Museum of Modern Art

Boldly interpreting new ideas about art and domesticity, Vanessa Bell clearly did not lament her domestic world, eager to place it within the realm of the modern. This study attempts to expand the understanding of Vanessa Bell’s innovations as an artist by exploring her work produced between the years of 1910-1915 within the larger context of modernity…

By the late 1800s, society was tired of the same generic art and literature and wanted a change. Modernism was the result of the that. American Gothic by Grant Wood and The Trial by Franz Kafka are fantastic examples of Modernism. Modernism changed the world and how we see it today. Without Modernism who knows what art and literature may be like today. Modernism is a movement in the arts as well as a change of mindset. This movement lasted from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth…

Cubism In the beginning of the 20th century, a visual art style , was created called Cubism. It was unlikely than others because they brought different views of subjects together in the same painting using angles, lines, and shapes. It was created by the French painter Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Cubism comes from the word "cubes" that was given by Vauxcelles after he had seen the landscapes of Braque. Cubism was really popular after…

As long as there has been humanity, there has been art. As long as there has been art, there has been culture. Both Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man and Spike Lee’s 2000 film Bamboozled examine the links between the two. Invisible Man follows an unnamed protagonist, the narrator, through his journey as a young black man navigating life from the south to the north, and eventually through the Brotherhood, a predominantly white organization who fight for racial equality. Bamboozled is the…

Salvador Dali is a master at displaying surrealism. He was able to apply surrealism in this painting. He placed an architectural masterpiece on the beach. The main focal point is a bridge that transforms into a stairway because of a dream. Additionally, there are elongated figures that are performing a dance. This would not be suspected because of the setting of the background of the painting. Dali was also able to display form in this painting. With the bridge or staircase, the viewer can tell…

their artwork. Dadaism was a art movement that started in the 20th century. Dadaism mostly started because of world war one. No one truly knows where Dadaism started.There are different forms of art for dadaism such as “poetry, photography, sculpture, paintings and collages.”(1) Suzanne Duchamp was born in a artistic family she was the fourth of 6 children. Suzanne started studying art at a unimaginley young age of 16. Suzanne studied art at the school of FIne arts of Rouen. She married jean…

become distinct, particularly, the startling disconnectedness of large scale subjects of flowers and hummingbirds against a distant landscape, and the contrast of sharp foreground figures surrounded by a gradual vignette of receding middle ground. Art historian Maggie M. Cao believes that studying and deciphering the startling inconsistencies of Heade’s hummingbird landscapes helps to reveal meaning in paintings that are otherwise only thought of in association with scientific studies or…

Two of the most unique and influential new art movements of the twentieth century were pop art and abstract expressionism. While they both emerged roughly ten years apart, in the 1950’s and the 1940’s respectively; on the surface they’re two vastly different though, in reality they are more alike than they may seem. Abstract expressionism is what most would think of when they hear the words “abstract art.” When you first look at a work of abstract expressionism there seems to be no…

of each other, almost completely oblivious to the viewer. Moreover, Picasso’s choice of female is also far more daring; they are most likely prostitutes. Conclusion In closing, Cézanne’s art was paramount to abstract art’s development, which in turn, inspired Matisse and Picasso to further evolve their own art. Cézanne’s masterful skills in depicting color, tone, lines, shape, as well as his breaking of composition rules, essentially made up his legacy, which is shown beautifully in The Large…

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…