...evaluation is Fauvism – a movement in art that was spread in the early twentieth century, known for its vivid colors and little attention to reality of the depicted subject matters. Even though the modernist movements in art are rather diverse, Fauvism is distinguished through a bright palette and bold brushstrokes. The websites selected for the annotated bibliography have been found through a search engine, using a simple keyword “fauvism,” without distinguishing any particular directions or artists within the movement. “Fauvism.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2015. Web. Apr. 24, 2015. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm>. The first website is the one of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offering a great article about Fauvism as a movement in painting and phenomenon in art of the early years of the twentieth century, which was a predecessor and a great inspiration for such later movements as of Expressionism and Cubism. The authors of the website offer the following citation for the title article, which provides an insightful explanation of the development of techniques and the major influences for artists of Fauvism and their influence on other artists: “Rewald, Sabine. “Fauvism.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. <http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm (October 2004).” At the same time, this article serves only as an opening part for the readers that want to learn more about Fauvism, since the...
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...impressionism. Impressionism attaches great importance to our perception of contrasts and light, something that is accurately expressed through the seasons. Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral in full sunlight was a famous painting, other than this Pierre Auguste Renoi, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec are among the most important impressionist painters. CLAUDE MONET – "Impression, sunrise" (1873) At the end of 19th century Post-impressionism arose that was a soft revolt against impressionism that influenced the development of art in the 20th century. The major artists associated with this were Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh’s vigorous and vibrant painting technique was one of the touchstones of both Fauvism and...
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...IWT1 Task 1 Impressionism and Post Impressionism By WGU student In early 19th century, the French government controlled the academies and salons of paintings. The impressionism took place in second half of 19th century, which was results of French artists rejecting the traditional government sanctioned academic painting that was dominating their arts at the time. The first independent art exhibition was held in 1874 for one month. Few of the famous artists’ who participated and help organize this exhibition was Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renior, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro along with 25 other artists. They displayed approximately 165 paintings during this exhibit. This group of artists referred themselves as the Anonymous Society of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, etc. The artists from Impressionism period intentionally painted which captured the nuances of light and beauty of natures. These artists were against painting a picture of moral messages, as the artists of past they mostly painted in studio. Impressionist had very firm understating of color theory, optics, nature of light, and optical mixing (created much more vivid colors in the eyes of the viewers). The invention of photography had profound influence on the artist of the day, the way they handle perspective in the relationship between subject matters in space. The invention of photography essentially freed these painters to become more abstract with their subject matter, they were...
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...THE MOVEMENTS: ROCOCO THROUGH SURREALISM The Movements: Rococo through Surrealism Hum 100 Final At the end of the Baroque period the neo-classical style Rococo emerge in France. It dealt with elaborate ornamentation. The essence of Romanticism is particularly difficult to describe because it heavily focuses on emotion so you have to see, or hear it to understand it. Art in the modern era from 1860-1914 consists of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism. These movements are closely related to each other, instead of being a carful rendering like in Realism art was freer flowing and had looser lines. Between the world wars art took on new roles these movements were: Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism. The old social stratification of classes was beginning to break down in Europe. The Rococo movement started in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation. The Rococo musical style is often viewed as an extension of the Baroque movement, ands characterized by a high degree of ornamentation and lightness of expression. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born January 27th, 1756 in Salzburg began composing music at the age of five. In 1788 Mozart wrote his final three symphonies nos. 39, 40, and 41. He composed these symphonies for zero commission and at the time had no other source of income. Mozart composed these three pieces of work quite rapidly. Composing came easily to Mozart and he often said that he was a vessel and...
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...CUBISM 'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 (oil on canvas) PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) 'Factory, Horta de Ebbo', 1909 (oil on canvas) Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braques. It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed. Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalise the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course. The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age. POP ART Andy Warhol – Mickey maus the early morning of July 18 in Stockholm, a major theft occurred. Unknown broke the door to the museum Aberga (Abergs Museum), stormed inside and stripped from the walls of famous works of masters of the pop art of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) and Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein). Robbers also took a poster to the old film The New Spirit, probably thinking that this is also Warhol. Police are looking for villains in the entire Stockholm, but the search has not yielded results. Stolen masterpieces of pop art experts estimated in 500 thousand dollars. The museum is named after the famous Swedish filmmaker, artist and musician Lasse Aberga (Lasse Aberg). In the 1960's, he was carried away by pop-art aesthetics, and in 1970 started...
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...deliberately change it. They stretch or bend forms, break up shapes, and give objects unlikely textures or colors. Artists make these transformations in an effort to communicate something they cannot convey through realistic treatment. Works of art that reframe nature for expressive effect are called abstract. Art that derives from, but does not represent, a recognizable subject is called nonrepresentational or nonobjective abstraction. The pivotal event that brought modernism to America was the International Exhibition of Modern Art of 1913, today better known as the Armory Show. The exhibition exposed American audiences to abstract art for the first time. Many ridiculed the fragmentation of cubism and rejected the charged colors of fauvism and expressionism. A few, however, embraced abstraction, and gradually the new styles were incorporated into the American visual vocabulary. Energized by new artistic possibilities, American artists synthesized European innovations into a variety of forms. Lyonel Feininger's cubist constructions incorporate the color and movement typical of Italian futurism. Max Weber and John Marin fractured images and reassembled the faceted planes into dynamic compositions. The organic abstractions of Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove add a new dimension to familiar forms from the natural world. Abstraction dominated American art beginning in the 1930s. Fleeing fascism, a wave of European artists and intellectuals immigrated to the United States, bringing...
