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    The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern Art in the Van Vechten gallery at Fisk University accurately represents the modern art movements within the United States and Europe. European artists like Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Gino Severini and Renoir are featured in the exhibition. American artists like Marsden Hartley, Florine Stettheimer and Charles Demuth have pieces displayed as well. One can surely witness the differences and effects of European modern art on American artists and their work

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    Alfred Stieglitz By Jennie Ivey Professor Miller ART 3010 07 Sep 2016 Alfred Stieglitz: Pioneer of Modern Art Photography Alfred Stieglitz was an American Photographer who was the pioneer of the Modern Art movement in photography. Stieglitz career began with his work of

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    Who Is Alfred Stieglitz

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    Alfred Stieglitz, who was both a major promoter of the arts and an American-based photographer. During his career, Stieglitz made it one of his goals to get photography accepted as a legit form of art by the art world. Stieglitz chose to use both black and white and color film as his go-to form of media. Stieglitz attended was the best private school in New York City at the time. As his father wanted his son to get the best education, he thought the high school Stieglitz had transferred to was

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    the manmade straight lines of the city. The pedestrian perspective and ominous scale places the audience between sharp towers. The environment and people that surrounded Georgia O’Keeffe stimulates her to add it in her work. Specifically, Alfred Stieglitz was obviously a great influence in Georgia’s life; being each others muse and benefactor. The 1926 painting “The Shelton with Sunspots” has photographic influences. The warm toned painting produces a sun glare that is seen through a camera lens

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    Praire, Wisconsin. She studied at many art schools, including the Art Institute of Chicago, before dramatically changing her art style from representational to abstraction in 1915. Her highly abstract paintings were shown to her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and they were put on display at his world famous 291 gallery in New York City the next year. By the mid-twenties, she was one of America's most important artists. Over seven decades of her career in the American arts she made over 900 paintings

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    Alfred Stieglitz, her husband at one time had influenced and inspired a large part of her career, he even helped her become a known artist (Curiger, 10). She used lots of medium such as charcoal, paint, watercolor, clay, and sometimes even pencil as a finished

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    Survey of Art History

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    by Stieglitz's photographs. Man Ray used a similar style to Stieglitz. He captured images that created an unvarnished look at the photos' subject. Man Ray discovered a new way to create his photos; by accident in his work room he discovered how to manipulate objects in his photos on pieces of photosensitive paper. In the year 1914, at a seminal exhibition, Man Ray introduced himself to African art. Man Ray did this at the Alfred Stieglitz 291 Gallery. Man Ray’s photograph Noire et Blanche became

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    The artist portrayed on the altoid tin is Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in Western addition, san Francisco california. Ansel died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey california. Ansel Adams Had gotten his education at Harvard University in 1981 and he had also studied at Yale University. Ansel adams does Photography using his number one piece of equipment his camera as well as his eyes because photography isn’t the photograph it’s the eyes of whos taking the picture as he mainly

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    New York skyscrapers. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-1906 and the Art Students League in New York in 1907-1908, it was here that she learned the techniques of traditional realist painting. She was married to Alfred Stieglitz from 1924–1946. Alfred was art dealer and internationally known photographer. Introduced to Georgia by a friend whom she had shared some of her charcoal drawings with. He was the first to exhibit her work in 1916.

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    David Milne was a painter, printmaker, and writer, who captured the essence of Canadian art. Milne showed a pure aesthetic approach to his work that was dependant of his specific formula. Essentially Milne sought to reduce a painting to the basic form. David Milne was born on January 8, 1882, in a southern Ontario village named Burgoyne. David was the last of ten children to his Scottish immigrant parents. David Milne was born to be an artist, he began drawing even before starting kindergarten, and

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