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    Modern American Art

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    Can painting style: thick and messy‚ meant to look like it was applied slap-dash manner‚ jittery o Ash can artists started as illustrationalists o Borrowed from manet but were more interested in giving subjects agency • Called insufficiently modern • Whistler’s work is about distancing us‚ Bellows is about confronting the difficult world‚ the real world‚ gritty grimy The Stieglitz Circle & Transatlantic Modernism General: Cubism‚ Italian Futurists‚ Fauvism‚ abstraction‚ NY Dada • Six

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    Museum of Modern Art

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    Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan where we explored the Gauguin‚ Frank Lloyd Wright‚ and John Cage exhibits. I was very surprised with the amount of people that were in attendance at the museum that afternoon; I guess when one of the most famous museums in the country gives out free tickets everyone takes advantage of it. At first I just wanted go to the specific exhibits‚ but once I started looking around I staying for another hour looking at almost everything. I always thought that art was just

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    MODERN ART A brief overview of art styles from the 1900 through to the 1970’s IMPRESSIONISM •Impressionism began in 1874 in France. •It took it’s name from Claude Monet’s “Impression at Sunrise” (1872). •It was a reaction to the precision of images created by the newly invented camera (1853). • Therefore‚ the artists were concerned with capturing the effects of light as it changed through the course of the day. •They began painting outdoors – called plen-air‚ and depicted the weather

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    Impressionism was developed in Paris during the 1860s by artists who rejected the official salons and were consequently shunned by the most powerful art institutions. By turning away from dated ideals‚ the Impressionists aimed to capture the sensory effects of the scene – the impression objects made in an instant. In the similar way the Impressionists did‚ my self-portrait demonstrates short‚ broken strokes that convey forms. In addition‚ there are few‚ pure colors used while emphasizing the effects

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    Modern Art Perspectives

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    Carnegie Museum of Art Upon going into the art museum I was very unsure what to expect or find. I figured if I tried to focus more on modern art I would be able to perceive a better perspective of the art work. As I walked throughout the museum there were many different amazing pieces of art but I wanted to wait until I found something that really caught my eye‚ grabbed my attention and drew me in for a further look and interest. After looking at many rooms‚ many paintings‚ sculptures‚ and other

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    Gemma Conine‚ Art 109 Modern Art‚ TTH One of the most influential artists of the Modern Period of art was James Whistler. Whistler was an accomplished printer and painter and a brief background of the painter allows us to understand Whistler‚ and why more than any artist of his time‚ he would be attracted to Japanese woodblock prints called Ukiyo-e. It is also essential to understand the essence of Ukiyo-e‚ Japanese aesthetics and its migration to the Western world. Additionally‚ a chronological

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    they are most likely not thinking about philosophy much less the idea of transcendentalism. In fact‚ if one were to ask about the transcendentalist beliefs they probably wouldn ’t know they are; it ’s amazing to see how many of the ideas are in many modern songs in today ’s culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were essayist that came up with the concept of transcendentalism. The song "Tears and Rain: by James Blunt‚ is transcendentalist because it describes the ideas of embracing the

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    Graffiti V. Modern Art

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    Robert Allen compare & contrast essay 1st hour english 4 8/13 Modern Art or Graffiti Have you ever wondered what graffiti is? How about why modern art looks like it does? Have you ever thought to your self if graffiti and modern art could be compared or contrasted? Well‚ here’s your answer. Modern art‚ like graffiti‚ is based on style‚ but in modern art the style is mainly based on the time‚ not based on expression. In modern art there are many styles a few of such as impressionism

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    reader who wrote this material and where you read it. Then you are supposed to write your own analysis of the material‚ using your own words and original thoughts. Using an essay you found on the internet‚ changing a few words here and there‚ and turning it in as your own work is not a good idea. Most of the "academic" essays on websites are horribly written. They may have some fancy words‚ but usually there is no substance to what they are saying‚ and often they make no sense whatsoever. Trust

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    Open University Course A316:- Modern Art: Practices & Debates‚ 1995 ’It quickly emerged that the proper and unique area of competence of each art coincided with all that was unique to the nature of its medium. The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby each art would be rendered ’pure ’‚ and in its ’purify ’ find the guarantee of its standards of quality as

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