... 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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... artists threatened art strikes. Pop Art, surprisingly, didn't have much political content either during this time and most color field painting totally excluded all social reference of any kind from its work. In 1970 impersonality spread so widely that all types of figure ... painting were insignificant. Minimalism expressed America's puritan tradition, their believing that they should reject everything that is rich in abstraction. In ... other words, minimalist art rejected all nature and mostly everything that had to do with it. However, some American abstract painting was similar to...

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... to stop the suffering of so many innocent European lives. In 1938, Auden visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and views a painting called "Fall of Icarus" by Peter Brueghel. As they say, life imitates art, and this painting struck a chord with Auden, as he saw in it a very relevant example of the apathy and moral crisis which he was dealing ... , letting their neighbors be taken away without fighting back, in fear of losing their own lives. We no longer pay attention to our martyrs, just as the people in the painting that Auden writes about, pay no attention to the boy falling fro...

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... transfer to "Landscape" painted by Thomas Cole. In "Landscape" soft glowing clouds are contrasted by a twisted dead tree and a dark rocky area. Swirling lines in the painting mimic the line in the statue. Jewelry in the display cases have been wonderfully placed on a powder blue material, a soft muted color that lets the jewelry be the center of ... the exhibit and begin to wander towards the back, you notice a slight change in the artwork. There is a shift from all portraiture painted in a sharp style to a softer style of painting that is concentrated more on the landscape and environm...

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... . While little is revealed of the sitters' personalities in these portraits, their personal effects do denote the social and economic status of a prominent merchant and attorney and his family. This painting is the only seventeenth-century New England portrait by an identified artist and the earliest extant American self-portrait. Few details are known about Smith, who was recorded as a portrait ... vista to the left, which includes ships flying British and Dutch flags. Among indications that Smith was acquainted with northern European portraiture are the modeling of rounded forms in thi...

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... the month. My experience of the museum was very convenient. I was inside the museum with my friend within 5 minutes after parking my car. Right after the admission's counter was the "Painting of the Month", titled "Double Happiness (2000)" by New York based artist Tomie Arai (b. 1949). Due to my Ignorance about artists and exotic paintings, I couldn't understand a thing about it. However ... celebrations" and it was created "while serving a residency at self-help graphics and art in east Los Angeles as part of the Arts and Mid-Atlantic Arts foundation." Since the painting was created re...

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... the very radical feminists and assume that they represent the entire width and breadth of feminism. That behavior is just as bad as what they are accusing feminism of doing: painting all feminists as man-hating, victim-playing lesbians is ridiculous and patently false. Blanket statements only cover the truth." This blog may seem funny but to me it's scary ... ...

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... span of life. He mentions the great leadership of Washington, the inventor Franklin, and a self-taught astronomer named Rittenhouse. "As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might shew that America, though but a child of yesterday, has already given hopeful proofs of genius, as well of the noble kinds, which arouse the ... ...

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... by neighboring Indian tribes. The word kayapo means "resembling apes" and was probably given because sometimes the men dance in monkey masks. The Kayapo are known for their beautiful body painting and their warrior dances. The women are the custodians of the traditions and they refuse to speak any other language apart from Kayapo. Traditionally, the Kayapo men wear discs in ... ...

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... experiences with America and Britain in the past. The American media has a long way to go if it wants to have a more even point of view. It needs to stop painting things in black and white and have a more balanced, in-between point of view. Until this happens the American public will not be given a fair and accurate portrayal of events ... ...

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... bankrupt, unemployed, and had dead end jobs, the twenties were everything but roaring. Two new distinct types of cultural changes occurred. First the depression brought about new forms of wild painting, philosophy, and literature. The second was that movies became a real enjoyment, it took people away from their dreary lives and drowned them in romance, adventure, and action. Many known artists ... ...

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... presented at the 1863 Annual Exhibition of the National academy of design which marked his first apperance as a painter.Unexpectedly, both paintings became an amazing success for him, and the painting that received the most praises was Home, Sweet Home. With this success, homer received many critical attentions, one critic wrote: " He at this moment weilds a better pencil, model better, color ... ...

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... I do leave at 6:30 in the morning and do not pick him up from daycare until 4:30. I get the half an hour ride home, play time at home, (usually coloring, painting, and reading books) time at the dinner table, bath time, relaxing before bed, and reading more stories at bedtime. I do share this with my significant other and feel that Tanner ... ...

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... and San Francisco (both, extremely different cultures in themselves alone). This popular response should be noted since it justified the post modernists" idea that architecture as well as design in painting and typography, is a public art which must be understandable, yet different to the point of interest. Modernism, in its several forms, has become and accepted view by the 1960's, at ... ...

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... America exists in a big way and is blatantly destroying the rights of the American people to enjoy the art that is music. When a person walks into a museum and sees a nude painting or sculpture, no one tries to ban that. When the censorship bureau says that musicians has the freedom of speech and can say what they want, that really means say ... ...

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