Japanese designs and ukiyo-e prints from the 18th and 19th centuries influenced many of the western artists in both America and Europe. According to the “Gateways To Art” textbook‚ Ukiyo is a Japanese word that means “floating world” and Ukiyo-e means “pictures of the floating world”. Both of these were woodblock prints and they showed scenes and characters from the districts of modern day Tokyo. Vincent Van Gogh was one of the great artists inspired by Japan. According to Japan Talk‚ Van Gogh incorporated
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s Music-Pink and Blue II‚ 1919 is an oil on canvas piece now being held at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. The form of this piece work of art‚ in my opinion‚ is abstract. The media of this piece is oil but to me‚ it also closely resembles watercolor paint. The emphasis/focal point of this piece is the dark blue oval-like shape at the bottom right‚ the implied line‚ in my opinion‚ is in this shape‚ the shape looks like it is sort of floating or swimming to the top. The colors
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On November 12‚ 2015 I visited the gallery Lyric Modern created by an exceptional artist named Hal Marcus at El Paso Museum of Art. My first thoughts of visiting a museum were “boring”‚ “unexcited” and I just imagined myself going one work of art to another and describing it as if it was the textbook. As soon as I stepped into the museum my whole perspective changed‚ and at the end of the visit I had a different mindset. Lyric Modern was an outstanding exhibition‚ I did not only describe each composition
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The Harvesters was a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1540-1603). The Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant. The Dutch Renaissance painting represents the 16th-century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries. Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. At that period‚ making the life and activity of peasants the main focus of a work was rare‚ and he was a pioneer of the genre painting. He was a passionate observer
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Andy Warhol’s 1985 painting‚ Apple‚ certainly caught my eyes as I was browsing his exhibit in the Blanton Museum of Art. The painting was a simple Apple logo decorated with a rainbow-like array of colors in between parallel lines that ran across the logo. These lines existed even outside the logo‚ except in a different color‚ yet stayed in stripes similar to how the lines on a sheet of notebook paper are. However‚ the most alluring part was how the lines and the “Macintosh” in the painting looked
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Analysis of subject: The painting is actually depicting the sea and the sky. The sea is black‚ and the sky is gray. The artist uses fishing hooks and nails to create the sea‚ while he paints the sky with oil. 2. Analysis of Form: This painting is an abstract and representational artwork. This painting also has a mechanical art style. The artist uses black fishing hooks to create a symmetrical balance. The achromatic color scheme of the painting conveys a nostalgic and longing mood. The artist achieves
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“The artist does not draw what he sees‚ but what he has to make others see” -Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Examine how artists represent their world. The swinging sixties. Marked as a period of popular culture‚ excitement‚ radical behavior and‚ subversive events such as feminism movements‚ civil rights movements‚ technological advances‚ music‚ film and rebellious trends such as the evolving and drug epidemic and flamboyant scandal. So when Lewis Morley photographed infamous protagonist Christine
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Photography had so much more of an influence on the Impressionist movement than just photography in its own right. Photography influenced artists in their paintings‚ in their pastel works‚ in their sculpture and in seeing the world around them in a different way. Modern artists were influenced by the invention of the camera because it gave them a cropped composition and showed the tonal effects of light and dark in much finer detail than they could interpret with the naked eye. This technology made
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M.C. Escher’s Belvedere made in May 1958 is a unique and complex lithograph which draws heavily from surrealism and the surrealist movement of the early 20th century. It delivers a deep and complex view of architectural structures‚ which are puzzling to the eye. Surrealism began in the early 1920’s. It was an art style which existed to promote the painting of works which blurred lines between fantasy and actuality or rather dreams and reality. This style contrasted some earlier styles which were
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due to a gunshot wound‚ most commonly accepted to be self- inflicted. The term Post-Impressionism was coined in 1910 by an artist and critic named Roger Fry. The professional art historian‚ John Rewald was the first historian to focus on the birth of early modern art‚ he suggests that the Post-Impressionist movement was limited to the years between 1886 and 1892. Rewald wrote that “the term “Post-Impressionism” is not a very precise one‚ though a very convenient one.” The movement has several different
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