Research a work of art from the book and lecture. Write a paragraph about the work and the art movement it belongs to? What kind of rebellion is taking place?
Monday, October 13, 2008
20th Century
Research a work of art from the book and lecture. Write a paragraph about the work and the art movement it belongs to? What kind of rebellion is taking place?
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I researched the painting Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper; painted in 1942. This painting is a scene of common people sitting at a diner late at night enjoying drinks.
The diners lights inside seem to be extremely bright compared to the outside night skies, and seem to set the mood for the this painting.
It is also believed by the critic Walter Wells that the painting has been influenced by Earnest Hemmingway's story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". This novel repersents a resting place from the night, much like Edward Hoppers painting.
-Christina Newhart
http://media.photobucket.com/image/edward%20hopper%20nighthawks/ll75538/nighthawks.jpg?o=1
Yasumasa Morimura has been remaking classic works with himself inserted in place of the central figure, who is often female and often partially or wholly nude since 1990, producing large Cibachrome photographic or IRIS inkjet prints. In Portrait (twins), 1988, Morimura posed himself as both Manet’s Olympia and her maid, manipulating the photograph with a computer. In this photo Olympia and her maid share the same identity, both “slaves” to the dominant male forces of Western society. This art was created in Post-Modernism era and was a rebellion against Japan customs. thenewyorkartworld.com/currentIssue/currentReviews.html -
I researched the dutch painter Piet Mondrian. Mondrian painted composition 2 with red, blue, and yellow. Mondrian emigrated to New York from the netherlands in 1940. All of Mondrians paintings stick to using the three primary colors, black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines. Mondrian was part of the abstract expressionism movement. Mondrian painted in such an abstract way in rebellion to the war that was taking place in Europe. Mondrian did not want the world to influence his paintings so he used only horizontal and vertical lines.
Mondrian's work
When it comes to Pop Art, I do not think there is an actual rebellion unless in the piece of art work, but it sure is different from other art movements. The title itself is breezy. The pop artists used visual material for objects & images of America’s popular culture like comics, advertisements, billboards, cinema, TV, newspapers, etc. Pop Art drew closer to life. The 1960s art style was a dominant movement at the time. An example would be Andy Warhol’s “100 Cans” of 1962. This oil on canvas gave critics questions of why someone would just print 100 cans of Campbell’s Beef Noodle Soup! Even I do not clearly understand what he meant for it. My interpretation is that it must have been the all-American food at the time to crave and drool over because it was repeated over and over again in the painting!
http://www.nallegheny.k12.pa.us/academics/art/Painting/stillife/100Cans.html
Wassily Kandinski
I have done my research on a few different pieces. I chose this artist because I love his work and how it is so abstract and simple. Squares with concentric rings is one of my favorite pieces of art. I have a copy of it hanging in my room. I love how he made all of his work look so simple in pain sight but when it is evaluated it seems more in depth.
His work was all very abstract. He did a lot of inner maturation and self actualization before working on his art. He thought it was necessary because he figured it as spiritual. A lot of his work was considered impressionism and cubism.
Kandinsky moved and traveled a lot during his life, it is said that he lived in Russia, Germany, and France. When he was 30 years old he gave up his teaching career (He taught law and Economics.) to attend art school in Munich. He used to say "Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with reality, next to the 'real' world." He figured his work to be like music, and it was alive. He thought they had "the power to create a spiritual atmosphere."
The piece in the book from Kandinsky was "Sketch I for composition VII" In this piece each line and each color carried expressive meaning. It is full of creativity and it can be thought of in many ways. Only the artist knows what it all represents. Each line meant something to him and led him to different places.
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Wassily_Kandinsky/squares.jpeg
http://www.sai.msu.su/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/kandinsky.comp-7.jpg
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942.
