In the artistic realm, the artist\'s thought process is morphologically transformed through the art materials and forms into signs, symbols, and imagery. Signs and symbols play a dominant role in 20th Century art; the artist used this medium as a language to portray intentions of varying differences...

The term neo-expressionism describes the art movement that dominated the art market in the early and mid-1980s. The word \"neo\" refers to a revival of previous ideas or trends. Expressionism was a style from around the time of World War I that was highly personal and was often executed with violen...

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 ...

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 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...

The 20th century embraced many different art movements and introduced the works of many new recognized artists. Two of these artists can be familiarized as Pablo Picasso and Willem do Kooning. Each artist demonstrated a unique style based on the demands of the time period they painted in. Two works...

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...

In visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art there was one particular painter whose work really stood out to me and held the biggest inspiration on me as someone who is trying to pursue art. This famous painter was Georgia O\'Keeffe who established most of her work in the early 1900s. She was one of t...

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...

Expressionism is a much less important current in sculpture than in painting, since the ethnographic sculpture by the Fauves might have evoked a strong response among sculptors Only one important sculptor shared in this rediscovery Brancusi, a Rumanian, moved to Paris to study advanced art around ...

Gertrude Stein, American writer of the 20th century Americanliterature, is considered one of the proponents of the modernist tradition. Modernism is an ideological movement that pervaded literature of the 20thcentury, asserting expressionism and individualism in works of art. One ofStein's fa...

The reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), experienced an emphasis on public righteousness and moral propriety. Victorian society was largely highlighted by the industrial revolution which had been rapidly transforming rural areas into industrialized landscapes. However, this development pushed the lo...

Images--they draw us into their sinful lust, invigorate us, suck us in like zombies or candy. I, like most of us, am a media junkie, and gladly process sparkly music videos with no content and horrific movies that I later dislike. Undoubtedly, many times I have paid more attention to the beauty of t...

During the Romanesque period, art often portrayed biblical events or depicted saints and other religious imagery. There were also several different styles of Romanesque art. The development of these styles can be credited to the geographic area in which the art was made, the audience that the art ...

For my paper, I selected \"The Scream\" by Edvard Munch. Munch is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of expressionism. He was quoted as saying \"We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room wal...

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 ...

The Arts play a large role in the expression of inner thoughts and beauty in life. From dance and music to painting, the concept of life is shown through the various ways in which we interpret it. The arts play a valued role in creating cultures and developing and documenting civilizations. Russia h...

Modern drama began by turning toward realism and away from the fantasy of nineteenth-century melodrama and farce. Realism gave rise to various innovations that served to express the dramatist\'s vision of what reality is. These attempts to be \" more real than real\" can be called expressionism. ...

Between 1900-1939, there were many different movements in art mainly due to two reasons, modernization, and the First World War. The term \'avant-garde\' has become synonymous with the evolving modern movement of art. \'Although \'art for art\'s sake\' is a term not often used positively, this moder...

It is a very exciting time to be involved in art. The contemporary art world has exploded into a cacophony of \"anything-goes\" themes and ideas. This provides problems for standards and conventional schools of wisdom, but at the same time, it results in a more stimulating and enriching artistic c...

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...

Creation in a world of destruction: Art as survival in the Holocaust The Holocaust in art and the art of the Holocaust are two distinctly different forms of art. The former refers to any art depicting or alluding to the Holocaust. It includes works created both during and after the war, by victi...

To The Age It's Art, 1870 - 1920Dada is the artistic and literary movement reflecting a widespread nihilistic protest against all aspects of Western culture in the late 19th century. In their efforts to express the negation of all-current aesthetic and social values, the Dadaists frequently used ar...

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 ...

Edvard Munch was an influential Norwegian painter and printmaker whose evocative painting \"The Scream\" meant to imply existential anguish and fear. However, as mass production and technology have made advances the perspective placed in a post-modernistic setting when viewing the painting can be s...