... in Action," we see a perfect example of the western idea of Asian art as a representation of beauty and opulence. The intricate detail is consuming and draws one into what is a painting with a vast open negative space of plain white. The white space brings the eye to the idea that this is a piece created in another world since there is no traditional ... used to depict flowers or branches, creating layers of contrast that help the image leap off the canvas. It also helps determine the scope of the negative space in the painting. The dynamic color distribution and concentration of ink on...

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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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... residence at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1942. While abroad, Grant Wood was exposed to current trends in European painting butconcentrated on the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles. In this, he was severaldecades behind European painters but current with most American artists. Wood is best known for his ... strongly influenced by the subject matter and technique of various German and Flemish painters of the Renaissance (14th century to 17th century). (Grant Wood Painting 1) In translating their stylized formality to the American scene, however, he added his own distinctiv...

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... searched for something more than an imitation. Kandinsky's journey of artistic discoveries began when he first viewed an exhibit of paintings by Monet and was particularly inspired by the famous impressionist art works "Haystacks"5 which seemed to distinguish the powerful sense of color from the form itself - "That it was a haystack the catalog informed me. I could not ... creating a language everyone can understand. Finally, Kandinsky's "Composition IV"10, aims to contain suggestions of war and peace. It is to cause conflicting emotions, provoked by the painting in the viewer. After de...

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... Fredric Scott Archer discovered the collodian wet plate process for producing an image. The major influences on Australian photography were the European Pictorialists who emulated the styles of the French impressionist's painters. Australia then attempted to emulate the highlights of Australian impressionism. The aims and practices of Australian photographers was to create a black and white image conveying a sentimental ... , narrative, romantic, picturesque images of Australia. To gain recognition they emulated popular painting styles by taking shots of landscape, Australian people and t...

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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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... : 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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... paintings and a display about pottery. I don't have a car right now sow it was impossible for me to go to a farther away museum. I found this painting at Art.com along with numerous other Rembrandt paintings. I had to search the website for a few minutes before any older paintings would even come up. Society today ... art. As they passed on the meaning, the changed it a little, so that it fit in their society and time period. During the time when this painting was produced, a ruling class existed. It was made up of the wealthy, and the powerful. During that time, only the ruling class h...

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... striped canvases and metallic paints, producing exhibitions in shiny copper paint as well as a metallic purple sheen. In the previously noted exhibitions, Stella would again push the envelope of 1950s painting by altering the canvases into more unique picture frames. One instance had him producing his flabbergasting stripes on letter-shaped canvases, such as a "T- or a "U- or an "H-. The ... the South African Mine series (1982) was distinguished by an expanded vocabulary of materials and forms and by extremes of pictorial and actual space. Stella's printmaking developed alongside his pa...

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... the left side than the right side, but this has been balanced through the heavier drawings on the right side. This variation in the painting creates sufficient discord to create visual interest. Contrast has been created through the letters in "racism in football," using some heavy bold letters ... Clash of his Eastern culture and of his new life in America, impacted tremendously on Teraoka. Through his art he has considered this, and this painting is Teraoka's interpretation of the McDonalds "invasion" of Japan from a Japanese perspective. He has deliberately formed the composition to b...

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... on a Red Couch, Among Lilies " is an incredibly vivid poem that uses visual imagery to describe the scene of Henri Rousseau's "The Dream. " The painting itself is bizarre, with the main focus being a nude woman, dubbed Yadwigha by Plath, lying on a red couch in a jungle, and Plath seems to ...  When Henri Rousseau first unveiled his masterpiece "The Dream"" in 1910, it was immediately recognized as beautiful but was also widely misunderstood. The painting is appropriately titled. As Rousseau once explained, "The woman on the sofa dreams that she has been transferred to this forest and...

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... shining brightest on the larger objects in the center and to the right of center. Color is yet another domineering aspect. The color theme of this painting is no saturation of color, but a lighter tint and shade of colors. The value of white is used primarily in the birds toward the bottom ... the sky and mostly a few of the animals to the right of center. This amount of black somewhat dulls the rest of the colors in the painting, or uses warmer colors. Also in respect to color, there is texture that is created. This asymmetrical piece has implied texture everywhere. Most vividly withi...