Edward Hopper spent five years studying painting under Robert Henri, a member of the Ashcan school of painters who focused on the realities of the city. The Ashcan school influenced Hoppers style, and he tended to focus on the sense of urban isolation. Hopper explained that Nighthawks was inspired by “a restaurant on New York’s Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet.” The painting reveals three customers lost in their own private thoughts. The anonymous night owls seem as remote from the viewer as they are from one another. The viewer, drawn to the light shining from the interior, is shut out from the scene by a seamless wedge of glass, a characteristic of Art Deco design. The moody contrast of light against dark and the air of menace inside has been linked to film noir, a movement in American cinema that featured stories of urban crime and moral corruption. A popular parody of Nighthawks is Gottfried Helnwein’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams featuring Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, and Elvis Presley. Elvis serves behind the counter while Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and James Dean wait at the counter.
http://www.barzi.net/movable-static/img/nighthawks.jpg
http://theeaglesnest.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/bouleva.jpg
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942, could very easily be another term for people who stay out late, Nighthawks i.e. Night Owl. It is said that he began the painting right after Pearl Harbor, and the mood after that horrible event is portrayed in this painting.
"This portrayal of modern urban life as empty or lonely is a common theme throughout Hopper's work...It is also notable that the diner has no visible door leading to the outside, which illustrates the idea of confinement and entrapment." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks)
This painting seems to capture the mood of loneliness and emptiness, as most of the painting is empty and void of people and traffic.
This scene portrayed was inspired by a diner, that has been demolished, in Hopper's home neighborhood of Greenwich Village in NYC.
The painting is oil on canvas and is measured around 2 ft by 5 ft.
http://www.edwardhopper.info/night-hawks.html
Fountain
The art piece “Fountain” was made by Marcel Duchamp shortly after he arrived to America. The structure is actually a urinal which Duchamp bought with artist Joseph Stella and art collector Walter Arnsberg. When the men got the urinal to Duchamp’s studio, Duchamp turned the structure 90 degrees and wrote “R. Mutt 1917” on the urinal’s surface and called it Fountain. He then entered this “art piece” in an art exhibit hosted by the Society of Independent Artists under the false name R. Mutt. All art submitted were to be shown, however, Duchamp’s piece had been hidden during the exhibit for the hosts believed that the piece was not proper art. Though many believed that Fountain was not considered true art, some thought differently such as artist Beatrice Wood who wrote:
“Whether Mr. Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.”
Later, Duchamp went on to explain that his purpose with the Fountain was to shift the focus of art from “physical craft to intellectual interpretation.”
-Alix Blizzard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/museumstudies/ms242/portfolio28.jpg
I chose the work of Kerry James Marshall, Many Mansions, 1994. Being fascinated by the abundant use of the word “garden” in the names of public housing project in Los Angeles and Chicago, Kerry James Marshall began to investigate these developments in the series Garden Project. He had a dream to break the stereo-types of public housing in his works. Many Mansions exposes a sense of community, and illustrates spring meaning joy, hope, and resurrection. It also reveals in detail the bleak facts of urban life. The three men working in the garden are meant to deny the negative figure of The African American male. The differences in the size of the men and the buildings make the figures seem brave. The banners that read “Bless our Happy Home” and “In My Mother’s House There Are Many Mansions” voice the warmth of home and warrants happiness.
I researched on the painting Houses at L'Estaque by Georges Braque created during the movement of Cubism. Cubism art consisted of a flat artwork creating a three-dimmensional art in form of a two-dimmensional. Braque was inpirated by Picasso's painting Les Demoisellesand by Cezanne's landscape paintings. In this painting, Braque displays the space of a hill of houses that seems to be impossible to distinguish the walls and the roofs of the houses. The tree on the left side combines with the walls and the roofs in a square like drawing. The houses are all made of triangles and cubes all blend together that the ground is unable to recognize. Picutre
Sara Lampp:
Franz Marc's Die grossen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses)
The painting was just pretty to me. I found it very appealing to the eye. I couldn't find too much on it but I found a little.
Marc used the vibrant color blue and the curvy lines of the horses necks to symbolize universal principles and to communicate their spiritual harmony with nature. he believed that animals had a "purer, more sublime relationship with the world".
