Flamenco is a folk art and culture from Iberia, or present day Spain. A genre that has been the musical outlet for the poor and the troubled, Flamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individual’s most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with enduring…
that Hopper’s was one of the eminent artistic in the history of American Painters. The essay will answer the question that said how the modern American city is portrayed in Edward Hopper’s paintings. Firstly it will discuss Representation of dream and reality on how he want people to believe that dream informed the conceal part of internal life. How the modern city portray him as prominent traditional designers in the history of America, which allow colour to display in images forms. His…
Forsythe and Balanchine looked for the mathematical shapes of classical ballet to extend the movements to create longer lines of the human body, similar to architectural renderings. Architecture shaped Balanchine and Forsythe’s work. Associating with different architects, Forsythe educated himself on spatiality and structure to construct the dancers’ bodies. Although Balanchine’s movement applied math to elongate the dancer’s body, Forsythe constructs movements based on researching physics. In…
Killer Hairstyles for Tango Dancers Open hair? Messy bun? Or neatly tied braided bun? What do you prefer for Argentine Tango? Well, the extravagant tango dance is all about glamour, pomp and class. Tango is known as one of the most expressive dance forms that sweeps away one from its feet. Yes, it has that splendid effect on the audience watching live tango dancers. Do you feel the dance itself can leave such an outstanding impact on the viewers? Well, the dance form wouldn’t have been a hit…
Piet Mondrian was one of the founders of the Dutch modern movement De Stijl. This movement is recognized for the purity of his abstractions and methodical practice. Beginning in 1904 he had become a landscape painter. He was influence by Jan Toorop and caused him to paint in a Symbolist manner. Mondrian worked in series, which allowed him to focus on one object at a time. “Mondrian was drawn toward the syncretic and universalizing ideas of Theosophy. Theosophy combined aspects of Christian and…
Adolph Fredrick Reinhardt was an American abstract artist, writer, critic and educator. He studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York (1931–35), and painting with Carl Holty and Francis Criss at the American Artists School (1936–37). He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Karl Anderson in 1936, worked for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (1936–39), and was a member (1937–47) of the American Abstract Artists group. Reinhardt…
The concept of “Art for Art’s Sake” helped transform and modernize art in the nineteenth and twentieth century. It helped to transform art to be the way that it is today. “Art for Art’s Sake” is the idea of making art only for the purpose of art and nothing else. During the late nineteenth century the concept of “Art for Art’s Sake” remained important in contemporary discussions about censorship and the significance and nature of art. During the early twentieth century art started to…
The contrasting and comparing Frans Hals’ “The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home in Haarlem and Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp” is like fastening a window to a mirror set at an angle reflecting the occupant of the room and the figures of the passers-by. Nevertheless, had Hals and Rembrandt set up such a mirrors in their studio windows, at Haarlem and Amsterdam, in the middle of the seventeenth century, fixing the reflections by some magical progression, the end results are something…
So far, I personally consider the fine art photographs as those with great compositions, the mixture of light and color, the magical quality, as well as the meaningful contemplation, and I would like to appreciatively describe one fine art photograph—Winter, Fifth Avenue given by Alfred Stieglitz. Accompanied by pure photography style, Stieglitz was instrumental in helping make photography the fine art, and this eye-catching image, Winter, Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in…
impressionistic features that were also capitalized by Cezanne. Picasso's quite obviously shattered many molds from past art with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. So much in fact, that some individuals feel this painting symbolized the true beginnings of modern art. While this is surely open up for debate, few would doubt that this painting was the precursor to Cubism, with the angular definitions of the women in the painting, the lack of depth, and the almost collage feel of the painting. You also…