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... was a libel case, brought about by the American painter, James Whistler, against the notable art critic, John Ruskin. Ruskin had been offended by Whistlers painting called, "Nocturne in Black and Gold: the Falling Rocket", Ruskin wrote in the newspaper: "For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the ... farthing in damages, that he claimed it a moral victory. Nevertheless, the trial was a turning point in the conflict between traditional and modern art. The painting, "Nocturne in black and Gold", at the heart of the trial was, in fact, part of a series of paintings called "The Nocturn...

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... to 1900. Artist's paintings that caught my eye were done by Braque, Picasso, Charles Sheeler, Piet Mondrian, and Grant Wood. There was one artist whose painting I enjoyed the most, and which I spent nearly twenty minutes attempting to break down its meaning. Peter Blume's South of Scranton, done in 1931. Peter ... Blume was an American painter, though he was born in Russia in 1906. This painting is a beautiful oil on canvas that helps illustrate its exceptional detail. It is done in the modern style. The composition of this piece is ... way. Mondrian attempts to use a mathematical appro...

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... powerful message. A dramatic value of light is used, also focusing by illuminating Christ and the accused Adulteress, from the upper left had portion of the painting. Excluding Christ, Boulogne used everyday people as models in his painting to help idealize the message of: "He is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her." The emotion and guilt is strongly felt ... , all the while there is an ape mimicking her actions. This ape symbolizes the animal nature/ behavior in the woman (or in human kind when inebriated) by mimicking her. This painting shares similar qualities to that o...

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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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... known American realist painter and etcher. He was as well as popular for his oil paintings. Edward Hopper was a very talented person. He start showing off his painting skills when he was 5 years old kid. Edward Hopper was born on 22 July, 1882, in a upper Nyack, small town which is called Hudson River in ... him to try watercolors. Hopper met his wife, Josephine Nivison. She was an artist and also a past student of Robert Henri. They met during a summer painting trip in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1923. At that moment Hopper was 40 years old and Josephine was 2 years younger than him. ...

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... with cans of paint, dribbling it on the canvas or flinging it off the brush or splattering it with powerful strokes; hence action-painting. Pollock's work generally has no subject matter other than the expressive explosion of feeling that appears on his canvases within swirls and splatters ... and enlarged Chinese characters. (Tansey and Kleiner 1099) Beyond Kline abstract expressionism moves on through Willem de Kooning, who used the action-painting style as Pollock did to create both pieces of abstract expressionism which were wrought with slashed strokes and harsh movement and other p...

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... , we would situate ourselves in history. When we are prevented from seeing it, we are being deprived of the history which belongs to us"(108), and "When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image. As a result its meaning changes"(115). My argument is that if there is only one original ... . Some people can experience their love to the fullest simply by being in each others presence. One tough part of the essay is when Berger suggested: "The compositional unity of a painting contributes fundamentally to the power of its images"(110). This statement is very co...

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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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... Cropped Hair by Frida Kahlo symbolizes through surrealism her evolution towards independence, just like the movement of women towards liberation and greater social status. This painting was done around the same time as her short- lived divorce to her husband, Rivera, after she found he was cheating on her. As she ... . It is different in other ways, however. She is dressed like a man unlike in others, and with short cropped hair. As well, the painting is very dull compared to her other works. This dullness helps create the overall tone of sadness and loneliness. There is also the theme o...

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... in New York State, and her M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley." She now reside in Berkeley, California where she spends her days painting mundane object which slowly creating a striking image of poetic importance. She uses daily object such as ropes, tires, and doormats and transformed them into paintings ... buckets, pipes, and other large industrial containers that we customarily ignore, to enhance our knowledge of what is going on in our economy. In a painting by Oropallo entitled "Oversize, 2001" made with Iris Print from oil on a larger than life canvas, sh...

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... had pets of their own. The way the cat was playing with the dog reminded me of the times my cats and dogs played with one another. The painting really brought a smile to my face. I can't tell you how many times they played with each other. Every time that they do it is something to ... artist who painted such a beautiful and masterful work of art. It must have taken a long time of patience to get the nature of the animals captured in the painting. Art piece #2 Title: New Port Coast Artist: William Trost Richards Medium: Oil on Canvas Year made: 1902 Gallery work located: American Collecti...

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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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