Marc, along with a few others, were the leading painters in the Expressionism period. Expressionism is a style in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to express the inner state of the artist, according to artcyclopedia.com. The movement influenced Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism.
pic:
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~odswwgym/projekte/kunst/falsh/bilder/15.jpg
info:
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/265
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/expressionism.html
Edward Hopper and his 1925 painting House by the Railroad
Edward Hopper is considered an American realist painter of the inter-war period. He was born in Nyack, New York, studied primarily at the School of Art generally between 1900 and 1907. He finally did visit Europe twice between 1907 and 1910 but really did not feel this period and his visits to London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels impacted his work. Contrary to a push towards abstraction which had been the tendency in Europe, American modernist painter tended to adapt the European formal style of painting embracing a more realistic approach. to subject matter. I would suggest that this is a rebellion of sorts, but instead of turning the geometric oriented works of this era into abstract depictions they depicted real subject matter with visually simplistic geometrical designs. The House by the Railroad painted in 1925 was a 1925 depiction of 19th century architecture modern in presenting an aura of bleakness and simplicity but is complicated by an innate covert symbolism, the loneliness of travel. One of the recurring theme’s of Hopper paintings is that nature and the contemporary world are incoherent. In this 24 inch by 29 inch oil on canvas, Hopper used the straight horizontal railroad track as a line of division separating the picture space and the viewer’s world. The visible surface of the track represents shifts in space. The house in the picture is painted from dark to light and lines of blue are visible to help define the opaque white forms contained in the painting. It is a picture that seems to permit casual viewing but also invites closer inspection and introspection by the viewer. I like Hopper’s art because his themes always suggest loneliness and isolation which are feelings I understand within my own soul.
Edward Hopper and his 1925 painting House by the Railroad
Edward Hopper is considered an American realist painter of the inter-war period. He was born in Nyack, New York, studied primarily at the School of Art generally between 1900 and 1907. He finally did visit Europe twice between 1907 and 1910 but really did not feel this period and his visits to London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels impacted his work. Contrary to a push towards abstraction which had been the tendency in Europe, American modernist painter tended to adapt the European formal style of painting embracing a more realistic approach. to subject matter. I would suggest that this is a rebellion of sorts, but instead of turning the geometric oriented works of this era into abstract depictions they depicted real subject matter with visually simplistic geometrical designs. The House by the Railroad painted in 1925 was a 1925 depiction of 19th century architecture modern in presenting an aura of bleakness and simplicity but is complicated by an innate covert symbolism, the loneliness of travel. One of the recurring theme’s of Hopper paintings is that nature and the contemporary world are incoherent. In this 24 inch by 29 inch oil on canvas, Hopper used the straight horizontal railroad track as a line of division separating the picture space and the viewer’s world. The visible surface of the track represents shifts in space. The house in the picture is painted from dark to light and lines of blue are visible to help define the opaque white forms contained in the painting. It is a picture that seems to permit casual viewing but also invites closer inspection and introspection by the viewer. I like Hopper’s art because his themes always suggest loneliness and isolation which are feelings I understand within my own soul.
I did my research on Marcel Duchamp's 'Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.)' Of course we all know that the Mona Lisa was done by Leonardo da Vinci, but Duchamp boldly added a few of his own ideas to the well known painting, a mustache and a goatee. Duchamp came up with this scandalous act in 1919 when the world was celebrating the 400th anniversary of Leonardo's death. The initials "L.H.O.O.Q" translate from French into "she has a nice ass." Duchamp later delcared, "I tried to do the mustache in an artistic way, noticing that with beard and mustache, the poor girl became very masculine." This act changed the history of modern art. It started the rise of graffiti and pop art.
Danielle Mallozzi
I did my research on Yasumasu Morimura's painting "Portrait (twins)". It seems like there is some big time rebellion going on in this painting. He is mocking the portrait "Olympia" by having himself lay in the bed as the prostitute and also as the maid. This painting is actually a self portrait of himself. The reason this painting is titled "twins" is because both the prostitute and the maid are the same person and also they are both essentially slaves to the male gender. In this painting Morimura used the Japanese culture by copying the icons of the Western culture.
