for the arts. One of my favorite is Jackson Pollock. Pollocks works inspire me to be creative even if my creativity is random. “Jackson Pollack was an American artist who had an important influence on modern painting as an important figure in the abstract expressionist movement.”(World Book) Jackson Pollock was born January 28‚ 1912 in Cody‚ Wyoming into a family of four boys with Jackson being the youngest. His family moved to California where his father worked for the government as a surveyor
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Abstract vs. Representation ‘The Heroes’ – By Shayne Dark & ‘Force of Nature’ – By Shayne Dark All abstract art exists to achieve an objective. It’s composition of form‚ line‚ and colour attempt to create a reaction in a way that is independent from visual references in the world . More often than not‚ abstract art aims at provoking motivating forces within people. John Lennon once said‚ “there are two basic motivating forces in life: fear and love” . Truly great abstract art is able to
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Abstract Expressionists of the 19th Century – Canvas/Painting Figure 1 1940 The Glazier Willem de Kooning Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art Willem de Kooning’s The Glazier‚ is an abstract expressionist painting from the 19th Century. De Kooning’s use of a figurative subject in The Glazier‚ makes it less mainstream abstract expressionism‚ an area in which he was seen as a leader. The Somber earth tones and ambiguous use of space give the painting a mysterious feel. Certain portions
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Chapters 1 and 2 Notes Chapter 1 Living with Art Megaliths are large stones that are surrounded by a circular ditch. The monument is presumably the marking of graveyard and once was accompanied by other monuments. The Neolithic era is known for the uses of new tools and constructive materials such as hardening clays using a flame. Pottery was used to create bowls‚ food jars‚ cups‚ and a variance of other objects. Each culture characterizes art in its own way. Artists perform tasks such as create
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Jackson Pollock’s “Blue Poles”‚1952 is an action painting from the Abstract Expressionism movement which could be showing what was happening in America in the 1950’s. Mark Rothko in “Number 10” wanted to involve the viewer in experiencing basic human emotions. Roy Litchenstein’s “Hopeless” was trying to create relatable futuristic images that make fun of the chaos of reality. These compositions were done post war and are American Abstract Art works and Pop Art. They are all very significant and have deep
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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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Internet / library assignment: Mark Tansey Mark Tansey is an American painter. His parents were both art historians‚ so he started to learn about art at his early age. Those experiences had great influences on Tansey’s painting style. Most of his painting is monochromatic and describes daily or historical affairs. Although his painting involved many realistic objects‚ he is not realistic painter at all. There is always something behind what you have seen in his work. The first Mark Tansey’s artwork
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engender their artwork. Jackson Pollock‚ Picasso and Jeff Koons are artists that use their experience to form their art. Jackson Pollock led a life of fame and notoriety produced by a life of hardships‚ hard work and bad habits. He was an American Abstract Expressionist who defied every rule of harmony and good taste in the 1940’s with his aggressive artworks. Pollock as a teenager was expelled from school causing him to enroll himself in the Art Students League; this suggests Pollock as a troubled
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Abstract art Abstract art uses a visual language of form‚ color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been‚ from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century‚ underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist
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Nature of Abstract Art Meyer Schapiro (1937) Before there was an art of abstract painting‚ it was already widely believed that the value of a picture was a matter of colors and shapes alone. Music and architecture were constantly held up to painters as examples of a pure art which did not have to imitate objects but derived its effects from elements peculiar to itself. But such ideas could not be readily accepted‚ since no one had yet seen a painting made up of colors and shapes‚ representing
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