John Baeder

Photographical equipment at this pictorial was still primitive and many photographers felt that their lens’ recorded too much detail. Photographers started to employ different techniques to soften their images, their main goal was to create images that looked more abstract and with similar characteristics to paintings. This movement then transformed into naturalism where it was encouraged to treat photography as an independent art form. There was a belief that photography should be used to communicate something personal, and that the environment would be used as an inspiration.

Realism was a direct result of the social and economic changes of the 19th century in Europe. It originated in France in the after the Revolutions of 1848, which were a series of political outbreaks throughout Europe. It was around 1906, when Jonas Lie discovered the beauty of impressionism in Claude Monet’s paintings when he went on a trip to Paris while visiting Norway to reconnect with the Norwegian side of his family. He was fascinated by Monet’s use of color and light and incorporated that style in his later works. Lie’s artistic talent in mixing the two art styles is evident, as seen in his painting Dusk on Lower Broadway. (See fig 1.) The brushstrokes look like they were made quickly but with precision, creating a piece of art that looks realistic from far

In the 19th century, there was an artistic transition from realism to a new form called impressionism. This change originated in France, as the world underwent a transition to industrialization. The impressionist was able to understand how light and color operate hand in hand in a painting. Instead of seeing an image as a whole work, impressionist would see smaller images making up the entire piece. The style was primarily made of the use of intense colors, open composition, light and movement and brush strokes. They were mainly

What makes his photographs seem real? Its how we perceive the world around us or what we consider real.

ost artists who lived anytime before the 20th century were never truly allowed to have the power to choose what they preferred to paint or draw. Artists were constantly being told what to paint by religious officials or royal monarchies. However, the world during the 1950's and 1960's was going through major cultural changes that it had never experienced before. Finally the world of art wasn't centered around just portraits of the royal family or religious symbols. Artists were allowed to express themselves in anyway they desired which ultimately created a whole new category of art. This transition of art created many openings for people such as Andy Warhol.

In the mid-1950s, as a leader of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, he pioneered an expressive, figurative style that merged the brushwork and compositional strategies of his early work with representational imagery depicting familiar people and landscapes. For Diebenkorn, each new picture presented him with a self-imposed set of problems which he then set out to resolve in a balanced, harmonious composition.

“The all my life for sale,” online project by John Freyer is a unique idea that I found very intrigued. Freyer sold everything he owned, from his personal photographs to his false teeth on Ebay. After he had sold everything, he determined to take on a journey and visit each item that he sold at their new home. As I viewed some of the items he had sold, a particular item caught my attention; the T-4 super camera and 50 photographs. As technology advances, newer cameras become better in quality so, eventually, the T-4 Super is going to be an antique camera.

Jefferson Pinder is a contemporary African-American artist whose primary interests are minimal performances of Afro-Futurism, Physical endurance and blackness. During his career, he described that he is an interdisciplinary artist created performances, video work, and objects that challenge viewers to think critically about our highly polarized society. “Inspired by the symbiosis of music and the moving image, I portray the black body both frenetically and through drudgery in order to convey relevant cultural experience, To get to the essence of this conversation, I place no restriction on the tools that I employ as an artist, working with materials as disparate as neon lighting and found items in my sculptural stylizations. I find ways in which reclaimed materials convey rugged histories, relating them to Black American experience.” Pinder says of his work.

Alexi Torres is an artist from Cuba. His art has an incredible type of texture that is compose of different forms with pattern, rhythm, variety, unity, repetition; like that, the lighting in his artworks is mix with his unique type of texture that makes 3D effect in his compositions. In my personal opinion, his artwork came to other level where realistic images and surrealistic/abstract texture make an excellent balance. In the first impression the paints look hyperrealistic because these has a lot of details and excellent value.

Realism is the artistic attempt to recreate life as it is in the context of an artistic medium. It began as a revolt against the conventions of the classic view of art in the late 1800s in America and Europe in the form of an artistic movement (McConnel, R. 1997). There are many themes involved with realism that shall be discussed. These include accuracy and independence.

His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.

Is this photography or a scrupulous painting? This is the question asked in viewing almost any artwork presented by Richard Estes. The photorealism displayed by Estes developed in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. Photorealism is essentially a depiction or a unique outlook on an actual scene. It is the replication of a photograph. Richard Estes developed an individual style that is unmatched by any in this field of art. Attention to detail, slight abstraction from the everyday city life and the intrinsic value of his work separates him from any other photo-realist in existence.

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences, become an important article within the artists’ pieces. Subjectively, looking inward to express the artist psyche, artists within the Abstract Expressionism movement became a part of their paintings. Making the paintings more of a representation

There are several different art movements, but the one that catches my attention is Pop Art. In the 1960’s, a group of younger artists invented a new American form of realism. Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein invented this movement. Andy Warhol was a highly successful magazine illustrator and graphic designer; Ed Ruscha was also a graphic designer, and James Rosenquist started his career as a billboard painter. Their background in the commercial art world trained them in the visual vocabulary of mass culture as well as the techniques to seamlessly merge the realms of high art and popular culture. It was in part a reaction to the supposed authenticity of Abstract Expressionist gesture, and it reflected a sense that genuine American experience was not so much heartfelt as it was determined. Pop represented life as America lived it, a world of Campbell’s soup cans, Coco-Cola bottles, comic strips, and movie stars. Pop Art left behind traditional artistic media like painting. Artists usually turned instead to slick renderings made by mechanical reproduction techniques, such as photolithography, that evoked commercial illustration than fine art. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles, and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books,

Realism is considered the beginning of modern art and the first modern art movement. Initially, it originated in France during the mid-nineteenth-century, around 1840 and made its voice heard around the world (“Realism”). It eventually made its way to America (“Realism”). Extensively, it rejected the traditional forms of art, literature, and social structure during the the awakening of Enlightenment and the commencement of the Industrial Revolution (“Realistic Art”). Realism progressed ideals of modernism by influencing desires of truths and opposition to the traditional system (“Realistic Art”). In addition, it challenged social values, economic structure, politics, and cultural values. Realists praised the idea of materialism and individual