primarily in New York, where a small group of loosely affiliated artists created a stylistically diverse body of work that introduced radical new directions in art—and shifted the art world's focus. Never a formal association, the artists known as "Abstract Expressionists" or "The New York School" did, however, share some common assumptions. Among others, artists such as Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Franz Kline (1910–1962), Lee Krasner (1908–1984), Robert Motherwell (1915–1991)
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you feel like you were there in the boat with the person in the painting and just enjoying nature. It was created in 1945 and I think it was created the show the elegance, purity, and calmness of nature. Last but definitely not least, I observed an abstract art work titled Time Shapes the Stalactite by Nancy Graves. This piece was created in 1991. This art piece was my favorite because it was beyond interesting. The way the artist used ways to create this picture was so
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Permutations Definition: A permutation of a set X is a rearrangement of its elements. Example: Let X = {1, 2, 3}. Then there are 6 permutations: 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321. Definition : A permutation of a set X is a one-one correspondence (a bijection) from X to itself. Notation: Let X = {1, 2, . . . , n} and α : X → X be a permutation. It is convenient to describe this function in the following way: α= 1 2 ... n α(1) α(2) . . . α(n) . Example: 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 2 3 4 1 4 3
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(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
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Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio (August 2, 1916 – December 5, 1990) was a Filipino American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental. His heritage was Hispanic, Filipino, and Chinese. Between the ages of eight and thirteen, he attended school in England. At age fourteen, he moved to the United States. Ossorio attended Portsmouth Priory (now Portsmouth Abbey School) in Rhode Island, graduating in 1934. From 1934 to
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Abstract Expressionism was a movement in painting and art history. The lecturer explains that the painter Jackson Bullock like other forms of art painters has self-expression serves qualities of art paints and he was one of greatest American artists. He used several painting methods. The first area of dispute is abstract expressionism valued the act of painting itself and called action painting because of accidents and discoveries that can occur during the process of painting. According to the professor
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Jackson Pollock, born in 1912, died in 1956, was an American painter and also on of the major figures in the abstract expressionist movement. He was also well known for his unique style of drip painting. Pollock had a tough early life growing up in the American West, but this would shaped him into the confident person and artist he would become. Pollock came to New York in 1930 as a, art student from Los Angeles. When he was taking classes at the Art Students League, he has a close mentorship with
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the colors and splatters get. It doesn’t look like he randomly through paint onto a canvas, I can tell that he very carefully swirled and dripped the paint to create this picture. Jackson Pollock transformed the art world and became one of the best abstract expressionist of the 20th
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different part of speech, usually a noun. Gerunds are formed when an “-ing” ending is added to a verb, and every infinitive is composed of “to” plus a verb. When grouped with modifiers, gerunds and infinitives form verbal phrases that perform the function of nouns. Using Gerunds in a Sentence In the examples below, the gerund appears in italics and the main verb appears in bold. Gerund as subject Because gerunds act as nouns, they can take any role that a noun would usually take in a sentence. The
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Abstract Art Rant Hello and good morning everyone, I’m John Bateman and like most sane British citizens I have become enlightened to the greatest con of all time. Who would’ve thought that a scribble, a squiggle and a splat could’ve brought so much pandemonium to the world of modern design? Yes, I am of course referring to the defilement that is abstract art. The other day I was in my art lesson when, just for a laugh, I asked my teacher what she thought of abstract art; of course she began a tedious
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