Museum of Modern Art

women in cinema are shown to provide men with visual pleasure. This theory can be attributed to all of the entertainment industry and advertisement. Modern society places unrealistic expectations on women. Girls grow up with mass media and even toys dictating what a woman should look like. Women have been discriminated in many aspects of life and visual art is not exception. When analyzing female depictions such motifs as voyeurism, objectification, scopophilia, and woman as an object of male…

SOCIOLOGY ASSIGNMENT MODERN TIMES (1936)-A REVIEW INTRODUCTION: Today we live in an era replete with all the luxuries of modernity. Indeed coming off traditional lifestyle and moving into modern times brought about great changes both positive and negative. Though the origins of modernity can be traced back a hundred years, it was only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that recognisably modern societies appeared. Also known as the Great Transformation period there were stark…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…

Post-Impressionism built off of the foundation of Impressionism, yet took the building in a completely different direction, using their art to achieve a purpose and go deeper than a simple painting of a pond (Maylon “Artists by Movement: Post-Impressionism”). However, artists from both periods achieved meteoric fame, etching their names into the book of important art history. So, while…

Prior to the 20th century the world lived a transcendentalist time period, a idyllic place and paintings would include the aesthetic grasp of nature, and a painting emanating a positive vibe, then an abrupt turn to chaos came upon Americans and paintings went from nature to humans in agony , poisonous orange backgrounds and negative vibes, this period is known as Modernism. Scientific innovation, industrialization, and world war I are all factors that which led to the dismantling of…

as well as how art/artists have changed since the production of the painting. Robert Hughes was an Australian born art critic and writer. ‘The Shock of the New’ is part of a larger text of Hughes’ called ‘The faces of Power’, and the Shock of the New was made into a television series that Hughes produced. In his text, Hughes claimed that Guernica was the last great history painting and essentially the last modern painting of major importance - stating that “It was also the last modern painting…

rather than a conspicuous message (many artists such as Harmen Steenwijck and Edwaert Collier used a human skull as the centerpiece of their works). The artist also demonstrates his skill and isolates himself both visually, and from the rest of the art community, by controversially including his reflection in the glass ball. The reflection in the glass is a sign of fleeting existence. His ideas, mainly in this work, come from a desire to blend the still-life and self portrait genres, as painting…

Action Painting vs Performance Art Introduction – 250 words In my dissertation I want to explore the differences and similarities between action painting and performance art. I will explore the technical processes and conceptual ideas in abstract expressionism, how abstract expressionism started, and what key events took place to influence the start of abstract expressionism and its impact on postmodernism and contemporary art practices and how it developed over the years. I will explore artists…

[1] The year is 1976 and the world of art was reaching a point of stagnation. After a wave of postmodern art, the two art forms that had prevailed were conceptualism and minimalism. Art historian Jordana Saggese describes this era and notes that conceptualism focused on planning and placed little emphasis on the execution and minimalism produced art with minimal design put behind the work’s actual appearance (67). In a time where these ideals were king, many contemporary artists accepted the…

After a comprehensive shift in the culture and values of the western world nearing the end of the 20th century, postmodernism revolutionised literature. Texts became a form of communication that extended past earlier two-dimensional literary conventions and metanarratives. Unprecedented holistic philosophies brought about unorthodox forms of literature through imaginative powers, stylistic ingenuity and linguistic playfulness. Texts encouraged responders to challenge accustomed notions and…