History of painting

The qualifications for art are very subjective. What one individual may call beautiful or a profound critique on modern society another may completely disregard. Andy Warhol, who has come to be considered “as one of the 20th century’s major artistic innovators” (8-7), was not initially recieved with as much respect and admiration. The general opinion initially given to Warhol’s art is likely similar to the opinion Hap, the dairy farmer in “The soul of Capitalism,” would have held. Although Hap…

one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton. This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939. They could expel Dali but they could not restrain him from producing paintings and sculpture in the Surrealist style. IV In 1931, Salvador Dali lived in Port Lligat, Spain and he was…

Throughout the course of history, some artists of various disciplines were able to attain significant fame and success. While their road to fame could be attributed to their artistic talent in general, often times, there are outside factors that heavily influences the success and reputation of artists. Mark Rothko, an Abstract Expressionist painter, is an example of an artist who achieved success and reputation from outside factors. Although his talent in regards to his artistic technique is…

LeWitt he defined Conceptual Art as that which is made to engage the mind of views rather his eye or emotion. Sol LeWitt was born on September 9th, 1928. He was an American, he studied at Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts. He was known for painting, drawing, and sculpture. He became famous with his art in the late 1960s. He has been in several Museums for his work since 1965. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut to a family of jewish immigrants. He took art classes as a child also. He…

What is Art History? According to many dictionaries, Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style. This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects. Art history is a big book that is hard to talk about in single pages. Here is a research paper comparing between the White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk and…

Duchamp ‘Fountain’ E. Kuenzli, Rudolf & M. Naumann, Francis “Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century” Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917-William A. Camfield (1996): 64-90. William A. Camfield writes about Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ as one of the most famous and equally infamous objects in the history of modern art. He goes over the history of ‘Fountain’ in high detail and answers all the questions surrounding this work. He mentions how people denied that…

of European history that took place from the 5th century to the 10th century, and the Late Middle Ages took place from the 10th century to the mid 14th century. The Early and Late Middle Ages were very different but a little similar in the senses of art, architecture, religion, politics, education and literature. Art and architecture had similar and different aspects in The Middle Ages. Art was similar in terms of what was used and created. For example, there were sculptures, paintings,…

But one accident took a larger toll than the most. “Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident” (Kahlo, paragraph 1). This shows that after the accident, Frida Kahlo 's career as a painter had begun. Meaning a part of her innocence of the perfect pictured world was lost, realizing that there…

the 20th century due to the clear of use of Cubism, especially regarding the African masks. The African sculptures caused Picasso to move away from paintings that were based on entertainment but more towards freeing the human mind of reality (Dabrowski 2004). Picasso never really gave African art credit but masked-faces were evident in his paintings such as, Bust of a Man, Woman’s Head and Woman in an Armchair all which contained geometric proportions (Murrell 2008). Colonialism was happening…

A very popular theme among great artists and storytellers is a story from the Apocryphal book of Judith. In this story, a beautiful and loyal widow saves the Israelite town of Bethulia from Nebuchadnezzar 's army, who are under the command of Holofernes. While modeling her finest clothes, she pretends to destroy the invading Assyrian army. She is then taken to Holofernes, where she flatters and captivates him by her beauty and oath to help him overcome the Israeli resistance. After this meeting,…