In recent years, modern artist Jackson Pollock, also known as \"Jack the Dipper\" for his revolutionary technique that freed many from academic strictures, has become more and more famous. I am choosing to write about him because his work has been discussed around the holiday dinner table at family ...

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...

\"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 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....

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...

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...

Art Critics are educated people who have educated guesses on what an artist\'s symbolism or inspiration was for an artwork. There are many periods and schools of thought for art and each critic has an original viewpoint of what the artist attempting to convey to an audience. Modernist critics are of...

Art was one of the earliest manifestations of culture; this is because it fulfills humankind\'s need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. Paleolithic art can be found to date back over thirty thousand years. The first discovery of this type of art ...

Working Thesis: The Catalan struggle and Spanish Civil War greatly influenced Joan Miró\'s art; Miro\'s techniques of forceful strokes with paint and ceramics enable Miró to express his feelings and depict the Catalan people\'s struggle through art. I. Surrealism in the 1920s A.) Born into a Cat...

Modernist Art in Europe 1910-25 by Robert l. HerbertHerbert's thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art during that time has...

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...

Catenary Spaces and Planar Spaces Working with the merged sensibilities of a sculptor, a photographer, an architect, and a builder, Timothy Makepeace orchestrates structure, design, light and shadow into elegant works deeply indebted to the basic principles of modernism. He is drawn to the inne...

The atmosphere in the Museum of Modern Art was very tranquil - the lights aren\'t too bright, and the wall itself looked like a piece of artwork. I\'d been walking around the museum for a while and I finally saw a painting that was what I\'d been expecting to find. It was located in a big room with ...

Henri Matisse's painting Purple Robe and Anemones, from 1937, hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art. This painting depicts his model Lydia Delectorskaya in a purple robe with a vase of anemones in the foreground. Matisse did not intend to capture his subject realistically. Instead, the painting ...

The artwork of Robert Rauschenberg was constantly changing and fresh, and he was well ahead of his time. His work inspired Pop Art, Minimalism, and much of the work that many people today do with computers. Rauschenberg challenged the ideas of pre-conceived artwork as well as ideas about authorship ...

Henri Matisse and Fernand Leger were two of the most influential artists of the Twentieth Century. Their styles, though very different, came from similar beginnings. Both of these artists took their beginnings and used them into a new world for art. Two examples of their unique styles are Matisse\'s...

• Abstract Expressionism: Process of trial and error motivated by aesthetic goals, new reps of emotions, and state of mind, styles evolved as they worked. Non-geometric shapes, Jungian philosophy that certain myths and beliefs are repeated in different societies at different times • Post world ...

Georgia O'Keeffe"Precisionist," is the term most widely used to describe Georgia O'Keeffe's work. O'Keeffe's great clarity in painting is what identifies her well-known paintings of urban architecture, mountains, bones, and flowers. The simple, clear forms in her masterpieces "made her a pioneer o...

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...

RUNNING HEAD: Post-modern black familyPost-modernism and the Black FamilyJohn Jay CollegeDeliwe KekanaIn recent years, multiculturalism, tolerance and political correctness have been integrated into how American society thinks. America seems to be trying to learn more about the ingredients of her m...