Essays Tagged: "Modern art"
Jaques-Louis David. Mordern artist.
Jaques-Louis David The story of modern art begins with Jaques-Louis David. He became a dictator of the arts and designed huge propag ... position, which has won him the Prize of Prix de Rome [Canaday 7]. He marked the begining of French modern art and influenced men and women from their dress to their own morality. Early ... and to let people learn through his art. David offers the best starting point for a story of modern art, not because he was the earliest classicist but because he is alone in the severity, the ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The Life of Vincent van Gogh
f the greatest Dutch painters of all time. He powerfully influenced the current of Expressionism in modern art.His uncle was a partner in the international firm of picture dealers Goupil and Co., and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
The Writing On The Wall (is graffiti an art form?)
'Dain'. Graffiti artists from the suburbs of New York have suddenly arrived as cult figures in the modern Art world. This is the modern Art world, not the world of Modern Art. Graffiti is not seen as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Brancusi's "Bird in Space"
Bird In SpaceThis piece, which stands in the center of a modern art room, commands everyone's attention. It is a "half-moon" shape, on a conical base, with a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
The Two Camps of Modern Art is about the two main schools of thought in art history from 1945 - current
ne that the masterpieces anticipated but which new artists are now tackling, in unpredictable ways; Modern Art. There is an analogy to the history of art. Modernism in art marks a point before which p ... people and landscapes and historical events just as they would present themselves to the eye. With modernism, the conditions of representation themselves become central, so that art in a way becomes ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Picasso
Among Picasso's many contributions to the history of art, his most important include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as an artistic technique, and developing assemb ... ical conclusion by pasting an actual piece of oilcloth onto the canvas. This was a key watershed in Modern Art. By incorporating the real world into the canvas, Picasso and Braque opened up a century' ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Modernism and examples from literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
As an art historical term, "modern" refers to a period dating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s and is used to describe t ... escribe the style and the ideology of art produced during that era. It is this more specific use of modern that is intended when people speak of modern art. The term "modernism" is also used to refer ... ended when people speak of modern art. The term "modernism" is also used to refer to the art of the modern period. More specifically, "modernism" can be thought of as referring to the philosophy of mo ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Pablo picasso.
o sculptures, prints, and ceramics, using all kinds of materials. He almost single-handedly created modern art. He changed art more profoundly than any other artist of this century.First famous for hi ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A quick introduction into the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh.
three years of his brief ten-year painting career. He had a powerful influence on expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh created more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings, but he sold only one duri ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Name of painting: Large interior, Los Angeles Name of painter: David Hockney this is about david hockneys painting in metropoliten museam of art.this is disccription of a painting in art terminologies
Name of painting: Large interior, Los AngelesName of painter: David HockneyModern Art is not really on my good list. I am not a fan of it. Though when doing this project, I ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Formalism first pops its head onto the scene with Georges Braque and Picasso.
revolutionary artists draw away from Impressionism and create a new movement known as Cubism. Here modern art leaps away from content and into formalism, a new concept many new artists toy with. With ... ile content has returned to art, the principles of form have remained. Said to be hand in hand with Modernism, Formalism promotes a deeper understanding of art for the sake of art.allan kaprowshozo sh ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Fauvism
might have been, but when it got going, it was decades ahead of it's time. In 1905 nothing was as "modern" as modern art. It was to remain that way throughout the century. There are many people who s ... people who still fail to understand the art introduced in 1905, over seventy years ago.That first "modern" art appeared in an exhibition in Paris in 1905. Among the participating artists was one of t ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A Modern Artist's Craft Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens
s "The Oven Bird," Frost uses a bird to represent an artist and illustrates the paradox in creating modern art. This same paradox, the contrast between reality and imagination, can be seen in Wallace ... e solid realities of our every day lives come alive with "sound." This poem is about the craft of a modern artist. No matter what form he chooses to express himself in, he has two main duties, to insp ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Juan Gris (1887 - 1927)
ed to cubism. Cubism dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, it was a turning point in the modern art and with its different ideals it confused many artists. It was established for a syntheti ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Eastern Influences on Modern Art.
Eastern Influences on Modern Culture The opening of feudal Japan, in 1853, to the western world created an influx o ... long with ordinary goods came works of art as well as ideas that were in great contrast to those of modern western cultures; these ideas and methods had a significant influence on the development of m ... ulture in the west. Most notably eastern ideas of space and time had the most significant impact on modern culture, especially in the areas of art and science. Eastern philosophy had an effect on the ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Pablo Picasso: Start-off in art, Relationships, Later years
When you hear the words "Modern Art" only one person comes to mind, Pablo Picasso. His name just rolls off the tongue, but he ... mes to mind, Pablo Picasso. His name just rolls off the tongue, but he is also famous for his great modern works. He created thousands of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics during a time span ... m sexual adventure was such an important part of life, this was a serious life change.Talking about modern art and not mentioning Pablo Picasso would nearly be considered a sin. He created over 22,000 ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Biography on the mexican artist Diego Rivera
nd effect on the international art world. He is credited with the reintroduction of frescoes to the modern art and architectural field. Rivera's tumultuous romance with the eminent artist, Frida Kahlo ... auguin, Renoir, and Matisse. The most intriguing artist, whom he claimed to be 'the only one of the moderns whose works stirred each and every fibre of my being,' was Henri Rousseau. While in Europe, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History
Conceptual Art Discuss the relation of Minimalism and Immateriality to Conceptual art.
achine that makes the art"-Sol Lewitt (From "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art" 1967)Conceptual art is a modern art practice in which the idea or ideas that a work expresses are considered its essential po ... tential non-figurative paintings of Abstract Expressionism, which was at the forefront of formalist modernism praised by critic Clement Greenburg, to an interest in the ordinary, and a use of subject ...
Subjects: Art Essays
This is a biography on the interesting and exciting life of the mexican artist, Diego Rivera.
nd effect on the international art world. He is credited with the reintroduction of frescoes to the modern art and architectural field. Rivera's tumultuous romance with the eminent artist, Frida Kahlo ... auguin, Renoir, and Matisse. The most intriguing artist, whom he claimed to be 'the only one of the moderns whose works stirred each and every fibre of my being,' was Henri Rousseau. While in Europe, ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
The effects of science and technology on the modern art era.
The beginning of modern art movement was a very interesting time for science and technology, the basics of chemistry, ... ished, cars, Darwinism, essential it was an exciting time to be alive. Along with the foundation of modern science came an art revolution.Photography was amongst the new technology, and experimentatio ... e painting began to show things that were not really there. With this new thought process a new and modern branches of art were born. However photograph continued to develop, and as the ability to tak ...
Subjects: Art Essays