... the 20th century. This will be accomplished by observing the two predominated art periods, Modern art and Post Modern forms of 20th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art to refer to art of the 20th century in Europe and the Americas, as well as in other regions under Western influence. The modern ... create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify form, spatial planes that are broken into fragments, and forms that overlap and penetrate one another. . Art historians g...

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... know the theories it was being painted behind. As Wolfe explains, however, it isn't just the "culturati" that cause this great influence on art theory. Art critics all over the United States want, as always, to fit in with the chic of the chic and to be able to control ... essentially came down to a style in which lines, forms, colors, and contours all are merged eloquently in such a unification with the flatness of the canvas that it is art, as pure as art can be. Until 1950 or so, most of the basic art theories originated with the ideas of Greenberg and the purity ... the artwork had b...

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... the way he assigned intense colors to objects arbitrarily and not according to their appearance in nature. In Expressionism artists tried to present an emotional experience in its most compelling forms, through visual, literary, and performing arts. The artist strives to express subjective feelings and emotions rather than to depict reality or nature objectively. The artist is not concerned with ... Player by Umberto Boccioni is typical of futurism. The most noticeable feature of Boccionis" many legged soccer player is its depiction of motion. Much like the futurists Constructivism soug...

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... aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. Many aspects of society at the time affected art such as the industrial revolution. The revolution meant that more peasants left the country to go to the big cities, which in turn became ... over crowded. There was vast poverty, pollution and inequality and these conditions were shown through the art of the Realists. Honoré Daumier was politically and artistically active at a time when France was going through great social and political upheaval. ... to his personal and artistic dev...

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... Romanticism in the paintings of Francesco Goya, Francois Millet, Honore Daumier, William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. Why is the evocation of the "sublime" important? Romanticism art had its place in history between 1800 and 1850. This style of painting cannot be identified by one particular style, technique or attitude but the style is generally characterized ... by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, evoking emotional intensity, having a dreamlike or visionary quality. Romantic art strives characteristically to express by suggestive states intense, mystical, or elusive...

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... , Black Paintings (1959). This was arguably his defining step into a new movement apart from Abstract Expressionism. As part of the exhibition, 16 Americans, presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Stella's work introduced a view of painting without the gesturing action formerly used by the previous generation of artists (i.e. Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline).2 Fascinated with the ... and white, and an impersonal application of paint. Above all, these black pictures tried to reject the illusionism still practiced in the 1950s. Atmospheric density, spatial overlays, discreet fo...

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... ? In his Landscape with Saint John on Patmos (1640), Nicholas Poussin used linear perspective to demonstrate his knowledge of geometry. He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. In the ruins in the foreground/background, a cube, a three dimensional rectangle, and a cylinder are represented in perfect perspectival form, each illustrating a different aspect of foreshortening ... illustrates the three-dimensional quality of the landscape he sought to create by using color applied in geometric shapes. He wrote that he "wanted to...

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... portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry and art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him. Although in his early years, he painted landscapes that were visibly Impressionist in technique and approach. In the Venetian Water Carriers, portrayed ... be dead when the stock market plummeted to the bottom. During Sargent's lifetime the art world would be left reeling as impressionism, surrealism, Fauvism, modernism explod...

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... two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain's The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton's Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter, they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract Derain being a Fauvist and ... of Fauvism in 1905. Fauve, meaning "wild beasts" in French, was a movement driven by "a desire to develop an art that had the directness of Impressionism but also had the intense color juxtapositions and their emotional capabilities (964)." The Fauves expressively used vivid colors ... card b...

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... his work as an extension of that tradition in the context of twentieth-century art in general' . While Williams was developing his Australian landscape imagery, other artists were exploring aspects of Australian identity. Williams employed a more documentary approach to the Australian landscape, which allowed the landscape's own distinct forms and shapes to shine through his works. This is perhaps most evident in ... to the hostility, or at least alienation that is exposed in Drysdale's and Nolan's works. The Pilbara series fulfilled Williams' long search to give colour its full place i...

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... is beautiful as if nothing is happening. "The Oxbow" is representing a new opportunity yet there is a large storm from the left, which some art critics view as the storm of civilization arriving. Both paintings stay true to the time periods, "The Burial of Phocion" definitely appeals to the French ... Also the linear diagonals used for perspective were typical of the time period. Chiaroscuro was another common characteristic that was used to draw balance to all forms in the painting creating a more dramatic appeal through light and shadow. "The Oxbow" reflects one of the main aspects of...

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