... 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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... : 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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... he became well known from at his early age. His surrealistic style didn't begin until 1930 when he began to explore his emotions and started painting his own feelings. In 1932 he exhibited his first surrealistic art show in the US. In 1984, Dali was severely burnt by a fire ... his paintings contains deep meanings that differ throughout the viewers. Meanings are always different depending on the emotional state that the person viewing the painting is in. Surreal art is often said to come from deep inside the mind. Many surrealist artists are often known for their fascination in ... and...

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... the 1500s and 1600s. Renaissance means "rebirth." At this time that is exactly what happened, a rebirth in the world of art. This included drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Many artists use the subject of the human body. They also concentrated on the use of perspective. Some artists of the late ... money than he made and quickly got into debt. He spent his last years in poverty, he continued to be faithful to his first love of painting. In the 18th century, Paris became the new center of the arts. Two new styles, Rococo and Neoclassical, that came about during this time .....

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... developed their distinctive style of the early 1960s. Characterized by photo-realistic, clearly-rendered images of popular subject matter, it seemed to "assault the standards and definitions of modern painting, which had embraced abstraction as a reflection of universal truths and individual expression" (Spivey, Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe) For this reason, the Pop Art movement was a new creative license ... between Abstract Expressionism and their Pop Art sensibility. Perhaps foremost were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, two pioneers of American Pop Art. Johns believed that we ...

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... being a "work of art" was not considered until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy. (Witcombe, 4) First used during the Renaissance, the word "art" was a collective term for sculpture, painting, and architecture. (Witcombe, 5) The word was thought up by the artist and biographer, Giorgio Vasari in the sixteenth century. (Witcombe, 5) Actually, during the Middle Ages and Ancient World, the word ... "art" today translates to any activity governed by rules.(Witcombe, 7) Therefore, it can be seen that painting and sculpture were included among a number of human activities, such as...

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... some extent know this truth. Postmodernism denies these assumptions. The easiest way to understand how postmodernism works is applying it to aesthetics where one person says that a painting is good, and another says the same painting is no good, we are not surprised, because we are familiar with the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, that means ... we do not know there is a single true answer to the question of if the painting is beautiful? There are as many answers as there are beholders, and no one has the truth. Another example is morality where on may believe...

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... and attempted to simplify the images into geometric forms which made them seem more mechanical like. He would often use a projector to enlarge the piece so that he could combine painting with his commercial art. Warhol did his best to make his work look commercial and removing the appearance of an artist's touch. He wanted his work to look like an ... followed this theory are his paintings of the Campbell's Soup cans and his portrait paintings of famous celebrities. Another postmodern artist that shared aspects and concepts of Warhol's Campbell's Soup painting was H. Gleveco. Gleveco ca...

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... was self consciousness. This led to experiments and the refinement of form, along with the use of techniques that attracted attention to the development and materials exercised in forming a poem, painting, novel, building etc. Rejecting the ideology of realism, modernism makes work of the past by the enlistment of rewriting, reprise, recapitulation, incorporation, re- interpretation, revision and parody. Redoing something that ... ...

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... culture from Consumerism may have been influenced by the emptiness in Warhols work. The artist seems to have completed his projects as if he was commissioned to do the work, painting without a sense of feeling. The idea that Warhol only looked at his paintings for their face value is evident in such works as the do-it-yourself images and Campbells ... ...

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... coherence into an otherwise fragmented, suffering, modern world. (In fact, this attempt, to a certain extent, may offset Thomas's effect on the reader.) The death of Icarus, as represented in Breughel's painting, exists as an archetypal pattern that is recurrent in European art and thought and represents human desire to exceed its limitations. Successful art, indeed, often exists to address an aspect ... ...

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... important role in my life. Images are everywhere, on TV, in newspapers and on your computer. They are used to manipulate you, pleasure you and inform you. When I work on a painting I aim to capture all three of these important roles an image should give you. I feel this helps towards the final, finished result. If a piece of Art can inform you of ... ...

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... complete freedom from conventional concerns and restrains, which led to unobstructed expressiveness and individualistic creativity. A great example of Abstract Expressionism is Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist. It is an abstract drip painting, lacking anything pleasing to the eye, leaving behind only dripping paint, and small brush strokes. This piece, and all of Pollock's work post war, represented dark and anger filled thoughts ... ...

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... there might also be a thousand copies, but the original is the one with the highest value. Contrast that with cds or music recordings, where there is no "original," as in a painting, no recording that is hung on a wall, or kept in a vault; there are only copies, by the millions, that are all the same and sold for approximately the same amount ... ...

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