The Modern Art Era

Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after that to pursue her acting career; she went to live with her grandparents. Through her grandparents influence she became involved with organizations like the NAACP, at an early age.

She has been all over the U.S., from California to Texas, and all down the East Coast. She has also travel to India two times during her life time. One of her favorite places to go in Indiana is where her cousins live. This year her and her family are taking a trip around Europe and to India and Immaculin is ecstatic.

Illiana was born on January 22, 2000 in Blackfoot, Idaho. She spent most of her life in the small town and would eventually move back to her hometown after retiring from her accomplished life. In June 2018, she graduated from Blackfoot High School and soon after began her first trimester at Idaho State University. After 4 years, Illiana graduated with a bachelor's

In the art world of the 1970’s, Mary Kelly responded directly to the issues raised in Mulvey’s article often making works that attempt to reclaim feminine identity. Most of Kelly’s films are works of research and documentation that concern ideas of women’s roles and women’s work. In the early 1970s Kelly was involved in the making of the film Night Cleaners (1970-1975). The film explored contemporary issues of feminist activism in following a group of working-class female service labourers and feminist activists attempting to draw attention to their issues to build a union. The film utilises documentary style, simple mimesis and minimal editing to build a more direct connection between the subjects and the audience. Using the stories of real female cleaners and showcasing the most abject of the labours, such a toilet cleaning, Night Cleaners presented a ‘warts and all’ perspective on women’s work. While working as crew on the film, Kelly’s role as a feminist activist meant Kelly was also diegetically involved in the film. Kelly saw the ‘radical potential’ in the film medium and she utilised her work on Night Cleaners as a way to develop her artistic productivity in the realm of moving image. Expanding her feminist ideologies beyond specific concerns of women’s manual labour, Kelly’s later moving image work, Antepartum (1973), focused on the labour of motherhood. Antepartum is an ninety-second long looped moving image work depicting Kelly’s own pregnant belly from a

Warhol simply took everyday items and transformed them into amazing pop art pieces: To create his pieces, Warhol put himself upon the task of discovering not only what most stood out in modern art, but he also looked at what was popular. He realized that the many Americans shopped for food frequently and he set it upon himself to create an extensive line of supermarket merchandises. His line of merchandise art compromised of price tags, Bristol boxes as well as a banana, and Coca-Cola bottles .Warhol’s 1962 creation of Coca Cola Bottles gained popularity because the bottles an everyday item for an average American. Many people could identify with the products’. “Warhol used to identify the nature of the great American society, anonymous and consumerist, devoted to conformism and with a pride in unanimity, was the ubiquitous Coca Cola bottle- “(Copestone 12). To Warhol, a Coca Cola bottle seemed so simple but, also a universal icon in the United States. After taking hints from the public in the mid-twentieth century, Warhol was able to do what numerous artists attempted to do but failed. Warhol extracted some of his ideas from other artists and built upon them in his work. I would like to say Warhol put a coming to age culture on canvas and transformed pop art it its entirety. One such art piece onto which Warhol used another artist’s idea is his Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) Warhol made this piece, an intriguing illustration of

Although Duchamp offers a plausible argument, I disagree with it because it is certainly possible that art works can still shock the audiences of today. For instance, in Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” whenever the Titanic sinks, the luxuriousness of the Titanic shocks the fish in the ocean: “Dim moon-eyed fishes near/ Gaze at the gilded gear/ And query: ‘What does this vaingloriousness down here?’” (13-15). Just like the jewels, which the fish had never seen before, new art can still elicit a “shocking” reaction from audiences because humanity has not yet exhausted all the possible fresh ideas. Since the Modern Art Movement saw a complete refresh of art, audiences were definitely more shocked than they could be today. However,

Prestigious artists in the modern era have created highly abstract and non-representational work. The average everyday person who looks at Kandinsky, Picasso, or Duchamp may genuinely believe that they can produce better work without any art experience. But from their lack of art history they will not be able to produce work that has deep meaning like Picasso, or psychoanalysis of color theory like Kandinsky.