Kristina Wilson
Wassily Kandinsky's Composition VII is the pinnacle of Kandinsky's pre-World War One artistic achievement. The creation of this work involved over thirty preparatory drawings, watercolors and oil studies. Once he had completed the preparatory work, Kandinsky executed the actual painting of Composition VII in less than four days. In it's final form, Kandinsky has obliterated almost all pictorial representation. Art scholars, through Kandinsky's writings and study of the less abstract preparatory works, have determined that Composition VII combines the themes of the Resurrection, The Last Judgement, The Deluge, and The Garden of Love in an operatic outburst of pure painting.
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian artist that believed that through color and line alone works of art could express the feelings and emotions of the artist directly to the viewer, this idea is where the name Expressionism came from. Kandinsky was convinced that "the importance of an 'object' as the necessary element in painting" was suspect. Nothing of the geometry of Cubism can be detected in Kandinsky's early paintings such as his "Composition VII". Kandinsky considered his painting to be equivalent to music, and his works are alive in nonfigurative movement and color.
I researched the Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q) done by Marcel Duchamp. The paintings rebellion is seen instantly. Leonardo da Vinci's very famous Mona Lisa is parodied with a mustache and goutee. Graffiti and pop art were probably effected by this painting and bother were notorious for their rebellious styles also.
Cubism was directly associated with Georges Braque. In 1908 he created "Houses at l'Estaque" that depicts a village composed entirely of multifaceted shapes; in turn giving the whole painting a three dimensional feel even though its painted on a flat canvas. The artistic rebellion that took place because of the Cubist movement was the idea of creating a painting for the sake of art itself, not to symbolize or depict religious happenings.
Roy Lichtenstein was an American painter,sculptor, and printmaker, startled the art world in 1962 by exhibiting paintings based on comic-book cartoons. He began hiding images of cartoon charactors in his paintings, like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and more.His paintings based on the motifs and procedures of comic strips and advertisements made him one of the central figures of American POP ART.
http://popten.net/wp-content/gallery/concept-art/roy_lichtenstein_whaam.jpg
"Guernica" Pablo Picasso
This oil on canvas painting was commissioned by the Spanish government after the bombing of Guernica spain by Nazi Germany. It went on display at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. The painting helped bring attention and interest to the what actually happened during the Spanish Civil War to the rest of the world.
While many people tried to give deep meaning to Picasso's use of the bull and horse, he himself said "this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse... If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are."
This, however, has not stopped the constant interpretation of people and artists to underdstand the work of art.
Frida Kahlo painted her famous work of art The two Fridas in 1939. The painting features two images of Frida sitting side by side, one of them wearing a white European dress and the other wearing a Mexican garb and blouse. This painting represents Frida's divorce from her abusive husband Diego. The two Frida's hearts are connected but the Frida on the left has cut the cord to show that the old Frida who was married to Diego is now dying. The Frida on the right has a small picture of her husband in her hand. This is cool because the portrait is an actual picture that Frida owned and is now part of Frida Kahlo's art collection.
I researched the Dada artist Hans Arp's piece 'Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance'. The picture was made after Arp tore up a drawing he was not satisfied and took inspiration in the pattern it made. The collage captures the law of chance that happened at that moment.
Also, I cannot find the picture, or remember what it is called, but a friend told me that if you stare at some of the paintings that are a bunch of colorful rectangles, it forms a portrait. I will try to find out more, but this is proving difficult.
Violin and Palette was created by the brilliant and curious french painter Georges Braque in 1909. This particular piece is an excellent example of cubism. In this style of art, light, perspective and geometry all come into play to create a whole out of many individual parts. Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso introduced paintings of neutralized color and complex patterns, never before seen, making them the movement's main innovators.
In Violin and Palette objects such as the violin and sheet music are still recognizable however the painting appears almost fractured or two-dimensional.
