Modern evolutionary synthesis

Modernism in art, in conventional sense, is defined as art from the late 1860s through the 1960s, which examines current (then) artistic, cultural, and social standards. The most common of these being the task that artists face in creating works of that abandons any form of illusionism. By the 1950s through the 1960s, modernism in art was challenged through the ever expanding growth of art reproduction, the art market, galleries and art dealers, and the development of fine art education in…

Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who never was successful during his lifetime. He mainly worked in Paris and his main subject was portraits and full figures of humans. He is known for portraying nude women in a modern style. In Paris, he met prominent Artist’s such as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brancusi. The movie basically covers his life in Paris, centering on his relationship with Picasso and his lover Jeanne. In this movie, Modigliani is being…

Picasso was no exception. Far later on, World War II broke out with Nazi soldiers devastating nearby lands under Hitler’s orders. In 1937, Nazi Germany bombed Guernica. Picasso created his masterpiece, “Guernica,” the most famous anti-war piece of modern art. He refrained from realism and romanticism in drawing “Guernica.” He used refined sketches of key figures who represent the horrors of war to express his abhorrence toward inhumanity. Picasso likewise did not hesitate to reveal what he…

it. Feelings, emotions, culture, memories and other elements extracted of people fuses together and contribute to the construction of its form and functions, yet many people perceived them only at the surface. Till this day, architectures in the modern era are still growing rapidly in proportion to development of economy and technology. Variety of broadcast and communication methods currently exists in the market, each one more swift and effective and the other; making the world truly…

Picasso is probably the most important figure of the 20th century (in the world of art), as e was known for his distinct style and eye for artistic creation. Although Picasso’s art career lasted more than a seven-decade period, he is most known for his modern, radical approach to painting, now known as Cubism. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. Picasso’s father, Don José Ruiz y Blasco, was a painter who specialized in naturalistic…

Fauve paintings have a unique style, in the earlier Fauve canvases where color relates directly to emotional expression and not formal needs of the plane or reality of nature. Henri Matisse completed what is considered one of his greatest Fauve paintings in 1906, the Bonheur de Vivre which is the “Joy of Life”. Matisse’ work is said to represent similar qualities to Cezanne, for example they both create the landscape to function as a stage. Also, they both like to unify the figure and the…

Introduction The objective of this paper is to discuss how Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse and Pablo Picasso can be seen as in being inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s work of art The Large Bathers. Through this paper I will briefly discuss the lives of all three individuals and their influences in an effort to understand how these painters each had their own unique style. Who was Matisse? Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse lived from 1869 to 1954, he was a french citizen. He started early…

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City to a German-Jewish family. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his father Milton, a real-estate broker, his mother Beatrice, a homemaker, and his younger sister Renee. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the first American Pop artists to reach well-known notoriety, and he became a lightning rod for condemnation of the society. His early work alternated widely in style and topic matter, and displayed significant empathetic of modernist…

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…

Alexander Mikhailovioh Rodchemko Rodchenko was inspired by Art Nouveau & artists like Aubrey Beardsley. Later he became a Futurism & he absorted the work of Vladimir Tatlin & Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich. At the end of the decade, he begin to explore Constructivism. This study analysis into the aspect of illustration & sculptural art. Altogether to produce abstruct artworks to separate out the factores of each image: line, form, space, colour surface & texture. Contructivism began to support…