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...‘Art’ is derived from a Latin word ‘ars’ which means skill. Art is the human skill of expression using different art methods such as paintings, sculpture, drawing, music, etc. Art originates in the history of all cultures throughout the world in one way or the other. From the era of Mesopotamian to to-date people have produced art, although the styles and the methods in producing art has changed, influenced and modified overtime. Some of the changes in techniques and styles used centuries ago had a revolutionary impact on the creativity of producing art pieces and these techniques are still considered to be an important factor in producing world class art pieces. Though there are many strong historical art techniques/periods that have impacted the art of today but two movements Impressionism and Postimpressionism will be highlighted in the discussion. Impressionism is the movement in the art history which started in late 19th century and early 20th century. Impressionism started in painting but was a very important and strong drive that it also influenced the music and literature along the way. The first few artist that were recognized as the initiators of Impressionism were Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Auguste Renoir[->0], Camille Pissarro[->1], Alfred Sisley[->2], Berthe Morisot[->3],Armand Guillaumin[->4], and Frédéric Bazille[->5]. The Impressionist created their art pieces by focusing on light, atmosphere and movement rather than focusing on the object...
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...Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869. His place of birth was Le Cateau, Picardy, France. He died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, France. His art media was painting and sculpting. His skill started to develop when he began to attend a drawing class before work. Matisse then began to paint and moved away to Paris to get training. He went to the schools of École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. There, he was introduced to post-impressionism and pointillism. But he started painting in a style called Fauvism. This was his new movement. People loved his work; people like famous collectors purchased his work. He was known to surprise his viewers and it was all so gratifying to them. During his time, there was a decline in the Fauvist movement....
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...Running head: Individual Project Unit 4 Unit 4 Individual Project Running head: Individual Project Unit 4 [pic] Claude Monet painted Impression, Sunrise in 1872. The lighting of this painting varies throughout. It contrast between the light and dark. The sunlight reflecting off of the water adds more interest to the work because the rest of the painting has a monotone theme. The brushstroke is light and flowing. It seems to include glazing which if the layer of paint in thin layers. The colors look layered and add another dimension to the painting. The light in this painting is reflected off the water. The sun appears to be setting in the sky and the water adds movement to this. The light in this painting contributes to the contrast of colors featured in this work. The subject matter for this painting is scene featured on the water. It appears to be a harbor, maybe with fishermen. It's a simple setting that shows a story. The man in the boat looks likes he's rowing to the harbor ahead of him. The Impressionism style consists of loose brushstrokes which can be seen in this work of art. Realism often shows more ordinary or realistic activities. Realism is not Running head: Individual Project Unit 4 romanticized. Post Impressionism does not showcase the subject. It stresses the form of shapes and unnatural colors. [pic] Photo # 1 Post Impressionism: Almost like Impressionists, however, it...
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...Biographical Impressionism started around the 18th century, the French painters of that era started painting “En Plein air” in other words open air, this was done in response to the camera evolution, they started to focus on color and things the camera couldn't capture, like shape or movement. Post-impressionist influenced by the impressionist wanted to take that a step further focusing on color, shape, line, form, and the emotional response of the artist. Vincent van Gogh was one of them. He produced more than 2,000 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches. Although he is sometimes depicted as a failed artist because of the fact that he only sold one painting while he was alive, after death he became very famous. One of his most famous works and well-known images in modern culture is this painting, The Starry Night. This is also one of his most replicated works of art. He painted The Starry Night while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889. About a year before his death, Vincent was hospitalized at an asylum, and clinic for the mentally ill near the village of Saint-Rémy. During his time there, he was encouraged to paint. But his room had only the view of the asylum’s garden; not the mountains so it's safe to assume that when Van Gogh created The Starry Night he used elements of previously completed works, as well as his imagination and memory. The Starry Night reveals Van Gogh’s extended observation of the night sky. After moving away from Paris and the light polluting...
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...I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night, because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it, blended with his own stigmatic emotion, is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France in 1889; Starry Night is aesthetically, artistically, and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the risk of merely defining the obvious, the fact that this is a depiction of an actual village evidences the portrayal of real, naturally occurring forms within his painting – forms that any person who has observed this painting, can attest are definitely a distorted rendition. The distortion of these forms is a demonstration of the type of art that would be later defined as abstract, a descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted. Having said that, one of the first distinct feature representations of abstraction in this painting that I noticed was the peculiar way that Van Gogh painted the stars - Van Gogh’s stars are exaggerated to the point that their size is almost equitant to most conventional depictions of our sun; this is an obvious demonstration of his use of forms of the visual world which he purposefully distorted (perhaps to signify the residence of spirits on each star). The second, most striking...