Edward Hopper's most famous painting Nighthawks was done in 1942 and was inspired by a diner in his neighborhood Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The title “Nighthawks” is thought to be Hopper’s way of using the saying “night owl” meaning a person who stays up late at night. Hopper started this right after the attack on Pearl Harbor because he wanted to portray the sorrow that was felt throughout America. Inside the diner there is a couple, a man with his back facing you and the man working at the diner. No one seems to be talking or looking at each other, which gives the feeling of loneliness and a maybe even being a little lost. Outside the diner you see nothing but empty streets and the little bit of light that seeps into the street emitting a slight glow. The light also shines onto an open window from the building across from the diner. I think Hopper did a great job with portraying the depressing feelings of the people; also that the rest of the city feels it too with the lack of liveliness in the streets.
http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/1301/images/IN5230hopper%20NHks.jpg
I chose "The two Fridas" by the famouse mexican painter Krida Kahlo This was painted in 1939 and is presently in the Museo de arte moderno in mexico city. It was painted in the time when Frida was getting divorced from her husband Diego and is beleived to be an expression of her feelings at the time. Frida was born in 1910 when the revolution to overthrow their president in mexico had just begone. Frida as a person and as a painted was very revolutionary which her time period and place of origin had lots to do with it. After reading a bit about her life and the love affair she had with her husband Diego Rivera i think this painting might have represented her wanting to be self sufficient and no needing Diego in her life anymore...
I chose the painting Woman With A Hat by Henri Matisse. He painted and displayed this painting in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. This is theinfamouse exhibition in which he and a group of other artists are labeled "Fauves", or wild beasts, which sparks the Fauvism movement. This rebellion ,against the naturalistic colors of Impressionism, focused on the subject at hand without strict adhesion to it's natural colors, instead using opposing colors to creat attention and emotion. Though this movement lasted only 3 years it paved the way for Pop Art in the 1950's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg
Los Dos Fridas
The painting Las Dos Fridas tells of the tragic life led by Frida Kahlo. It also represents the rejection of Diego Rivera. On the left sits the rejected Frida while on the right sits the frida Rivera loved. Pictured is 2 hearts joined by a vien although the rejected fridas heart has been cut off a vien severed as if meaning it is her end. This painting was involved in the feminist movement.
http://www.lailalalami.com/blog-old/archives/las_dos_fridas.jpeg
David P Bradley's post modern work, Indian County Today clearly depicts the Indian culture kachina festive dance. The kachina, a traditional ceremony where male performers imitate kachina (ancestral spirits). This work portrays kachina dancing while inviting the spirits of Mother Earth to succumb and overtake the environmental effects of modern civilization on this great indian region by eschewing wisdom, power, and protection against the loss of sacredness for White Earth Ojibwe reservation. David P. Bradley is White Earth's best known artist to date. He has been known as a painter's painter for his modern and traditional repoire of Indian Art. His respect for Indian art inspired him to influence the new Mexico legislature to pass a law protecting Indian art from being sold by fakes. The law went into effect in 1990 makig it illegal to sell Indian work by anyone not tribally enrolled in 18 USC Sec 1159, a tribal product membership. http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/mn/whitearth.htm Though there are many festivals in Santa Fe,NM and other reservations over the US, kachina dances in their sacredness are mostly performed on the White Earth reservation in White Earth ,MN.
"Sketch I for Composition VII" was painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1913 on a 78x100cm oil canvas. This painting is an example of expressionism art. A very colorful piece that comes to life. It's like a song in which every line and color have their own meaning. Kandinsky consider his art to be spiritual and had the ability to lead us away.
Pablo Picasso 1881- 1973
http://himmelweg.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2007/04/old-guitarist-picasso.1175587431.jpg
The Old Guitarist
1903
On the Old guitarist paint, Picasso transmits his emotions of sadness for his two close friends that committed suicide in Paris. He also was sympathetic to miseries of the poor, since he was one of them during all 1902. He too knew what it was like to be impoverished, having been nearly penniless.
The skin and brown figure of the paint also resemble Picasso native culture Spain. At the time the painting was made, literature of the Symbolist movement included blind characters who possessed powers of inner vision. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-1904), such as The Old Guitarist, Picasso worked with a monochromatic palette, flattened forms, and tragic, sorrowful themes.
