... The modernist artistic journey was underway. The age of early modernism is from 1863 - 1950. In early modernism the artist rejected the traditional forms of expression and created newly formed artistic expressions. This meant that they were no longer looking and using the long standing European ways of artistic ... do. With no rules or obligations to any true form of art at this time, art work of splashes and brushstrokes were the inspiration of artists far and near. Similar to early modernism in America, there were sublets of art forms in late modernism. These included: Period of Time Ty...

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... The modernist artistic journey was underway. The age of early modernism is from 1863 - 1950. In early modernism the artist rejected the traditional forms of expression and created newly formed artistic expressions. This meant that they were no longer looking and using the long standing European ways of ... do. With no rules or obligations to any true form of art at this time, art work of splashes and brushstrokes were the inspiration of artists far and near. Similar to early modernism in America, there were sublets of art forms in late modernism. These included: Period of Time Type of ....

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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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... cannot fully experience the artwork until I really see the real painting held within its walls. So, Last week I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Museum opens the door to a world of fantasy and colorful. Entering the doorway stand by two security guards, they are ... portions of the museum. The main categories of the artworks displayed at the museum are American art, American decorative arts, Asian art, Egyptian art, Greek and Roman art, African art, European art. However, the artworks include various forms of style that I don't have any clue about each form is abo...

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... of women in painting. It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. Maes discusses the relationship between mistress/housewife and maid: As mistress is to maid, so wife is to mistress. He investigates this doubled or split persona of a woman in a series ... of distinctive paintings featuring divided domestic interiors with the housewife situated between the flirtatious maid down (S. Alpers Dutch Art Ways of seeing first page of the photocopied) The economy's impact on the heavil...

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... -dimensional effect because black backgrounds tend to recede the figures. Even though Vermeer painted in a patient manner for this painting, he did not define his forms with precise lines. The use of color on the girl's eyes, lips and nose are modeled with gently modulated tones of colors. This painting is ... was an artist that encapsulated the idea of bringing emotion into his paintings. By the 17th century, artists began to shift the focus of art from solely religious and educational to depicting dramatic emotion in the real world. In his paintings, Vermeer took the techniques and ar...

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... and emotion was valued over rationality or intellect. Furthermore, there was a deepened appreciation for the beauty of nature and a general rejection of formal rules and traditional procedures. Two examples of art from this period are Jasper Cropsey's The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley from 1865 (Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, inv. No. 1981.007) and John Constable's The Cornfield painted in 1826 ... sun's lighting by allowing the brightness of the sun to obscure the details of the mountains, according to their relative distance. The mountains to the left are shown as dark forms...

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... first pottery project done at preschool and cherished always. From the cologne a perfumer makes to the pastries a chef bakes, they are all forms of art. To me "POETRY" embodies all that art should be. It is the essence of words that flow forth freely to land on paper or linger on lips. Poetry is able to ... is volatile. The flow of poetry is soothing and relaxing, quite reminiscent of the sound of the ocean with its supposed healing qualities. In its most basic forms poetry is able to inspire emotion to a degree that will overwhelm a person. The mere whisper of a word leaves you breathle...

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... John Berger explores this concept in depth in the book Ways of Seeing. He clearly emphasizes the different aspects of art throughout history and its impact on human life as we know it. The book's general approach, organization, argument ... of the reader's understanding as minimal, and explains his theories from scratch as if the reader has never experienced art in his or her life. He then broadens the vocabulary of his piece gradually as the chapters' progress. ... reading about the picture's structure and context; after which, a completely different meaning is sometimes derived from th...

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... for common elements and ideas. The Renaissance was a time which saw an enormous cultural awakening take place in the fields of literature art and philosophy. The art of the Renaissance heavily featured female figures. Women have been worshipped and adored since the beginning of humanity, represented on cave walls and ... unconventional ways. Leonardo da Vinci was arguably one of the greatest artists of the high Renaissance, his innovative painting style continues to influence the art world even today, centuries after his death. He portrayed both men and women in his paintings however, it...

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... for mathematical, abstract construction, the value placed today upon the repetition of colored tones, the way colors are set in motion...ʼ Abstract art, is an art form not containing an image of the outside world. It has no starting or ending point in nature. "The artist no longer names ... , abstract construction and repetition. It is questionable as to how successfully Kandinsky, and other creative artists have in fact, incorporated these elements into art of the painting form and have triumphed in expressing their own inner world. Viewing one's inner "necessity" poured onto a canvas...

