Robert Motherwell : Art History

A person’s childhood could eventually lead them to either a success or failure. Two men, later to become widely known across the globe because of their success, have had situations that helped developed them during their childhoods. Two such men would be Frederick Douglass and Vincent Van Gogh. Both excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass and Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, the reader gets an insight into their childhoods. Frederick Douglass was born an American slave, and became an abolitionist. Vincent Van Gogh, lived a normal childhood in the Netherlands, and became a famous painter after death. The childhood of Frederick Douglass lead to his success while the childhood of Vincent Van Gogh did not lead to his success while he was still alive.

A primary objective in measuring productivity is to improve operations either by using fewer inputs to produce the same output, or to produce:

This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their

Good Evening my fellow neighbors. Most of you know me and for the ones who do not, I am Mabel Dodge. I am the daughter from a family in Buffalo and had what was considered the best education for girls in the nineteenth- century. Instead of going to college, I got married, became a mother and soon, a widow. Later, I traveled abroad and soon married a Boston architect, Edwin Dodge who I later realized the passion I had was no more- so I divorced him. I became bored and began to crave art, the beauty and inspiration! A “salon” in Florence, Italy that I created for the purpose of attracting the most up- and- coming artists in Europe, had me become well known and even a muse for one of Gertrude Stein’s image poems. I reluctantly joined Edwin my husband at the time, who was eager to come back to the United States. I settled in an apartment on the lower Fifth Avenue which most of you have been in for my “evenings” of controversial debates.

The 1920s were a time of great prosperity and revitalization. This decade gave way to many great social milestones for every class of people. From the limits for immigration to the boom of the auto industry American society was drastically altered. Issues such as foreign immigration,prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan ,evolution, women’s roles, and race were the focus of the populus and drove politics within the nation. Art played a major role in how the black community expressed their new found sense of culture. Painting has always been a way for someone to portrait their ideas.

Overview, background: Enlightenment, (Newton & Galileo); Classicism/Romanticism (French & other Revolutions); Impressionism & Post (Industrial Revolution, Darwin), Modernism (WWI, Freud, WWII) Pop & Op (Vietnam, sexual revolution, Watergate); today (technological revolution).

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

October 20, 1859 born third of four sons to Archibald and Lucina Dewey in Burlington, Vermont. Graduates local high school at fifteen and goes to University of Vermont, like his elder siblings before him. Obtains a Bachelor's Degree of Arts with Phi Beta Kappa.

I was surprised when I saw your PowerPoint because all the pictures were from the actual Denver Museum Art. All these pieces of art you took were catching my attention and help me learned more about the Pre-Columbian Art. Therefore, your PowerPoint just made me realized that most of males and females arts are mostly nude, which I still don't understand why. In my opinion, some of the Pre-Columbian art is very interesting because is give me a hard time to figure what it was and every of their arts important to the Spanish history.

My Paper will be on the 1950’s Oil painting called “Hotel Flora” of Robert Motherwell. Growing up in Aberdeen, Washington in 1915 where his father was a banker. He moved to California since he had asthma. When he grew, up he got his BA in philosophy from Stanford where he really started to grow into his poetry. Moving on from there he began a PhD program at Harvard, but he left the enhance his understanding in European modernism, however his father insisted he have a stable career he began his study at Columbia University where he studied art history. This leads him to New York, where he began his love affair with art. Motherwell was extremely diverse in his lifetime, he was a writer, editor, speaker, painter, printmaker, and a collagist.

Lynn Chadwick (b. 24 November 1914 – d. 25 April 2003) was an influential semi-abstract British sculptor during the 20th century. He attended the Merchant Taylor’s school in London, his hometown, for his public education. K.F.P Brown encouraged him to continue in the arts since he saw, early on, his abilities in artistic disciplines. However, Chadwick refused to go to art school and never formally trained as a sculptor. Between 1933 and 1939, Chadwick worked for architectural companies still in London. During these years, he met the art master Rodney Thomas and learned a lot from him. After engaging in the Royal Navy and serving during World War II, Lynn Chadwick resumed his work with his teacher Rodney Thomas and specialized in exhibition

Everyone has been created unique and there is no other that is the like anyone else. People think different, dress different and like and dislike certain things. This is similar to the artists of the nineteenth century including Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau and Joseph Mallord William Turner. They are both artists during the nineteenth century and were painted at the same time; however, there is a difference between their styles, their point of view, and the scenery. However there are similarities between the two paintings. The paintings that will be compared and contrasted are “Under the Birches, Evening” and “The Campo Santo, Venice.”

When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. Thus, artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto depicted art that unlike the Middle Ages, showed emotions, feelings, and bright colors, thus demonstrating the deep concern for naturalism in the society. Other artists during the Italian Renaissance period such as Giovanni Bellini began to express their art through secular and religious themes and ideas that were exhibited through landscapes and portraits. As new styles of

Robert Boyle was an outstanding philosopher and writer of the seventeenth century. Born, on January 25, 1627, he grew up in the Lismore Castle, owned by his famous and wealthy father the Great Earl of Cork. Growing up in Ireland, he was educated initially by those in the castle until he was old enough to attend Eton college in Windsor, England. Upon completing his schooling in Windsor, Boyle traveled to France, Switzerland, and Italy to enhance his knowledge of chemistry and literature. In 1644, Boyle returned to England and settled down on the estate his father left him. Boyle, by now an accomplished an intelligent graduate, embarked upon his first official research projects at Lismore Castle, in Ireland.

In this essay response I shall discuss the social and historical context of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and My Son the Fanatic and how they enhance our understanding of the texts and then compare the two in their respective contexts.