Henri Rousseau’s A Centennial of Independence was painted in 1892 and is on oil on canvas. The painting is roughly 44 by 61 inches and is currently on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Rousseau, alongside others such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, belongs to the Post-Impressionist movement, which deviated from the traditional academic style of painting; however, Rousseau’s art can be further classified towards the naïve and primitivism subcategories. The painting depicts a scene that
World Literature/Culture Twentieth-Century Art Project Data Sheet Art movement: The art movement is called Latin American Modernism. Time period: The time period is early 20th century. Geographic area: The geographic area is Latin America. Origins and purposes of movement: In the Latin American Modernist movement there were many kinds of artists and mediums. One of the most famous of these artists were muralists. There were many of them in the early 20th century and one of the most famous
Museum Trip Ashleyann Mabatid Azusa Pacific University College Museum Assignment For this assignment I went to the LACMA Museum I didn’t know there were so many different building of artwork. I felt a little overwhelmed with so many different artworks that I didn’t know what to chose as an assignment. There are multicultural art pieces from Japanese, African, Roman, and many more. While I was walking around different sections I came across this painting by Victor Brauner called Suicide at
The exhibition “Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye” contained a series of artworks that spanned the artist’s lifetime, from works depicting the area of his home to portraits of close friends. Of the artworks that were viewed at the exhibition, one in particular caught my attention for further analysis. Gustave’s painting “Man at His Bath” elicited a desire to further interpret and analyze the piece using the formal elements of texture and color and the design principle of emphasis and subordination
As a realistic painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator, Thomas Eakins, is known to be one of America’s most influential artists. Eakins was named, “the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American art.” (“Wyeth Lecture”) Thomas Eakins enjoyed painting human figures in motion, nude or lightly nude. He preferred to paint human bodies in motion rather than any other topic. Furthermore, majority of Eakins’s paintings can be symbolized as portraitures
Henri Matisse was born in the nineteenth century and painted during the modern period, while Louie Van Patten is a contemporary artist, despite the large gap in their lives they both deal with similar ideas within their works. Mademoiselle Yvonne Landsberg by Henri Matisse and Sequence Study by Louie Van Patten show the different approach and techniques that artist from different generations use while depicting the movement of time within a work. Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France
His works of art fit under the category of Abstract Expressionism which was characterized by non-objective imagery that appeared emotionally charged, frequently subconscious, with personal meaning (Spivey 1). Just like Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism was not a single style or approach so these artistic movements allowed Pollock and Van Gogh to develop their signature styles and express themselves
Defining Outsider Art Roger Cardinal first coined the term ‘outsider art’ in 1972 to describe the art of the mentally insane and more broadly art made by anyone outside of the academic art world. The stereotypical outsider artist is either mentally ill, lower class, a person of color or a recluse, some fitting in multiple categories. Outsider artist range from people like Adolf Wolfli, a schizophrenic child molester , to artist like Thortan Dial who is only considered outsider because of race and
Olivia Lance 9/18/14 Art 190-970 Marc Chagall and his Work “I and the Village” Marc Chagall was an interesting artist who lived from 1887 to 1985. Although, he has passed his artwork is still appreciated to this day. His art varied from different meanings, different styles, materials, mediums, and passions. These differences in art can be explained by the times, and thoughts going through an artist’s head. One of his most famous paintings that have been studied over and over is
Franz Marc one of the leading artists of the German Expressionist artists of the Der Blaue Reiter movement, who focused on “lyrical abstraction in their works, as well as a mystical feeling with deep spiritual content” (Encyclopedia Brittanica). However, his work was more animal-centric. He believed that “animals possessed a certain godliness about them that men had since long lost because of materialism and lack of empathy” (Guggenheim). While Franz Marc painted many other works throughout his life