Modern art

Abstract art has always been difficult for me to understand or even appreciate. I admire accurate interpretations of art as well as the skills and rules that have been taught for centuries. For as long as I can remember, modern art and its meaning was like another language for me. It was difficult to look at, everything was new, and it just made my head spin. At first I ignored it for another day until eventually I found myself trying to avoid it. Was it because of my ignorance and inability to learn

life be without art? What if not a single piece of art work had been made; the leaders of the art world were nonexistent. Abstract expression was completely gone, because Wassily Kandinsky never picked up a paint brush or a canvas. The world had become a dark and colorless world without the expression of art and the people. The leaders of the art world have influenced modern art today. Wassily Kandinsky the most important artist of his time because he is the innovator of abstract art which are illustrated

“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” Art in and of itself is a reflection of the ideals and concepts promoted during the time it was conceived in, and serves as a historical litmus test as to which periods it draws inspiration from; however, as Daniel Barenboim states in his quote above, impactful art that resonates with the human spirit lasts beyond its time. Throughout history, art serves as the visual manifestation of the

Francisco to visit the San Francisco Modern Art Museum. In the museum, there were many interesting and fascinating art pieces. The SFMoma is a large and spacious museum. The exhibits are large and in each exhibit there is at least one famous art piece. My favorite floor would have been floors 5, 6,and 7 because of all the famous artworks such as Andy Warhol’s Triple Elvis and Nine Marilyns in them. The overall appearance of the museum was contemporary. One piece of art that I enjoyed in the SFMoma was

From a collection of writings published in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Denise Murrell’s essay, African Influence in Modern Art (2000) deliberates that European and American artist’s exposure to traditional African sculpture during the early nineteen hundreds significantly impacted the qualities of representation for form in their artwork. By analyzing how different developing artistic movements, namely in France and Germany, and their associated artists, took

Post-modernism is a style in the arts, philosophy and criticism starting in the late 20th century. This style stands for a withdrawal from modernism and its notions of grand theories and ideologies. According to Roy Ascott, post-modernism’s focus is not form but rather behavior, not a one-way information model of sending and receiving a message. Post-modernism behaves more similarly to an interrogation of probabilities by the viewer. The artwork stand between two behaviors, the artist and the observer

22 Final Paper March 16, 2016 The Shift in Representation of Working Class in Modern Art Jean-Batiste Simeon Chardin was famous for his still life painting, which depicts the ordinary life in 18th century. As most artists belonged to the Rococo style at that time, in which artists painted about the luxury life of aristocracy, Chardin chose to go against Rococo and began to paint about the ordinary life to bring the art to the public viewers. He used still-life painting to show the link between the

seen at least one of his works of art. According to the Sotheby's auction house one of his paintings “sold for $105.4 million in 2013” (Sotheby’s). Warhol is a very important figure in our culture today, so some of you might be wondering who this guy is. Warhol was an American artist and a leading figure in the pop art movement. First of all, “Pop art is based on the modern pop culture and mass media, as a dictionary definition.” (Merriam- Webster) This is a form of art that most of us are familiar with

whatever class they were in. And also that psychologically human beings are rational, and as such are potentially able to understand everything in the universe, including themselves, and eventually acquire infinite knowledge. Firstly artwork, during the modern period it's primary goal was to achieve the most real picture as possible. As the camera hadn't been invented yet and it was still the best method of capturing scenes. For example, Mr and Mrs Andrews painted in 1750 that portrayed a wealthy couple

When studying artists, styles of art and their respective time period, it is always important to find a few key artists that were responsible for the rise of new art trends. Traditionally, art has often a reflection of the most important elements within its respective time period, such as wars, religions, royalty, culture and expression. This is why the study of art history is needs to look deeper than simply understanding how certain artworks were created. Among the various artists studied in the