... may have regarded it as a tale of his secret loves and desires, or he may not have; but one thing is certain: The Great Gatsby is an impressionist's novel. It was written by an impressionist, for impressionists. It seems that, in order to enjoy the novel, you must have a tendency, or at least a desire to see the world the way Fitzgerald does ... as a man "deranged by grief- should clear up most uncertainty. Whether or not one enjoys it, Fitzgerald's commitment to the style makes The Great Gatsby quite possibly the pinnacle of impressionist literature. His descriptive style concentrates ...

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... goes on as to whether the most amazing innovation of the 20th century is pop art, or cubism. Both arose from a rebellion against an accepted style: the Cubists thought Post-Impressionist artists were too tame and limited, while Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense. Obviously, possibly the most famous pop artists of all time is Andy Warhol ... work clearly remains completely original and unlike any other. His professional work has turned him from an ex-graffiti artist, to now painting on canvases. Far from what he or anyone would expect, he is maki...

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... in a very individual style, they were linked by the desire to find a new means of artistic expression. Rather than including recognizable objects in their work, they used the elements of painting itself - color, line, shape, brushstrokes, texture, and light - to express emotions. Their influences included prehistoric cave paintings, Native American, pre-Columbian, Mexican, and African art, along with the modern European ... of artmaking, they rejected representational art as incapable of expressing the emotional atmosphere of the time. By turning to new forms of expression Pollock, Roth...

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... Martin rejected figurative images in attempting to portray her state of mind. In 1967, just as her artistic career was peaking, Martin stopped painting and over the next seven years built herself a house in New Mexico and devoted much of her time to writing and lecturing. This ... on a schema consisting of the interplay of horizontal and vertical lines have been recognized as presaging a number of postmodern art movements, including hard-edge painting, op art, conceptualism, and especially minimalism. But as the poet and critic John Ashbery has pointed out, Agnes Martin's "minimalism" is...

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... de Kooning or Pollock marked the opposite end of the pole from the simple, quiescent images of Mark Rothko. Basic to most abstract expressionist painting were the attention paid to surface qualities, i.e., qualities of brushstroke and texture, the use of huge canvases, the adoption of an approach to ... of the canvas played an equally vital role in the total work, the harnessing of accidents that occurred during the process of painting; the glorification of the act of painting itself as a means of visual communication, and the attempt to transfer pure emotion directly onto the canvas."" ...

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... structures. In 1924, he was expelled several times and jailed once. But these acts did not stop him from doing what he loved best, painting. Even though he was expelled and imprisoned, he still had participated in several group exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona, and had attended another one-man ... one-man show that November. Dali gave another meaning to Surrealism. According to James Thrall Soby, he brought a "new objectivity" to surrealist painting by depicting "the unreal world with such extreme realism that its truth and validity could no longer be questioned." The same year that D...

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... . Albans, Queens with his family. After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. During the 1950's Alex was influenced by the work of Jackson Pollock and other abstract Expressionists .During this time he produced swiftly executed ... after Alex met his future wife , Ada de Moro . In 1960 they had a son Vincent. They where then Married in 1958 . In 1972 he was awarded the Guggenheim Grant in Painting. He currently lives and works in New York. Alex Katz is one of the mo...

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... madness or illness. 1904: Picasso entered into a relationship with Fernande Oliver, who inspired many of his pre-cubist works, such as the painting " woman with Loaves" End of the Blue Period. 1905: Marked a radical changing color and mood for Picasso. He became fascinated with the ... New York ) and " La toilette" (1906, Buffalo). His interested in sculpture and his new enthusiasm for black art are reflected in the transitional painting" Two Nudes:" 1907: Picasso painted "Demoiselles d Avignon", considered the watershed picture of the twentieth century, and met Georges Braque, the other...

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... portrays the perpetual struggle of humankind and the struggle to achieve more. This masterpiece was displayed at the Columbus Museum of Arts. The painting overall has a smooth, surreal tone. The human figures at the bottom of the picture add to the tone because they are not perfectly ... outlines and are soft, almost obscure. The emphasis is placed entirely on the balance between light and dark, as opposed to realistic detail. This painting was not intended to be an artistic work which sweeps the viewer away by the perfect details and realistic figures; rather, the work serves as ... m...

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... became one of the most successful illustrators of the 1950's. In this time he produced a large series of artists books. He created his first Pop painting based on comics and ads in 1961. His first exhibition of sculptures was held in 1964 which included hundreds of replicas of large supermarket product boxes. ... which lead him to expand on the entirely new genre of Pop Art. Some things he was influenced by soon became an almost mandatory way of painting, many of his ideas created from his culture became the backbone of Pop Art itself. Warhol's homosexuality and the gay underground of Ne...

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... and distinctive desert scenes. She was considered the premiere female artist of the twentieth century, a title she considered sexist. Georgia Okeefe was more concerned with painting the essential identity of things rather than the mere visual appearance. Okeefe's original American works encompass a wide vision form taut city towers to desertscapes in ... . She them moved back to Virginia in 1909 and four the next four years took teaching jobs in Texas and Virginia. Her interest in painting was rekindled in 1914 when she moved back to New York and enrolled in Columbia Teacher's College. By...

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... painted on the wall was a regular human that tries to eliminated technology in today's world but for the records I was not totally wrong in that part. The coloration in this painting is not that much. He used just tempera and he brought the little figure to the museum. I saw the video how he created this piece of art and he did ... . In addition what I liked the most was how he left the sense that he did it in just one try. The reader or the person that is looking at the painting can notice how he left the tempera go down of the main lines because of the gravity. Now the really meaning i...

