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    access the piece‚ do the following:   ·         Click the link to go to the Phillips Collection home page. ·         Select Collection. ·         Click Luncheon of the Boating Party from the drop-down menu on the left side of the screen.   View the Abstract Expressionist piece Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) by Jackson Pollock‚ on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website‚ located in Appendix B. To access the piece‚ do the following:   ·         Click the link to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art home page

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    William de Kooning

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    Coomaraswamy‚ Maritain‚ Gilson‚ and Eliot in many ways especially when discussing their views on nature and how to derive an excellent piece of art. Willem DeKooning became one of the leading artists of the abstract expressionism style. He used traditional portrait and infused it with an abstract style. He began his career practicing on elements like figural composition and still life. This was traditional‚ actually drawing and painting what he saw. After this type of art DeKooning moved onto abstraction

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    Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950-1951) by Barnett Newman Upon reading the assignment I had some difficulty picking out the piece of art I would write about. Searching for a piece I disliked or was indifferent to became a difficult task. It would obviously be followed with the question why. Why did I dislike it or was I indifferent towards it? I realized that for everything I came across there were multiple reasons as to why I believed I disliked the piece or was indifferent to it. Up until I came

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    Abstract expressionism is an American art movement that developed in the 1940’s after World War II in New York City. It was the first uniquely American art movement to become well-known worldwide. This shifted the art world focus from Paris to America. It all started with a small group of affiliated artists who created a distinctive body of work‚ which can be described as psychological portraits. To create these psychological portraits‚ the artists used a technique known as action painting. Action

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    Chuck Close Janet Analysis

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    all titled Janet‚ are done in different mediums and show the progression of Chuck Close’s career as an artist. Photorealism began in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The movement itself evolved from Pop Art and countered Abstract Expressionism and Minimalist art movements. Other Photorealists include Malcolm Moreley and Richartd Estes who painted urban and city settings. Close is one of the very few modern realists or

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    Ima Experience

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    fourth floor I saw an eagle soaring through the sky. I thought that was an interesting moment during my visit. My experience at the IMA will always be in my memories and is definitely worth going back to. Abstract expressionism‚ also known as action painting‚ is a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (action painting). The leading figures were Jackson

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    During this time and after Mural‚ his primary style did a full shift to being increasingly more abstract‚ and by 1947 he was dripping and splashing paint on the canvas regularly. This was the start of his major rise to fame in the art world. Back in 1945‚ Krasner and Pollock were now married and were looking for a home and a studio to work in. They

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    The expressionist artist whose work I admire the most is artist‚ Jackson Pollock. He is an outstanding artist‚ one of the most famous if not the most famous abstract expressionist of his time. Jackson Pollock was born on the 28th of January‚ in Cody‚ Wyoming. Pollock’s childhood was a hard one because his family was always moving‚ his dad was an alcoholic and he was the youngest of all four of his brothers. He discovered his passion for art when he moved to Los Angeles‚ California‚ there he attended

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    Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation‚ giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof)‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern

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    Vaporum VI

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    geometric shapes have that type of depth‚ where you can view the painting from numerous angles and get a different read of emotions each time. Vaporum VI gave me the feeling of awe and wonderment. I appreciate some modern art. I find the futuristic and abstract pieces to be captivating. The art with 6 lines and each line is a different color‚ which is all the painting consists of‚ greatly fails to impress me. Claims can be made about

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