How Did Sol Lewitt Influence Art

Salvador Dali was an artist who was almost more notorious for his colorful personality as for his artistic talents. He took an apolitical outlook on world politics, but often dabbled in anti-establishment movements. This essay explores the life of Salvador Dali, the historical and political time he lived in, and how these influenced his work.

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and well-documented artists of the twentieth century. Picasso, unlike most painters, is even more special because he did not confine himself to canvas, but also produced sculpture, poetry, and ceramics in profusion. Although much is known about this genius, there is still a lust after more knowledge concerning Picasso, his life and the creative forces that motivated him. This information can be obtained only through a careful study of the events that played out during his lifetime and the ways in which they manifested themselves in his

Through the years art has been regarded as a form of communication, emotion, a feeling or expression of ideas, by which we mean a person or convey something. This idea can be captured in a painting, sculpture or even through writing, which through their expressions disclose the most characteristic form of a culture. By century to century there has been many creative persons like writer, artist, composer who contributed to development in the all creative fields. We also had so many great visual artists who create greatest arts, music and books. Pablo Picasso is one of them, who took modern art at new level. He was one of well-known artist in history .In fact, his vision and distinct creative style, some of the most innovative pieces he introduced to the art world.

One must look at the root of the person creating the art to truly understand the beauty of the piece. Matisse attended law school in

| a celebration of the genius that enabled certain people to convey profound insights through art.

Paul Klee will always be remembered as one of the world’s greatest modern artists. Not only through his inspiring artwork that was trendsetting for many generations of artists to come, but also his writings and lectures that were extremely valuable to the world of modern art laying the ground work for mastering color, style, and simplicity; Klee was truly one of the all-time greats at what he did. Klee was also one of the first artists to recognize the art of the self-taught and mentally ill. Klee said: “Only children, madmen, and savages, truly understand the in-between world of spiritual truth”.

Diego’s love of art started when he was just 4 years old. His parents always bought him colored pencils and pens, which he would draw all over the walls and furniture. By the time he was 9, he had made his decision that he wanted to be a professional artist. His mother enrolled him into art classes at the

Lee Bontecou is most famously known for her extraordinary sculptures and drawings. Almost all of her works remain untitled; she leaves that up to the audience to interpret. The sculpture that is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is untitled and was created in the year nineteen sixty-one. Lee Bonteou’s medium is very specific. Her style is very industrial she is big on welding and using raw materials such as canvas, copper wire, rawhide, and soot. The Artist was born in nineteen thirty-one in Rhode Island and grew up in a time were there was a lot of tension and war. She was very aware of what was going on in the United Stares as well as other countries around the world. The year she

The work of Frank Stella presents itself as a catalyst. It is equipped with a three-dimensional energy that goes beyond the limits of the canvas and spreads itself onto real space. His creations invite us in to interact. He is one of the pioneers of Minimalism, with his famous black paintings (1958-60) ,for which he received early and overnight recognition and acclaim . Those “Black Paintings” consisted of, basically , ‘stripes of black house paint laid out in stark repetitive, patterns separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas’.(Fig 1)

Dali, believed that art was an expression. He believed that dreams could be saw throughout the paintings. It was the creative imagination of Dali that kept the people intrigued in his art work. Dali was extremely talented at painting, sculpting and much more. This let him to create wonderful pieces of art that people enjoyed looking at. His paintings, were created through his dreams. Dali died on January 23, 1989. He died of heart failure at the age of 84.

Donald Judd was one of the key minimalists living and working in New York in the 1960s. The sense of importance is ever so present when looking at the vast majority of Judd’s body of work. But even more so is the underlying almost spiritual feeling a person stumbles upon when viewing the work in the right context. The elements around the pieces are exactly as important as the perfect and seamless geometric sculptures, without its context they lose a little bit of their brilliance. A photograph can’t even begin to explain the vast sensibility in his work. As groundbreaking as his movement was, he challenged dated conventions. The conventions which stretched all the way back to the ancient Greeks, about how sculptures needed to be put on a pedestal

Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953), was a distinguished French art personality of the late nineteenth and middle twentieth centuries, showcased his multiple talents as a painter, illustrator, designer, writer, and editor. His paintings reflected abstract expressions, landscapes, machinery, nudes, people, and other subjects. His works are currently on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition runs from November 17th 2016 through March 19th 2017. The exhibit is titled “Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,” which is a compilation of 241 artwork examples. Smith argues that the focus of the exhibition is Picabia’s workmanship in Cubism and Dada art movements (Smith para 3).

A viewer’s initial read of Piet Mondrian’s, 1926 work, Tableau 1: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, is visually boring, simplistic, static, as well as lifeless and unemotional. The oil painting on canvas constructs a strict geometric composition with its two-dimensionality, monochromatic palette. But by uncovering the complexities of his work, the viewer discovers the tension and balance that is created by the various principles of design implemented throughout the composition. Mondrian, with the subtlest compositional nuances, creates a successful work of art that achieves a sense of dynamism and equilibrium while reflecting into the mind of the viewer.

When the two men meet, Matisse’s career was beginning to take off. On March 19th, 1906, his second one-man show opened at a Private Gallery where he exhibited fifty-five paintings, along with a number of sculptures, watercolors, drawings, and lithographs. The paintings ranged in date from 1897 to the current year, so the exhibition served as a retrospective that gave a clear idea of his art development. For the 1906 Salon exhibition, Matisse only showed a single painting, Le Bonheur de vivre (Fig. 5), which was the largest- and most daring- canvas he had ever done. Matisse’s creation of The women with the hat (Fig. 3) had unexpectedly shocked people, but with le Bonheur de vivre. Matisse appear to have purposely set out this painting to create a shocking effect. That Matisse wanted his painting to be a kind of manifesto. Leo Stein bought the painting and declared it to be “the most important painting done in our time.” And was hung up high in Gertrude and Leo’s studio. Leo’s high opinion of Le Bonheur de vivre must have vexed Picasso.

Marcel Duchamp’s [1887-1968] influence on the modern art world is universally recognized. His legacy remains even today unparalleled; th