Synopsis The Netherlands-based De Stijl movement embraced an abstract‚ pared-down aesthetic centred in basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colours. Partly a reaction against the decorative excesses of Art Deco‚ the reduced quality of De Stijl art was envisioned by its creators as a universal visual language appropriate to the modern era‚ a time of a new‚ spiritualized world order. Led by the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian - its central and celebrated figures -
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Christina Kiaer has described the main aim of the constructivist movement as ‘to mass produce transparent utilitarian things for use in everyday life’. How adequate is this description? Constructivism is primarily an art movement that was based in Russia in the early 20th century. It had a considerable link to the Russian Communist Revolution. They merged the arts with modern technological rationalism for political and ideological uses‚ being essentially a form of Soviet propaganda. The theory
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Reading Visual Culture Assignment Three: Essay ------------------------------------------------- Caitlin Williams Conceptualism and minimalism share common aesthetic qualities with the ontological condition of late modernist art. Discuss the aesthetic commonalities of minimalism and conceptualism. Also‚ discuss to what extent these stylistic tendencies are manifestly and intentionally different? Provide details of underlying reasons for the emergence of minimalism and
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involved and finally the lasting impact it had on art and design. Constructivism originated in Russia and became an active movement in 1913; it was an artistic and architectural philosophy. The term “construction art” was used as a term by Kazimir Malevich when he was describing the work of Alexander Rodchenko. Constructivism had its very own unique new approach but at the same time it borrowed ideas from earlier movements such as Cubism‚ Suprematism and Futurism. Russian Constructivism emerged
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There are no limits to what art can be. In particular‚ performance art is no longer contrived in the traditional format; it can be portrayed in any form of medium‚ it could have personal meaning only to the artist or it could represent social and political issues. Performance art can be described as a form of theatrical art featuring the activity of the artist and the works represented in a variety of media. Mike Parr is a renowned Australian performance artist; born in Sydney‚ 1945‚ Parr spent
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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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workshop‚ or that people had to make an effort to see his works; he knew that the best things come through persistence and solitude. Constantin Brancusi is commonly regarded as a founding father of modernist sculpture‚ with Wassily Kandinsky‚ Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian being founders of abstract painting. But has subsequent modernism much in common with Brancusi’s work and vision‚ or has it become its very antithesis? Herbert Read wrote in his book Modern Sculpture that the “modern artist
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movement of the 1880s-1890s. Impressionism disregarded the notion that art was supposed to portray images. Post Impressionism continued this trend and placed more emphasis on the artist’s emotions and expression. Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich were the first to really create works that were pure abstraction. Kandinsky was the founder of the Abstraction movement and even published a book detailing his theories on art and spirituality‚ On the Spiritual in Art. (http://www.artelino.com/articles/abstract_art
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the Dadaist Impulse.” Women in Dada: Essays on Sex‚ Gender & Identity. Ed. Noami Sawelson-Gorse. Cambridge: MIT Press‚ 2001. 4-20. Print. Lykiard‚ Alexis. “Introduction.” Maldoror. Comte de Lautréamont. Cambridge: Exact Change‚ 1994. 1-19. Print. Malevich‚ Kasimir. "Suprematism." Theories of Modern Art. Ed. Herschel B. Chipp. Los Angeles: University of California Press‚ 1968. 341-46. Print. Mondrian‚ Piet. “Natural Reality and Abstract Reality.” Theories of Modern Art. Ed. Herschel B. Chipp. Los Angeles:
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Periods and their Artists * Chapter 3 Egypt * Old Kingdom (2700-2190 BCE) * Imhotep – Stepped Pyramid of Djoser * Chapter 5 Ancient Greece * Archaic (600-480 BCE) * Andokides Painter –Achilles and Ajax * Ergotimos –[and Kleitius] Fracois Vase * Euphronios –Death of Sarpedon * Exekias –Achilles and Ajax; Suicide of Ajax; Dionysis in a Boat * Polykleitos –Doryphoros * Classical (480-320 BCE) * Kalikrates
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