interesting to the ordinary eye? There are many stories that could be told‚ but this one is of a Russian artist‚ the first to create a fully abstract painting. Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born artist‚ whose contributions to the world of modern art are innumerable. On an artistic level‚ Kandinsky’s maturation process from representational art to abstract art is fascinating. From his earliest work‚ with an impressionistic flair‚ to his later work‚ which was pure abstraction‚ Kandinsky was an
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colours‚ hence the names "Red Tree"‚ "Blue Tree" and "Grey Tree” and these were all painted in an abstract and unique matter. It is also rumoured that Mondrian somehow mimicked style of Van Gogh in his trees series‚ and this was quite frowned upon in the art world. I also think that the trees were a new way and style that Mondrian found to express his art and from then on became much more abstract‚ influencing this onto a lot of paintings done later on in Mondrian’s life. This painting was a large
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1 a little UML UML for the Java Associate Oh my! Umm‚ hey‚ I‛m really not ready yet‚ OK? UML is Cool. Rumor has it there are some UML questions on Sun’s new Java Associates exam. Sadly‚ the new Head First book on OO isn’t quite ready yet (be sure to check hfoobook.com toward the end of 2005!)‚ but we’ve taken a few random pages (and parts of pages) from it and put them together here. So‚ if you don’t mind the lack of organization‚ you should find everything you need to know about UML
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To me‚ art means the expression of one’s creative skills or how one expresses themselves and their true feelings. Art produced at the present point in time is called contemporary art‚ which is also known art modern art. Edouard Manet was considered to be the beginning of modern art and James Pollock was considered to be the end. These two artists do differ with their works of art but they are both great artists. Edouard Manet was a French painter whose work inspired the impressionist style. He also
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PAINTING Painting – is among the fine arts‚ which creates meaningful effects‚ depicting different intrinsic human values‚ by the use of clustered imagination of lines and color. Painting is placed on a flat surfaced by the use of pigments. Painting expresses the artist’s perceptions and feelings on a particular selected subject. Usually‚ the artist’s selection of a subject comes from the understanding and interpretation of his feelings and emotions. Some artist may love country scenes‚ like landscape
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Afton Muir 10-20-06 Abstract Expressionism The abstract expressionist movement shook the art world. It began in the early 1940’s and shifted the world’s attention to New York City‚ where artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko were shattering publicly held notions of what was considered art. It’s authentic period of vibrancy and newness lasted from the early 1940’s to the mid 1950’s. The social and political context in which the abstract expressionist movement came about was highly
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modern art movement. 1. Abstract Art Abstract art refers to a style of painting that does not use figurative reality as a reference. Instead‚ the artist alludes to his or her subject and reduces it to a simplified form. Colors and shapes are used to portray emotions and the landscape of one’s inner world. Listed below are the various kinds of abstract art styles that have emerged. Abstract Art Type Defining Characteristics Famous Artists Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism paintings
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Developments in Three Dimensional Art in the 20th Century Three dimensional art works went through a heavy period of transition through the 20th century. At the start‚ sculpture could be summed up in Johann Gottfreid von Herder’s consideration of sculpture as “a harsh reality.” Unlike painting and the other traditional media‚ sculpture was being redefined‚ both formally and technically. Painting‚ despite the many innovations and explorations that occurred in the 20th century‚ was still oil and
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Abstract Art and Its Prejudges Albert Camus has once defined art as: “A product of the untalented‚ sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” Many people may agree on that abstract art is simple to paint‚ it has not techniques and it is not representational but how can a paint that represents nothing in particular be so eye-catching to look at? When looking at an abstract painting people see the most freely formed type of artwork an artist can create‚ which allows many and different interpretations
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chosen the following women artists: Audrey Flack‚ Helen Frankenthaler‚ Nancy Graves‚ and Alice Neel to share briefly their story as women artist. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 and is one of the founders of photorealism painting. During the Abstract Expressionist fifties‚ Audrey Flack suffered all the slings and arrows of being a female artist during times when female artists were viewed as little more than hobbyists. Flack believed that the continuous discovery of art was realty and artist
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