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 ...

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...

"Art and Visual Culture" expresses its key focus in its title; it is a course about art, but not only standard art, it also includes aspects of visual culture. Culture has many definitions listed in Encarta Dictionary, one of which is the set of shared beliefs, customs, and attitudes of a...

This poster art form took off in the early 20th century as a result of the Russian Revolution and grew a tremendous amount during the 1920's and 1930's. Founded in 1917 in Russia by sculptor Antoine Pevsner and his younger brother Naum Pevsner Gabo, they believed that art should be functional and ...

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 ...

"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come throug...

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...

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...

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...

Among the leading painters of post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement, Franz Kline developed his own highly personal form of art based more on "spontaneous expression in abstract design of the artist's psychic states."1 Abstract expressionism saw representation as the exact opposite of...

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...

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 ...

There seems to be a kind of circular rhetoric that weaves in and out of the 'art within a context' discussion, or the 'what is art' question. Both of which will probably forever continue to fuel many debates and commentaries. In this paper, I would like to provide a discourse on the topic of ga...

The twentieth century brought WWI, Hitler, and the Great Depression to the world. It was a time of turmoil and out of turmoil comes change. The art world would also be turned upside down and forever changed. Fauves, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Fantasy, Dada, Surrealism, and early Abstract...

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

• 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 ...

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 ...