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Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

'The Looking Glass' Article by Lawrence Weschler

In five pages this report examines the article that appeared in a January 2000 issue of The New Yorker in which American artist Da...

Philip Guston

Guston, painting, by its very nature is "impure...We are image-makers and image-ridden" ("Books and Arts" 109). Analyses of 5 wor...

Article Analysis: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

custom, which decrees that women cannot be held to the same standards as men. First, Nochlin dismisses the idea that there are gre...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Iris Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

that "the Impressionism is a lot more a state of the mind than a technique; thus artists other than painters have also been qualif...

Renaissance Europe and Artistic Talent and Genius

time spent in the workshop of a painter. Here they would learn how to copy painting by the artist. This would aid in the developme...

Mythology and Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

Life and Works of Diego Rivera

Date of his death is November 24, 1957" (Tuck, 2002; jtdiegorivera.html). His Art "He studied in the San Carlos Academy and in...

Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...

2 Paintings by Gustav Klimt

synthesizes all of his diverse talents and multiple influences and results in an image that is completely unique in terms of its e...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Life and Art of Jackson Pollock

reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...

Minimalism Environmental Art

universe characteristic to traditional theatre since there is no causal plot" (Happenings and Other Acts). The culmination of Kap...

The Artists of Brazil

the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...

Artists Horace Pippin, Edward Hicks, Thomas Cole, and American Romanticism

(Thomas Cole). In these works there is undeniable evidence of the pristine nature of his subjects (Thomas Cole). Cole renders hi...

Cuban Artist Paul Sierra

Gallery, 2002). The human conditions, his paintings seem to say, tend to be in chains and bound, no matter what country these huma...

Martha Graham and James Joyce

about the time of the life of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their ar...

Impressionist Artists and the Influence of Japanese Art

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...

How I Remember the Creator of Peanuts

inside Charlie Brown, the protagonist and the authors namesake who keeps going no matter what. At the end of his life, Charles bat...

Frida Kahlo's Colors and Artistic Intimacy

as well as her physical problems from contracting polio as a child and injuries that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925...

Tribal Societies and the Roles Played by Architects and Artists

the depiction of characters. In this case, the artists were employed to tell an accurate account of the daily rituals the leaders ...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Performance Artist Genny Lim

in regards to information on the Internet and within journals, books and magazines. Because of Lims extensive reach in regards to ...

Russian Ballet and Musical Development and the Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution

five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...

Performance Artist Marina Abramovic

Recent solo exhibitions have included: Marina Abramovic: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Marking ...

Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci and Their Renaissance Art

and is a study of psychological reactions. A serene Christ, who is resigned to his destiny, has just announced to his disciples th...

William Sidney Mount and Samuel F.B. Morse and Their Approaches to American Art

were the most significant paintings for American to know and recognize. Nearly forty paintings and two sculptures can be found in ...