In America around the 1930’s‚ 40’s and 50’s emerged a new kind of Abstract painting style dubbed as ‘Abstract Expressionism’ with a man named Jackson Pollock being‚ as what some may call‚ the ringleader and starting point of the movement with Blue Poles‚ formerly known as number 11‚ being one of his most famous works of art. But the question or stigma that still remains around the painting is ‘is it actually real art’ with some regarding it as being something that the skill of either a child or a
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On a warm windy Friday in mid-February‚ I made a trip to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. I ventured around the museum‚ first finding their featured exhibit. In here I found several interesting pieces of art including a large wooden table with Persian rug‚ and large chunks of some large butter shaped and colored rocks. A few minutes later I strolled into a room full of their permeant collections. There were probably twenty to thirty pieces of art in this midsized well lit room. I observed about
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out a glass window from the 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
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34 FROM THE MODERN TO THE POST MODERN AND BEYOND ART OF THE LATER 20TH CENTURY TEXT PAGES 1030–1091 THE ART WORLD’S FOCUS SHIFTS WEST 1. List two characteristics of so-called “Greenbergian formalism”: An emphasis on an artwork’s visual elements rather than its subject. Rejection of illusionism and a focus on exploring the properties of each artistic medium. 2. Why is it difficult to give a precise definition of the term “Postmodernism”? It is a widespread cultural
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Ismail Gulgee Engineer and Artist Born: October 25th‚ 1926 Died: December 16th‚ 2007 Biography Ismail Gulgee was born in Peshawar‚ Pakistan. He completed his early education in Pakistan and for higher studies he went to United States‚ there he completed his Civil Engineering from Columbia University and Harvard University. During his studies he started painting for his soul satisfaction. Gulgee explains it like this: “My work is the externalization of my inner journey. Through it I communicate
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An Expressionist Vision German Expressionism is a unique film style that came out of Weimer Germany‚ the period between World War I and World War II. It focused mainly on the visual aspects on the screen meant to express emotions that trigger more personal reactions from the audience. According to David Hudson‚ German expressionism was an exploration "into juxtaposing light and shadow" as well as madness and obsession in an urban setting complete with complex architectural structures. When Fritz
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National Airlines between New York City and Miami. 1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states. There was a fresh artistic outlook after World War II ended and the artistic world reflected this outlook. Abstract expressionism (see glossary ) like Jackson Pollock ‚ Barnett Newman
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possibilities”. The term was later applied to the movement in the 1960’s. Other names for the movement include ABC art‚ minimal art‚ reductivism‚ and rejective art. Minimalism was a reaction against the formal overkill and pretentiousness of Abstract Expressionism. It had roots in Pop art‚ Cubism‚ and Conceptual art and was also inspired by Russian Suprematists such as Kasimir Malevich.An American-born movement‚ Minimalism stemmed mostly from the work of Frank Stella‚ whose Black Paintings were first exhibited
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pacing‚ while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. (Nevertheless‚ it was) hailed for its production design‚ depicting a retrofitted future‚ (and) it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre” (Wikipedia). Ridley Scott utilized German Expressionism in the film by transforming some real location shootings into gloomy backdrops of a claustrophobic futuristic city‚ and gritty techno studio-created urban landscape. In particular‚ the interior of the ever popular Bradbury Building (featured at
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The central figure that charted the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the deeply troubled painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody‚ Wyoming on January 28‚ 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock’s artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles‚ California where he joined two of his brothers. From there‚ he went on to New York to
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