Mary Imogene Cothren was born in Lawrenceburg Tennessee, November 12, 1929 to George and Chapel Cothren. Her family then relocated to a small town in Ohio by the name of Ashland. This is where she was raised and has lived most of her life. From the time she was born, although her name was Mary Imogene her family called her Imogene. When Imogene was five her mother became pregnant with a little girl. The

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The uniqueness of Japanese art, especially in terms of Chinese art, depends on the historical era. As Lee (1962) points out, "There are periods in Japanese art where the artist is either copying, or is heavily influenced by, Chinese art. At such times it can be said that Japanese art is a strong reflection of Chinese art," (p. 3). At other times, though, small differences between the arts of China and Japan are "magnified to such an extent that they become fully developed and original styles," (Lee, 1962, p. 3). With regards to modern art, Japan is far more the influencer of Chinese art than vice-versa, as Fogel (2012) points out.

The Futurist movement of art has been regarded as a movement of “artistic rupture. It was the rupture of the already existing genres and verse forms, categories such as “prose” and “verse”, and also phenomena’s like “art” and “life” were put to question”[ ]. Futurism brought about the first collages and the different forms of the arts such as poetry, painting music and theater had started to be brought together into something new [ ]. Development in the movement of futurism brought about what we refer to today as Cubo- Futurism, which originated in 1913. This movement brought together important figures such as Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vassily Kamensky, Alexei Kruchenykh, Veliinir, Khlebnikov and Benedikt Livshits along with the artist David Burliuk, to form a new art genre that linked the works of Russian futurist poets and artists. The merging of the visual and the verbal elements have “constituted much of current art historical interpretation of this period of Russian Art” [ ].

De Stijl, the Dutch modern art movement led by Theo van Doesburg, is not only a pioneering art movement but also a loose design team. On the one hand it gathers architecture Teachers, artists, painters, thinkers issued a journal; the other hand, there are many practical design work there. Style in 19 31 because Dossberg 's premature death and dissolution, but the style of the development of these principles in accordance with the principles of modern Western "fonts" have absolute impact, the other is more important is the Dusu Bo During his stay in Weimar from 1921 to 1923, he repeatedly communicated to the students and teachers of Bauhaus the principle of the creation of style, which indirectly influenced the modern design. The stylistic faction, the Dutch "style", also known as neoplasticism, was founded in Amsterdam in 1917 at the Dutch Art Movement. The style of the artists and architects in the narrow sense, the term style is used to refer to the work organization 1917 to 1931 restored into the essentials established in the style of the idea of the Netherlands. Proponents pure abstract and universal form and color; They simplify the visual composition in both portrait and landscape, using only black, white and primary colors (Jaffé, 1956).

Is modern art affecting our American Economy, or any economy for that manner, in a terrible way? After all, these wealthy individuals are spending their hard earned bills, hundreds upon thousands upon millions of it in some piece of art that doesn’t make any sense to anyone but the maker. This could lead to a huge break, that these supposedly “grimey” buyers are making our economy go down the toilet, and it could be on them. Art in itself is a very inspiring investment, but the fact that these artists that spit out works that don’t put any effort or passion into it are making the green show more readily than more passionate artists. Modern art sales may be affecting our economy with their meaning leading to quick production, their odd “cult worship” making it understandable to those who purchase it, inflating their ego so to speak, and the types of sales types where the money goes and how it is made.

Cubism was the art movement that took modern art to the next level. It was one of the first major forms of Abstractionism. Cubism looks as if the painting was build with blocks. Artists used blocks and geometric shapes to form figures of men and women. There was no certain color scheme, however colors were usually very different in order to distinguish parts of the body. Anatomy was jumbled, but bodies were clear and visible.

“Modern painting, breaking through old conversation, has released countless suggestions which are still waiting to be used by the practical world.”(Gropius) The birth of modernism and modern art goes back to the Industrial Revolution, a period that lasted from the 18th to the 19th century, in which rapid changes in manufacturing, transportation, and technology profoundly affected the social, economic, and cultural conditions of life in Western Europe, North America, and eventually the world. Before the 19th century, artists created art pieces for wealthy people and institution places like the church where they can create art works about storytelling of religious or mythological scenes . These arts were there to instruct the viewers.However, this changed when during the 19th century many artists began to create works that were about people, places, or ideas that interested them, and of which they had direct experience. With the popularization of the idea of a subconscious mind, many artists began exploring dreams, symbolism, and personal iconography as avenues for the depiction of their subjective experiences.Challenging the notion that art must realistically depict the world, some artists experimented with the expressive use of color, non-traditional materials, and new techniques and mediums.