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... short story called, Revolt Against the City, was lead by many lectures of Regionalism. This short story was based on the comparisons between literature and Regionalist art. A few months after this happened, Wood became to be known as one of Cedar Rapids' most eligible single man (Peltakian, para. 9). Not ... selection and organization of materials of past experience and their fusion with present situations to create new forms. (R. Tripp Evans, page 20). His speech exposed that his mature work was present in his art from his childhood life. This note was lead to the famous painting, Ameri...

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... short story called, Revolt Against the City, was lead by many lectures of Regionalism. This short story was based on the comparisons between literature and Regionalist art. A few months after this happened, Wood became to be known as one of Cedar Rapids' most eligible single man (Peltakian, para. 9). Not ... selection and organization of materials of past experience and their fusion with present situations to create new forms. (R. Tripp Evans, page 20). His speech exposed that his mature work was present in his art from his childhood life. This note was lead to the famous painting, Ameri...

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... of the collective unconscious with regards to symbols and archetypes, and a belief that expressiveness was achieved, in part, through the physical process of painting. Incorporating and translating philosophy, art history, and existentialism into visual form, these artists incorporated both chance and control while painting with a physical immediacy and gesture. Abstract Expressionism was the term coined, in 1946, ... and execution. Eventually the term was used to generalise all types of non-geometric abstractions. The movement is often called "The New York School" or "action painting"...

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... Negro Life is the purpose of this paper. In the next few pages I will show that Aspects of a Negro Life incorporates the principles and elements of art combined with unadulterated emotion to become one of the late Aaron Douglas" greatest achievements. Born in Topeka, Ks. in 1899, Douglas left the great state and ... know that he is speaking something of importance. A technique used by many Greek and Roman sculptors for the same purpose (I know this because of my previous art classes). The right side of the composition is equally as intriguing, it shows the slaves after being freed in a s...

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... Negro Life is the purpose of this paper. In the next few pages I will show that Aspects of a Negro Life incorporates the principles and elements of art combined with unadulterated emotion to become one of the late Aaron Douglas" greatest achievements. Born in Topeka, Ks. in 1899, Douglas left the great state and ... know that he is speaking something of importance. A technique used by many Greek and Roman sculptors for the same purpose (I know this because of my previous art classes). The right side of the composition is equally as intriguing, it shows the slaves after being freed in a s...

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... Fors' work has been shown and collected internationally. Cubans are very lucky to have such a gifted citizen. His most controversial showings have been in the USA (of course.) Perhaps his art will help normalize relations between Cubans and Americans. Mexico has numerous artists it can boast of. Alejandro Colunga was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the late 1970's he traveled the ... has variations depending on the culture where it is present. The variations in Christianity are clear. According to one gallery "This trickster - satirist from Guadalajara often begins with classical Mexica...

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... overwhelmed with tranquility. It was absolutely incredible to recognize and be able to physically and emotionally experience the power that this particular piece of art exudes. The sky immediately captivated my attention, and soon lured me into the power of the painting. Its pale shades of blue, ... with him, and enrolled his son at West Point military academy. After being discharged for failing a Chemistry class at West Point, Whistler learned the art of etching while working for a U.S. cartographer between the years 1854 and 1855. Following that experience, he soon moved to Paris where...

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During the height of the Renaissance creativity flourished. Minds were at work in all fields coming up with new ideas and new artistic expression. Artists captured new feelings and forms never expressed before. Among those artists, was the Dutch genre and portrait painter, Jan Miense Molenaer. Born in Haarlem in 1610, Molenaer was raised within humanist ideals. He ... learned all about the new wave of thinking and was shown all the art of Amsterdam. By 1629, he himself was at large in the painting world. He actively painted until a few months before his death in 1668, when he became gravely i...

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... lead me to believe that Degas should be considered a modernist. The following are the key points that I would like to consider. Degas" interest for the new techniques and the foreign art. In the mid 1800s there was a continued increase of exchanges between Europe and foreign countries. The exchange was not only commercial but also involved cultures, ideas, and styles. At that ... people is a sign of change in the society and a departure from the traditionalists attitude of choosing subjects within the rich class. I feel that at that time the meaning of art was changing. Art was becoming...

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ART MEDIA: SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS "THE TRANSITION FROM TEMPERA TO OIL PAINTS" INVESTIGATE AND EXPLAIN HOW A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN MEDIA HAS HAD AN IMPACT ON THE VISUAL ARTS. The transition from tempera ... Hubert (died 1426) and Jan van Eyck (died 1441) and Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464), tempera painting gradually lost its prominence as the medium for making major works of art and was superseded by oil painting, which remains the prevalent material to the present day. Oil paints had so much overing power the artists could hide any corrections, they give ... visually effective. Ma...

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