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... abstract expressionism, the art really has no concrete shape, but is made up of purely form and color. Helen Frankenthaler was an abstract expressionist who revolutionized a new technique of canvas painting, and started a brand new generation of unique artists. Helen Frankenthaler was born in 1928 in Manhattan, New York. Helen attended Dalton School, which is located in New York. During high ... not limited too, Pollock and De Kooning. These two artists in particular subjected her to inspirations such as the gestural technique, also known as Action Painting. The technique she created wa...

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... the cities into moveable feasts: I no longer took beauty and greatness for granted, and became a pilgrim. As a visitor, I walked past David's painting in Louvre, but as a pilgrim. I stood in awe, knowing how much efforts an artist had to put in a painting as such, and how long art history developed to arrive at the elegance and power of neoclassicism. I kept journals, took pictures ... ...

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... an object, whether it be a symbol, person, or situation, until it was already well known to its audience in its usual setting. They highlighted not the commonplace in a painting, but the commonplace as a painting. Each artist in this movement had their own way to express their take on Capitalist Realism. One of the first English pop artists was Richard Hamilton, who defined ... ...

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... after a doctor waved a rule. He was not able to fight and was put on the newspaper staff instead of in the battlefield where he really wanted to be. But after painting a portrait of his commanding officer he was given a special early discharge. This is what provoked him to paint the "Four Freedoms." Rockwell creates his pictures in separate stages. First he ... . Fourth, he would sketch the whole drawing in great detail. Fifth, he would put color into his sketches and last he would put all the parts together into the final painting. He uses a lot of foreground invitation which means the ...

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... paintings of the old West. Lichtenstein initially experimented with abstraction but said it "didn't have much of a sense of humour."" Shortly after the artist moved to Cleveland where he continued painting while working as an engineering draftsman to support his growing family. Lichtenstein taught at the State University of New York, Oswego from 1957 to 1960. It was by this time ... you can't paint as good as that' while pointing at a cartoon of Mickey Mouse. Lichtenstein took this picture, which was on a bubble gum wrapper, blew it up into a full scale painting turning commercial art i...

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... Toussaint L"Ovuverture. His historical paintings include the Migration Series, Harlem Series, The South Series, and War Series. Lawrence also worked n genre painting, the most successful series of which was the Builders Series. Sheldon's Paper Boats is another example of genre painting. Lawrence was influenced more by Francisco Goya and Honore Daumier, who painted very stark and politically charged artworks. Lawrence was a very ... ...

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... some respects O"Keeffe's manager as-well as partner. He began to arrange shows for her work to be exhibited and sell her paintings. O"Keeffe began to paint her large flower painting around this time. These pieces would become some of her most popular work. She soon began exhibiting these paintings and in 1928 a Calla Lily ... painting sold for $25,000, drawing much media attention to O"Keeffe's work. However even with her new-found financial success as a painter O"Keeffe found herself to be running short of inspiration. ... ...

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... 1892 to 1897. Until 1908, when he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland, Mondrian's work was naturalistic "incorporating later influences of academic landscape and still-life painting, Dutch Impressionism, and Symbolism. In 1909, a major exhibition of his work, with that of Jan Sluyters and Cornelis Spoor, was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and that same year ... became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principles of abstraction and simplification beyond painting a...

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... Sylvester Stallone. Pete Howson developed his work in terms of composition, drawing and distortion. The important elements of his paintings became mainly the emotional atmosphere he created. While he was painting he darkened down his work by using the technique of Impasto. He achieved this particular effect by firstly drawing the figures, then ... painting them in, finally adding a strong transparent glaze. He kept re-working this stage of his paintings to enrich the composition, atmosphere and texture. The subject matter Howson portrayed was the ... ...

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... ? Surely manipulation and personal perception occurs in all art, but photography is often more trusted than other forms of art. An art lover is less likely to believe a painting of cherubs or a Picasso painting is reality. Photographs are often used in newspapers, documentaries, not only for entertainment, this can cause problems. Photography can mislead viewer in believing non truth. This often occurs ... ...

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... detailed and thorough. There was one piece that I found to be very interesting because it was extremely detailed oriented and well done and that was of a painting of many groups of men. Jim Shaw's "Drawn Painting," produced in 2000, is his own depiction of male models in groups; however it is also a picture of him that revealed who he really is and ... ...

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... world. She was one of the first people to paint such disturbing pictures. She painted self-portraits which depicted her as something else. Other painters use the same style of painting to show how they are feeling at that moment. As you look at Frida's paintings, you see she uses white, red, Kahlo pretended not to consider her work important. From ... the leading figure of the Surrealist Group, André Breton. Breton arrived in 1938 and was enchanted with Mexico, which he found to be a naturally surrealist country, and with Kahlo's painting. In January 1940, she was a participant with Ri...

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... an art teacher in different schools and universities. Her journey in Texas and its surrounding states during the years of 1912 to 1916 helped O'Keeffe define her personal style of painting. She spent a great deal of time exploring the wild, empty spaces. She observed the shapes found in nature and translated them into very personal abstractions (Berry 39). O'Keeffe found her ... house; she settled there permanently after Stieglitz's death in 1946. Museums all over the northeast invited O'Keeffe to exhibit and put up major retrospectives. Years later, O'Keeffe also started traveling, pai...

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