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             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, rope and other "found objects" were attached to the canvas. .
             Dada: With this form, everyday objects were altered ever so slightly and called "art". The idea here was that art really meant nothing and had no purpose whatsoever. This is be classified as a rebellious stage amongst artist.
             Bauhaus: Concepts of cubism were applied to architecture and art.
             Harlem Renaissance: Outburst of creative activity among African-Americans occurred in all fields of art.
             Surrealism: The emphasis was on the unconscious, with artists often drawing 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 from the turn of the century until the early fifties. By this time, many felt that modernism was full of exhausted ideas. There was a new force in artistic expression brewing and this force was the stage of late-modernism. Many had begun to see the early modernism form of artistic experience as being oppressive and tired. The limits of exploration had been reached inside the scope of the early modernist expression. Artists looked to the future and technical advancement for inspiration, they were unaware of what the future and technology had in store for them. This is when the latter part of modernism arose in America. The transition from early modernism to late modernism began after WW II. The late modernism movement started in New York City. Modernism at this point seemed to have no subject matter in regards to artistic form.


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... a type of philosophy that opposes materialism. The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the Art of Antiquity", "Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks", and G.E Lessing's "Laocöon". ... that has been intentionally "shaped or worked" by human beings into the expression of freedom. The initial stage of the development of "pre-art" is where the spirit is conceived as being a whole with nature. The religion of the ancient Persians, Zoroastrianism, believed in this theory. The ... form of somethin...

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2. Art In Society

... in Montgomery, Alabama. While the other major mediums of popular culture involved themselves deeply in American politics, on the other hand, popular art stayed mostly as it was. Pollack, along with other abstract expressionists such as William DeKooning and Mark Rothko, continued to explore their field ... and contrasting color. In Bridget Riley's "Current-, when one walks towards or away from the picture, it appears to move. Op art went beyond Pop Art to create a manufactured look by eliminating paint and brushes completely and using machines instead. These artists wanted to show how a ...

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3. Unraveling the Knot: Understanding Feminist Art History

... by an infinite number of things, which were in turn affected by feminist theory, and so on. In short, the feminist approach to art, art theory, and art history was not a result of any one thing. Nor did it evolve according to any one thing. And its presence has had a ... to call many of the major precepts of the discipline into question" (xii). This statement reveals the transformative power of the feminist approaches to art and art history. But hope for the future can only come from an understanding of the past. Emerging from the 1950's era of the Cold War ... although sometimes viole...

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4. The Influence of Pop Art

... the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") Despite lingering flaws such as racial and gender inequality, American culture appeared free from restrictions of class and freedom of ... society and on our daily perception of life. They effectively recognized its "pervasive presence as a natural fact" (Gersh-Nesic, Pop Art - Art History 101 Basics). A mass market and mass appeal go hand-in-hand with modern commercialism. More variety and more affordability keep the econ...

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5. Art History

... the theories it was being painted behind. As Wolfe explains, however, it isn't just the "culturati" that cause this great influence on art theory. Art critics all over the United States want, as always, to fit in with the chic of the chic and to be able to ... artwork had been created within and based upon. Theory spun the artists' brushes until the brushes could no longer create art themselves. The theory became art, and the art that would have been created through imagination and visualization became nothing, seen as existential baggage which tainted the purity of ... first true Abst...

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6. Art & Censorship

... is the church's decision. It is understandable if an example such as this one chooses not to use the more controversial art but should keep it to their own discretion. Art should never be denied the opportunity to be funded based mainly because of it's content. Two artist that have caused ... are Sally Mann and Andres Serrano. Mann's controversy has been over images of innocence and nudity while Serrano's has been described as blasphemous. Sally Mann's art work is mischievous and some of the sly gazes in a few photographs suggest a sense of seductiveness as well as a portrayal of innocen...

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7. What is Art?

... 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 shoemaking and weaving ... , which today we would call crafts. (Witcombe) The institutionalizing of art in the academies during the nineteenth century eventually provoked a reaction to its strictures and definition...

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8. Visual Art Types

... dominated by techne or function. The only function that can be appropriately applied is that of the sole propose to appreciate or collect fine art. The next major change in art's evolution occurred during the Industrial Revolution around 1719. The factories, railroads, and mass production began to take shape. The first design academies ... artist but tends to reflect the taste of the viewers and mass mind. The majority of the time, media art is sentimental or emotionally stimulating art and fictional in nature. Design art or mass market art is the design of household products, appliances,...

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9. Performance and Video Art

... Likewise Video struggled in obscure Dada groups but managed to build enough steam as to penetrate a wider audience. The mediums primarily penetrated the art world on the premise of the inclusion of a human being in an artwork as in Performance, and the ability to record an event ... 's body becomes both the subject and the object of the work. " The attraction of the human being becoming part of a work must have astounded the art world initially. However, it is not only something in which a person may view, but it is a space, rather than a space on a wall which ... create part of the work...

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10. Art

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