Matthew Collins, Impressionism was the first movement of modern art and it started in 1880s. Impressionism is about reality, expressions, sensations, and the use of the boldness of colours. Artists such as Edward Manet and Gustave Courbet were two artists who opened the door to impressionism. But the artist…

not be able to concentrate, or finish one project at a time. Despite this, and other struggles that Edgar went through, he was still as successful and as any other artist in the world of art. Edgar was not known like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Da Vinci, but is still known by people who have a passion, or love for art and that know more than the average person. Edgar will always be know as a great…

The Museum Of Modern Art starts when three prominent women envision a museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene…

To this day, The Starry Night still remains as an elusive work of art to art critics and students since its creation. Because Van Gogh's intentions of painting this piece were not known, critics tend to break down and analyze the painting through several different lenses. Some critics view this work as a religious piece depicting a story from the Bible. Others contend that Van Gogh was driven by the historical influences and public fascination with astronomy and astrology at the time. I, however…

THE BAROQUE INFLUENCE ON MODERN ART The origins of the word Baroque are obscure. Baroque is an artistic style that was present mainly in Europe from the late 16th century until the early 18th century. The Baroque is considered to be the dominant art style in Europe between the Mannerist and Rococo eras and it is characterized by overt emotion, dynamic movement, and self-confident rhetoric. “Although the term Baroque is applied mainly to the visual and performing arts, it is also used to describe…

When viewing Matisse’s Bonhuer de Vivre or Joy of Life as it is best known and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon it is quite evident that these paintings were influenced by Paul Cezanne’s The Large Bathers. All three of these paintings capture an uncertainty and vagueness in their subject matter and what they are trying to convey. Bonhuer de Vivre by Matisse, was one of the first paintings of its kind. He used such vivid and bright colors to exemplify his subjects along with the imbuing of…

After comparing his music to modern art, where context helps to determine meaning, she spoke of how “his melodies and his lyrics are so wed together. As this book will demonstrate more fully, Sondheim has spoken often and freely about the music, theater, and films. The present book shows a particular bias toward analyzing Sondheim's music. Character is the most important element in the play because it makes up a story which is within the work of art. The characters builds a better…