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...

FOUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ART Wolfgang Laib, with his modern sculptures, catches the viewer attention to look art differently. That is because that he uses very natural but extremely time consuming materials to deal, which also serve his concepts that impermanence and the moment. In addition,...

All modern artists are the same, right? Wrong. The two artists I will be discussing, Pablo Picasso and M.C. Escher, though they have some similarities, are also very different. Though they are from the same general era, the tone of their artwork, their drawing styles, and some of the types of media ...

Sean Novak Prof. Carlos Hidalgo October 4, 2000 On October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was born into the care of his parents Jose Ruiz and Maria Picasso. Pablo chose the last name of his mother merely because it was much more unique than his father's, which exaggerated the boy's unique natur...

Ever since Pablo Picasso was a young boy he had a refined and prodigious skill of art. He moved around the country wherever his talents led him and was one of the most versatile artists to ever live. Picasso is characterized by his metamorphosis and continuous change in his works. He is famous fo...

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 ...

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...

Constantine Brancusi, a Romanian sculptor born in 1876, is considered one of the first creators in modern art. As a young man he was a craftsman in woodcarving. From 1898-1902, he studied at the National Fine Arts School in Bucharest. In 1904, after traveling through Budapest, Vienna, Munich, an...