Frank Gehrys abstract drawings of the Guggenheim in Balboa Spain was amazing. This is the most often talked about building withing the archtecture circles. Gehrys starting out designing this building with doodles until it starting taking on shape. The buildinig consist of free flowing lines. The style of the building in considered to be Expressionsit/Modern.It is made of a steel frame and titanium sheathing. It was completed in 1997 and is used as an art museum. The model was turned into an actual building by a computer program called Catia. Which ws developed for the French aerospace industry.Art was has been specifically designed to be placed in the building. Like that of Koons. Inside the gallery there are 3 different types of spaces. 1 for permanent collections, 1 for more dramatic rectanular space for temporary exhibits, and 7 distinct galleries for living artist.www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Guggenheim_Balboa
Pablo Picasso
Massacre in Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Picasso_Massacre_in_Korea.jpg
Massacre in Korea was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1951. The work is an example of his expressionistic style, and is drawn from Francisco Goya's painting of 1814 of The Third of May 1808, which shows Napoleon's soldiers executing Spanish civilians under the orders of Joachim Murat.
Massacre in Korea is divided into two distinct parts. To the left of the canvas stand a group of naked Korean women and children, who are situated at the foot of a mass grave. To the right are a number of heavily armed "knights", which represents the United States army, who are also naked but equipped with gigantic limbs and hard muscles.
The painting is a protest against the United States lead invasion of Korea also known as Korean War.
The Nighthawks was by Edward Hopper. The painting is said to be showing how people stay up late and enjoying drinks in bar. This painting was inspired by a diner in Hopper's Manhattan neighborhood. The painting was started immediantly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The patrons in the diner are said to be alonein their own thoughts. The couple have beak like noses which could describe the title of the painting. This painting made by Hopper is said to represent the urban life of the city and the loninesss that people can go through. The limited amount of doors represents the confinment of their feelings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks
I researched Yasumasa Morimura's Twins. I thought It Was A Funny Photo As well as Interesting Enough To Want to Know The Cause Of The Painting. My First thought Was Maybe He Wanted To be A Lady. But As I read it looked Like He Just Did It for Fun And The Painting became Famous.
Raullin
I chose Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Hopper completed this painting in 1942, it depicts four people at an all night dinner. There is the bar tender, a couple (man and woman) and another male patron. I like this painting because to me is shows that he has an artistic ability to freeze time and show what is happening at that exact moment. This painting shows the use of squares and rectangle through out the whole painting. I notice that a lot of critics refer it to a state of confinement or isolation or even more gloomy aspects, but to me it shows a simplicity of life, and that is what I really like about it.
David J. Hoeksema
HE WORK OF ART I RESEARCHED IS VIOLIN AND PALETTE BY GEORGES BRAQUE. THE FORM OF ART REPRESENTED IS KNOWN AS CUBISM. THE CRITICS REFERRED TO THIS AS DESTRUCTURED PAINTINGS BECAUSE TE OBJECTS WERE REARRANGEDIN GEOMETRIC SHAPES ON DIFFERENT PLANES.THE COLORS ARE PURPOSELY MUTED AND DARK AND GIVES ONE THE ILLUSION THAT THE OBJECTS ARE CONTINOUSLY TURNING AROUND AS YOU FOCUS ON THE PAINTING.THE CURVES OF THE VIOLIN ARE FLATTENED AND CUBED AS WEL THE THE SHEETS OF MUSIC. ALTHOUGH THE OBJECTS ARE FRAGMENTED INTO PIECES, YOU ARE STILL ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE OBJECTS IN THE PAINTINGS.THIS WAS BRAQUE'S WAY OF GETTING AS CLOSE AS HE COULD TO THE OBJECT WHILE PAINTING IT.
I did mine on Nighthawks done by Edward Hopper, an American paints born in 1882. This painting was done in 1942 in the 20th century. Painting and sculputure in the beginning of 20th century art was a huge change in the art world. It was an exploration of revolutionary styles. The paintings showed the artistic intentions behind them. The artistic concern with subjectivity, primitivism, irony, and unconscious. Nighthawks was a very good example of a lot of what 20th century art is all about. This painting in my opinion is very calm and settle but at the same time I think it is very bright with the color contrasts the artist used. He also created interest by the fact how it was the time of night to make the impression of the painting change. This painting was interesting to me because he showed a city which is normally crazy and chaotic and made it portray another side.
