Sherlock Balla's Accomplishments

During the 1870s a new category of art formed known as the Aesthetic Movement, which was based upon not what world was around the art, but the art itself (Pohl 284). This movement originated in England and spread throughout the Americas opposing the current views about art during the time the it arose, which was the ideology that art must always serve some sort of clandestine purpose. Artists who supported the Aesthetic Movement also denied any moral values that people gave to art. The painting that I chose that best fits the ideals of aestheticism is In the Studio, 1880 by William Merritt Chase. During the 19th century industrialization rapidly began to change American culture bringing on consumerism and capitalism, which focused on the

Though the start of the modernisation may trace back to the beginning of Industrial Revolution. “Modernism in the design world did not exist in a fully developed form, until well after First World War.” (Wilk, 2006) Causing the great loss of lives and other countless damage to the world, it reshaped many people’s way of thinking the world. With the inspiration of early avant-garde movement, the modernism began to emerge advocating an utopian future and shared certain core principles by various styles of modernists: rejecting the past and applied ornament; forms follow function, a preference for

Overall, the ideologies discussed within the articles Written In Blood: 20th Century Art by Stephanie Dudek and Estrangement As A Motif In Modern Painting by John Adkins Richardson address similarities and differences from various standpoints. Modernistic ideologies towards social, cultural and technological changes of the 20th century are demonstrated in both articles. The article by Stephanie Dudek emphasizes on the employment of radical and transgressive values by modern artists within their work to target cultural, and artistic principles that have persisted over many generations leading to a transformation within the subject of art (Dudek 105). Furthermore, modern art set out to obtain new visions of reality as witnessed within the Cubist

The advent of the Great War however led to the changing of many these attitudes; the fall in prominence of Art Nouveau and the rise of avant-garde movements such as De Stijl, Dutch Rationalism, the Amsterdam School, the Bauhaus, Dada and Russian Constructivism are clear signs of that.

Many times in society, life is sometimes influenced by art and during other times art is imitated by life. Art being able to imitate life means that the brush strokes of a painter or the innovative ideas of an architect are influenced by the world around him or her. During the years of 1900-1917 the United States was going through a number of changes. These changes helped to indentify the period as the Reformation Era. During the Reformation era the United States was becoming reshaped politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Painters such as George Benjamin Luks used pastel colors to paint pictures of a newly reformed society. In his painting Hester Street revealed a New York City that was accepting to Jewish culture and lifestyles (Figure 1) . Other pictures painted during the Progressive Era depicted more areas of city life, sports, different ethnic groups and culture. The life that was present in many of these painting showed a country that valued women, minorities, and individuality.

Arthur Holmes born in England on January 14,1890. He became interested in earth science at an early age. He graduated associate of the royal college of science in 1910 for geology. He discovered the radiometric methods of dating rocks of the origins deep seated rocks. The technology he used to find the radiometric methods was by graduating at London Imperial college. He used radioactive dating to measure the rate of unstable atoms decaying. He was interested in earth science and physics also got a degree.

This formal and historical art analysis will define the color, composition, line, and values of the revolutionary modernist painting “The Rose Marble Table” (1917) by Henri Matisse. Matisse utilizes a modernist approach to this painting by presenting a minimalist approach to the placement of the rose and the table, which presents a very basic color scheme. The strong lines of the painting define the simplistic presentation of a sculptured object of beauty, which is nestled in various flora at the fringes of the composition. More so, Matisse’s modernist approach defines the perspective of detachment from social norms, which occurred during the First World War. Matisse sought to present an internalized vision of beauty that would not allow the horrors of war to impede his vision of beauty. This internalized view defines the revolutionary focus of Matisse’s work, since he did not allow the enteral issues of the world to influence the subject matter of his paintings. In essence, a formal and historical analysis of the revolutionary spirit of modernism will be examined in Henri Matisse’s “The Rose Marble Table.”

In order to discuss pop art I have chosen to examine the work and to some extent lives of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol who were two of the main forces behind the American movement. I intend to reflect the attitudes of the public and artists in America at this time, while examining the growing popularity of pop art from its rocky, abstract expressionist start in the 1950s through the height of consumer culture in the 60s and 70s to the present day.

Sleeping on the couch was not a typical thing for the detective; he had his own bed only a few feet from where he laid sprawled, but the past few nights the couch had been his choice. One leg hung over the edge of the worn cushions, an arm draped across his eyes, and his navy blue robe twisted and tangled about his limbs. Yes, this was one of the great detective's bad days; Sherlock Holmes was in a slump.

With each new decade, a new method of self expression comes in the form of fashion, or music or art. Starting in the 1950s, Britain and the US erupted with excitement over a new art form that challenged all previous art forms by utilizing graphics from modern culture and advertising. The purpose of this new art form, known as “pop art”, is to expose basic and unoriginal ideas within society. Pop art could be considered satire in art form. Many people believe this critical form of art was the artists responding to the abstract expressionist era.

Growing up, I enjoyed reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. These stories allowed me to intellectually immerse myself into the vivid world of Holmes and his partner Dr. John Watson as they solved criminal mysteries. I was captured by the methodological and detailed focus the characters exhibited regarding intricate clues that guided their investigations into successfully solving crimes. Many aspects of medicine parallel the methods utilized by Holmes and Watson. Similar to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the practicing physician observes how the human body works and they study evidence based reasoning in an attempt to apply this information to reach a diagnosis and decide upon a treatment.

Much of the passion for a modernist change in art can be seen to arise from a need to compensate for new conditions in modern experience.

Futurism was an artistic and social movement originating from 20th century Italy. The movement ultimately rejected anything that looked to the past for identity. Instead, it glorified speed, technology, youth, and the idea of anything industrial and mass-produced. As the founders of the movement would have it, the movement explored different mediums of art and design, ultimately overarching each other, and finding its way into many aspects of daily life; including and not limited to conventional mediums such as painting, sculpture architecture, film, music, poetry, and photography; just to name a few. With its dynamic and innovative aesthetic qualities, it is still being appreciated and used in conceptual ways by a handful of present day designers and art directors as seen in Image 1 (MCM

Throughout Art History, it is apparent that techniques are established and flaunted to create some vivid image of a story, or a message. Up to the post war of World War II, art has delivered a scene which can be interpreted through context clues such as; current philosophies, current events, and folk-lore. Then, mainstream art had undergone a significant change in theme post World War II. New York City, United States of America, became the art capital of the world. Why? It is arguably due to Abstract Expressionist art and Pop Art known as Modernism. Modernism completely new to the world, and both of which abandoning some common core themes to art. Two famous artists whom facilitated and practiced such dramatic alterations in art culture are Paul Jackson Pollock, or just known as Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.

A new form of art was born called modernism which helped to describe the new world