... Gauguin would completely turn away from nature and look to his imagination seeking creativity from his inner self.2 Paul Gauguin's Post-Impressionist background influenced the primitive quality of his paintings as he transitioned into the new art form of Symbolism. Paul Gauguin was born ... Gauguin himself started to collect art, mostly Impressionist work, and he had the chance to work with Camille Pissarro, who encouraged him tremendously. The early art of Gauguin developed from Impressionist foundation, but he went without the Impressionistic way of painting with natural colors and ima...

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... - a depiction of an operation in progress with psychological acuity in the portrayal of the surgeon Doctor Gross is realism at it's finest. Impressionism is a movement in painting that originated in France in the 19th century. Impressionist painters were considered radical in their time because they broke many of the rules of picture-making set by earlier generations. They found many of their ... subjects in life around them rather than in history, which was the accepted source of subject matter. Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had ... Tatlin. Finally, Surrea...

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... them in the new magazine Lacerba, produced in Florence by Ardengo Soffici and Giovanni Papini. The range of Futurist manifestos was simply vast and covered every aspect of the arts - painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, music, photography, cinema, theatre, scenography, costume design, etc - as well as the everyday - love, war, women, and so on. Marinetti set the tone of the Futurist ... often been erroneously considered an offshoot of Cubism. Actually, both its roots and its goals were very different, being more closely allied with those of the new movement in German painting ...

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... , for all intents and purposes, be laying out the mission statement of what would become Cubism. Cubism, in many ways a rejection of the impressionist movement that focused mainly on color and light, believed that true beauty was only perceived when a subject was deconstructed, analyzed, then reassembled in ... dimensions of the canvas. His solution was the deconstruction of images, especially of the faces of the subjects, into individual sides, then painting all the sides together on the canvas. However, while this would become the route that the early phase of Cubism would follow ( ......

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... : This movement was all about color, color and more color. Cubism: Cubism can be defined as either analytical or synthetic. In analytical cubist painting, the object was "taken apart" and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes. A synthetic cubist work had bits of real objects worked ... on images seen in dreams or while in dream-like states. Quite often, objects that appear next to one another in a surrealist painting seem to have little if any relationship, with no logical reason why certain images appear together. Early Modernism as an expression was explored ... Expressioni...

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... those same emotions evoked. • Fauvism: This movement was all about color, color and more color. • Cubism: Cubism can be defined as either analytical or synthetic. In analytical cubist painting, the object was "taken apart" and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes. A synthetic cubist work had bits of real objects worked into the picture. Items like newspaper clippings ... of Artistic Form 1945 - Present Abstract Expressionism 1950s/60s Op Art 1960 - Present Pop Art 1970 - Present Minimalism Today Conceptual/Post-Modern • Abstract Expressionism: This was a style of nonr...

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... classical cubist" with his contributions to modern art and Cubism. While studying engineering at Madrid's School of Arts and Sciences, Gris also learned painting techniques from José Maria Carbonero, an academic artist and contributed his works to the local newspaper. In 1906, Gris moved to Paris ... his work grew into "flat, colored architecture" as he described. Later in 1917 to 1920, Gris established a complex style in his painting, using objects and their shadow to introduce complex intersections with texture and color. While participating in the final exhibition of the Salon des In...

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... which he presented the model, space, and design(Matisse Picasso)(Ederfield). In Matisse's Woman With a Veil, Henriette, Matisse's principal model throughout the 1920's, rarely appears fully clothed. This painting, the last of Matisse's Nice series, absolutely defies his prior decisions about her status as the model. She is depicted seated, face forward on an armchair. Her gaze is directly ... exposed arm, and face, back and forth in space. Matisse also borrows Picasso's exploration of primitive and Iberian art in his modulation of Henriette's masklike face. Matisse studied decorative arts...

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... poor women who had children, blind men, harlequins, crazy people, and social outcasts. Picasso did this as a social protest. In the winter, he paints a portrait called Autoportrait. This portrait is a painting of him during the blue period. He depicts himself as unhappy, there isn't a smile on his face, and the colors surrounding him are full of all blues and greens smeared ... moves back to Barcelona. In his studio, Picasso decides he wants to live an entirely blue life. For him, as a painter, his paintings were his life, so when he was painting everything in blue. Each shade of blue h...

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... and objects. Picasso was becoming very successful using the ideas of Impressionists. His style changed, for the better, when he took a painting holiday at Gosol in the Pyrenees. The pictures he worked on there and after his return to home showed two new important influences. ... once. Cézanne's influence is seen in the geometrical angles and planes that would lead the critics to call Picasso's new style "Cubist-. This painting marked the beginning of modern art. Cubism wasn't accepted into art society immediately. At first, the term "Cubism- was used in a spirit of ... form part of a...

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... the paintings, painted in the style contained no illusion of depth and used simple geometric shapes. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso is an example of facet cubism; it's a brothel scene showing women with faceted and angular bodies. Two ... have African masks showing there influence. Today this painting is one of the most important paintings in modern art. In 1909 Picasso and Braque developed Cubism into another phases, known as Analytical ... Cubism was more realistic and had a bolder use of color and form the Anal...

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... and pelvis were broken in three places. Not capable of leaving her bed, and with out many options to pass her time, Kahlo began painting; this was her only way of revealing her thoughts and exploring her innermost painful feelings, memories, and experiences. Kahlo spent the next three years ... of her life, as she was unable to move, painting and portraying the reality of her life; how it had changed and how helpless and incomplete she felt. To most people her work seemed quit ... memories of pain and suffering. "I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint," (Kahlo...

