"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality." -- Pablo Picasso Picasso is known for his abstract paintings and is described as a modern artist. Ideas expressed in the handout "Modernism" are used to describe Pablo Picasso's...

Introduction One cannot begin to discuss postmodern culture without first looking at what is known as the Modern movement. Modernism was a shift in thought with regard to the arts. This movement, which includes music, literature, the visual arts, and drama, rejected the old Victorian standards of a...

The painter Arshile Gorky was born Vostanig Adolan in eastern Turkey. Raised in a poor Armenian farming family, Gorky's childhood was shaped by two disasters: the first being the massacres of 1896, the second was the genocide of 1915, that affected the entire Armenian population, and which claime...

The term Modernism refers to a movement, which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century. The modernist movement affected poetry, fiction, drama, painting, music and architecture. The true birth of modernism in poetry is often dated to the publication of T.S. Eliot's "The Lov...