Allison Wasylkiw
I chose to talk about the artist Judy Chicago and her artwork "The Dinner Party (1979). This peice of art was "a work that contributed significantly to the resuscitation of women's place in the art world". It is an extremely suggestive peice of art because every aspect resembles the female anatomy. Even the dinner selections seems to resemble the "form" of a woman. This was Chicago's way of rebelion because she believed that art reflected "a man's way of thinking".
I researched David P. Bradley's White Earth Oilbwe and Mdewakaton Dakota, Indian Country Today. The painting belongs to the Postmodernism movement. The artist is showing the Kachina dance that is taking place in the square of town. Its rebellion that is taking place is the fact that no matter how big the world gets everyone needs to be able to accept others religions no matter how far you go.
Mona Lisa was painted in the 16th century. It is a portrait painting that is done with oil. The artist Leonardo da Vinci painted it in the Italian Renaissance. It is currently owned by the French government and it can be viewed in the museum Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. Mona Lisa was not respected till the 19th century when artists began to use Symbolism. The painting is also respected for its great detail in it back ground, and its lights and shadows used.
* http://avline.abacusline.co.uk/pictures/jpeg/pics/mona.jpg*
The style of art that intrigued me to write about is Futurism- which was developed by a group of Italian artists about 1910. Born in Turin on July 18, 1871, Giacomo Balla studied music as a child and was mostly self-taught as an artist. His early, pre-Futurist period was influenced by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla adopted the Futurism style, creating a pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed. In 1912-Paintings, such as Dog on a Leash, got to grips with the problem of recreating speed and flight by superimposing images.
During World War I Balla's studio became the meeting place for young artists but by the end of the war the Futurist movement was showing signs of decline.
Giacomo Balla died in Rome on March 1, 1958.
I did my research on the Mona Lisa done by Marcel Duchamp.The paintings rebellion is seen instantly. Leonardo da Vinci very famous Mona Lisa is parodied with a moustache and goutee. Graffiti and pop art were probably affected by this painting.
I chose to research Edward Hoppers Nighthawks. This piece was created in 1942 and is one of Edward Hoppers most memorable pieces of work. The piece shows people sitting in a small downtown diner late at night and the diner is well lit. Edward created this right after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it is supposed to represent the gloomy feeling that everyone around the country felt after the attack. The gloominess in Nighthawks comes from the lack of emotion on the faces of the people in the diner and the empty street. This oil on a canvas is part of the American Modernism and Abstract Expressionism period in the twentieth century. This wonderful masterpiece is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago and is by far Edward Hoppers most famous paintings.
I chose to research Edward Hoppers Nighthawks. This piece was created in 1942 and is one of Edward Hoppers most memorable pieces of work. The piece shows people sitting in a small downtown diner late at night and the diner is well lit. Edward created this right after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it is supposed to represent the gloomy feeling that everyone around the country felt after the attack. The gloominess in Nighthawks comes from the lack of emotion on the faces of the people in the diner and the empty street. This oil on a canvas is part of the American Modernism and Abstract Expressionism period in the twentieth century. This wonderful masterpiece is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago and is by far Edward Hoppers most famous paintings.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
The Unique Forms of Continuity in Space was done by Umberto Boccioni. This is a bronze sculpter that is seen as the masterpiece of Futurism. Futurism was an Italian phenomenon around 1910 whose aim was to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary art, mostly embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery. This is also seen as an expression of fluidity and movement. Boccioni rejected the traditional pedestal sculpters. This one is only bound to the ground by two blocks.
Marcel Duchamp's "The Fountain"
Duchamp was a French artist who liked to experiment and play around with the term art. During New York's Dada movement, he submitted a piece called "The Fountain" which was a urinal signed "R Mutt". The piece was both rejected and removed from the Society of Independent Art Commitee's art show. When it was revealed that R. Mutt was actually Duchamp, the work was slowly considered art. Duchamp submitted the piece as an example of what the art world was becoming and how utterly ridiculous some art and the definition of it, was.