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... Eva Gouel was the name of his new lover whom he called ma jolie, the name of a popular song at that time. This period of his painting is referred to as the musical phase of cubism. Artists who were influenced by Cubism included Juan Gris (1887-1921), DwenNS Lwfwe (1881-1955), Piet ... the main artists included William de Kooning (1904,-), Mark Rothgo (1903-1980), and Jackson Pollock (1922-1956). Jackson Pollock was an American painter who studied painting in 1929 at the Art Students' League in New York under Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s he was influenced by the Mexican muralist p...

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... example of how Pablo Picasso went against the art norms. Around 1910 Picasso switches from beauty and history to something even more impressive. Picasso started painting in "a different vision from what things really are - cubism" (Schama). He felt that everything contained hard lines and images that ... wherever he fancied" (Schama). In 1927, Picasso meets Marie-Thérèse, and she becomes his lover and inspiration. The first painting of here is titled "The Dream" and depicts her sensually and gently masturbating. While Marxism is rising to power and politics are ... on everyone's mind, ...

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... him to move to Paris, where he had studied under a master decorator to receive his craftsman certificate. As Braque became more focused on painting, he decided he wanted to try something different and make art more interesting. When the two young artist Pablo Picasso and George Braque had ... to dispute conventional forms of perspectives which had been the format since the Renaissance. Cubism is a form of style that is used in painting and sculpture where square shapes are broken up, analyzed and then formed together in an abstract form. The key characterizes of cubism are indicated ......

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... supposed be at that very spot. The reds, oranges, yellows, and stripped blues made his painting: Blue Poles. Through Pollock's work he showed his self-expression. As I said earlier Pollock had a very unique way of painting. Who would have every though to paint with a stick? Self-expression shows a apart of ... and the way we thing. Looking at Pollock's work gives us a chance to glance into his life. Jackson Pollock once said, "I have no fears because painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." Picasso seemed to make way for all the "new"artists around the world. I ....

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... Picasso, and it has been said that the tragic event precipitated the adoption of a predominately somber blue palette. An example of Picasso's blue period paintings is "Woman with Bangs." This painting symbolizes Picasso's production in this period. It is showing a dark-haired woman with downcast, unfocused eyes lost in a reverie. The simplicity of her surroundings and attire give emphasis to her ... worked on from early 1907 through July. After filling seven sketchbooks and doing seventeen studies in preparation, he painted "Les Demoiselles d"Avignon" and is considered the first Cubist ...

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... in Spain in 1881 were to be two of the most influential artists that have ever existed. They were both geniuses who revolusionised the world of painting. Society in those days was used to seeing classical paintings of respectable people or landscapes, not the world as it was perceived by revolutionary artists. ... more realism and Picassos's is cubist in style. Van Gogh tries to change the image of women in those days by painting them smoking and drinking beer. His painting challenged the fact that women were feminine and would never do these things, let alone be seen doing them. The wom...

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... small town of Guernica. Hitler had come up with a new type of bomb and was using the town of Guernica as a test site. The painting took one year to complete and demonstrated the horror that the people of the town went through. The ... symbolic of war, death, and destruction In 1907 he painted "The Women of Avignon" that is said to be the defining painting of the twentieth century. This painting shows five female prostitutes who are standing naked. Their faces are unattractive and look as if they are deformed. Their bodies are thin and ... for beauty and the feminine look. At this time he...

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... in Guernica. Unlike DEPARTURE, GUERNICA was inspired by a particular event. Although GUERNICA contains Cubism's intellectual analytical structuring, Picasso certainly did not execute the painting for the sake of structure. Both works, however, depict dark nightmarish scenes of carnage and bestiality. Both works seem to acknowledge the ever-present ... horse and the "pinned" woman. Compare GUERNICA to its latest preliminary sketch. The horse's neck in this sketch curves down. In the final painting, GUERNICA, the horse is now speared. In acute pain, its head leaps up to scream. The faint c...

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... at an elementary school as a headmaster and his uncle was a successful painter. The environment that he was surrounded by helped him grow an interest towards painting, although his father wanted him to get a degree in teaching. Since his passion was to be a painter, he ended up becoming an art teacher. ... Mondrian's style contained more of a geometric style, rather than the squarer style seen in cubism, Mondrian named this style neoplasticism. When using this style of painting he only used white, gray, black, and the three primary colors- red, yellow, and blue. Mondrian moved to France ...

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... and real even if it doesn't seem like it at first, bringing it closer to them. Cubism may seem like a perplex way of drawing or painting but with only a few lines and strokes it can tell so much. It is what each object represents that creates such an extraordinary piece of art ... bodies surrounding an agonized horse to contradict any ideas the world may have of warfare being heroic. When Picasso was asked to explain the symbolism in the painting he said,"it isn't up to the painter to define the symbols". A copy of the Picasso's Guernica serves as a backdrop to the entrance of ... of bo...

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... their paintings on color. Another explanation is that Picasso found blue appropriate for his subject because it is a color associated with melancholy. The painting of La Vie was painted in Barcelona. La Vie remains one of the key works in the prodigious out put of paintings, drawings, prints ... darker and more defined especially her dark blue wrap. The contrast of light and shadow is show in the cloak of this woman. The painting is clearly allegorical, as well as unusually complex and obscure for Picasso's early works. Scholars have not yet reached a consensus concerning the ... narrati...

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... Cezanne back to Aix, and Zola to Paris. They, however, always stayed in contact wth each other (24). Cezanne's father never wanted him to pursue painting, fearing that he would end up in the poor and alone. In 1861, his father finally let him attend an art school in Paris, the Academie ... . I think that this portrait was his way to let everyone know that he was serious about his chosen career path. The painting looks as if Cezanne only used four different blobs of paint: black, white, yellow, and red. I think that only a few colors were utilized in this ... Auvers, where he painted "The...

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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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