ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM Abstract expressionism was a new and exciting movement. It evolved during the beginning of World War II when a group of artists decided that it was impossible to paint the normal still lifes and nudes of the times. The artists of this movement were opposed to all forms o...
Throughout his career, which now spans more than thirty years, Katz has produced a remarkable and impressive body of work that constitutes a unique aspect of modern realism. ... Katz's portraits form a new and distinctive type of realism in American art which combines aspects of both abstraction and representatio Alex n. ...
Art, it's everywhere you look. From the billboards you see every day to the pictures you take with your camera. It exists on every continent and every country. Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. This essay is to inform and highlight some of the most importan...
I believe that all of us are born with the ability to shape our own futures and are limited only by our physical limitations. The here and now is just exactly what it sounds like. It reminds us that we should live for the present and not get caught up in the past. This has the tendency to limit what...
Grant Wood was born on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa on February 13, 1891. After his father's death in 1901, the Wood family moved to Cedar Rapids where Grant attended school and even at an early age revealed his artistic talent. He and his friend, Marvin Cone, made scenery for plays and drawing f...
More often than not the abstract artists is not imitating nature or pursuing realism, but concerned with the spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony, and will attempt to engage the viewer in a way that narrative, realistic of naturalistic art cannot.? ...
It finds its identity by differentiating itself from what it is not; for example, not Realism, its predecessor, which is characterized by its attempt objectively to offer up a mirror to the world. ... The symbolist poet is the archetypal figure in modernism; it's equally distant from realism and expressionism. ...
1. How effectively does Possession by A.S Byatt reflect and/or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the time in which it was composed? The year 1990 saw the publication of A.S Byatt's Possession-A Romance. Composed during a time where the dominant discourse in literature, academia, architec...
Brian Ricketts Doctorow's novel, Welcome to Hard Times is an anti-western novel. Doctorow attempts to debunk the western myth of the American dream. The essential theme in the novel is that the west fails to live up to the hope that civilization can conquer evil. In this way, it was firs...
Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or repre...