"Nighthawks" may be Hopper's take on the term "Night Owl", used to describe someone who stays up especially late. The scene was inspired by a diner (since demolished) in Greenwich Village, Hopper's home neighborhood in Manhattan. The now-vacant lot is known as Mulry Square, at the intersection of Seventh Avenue South, Greenwich Avenue, and West 11th Street. Hopper began painting it immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After this event there was a widespread feeling of gloominess across the country, a feeling that is portrayed in the painting. The urban street is empty outside the diner, and inside none of the three patrons is apparently looking or talking to the others; all are lost in their own thoughts. Two are a couple, while the third is a man sitting alone, with his back to the viewer. The couple's noses resemble beaks, perhaps a reference to the title. The diner's sole attendant, looking up from his work, appears to be peering out the window past the customers. His age is indeterminate.
I researched the Claude's Running Fence. This was built in 1972-1976. The fence ran in San Francisco on private properties of ranches, the rolling hills, and along the Pacific Coast.
When looking at the Running Fence, if looks like the land is naturally divided by a smooth sleek white fabric. The fabric enhanced the natural rollings of the hills and farm land. I enjoyed this different type of abstract art because it gives the eye a natural visual look.
Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.) 1919
This painting is one of Duchamp's readymades. It is a postcard with the famous image of da Vinci's Mona Lisa which he scribbled a moustache on and enscribed the letters "L.H.O.O.Q." The work falls under the Dadaist movement which originated in New York. Duchamp was taking a stab at traditional art to challenge the viewers' thoughts on conventional art. Many critics in the art world felt as though Duchamp was making a mockery of classic works and did not appreciate his fun spirited humor in his approach to "L.H.O.O.Q."
Brittney Buchanan
I absolutely have always loved the painting labelled Nighthawks by Edward Hopper in 1942. I adored how this painting shows a calm resting place during the night when usually night can be so hectic and almost 'wild'. I think that it shows the light from inside the diner shining into the darkness upon the streets for this reason.
"House by the Railroad" by Edward Hopper - 1925
Edward Hopper is considered "the best-knowned American realist of the inter-war period." At the age of 17, Edward decided that he was going to be an artist. In the year 1900 he transferred to the New York School of Art where his instructor was Robert Henri, seen as one of the fathers of American Realism. Robert Henri would also later be described as the most influencial teacher in Hoppers life. Hopper stayed at school for another 7 years, as he was a slow learner, and then was able to make his trip to Europe. Even though he stated that the trip was of no influence, it was found out later that it was.
Realism is the opposite of idealism. Realism is a movement that started in France that accurately depicts the visible world. The subjects of the paintings are painted without being embellished and without the formal rules of painting. The objective of Realists was to promote ideology of objective reality.
The "House by the Railroad" was painted in 1925 is considered his first fully matured piece of art. Hopper's painting was a painting of the 19th century architecture of a house but was painted in the modern quality of simplicity His painting was also very symbolic to the way that his life was unfolding. The painting even though a realism painting also differed from other realism paintings of the time by the intricate detailing he put in to the shading and shadowing of the house. He also differed by darkening of the house from left to right and the perceptive of the house compared to the railroad tracks in front of it.
Jonathan Roberts
I chose Ernie Barnes. His work is show on the credit of the Good TImes tv show. That particular picture"Sugar Shack" started me to liking pictures.The social and political climate of the late 1960's and early 1970's ignited Barnes' imagination.One of the paintings from the exhibition, titled Sugar Shack became the most visible painting by an American artist since Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. By giving vision to the common properties in the daily lives of African Americans, Barnes defined the very essence of a culture.
One artist from the 20th century that I feel must be mentioned is Salvatore Dali. His most famous work, The Persistence of Memory, is the perfect example of surrealism. Image URL: http://www.usc.edu/programs/cst/deadfiles/lacasis/ansc100/library/images/341.html
This quote says it all: Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dali painted with what he called "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only, he said, "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality."
Dali's rebellion was against reality itself. He, like many 20th century artists, wanted their art to challenge people's preconceived notions of how things are supposed to be. By showing people things that they could never see in real life, artists force people to think outside of the box. They want people to realize that things don't have to be how they're "supposed to be." That anything is possible and that it is our duty as humans to be creative. I believe that this is what art is all about, not just pretty pictures of things we have seen before, but images and ideas that make us think, and question conventional wisdom. Dali's "systemization of confusion" is just another (more eloquent) way of saying all of this.
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