Postmodern art

Looking over the list of art galleries, one uniquely caught my eye; The Elmhurst Art Museum located in Elmhurst IL. Wandering through the museum's website, I stumbled upon an article that stated that David Wallace Haskins, a Chicago-based artist of the Skycube would be making an appearance on Sunday, November 29th. I thought that was interesting, so I decided to check it out. When I arrived, I was greeted by a thin older woman who smiled at me warmly. Right away, she asked me if I was a…

I have had vast extremes when visiting art museums. I remember going to the Nelson Atkins Museum as a high school field trip. After getting off the bus we were greeted by a docent that led us through the museum stopping at paintings of his choice and telling us about that painting and his opinions on it. While passing past others with just a brief description of the artist and art. There was no interaction, as students we were quiet, we listened, and we were quite bored. We never got a chance to…

In an effort to describe the modernist painting, Clement Greenberg in his publication The Collected Essays and Criticism, makes simplified and exaggerated claims. Despite his best efforts, most of his assertions are shrouded in oversight and lack the necessary premises to be adjudged as an entirely objective and salient. His comments on modern art’s effects on human senses and relations with space, are one of said claims. He states: “The Old Masters created an illusion of space in depth that…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

Exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Juxtapoz x Superflat was a show co-curated by Murakami, whose illustrations are often shown in gallery spaces, though he too retains a strong entrepreneurial sense. Directly drawn from traditionally flat Japanese imagery, Murakami’s superflat aesthetic appeals directly to otaku and kawaii culture, otaku as a fan-based subculture and kawaii as a culture of cuteness (Laurence). He views these cultures as a specific response to the trauma of Japanese people,…

Socially Engaged Art Pablo Helguera is a highly viewed in the field of practitioner, educator and socially engaged art. Helguera integrates his artistic abilities to the problem of social engaged art. He served as director of adult and academic programs in the department of education at the Museum of Modern art in New York since 2007. His visual art includes social engagement, historical research, pedagogy and language. He is also a author of many books, including Manual of Contemporary Art…

As my partner Liz and I worked our way through the Denver Art Museum’s North building, a piece that made an impression on us both was Gregg Deal’s acrylic painting on wood panel, Defiant to Your Gods 2015. Because of the large size, this piece is easily visible from a far distance and contains many pop culture references that catches the familiar eye. In the center of the piece stands a young native indian girl wearing a white t-shirt with her hands raised to suggest her surroundings. Written on…

When Maoris expanded their tribal territories in Aotearoa, they gathered resources for trading purposes and began to make strong trading ties to countries around the world. This was essential to their survival and they became a strong economic power base due to the help from the British Government (Declaration of Independence, 2013). Declaration of Independence was created, in 1840, to form protections for their resources and provide leadership to citizens. This is because the country and…

Introduction to European Art:- European art is an art, which is the biggest and most distinguished within the United States. With a broad range of paintings, sculpture, and attractive arts from all over Europe, the gathering includes works covering nearly all historical periods from Ancient Balkan state and Rome up to 1950. The European assortment was inaugurated with the gift of a gaggle of a hundred master paintings from newspaper power James Scripps in 1889. Once years…

did not take the public museum as their guide; not only did they lack the money and the trained staff, they focused on those subjects denied by the public museum’s homogenized narrative and history of the United States” (Davalos 60). Mexican American art institutions presented topics and other artwork that public museums did not accept. They did this to gain authority for subjects that were previously denied. Davalos also states, “If marginalized people determine the shape and content of an…