History of GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM German Expressionism emerged in the 1910s and had a outstanding impact on painting‚ film‚ theatre and sculpture as well. It was a revolt against the established Impressionist style‚ which centered on the artist’s interpretation of the subject. Instead‚ Expressionism was based in the artist’s own state of mind or vision. German Expressionism was more involved with the relationships between art and society‚ politics and popular culture‚ German Expressionism developed during
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made on a surface‚ by a moving point” I wish to investigate how mark making and the use of the line has changed over the course of time from the renaissance era of Leonardo Da Vinci to artist Cy Twombly from the modern movement of Abstract Expressionism. I wish to explore the question of what has changed in our understanding of the line and mark making. I will look at the earlier historical work of Leonardo Da Vinci and compare and contrast them with Cy Twomblys. I will also look at the different
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Painting Styles Neoclassicism Neoclassicism was an art movement closely associated with the era beginning from the end of the 17th century through the 18th-century. The Neoclassicism art movement came from a combination of the last half of Baroque art to the burgeoning scientific interest in classical Greek and Roman antiquity (Sayre‚ 2010). This new found art of Neoclassicism led to the cause in a rapid growth of collections of antiques (Sayre‚ 2010). In addition‚ during the Neoclassicism art
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Solomon Higgs Dr. Watson HUMA 1153 4-22-10 Wassily Kandinsky 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 innovator and a genius. He bridged the gap between reality painting of earlier decades and the
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Explain how significant events in the world have influenced the practice of artists during the Modernism period. Refer to specific artworks and/or art movements to support your answer. Modernism refers to the modernist movement in the arts which originated in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modern artists experimented with new ideas about the nature of materials and purposes of art. Artist’s practice reflects the changing of lifestyles and changes in the world. An artist’s
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Modern “Art” What is modern art? The definition in the dictionary is “A genre of the fine arts created from the mid-19th century which strayed from traditional styles and techniques.” Modern art definitely strays from traditional styles and techniques I will give it that much. But a genre of the FINE arts‚ that’s a bit rich. The only fine thing about it is the fine it should incur when it is shown to the general public. The new piece of “art” in the city‚ the blood red wall‚ is an example of
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Discuss the artistic movements of the eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How does one lead to another and what values conflict and produce the change. The eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were characterized by four major artistic movements. They were Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Modernism. More often than not‚ these movements represented clear break with old and transition to new social‚ political‚ and cultural ideologies. Through music‚ literature
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ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) The Road Not Taken Edvard Munch Norwegian‚ 1863-1944 Two Beings (The Lonely Ones)‚ 1899-1917 woodcut‚ three colors. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler‚ long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other‚ as just as fair‚ And having perhaps the better claim‚ Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them
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Andre Derain‚ Mountains at Colioure‚ 1905-exemplifeis so called mixed technique. Favism in which short strokes of pure color derived fom the work of van goh and Seurat are combined with curvilinear planes of flat color inspired by by gaugunis paintings and are nouvau decorative arts. The assertive colors‚ which he likened to sticks of dynamite do not record what he actually saw in the landscape by rather generate their own purely artistic energy as they express the artists intense feeling about what
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Case Study – August Macke August Macke was an artist born in Germany on the 3rd of January‚ 1887 and became a leading member of the expressionist movement‚ Der Blaue Reiter‚ before the movement ended due to the dispersion of members in the First World War. He himself was drafted into the German army and was inevitably was killed in action on the 26th of September 1914‚ only at the age of 27. August Macke was an expressionist painter‚ who would present the world solely from a subjective perspective
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