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...ASIAN CUBISM 1910 ASIAN CUBISM 1910 YŌGA late 1800s YŌGA late 1800s NIHONGA 1898 NIHONGA 1898 Word Count: 790 Word Count: 790 Xueyan (Jessica) Wu Professor Hong Kal FA/VISA 2340 02 March 2015 ASIAN MODERNITIES EXIST IN “THE DEVELOPMENT OF ABSTRACT ART” Asian modern art has been largely neglected by Western audiences; a simple reference to Rita Gilbert’s “Living with Art” timeline confirms this notion. As such, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. neglected to include Asian modern art in his seminal 1936 map, The Development of Abstract Art, and consequently, I have provided a revision. Barr’s depiction epitomizes a European-dictated arrangement of art history, which excludes all versions of modernity not part of ‘his’ visual. I question the legitimacy of this omission. Modernity is not a singular definition, not solely manifested in one structured European interpretation. It is not necessarily residing in one place, but migrating and shifting, following the social conditions and traditions which surround different geographical contexts. One may contend that Asian modernist art does not belong within Barr’s space or that it does not fit any prescribed definition of modern art. There are valid reasons for this belief; the most widespread insisting it is merely a ‘copy’ of European modernity, and therefore, already included within Barr’s interpretation. This is untrue on many levels. Tatehata Akira writes in Why Cubism, that “…we must admit that a large part of Asian...
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...The works of and Jackson Pollock’s Male and Female, Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café, and Grant Wood’s American Gothic, provide examples of art pertaining to the styles of abstraction, expressionism and realism, respectively. Abstract art tends to detach completely from the physical appearance of the perceived subject matter. Expressionism can be defined by works in which the subject matter is deliberately manipulated to achieve an enhanced or exaggerated effect on the viewer. Finally, realism can be defined by an appraisal of objects, people, or scenery as they appear, without a gross distortion of reality. Pollock’s Male and Female was completed in 1942 utilizing oil on canvas. The painting depicts two dark, vertical shapes only vaguely offering hints suggesting the male and female subject matter. To the right is the male form, with its body covered with numbers and markings, while the female form appears on the left, and is mainly revealed by its extravagant eyelashes. Surrounding these two “figures,” and dividing them are a number of abstract nodes of color, rarely having a cohesive pattern. Were the painting unnamed, the viewer may be hard pressed to even make out the two forms. Upon research into the history of the painting and the artist, it’s worth nothing that Pollock suffered from recurring alcoholism and likely depression throughout his adult life. Male and Female was created during a time in which Pollock was undergoing mental therapy, and was very likely encouraged...
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...Impressionism vs. Postimpressionism By: C.M. Impressionism and Postimpressionism are two significant historical art periods. Although Postimpressionism originated from Impressionism they had many differences and very little similarities. This ranges from where the artists completed their work to even how the artists would like for their work to be preserved. Impressionism came to light in the 1870’s to 1880’s in Paris, France. These artists went against the rules of art at the time, they did not focus on using strait lines and details, which were the norm of the time, and instead they painted more landscapes and outdoor portraits using natural lighting. An example of this work is Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s, On the Terrace. They focused more on the way the light hit the subject and tried to show it as you actually see it. The artists tended to work outdoors, use short brush strokes and vibrant colors in their paintings. Postimpressionism started in the late 1880’s through the 1890’s by artists that were rejecting Impressionism. Impressionists were still painting objects as you see them where postimpressionist filled their works with feelings and emotions. These artists used many swirling motions like in the painting by Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night. They tended to work in studios and take more time completing their work than impressionist did. Postimpressionist filled their works with feelings and emotions. Impressionism and Postimpressionism were similar in the facts that...
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...Part One – What I Used to Think About Art and Artists When I started taking this class this semester I wasn’t really sure exactly what to expect or which artists we were going to study. When I started this course I used to think that artists, as in painters, were all somewhat strange quiet people with few social skills. From my previous experience most of the people that I knew or knew about were a bit on the strange side. I knew a lot of unknown artists when I was younger and I still know some unknown artists now, it’s just that most of the ones that I know fit that particular stereotype. Rather messy in appearance and kind of closed off from most of society. I used to think that most artists behaved in a somewhat wild manner with wacky thoughts. Being an artist myself, pretty much everyone I knew in my high school art classes were all pretty strange, we were always causing a ruckus. I used to think when artists did art it just kind of happened. I guess I felt like it just came naturally to artists and the magic kind of just happened all on its own, like that it didn’t take a lot of effort to do it. I think that when I was in high school and taking a lot of art classes I just don’t remember thinking to much about what I had to do, I’m sure I probably did, I just don’t remember consciously think about it. I never really thought about what sources there would be for artists other than love, drugs, and alcohol. I guess that it what used to first pop into my mind...
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