Abstract expressionism is a 20th-century painting style that features large-scale works and expression of feelings through slashing and active brush strokes. It exploded in New York, following World War II. The war brought on the victory of abstract and expressionistic art and the creation of the ...

The painting I have picked is Vincent Van Gogh\'s The Starry Night, which was done on oil canvas, in 1889. I\'m not really familiar with Van Gogh\'s work, but this is one piece of work of his that stands out to me. Vincent Van Gogh\'s Starry Night is an excellent painting in which Van Gogh paints a...

The ancient Greeks were some of the most detailed artists of all time. Their sculptures are good examples of this and are classified into three periods: Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout the three periods, human figures dominated art. I have always enjoyed learning about different pott...

Giacomo Balla\'s painting Abstract Speed - The Car Has Passed was originally the right hand side of a triptych work done in 1913. The center was a piece called Line of Force + Noise, and the left hand side was Line of force + Landscape. He uses an analogous color scheme of green and blue to repres...

What is Art Art can be said, as an expression of one's self and the feeling from the world around them. This does not only count the traditional forms of art, painting, music, sculpting, and drama. From my point of view along with the definition listed above, I believe that it is truly an e...

Max Pechsteins painting called \"Zwiesprache\" (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females conversing in a landscape. Its condition is unusually fine, with strong boldly printed colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most probably sexuality and it...

The art of the Cuban culture goes back to prehistoric times when the first traces were found in caves. This type of art was later labeled as \"folk art\" because of its nature and craftsmanship. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the island was full of poverty and not much art streamed out. Painter...

Introduction African Art in general, are works of art created by historical or contemporary African artists living south of the Sahara. The artists belong to a wide variety of cultures from Africa, and everyone is characterized by its own language, traditions, and artistic forms. Although the large...

The unbroken line of art reaches all the way back to the ancient caveman scribbling on walls. Examples of this type of primitive art are found all over the world. This is evidence there was a common thread of human need for this type of expression. It had to evolve out of a basic human psychic need ...

Introduction While attending the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art I was fascinated by all the different styles, textures, and materials that were used to make art. But of all the extraordinary works of art on display, perhaps one of the smaller pieces was the one that had the biggest impact on me....

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous Modern artists of the twentieth century. Picasso\'s work followed the style of Cubism. Cubism was a non-objective style of painting developed in Paris in the early twentieth century. It was characterized by reducing and fragmenting natural forms into abstra...

The theory that all art is imitation is a good starting point to deciphering what exactly art is, but it is not the cornerstone, contrary to Plato, Aristotle, and Batteux\'s beliefs may be. Batteaux\'s Single Principle of the fine arts suggests that all art is an imitation of beautiful nature convey...

Throughout the Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance civilizations, art has been used to express the entire range of human feelings and spiritual beliefs. \"Art was a pleasure in itself,\" according to humanist ideas. So the essential question was asked: What was the relationship between art in the Roman...

How do you perceive art and what does it mean to you? For me, art is a way for me to fully express my feelings toward a subject and lose my mind in a void of fantasy and reality. Art has no format and is very unique. A time that I enjoyed viewing some exquisite pieces of art was at the Dali Museum j...

\"Cubism is an attempt to combine three-dimensional sculpture and two-dimensional painting. You have to imagine walking around an object and piecing it together from several different sides in order to decide what the artist is trying to do\" (Ernest Goldstein). When Diego Rivera painted Zapatista ...

Chang Dai-Chien is known for his skill of imitating traditional Chinese historical artists. He borrowed techniques from the diversity of Chinese art. Upon my arrival at the gallery, the atmosphere of the ancient epoch created by the paintings presented at the art show impressed me very much. The atm...

The Museum of Modern Art, also known as MoMA, was the first museum to devote its collection entirely to the modern movement. The museum was founded in 1929 by three public citizens, Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The works in the museum collection date from the 1...

In the early twentieth-century, art became a form of expression through personal experiences, nature, and visual aspects of the world. Early modern artists expanded and broadened the image and value of art. They explored different styles of art that merged painting and sculpture and left no border...

Remnants of the Celtic people have been around for at least 4,000 years. Archaeologists mainly interpret Celtic history and art from relics found in graves and garbage dumps. Roman documents are also a source for scholars yet they can be one-sided descriptions of the Celts. Many of the elements in C...

Cubism, which began very shortly after Fauvism, is exemplified by Pablo Picasso. In this movement, the flattened space including background and foreground are related in a new and more abrupt manner. The first effect is of a camera in motion, a kaleidoscopic impression of the solid portions of ...

In 1872, Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He grew up interested in painting and the surrounding environment. Following the standard painting style of the time, which was impressionism Mondrian, began painting. He studies at The Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He started off painti...

The pulsating relationship between Van Gogh and Gauguin during the fall of 1888 in Arles is well known, nevertheless Silverman reveals a complicated cultural and religious background of both painters that previously had not been explored. While concentrating on their principally different religious...

The Honorable Art of Tattoo The art of Tattoo has been around since 12,000 years before Christ and has gone through many years' of judgment by people of different races and cultures. This art form spanned many different cultures with many different meanings and is being transformed today. ...

Art of the Romanesque period was characterized by an important revival of monumental forms, notably sculptures and fresco paintings, which develop in close association with architectural decoration and exhibited a forceful and often severely structural quality. At the same time, an element of realis...

- Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. - Born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. - He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. - In 1908 he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland. - His work was naturalistic, incorporating successive i...