Stark Museum of Art

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…

Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum is home to multiple paintings including Charles Christian Nahl And A little Child Shall Lead them and his The Love Chase . The date And A Little Child Shall Lead Them is unfortunately unknown. And A Little Child Shall Lead Them painting is approximately 3’x3’. The Love Chase is a five-part series that consists of two 6’ x 5’ and three 3’x4’ paintings. The paintings are dated in 1869. And A little Child Shall Lead Them and The Love Chase are both…

interestingly, some of the same goals. They both had been deeply influenced by the arts-and-crafts movement. Both cities were efforts to “revitalize work and reconcile man with nature” (Fisman 164). A key social feature to Le Corbusier’s plan is the social factors. Both men understood the importance of the family in the city, but as usual approached it in opposite manners. In the Radiant City, Le Corbusier creates a stark division between labor and leisure. In Broadacre City, Wright aims to…

tones in the hellish underworld certainly create the illusion that one is going deeper into the earth vertically. There is a larger play on light in this composition, where the heavenly realm is saturated in lighter tones (the glow of the halos, the stark whiteness of the habits of the apostles), the earthly realm is ablaze with the remaining humans who are falling through to the hellish realm which is almost exclusively bathed in dark muted tones. As far as repetition or geometric patterns…

The Third of May 1808 was painted in 1814 by Francisco Goya commissioned by Ferdinand VII, who had taken the throne after the French had been driven out of Spain. This work’s dimensions are 8' 9" x 12' 4" painted with oil on canvas. Guernica was painted later in 1937 by Pablo Picasso as a piece for the Spanish Pavilion at the World’s Fair. This painting was created with oil on canvas with dimensions reaching 11’6” x 25’8”. While Goya and Picasso took radically different approaches to depicting…

She proposes that art “can waken us to truths about ourselves and our lives; truths that normally lie suffocated under the pressure of the 24-hour emergency zone called real life” (Winterson 2). Winterson furthers this with describing how art “challenges what we are...remind[ing] us of all the possibilities we are persuaded to forget” (3). It seems that this is what particularly…

countryside getaway for his wealthy client, Dr. Edith Farnsworth. The house was built on a large rural property on the Fox River about 60 miles from downtown Chicago. The exterior of the house stands in firm contrast to its lush surrounding vegetation. The stark white lines of the minimalistic design manage to somehow stand out all while remaining remarkably organic. The physical form of the Farnsworth House is quite simple even by Mies van der Rohe’s standards. It consists of two horizontal…

When it emerged in the sixties among the crush of several other art movements (Pop Art, Minimalism, among others) Land Art came to be an anti-gallery artistic offshoot that straddled the domain between architecture and sculpture. It had no manifestos nor schools nor leaders and it was not quite a movement; the artists who were involved with it were also involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual…

and Fritz Bleyl. Fritz Bleyl left the group shortly after (Die Brücke). The name, Die Brücke, was taken from writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietszche, of whom the group greatly admired. It was to symbolize the bridge they would cross to the art of the future. Specifically, it was taken from Nietszche’s Spake Zarathustra in which the prophet Zarathustra says that “what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal”. Other strong…

Mahin Rai Period 1 Mr. Westbrook 24 January 2018 Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Influence on Literature A poet, playwright, leader, publisher, activist, father and entrepreneur, Lawrence Ferlinghetti helped generate the literary movement: “Beat” in the 1950s. Like many others, he believed that literature should be available to all everyone. Despite, their education, wealth or heritage. He composed poetry to discuss taboos, political movement and to ponder “American idiom and modern jazz.” (Lawrence…