Towards the end of the nineteenth-century changes in the temperament of the social structure, and economic character of Europe caused artists to abandon previously held art-making conventions and instead seek to interpret the world in new and revolutionary means. \'More of an attitude than a specifi...

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 first sculpture that caught my attention, \"Las Mesas Bench,\" is a work by Jesus Bautista Morales. It portrays two ladies sitting on a bench talking while a man is sitting on another bench listening to them. His style and use of polished granite with rough edges seem to create a surprising and...

In comparing the ideality of art and the actual artifact, we will find that the results will normally vary widely according to the eye of the beholder. To impose a judgment of whether a painting can achieve the status of ideal form, one must first understand the purpose behind the piece of art. Ar...

Pointillism has truly been the beginning of a new error within time itself. Its creation came from an offshoot of Impressionism, and is usually classified as a form of Post-Impressionism. It is very similar to Divisionism, but where Divisionism is concerned with the color theory, Pointillism is focu...

In 1872, Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He grew up interested in painting and the surrounding environment. Following the standard painting style of the time, which was impressionism Mondrian, began painting. He studies at The Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He started off painti...

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, also known as the Academy, was build during the reign of Louis XIV of France. The Academy was extremely significant in the 19th century because the works that were accepted into the Salon became the taste making body in French culture. Attendees of the Salon were generally...

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...

Artwork during that Americans did were brought on by the Europeanstyle of artwork. America eventually warped that style into their ownpersonal style concerning the type of people from different cultureswho had settled in America. Spanish and Indian cultures were wherefolk art came from. They were ma...

Candy Elliott-RiesArt 101 ETMr. Tim HahnFinal PaperPaul CezanneCezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on January 19, 1839. Cezanne developed artistic interests at an early age. His father was a common laborer then became a hatter and, eventually, a successful wealthy banker. H...