Sergei Eisenstein - Formal Critique of Strike Art is often looked at in relationship to the historical context of the art and the connections that may or may not exist between the artwork and the artist, but when reading the critiques of critics such as Roger Fry, one can see a different approach to criticizing art. Fry suggested through his writings that art has little or no meaningful connection with either the artist who makes it or the culture to which it belongs and that we should analyze works of art out of context -as pure form, rather than as expressions of time and place. He and ...

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It is, after all, their critiques which usually control the flow of the fashion. ... The purity of flatness essentially came down to a style in which lines, forms, colors, and contours all are merged eloquently in such a unification with the flatness of the canvas that it is art, as pure as art can be. ... Pre-Modern art was not pure because it was an illusion the viewer could imagine walking into, and thus the flatness of the canvas plane was betrayed. ... (Wolfe 78) The work of Jasper Johns is what Steinberg referred to as being pure simply because he used objects that were flat be their...

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Art: The Ultimate Expression Essay written by Unknown Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist's culture. ... Women were eventually nude but only when there was a reason, they needed to be bathing or something where they would be naked. ... Artists like Thomas Cole show us what is pure and simple. ...

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