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...

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...

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....

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...

Abstract In July 1937, Adolph Hitler\'s Nazi party mounted an exhibition of confiscated art called, \"Entartete Kunst,\" meaning, \"Degenerate Art.\" It showcased and ridiculed the work of contemporary artists such as Max Beckman, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, and over 200 others. This pape...

Romare Bearden is among the greatest artists of his generation. His complex and powerful works represent the places where he lived and worked: the rural North Carolina, the urban area of the northern cities (primarily Pittsburgh and New York\'s Harlem), and the Caribbean island of St. Martin. Religi...

Our ancestors first sought to understand themselves and their surroundings through the invention of myths and the worshipping of gods. The Greeks, for example, created gods like Athena and Aries to explain the concept of wisdom and war respectively. I would like to think, contrary to common thought...

German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism, both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting, which developed in reaction to the dormant ac...

While touring the Baltimore Museum of Art one particular piece caught my immediate attention. The painting is entitled \"Evening Glow\" and was painted in 1972 by Alma Thomas, a renowned African American woman with a lifetime of achievement in painting and teaching art. Evening Glow was painted ...

The paintings featured in this assignment are all similar because they all offer an insight into the artists\' minds and what they were thinking and feeling. They achieve this using a number of different techniques, but the most notable aspect of the three of the paintings examined in this assignmen...

How Geographic Differences Influenced American Artists Grant Wood and Fredric Remington were both American artist who painted on oil and canvas during the early part of the twentieth century. Grant Wood is best known for depicting American farmers during the 1930's. Fredric Remington is ...

No two artists can alone be considered responsible for the modern art movement, but both Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Claude Monet (1840-1926) led two very distinct groups of artists. Though their styles differ greatly, they are both equally responsible for helping to shape the direction paintin...

The German Expressionist cinema began in 1919 and was itself essentially an opposite of Impressionism. While Impressionism dealt more with giving an outward impression of an object, Expressionism sought to induce the emotional feel an object invokes on itself. Seemingly most often, Expressionist art...

Frida Kahlo\'s \'The Broken Column\' is portraying an image of her life and her experiences. Even though Frida Kahlo was thought to be a surrealist, she painted the reality that portrayed her mental and physical pain. Andre Breton, a surrealist poet, once actually remarked that Kahlo was a surrealis...

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 claimed t...