Museum of Modern Art

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 new target on the material aspect of art & its…

life was all about. I think Ray Johnson was a man who really had no real life or essence except his art and his ideals. Famous for his trademark "bunny" signature, Johnson made his name primarily as a performance artist and as a producer of abstract paintings and collages. He was basically the father of mail-art. Johnson is associated with several art movements and groups, such as Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and Fluxus. Ray Johnson painted geometric abstracts with American Artists abstract group,…

Georges Seurat The creator of Pointillism was born December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. Seurat’s first introduction and art lesson were introduced by his uncle. In 1875 he began attending attending a local art school, and started his first formal art lessons under sculptor Justin Lequien. Then he started training under artist Henri Lehmann when he attended École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1878 to 1879. However, Seurat choose to leave the school and continue to study on his own. He was very…

Franklin Evans is an American Artist born in Reno, Nevada in 1967. In 1989, Evans received his bachelor’s of fine arts from Stanford University and in 1993, his master’s of fine arts from the University of Iowa. Evans has worked on many pieces including treetear, thoughtmakertrees, treetarget, and turningtime. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. Not only is Evans known for his paintings, he is also known for his sculptures and installations. In his installations, Evan is known to use…

Francisco Larios Larios practices painting, open-concept drawing, and the use of software to create two and three-dimensional visual environments. In his imaginary, the postmodern condition is fulfilled, in which contemporary culture is the starting point for the elaboration of scenes that show a return to sacred references, phil-osophical themes and immemorial fabulations. In Larios' work, the landscape is conceptually treated as the space in which sometimes studies of the dream, the link…

Refigured AE 15). This largely results from his use of open contours and rhythmic lines that never block any forms in but rather creates a flow where one line bleeds into the next. It is this which allows these artists to break down the barriers of art and life, the marks on these canvases don’t limit our ways of seeing, rather they provide a space in which a viewer can experience in an infinite amount of ways like any other living situation. As Rosenberg puts it, “each stroke had to be a…

The Transcendence exhibition at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art displays abstraction and symbolism in art created by artists who used those methods while living in the American West. The exhibition shows the varying insights and points of view of the many artists involved, which shows the evolving view of the American West. In the Transcendence collection there are over thirty five artists. The artists include, Thomas Akawie, Emil Bisttram, Richard Bowman, Robert Brady, Harold Cohen,…

The expression of a painter in their artworks sometimes produce a controversy. One of German painter, Otto Dix, was considered as a controversial artist in his era. Most of his works caused massive public attention since it clashed with the ideologies. He was a German soldier in World War I. He known as an Expressionist, Dadaist, and New Objectivist. In 1919, he founded Dresden Secession, a radical group that contrast to the early Expressionist which presented broad variety of styles and…

How did techniques within abstract expressionism emerge as a result of the social influences of World War II? As the arts express the feeling of the time, abstract expressionism emerged in the mid 1940s to the 1950s to express the personal feelings, and larger spiritual feelings of the artists. This style of painting cannot be described with a specific style, but rather against realist and traditional styles. The common element in their artwork was the emotional component that drove their…

According to Al Hirschfeld, “ Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” Art has changed increasingly, and it is still changing. In this essay, I will list some of the art movements in detail from the following time periods: 1860-1915, 1916-1960, and 1965-1975. The first time period we are going to look at is 1860-1915. Impressionism came first. Impressionism is when artists are very expressive, and they use movement, angles of vision, and light pretty often (Wikipedia).…