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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...

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...

The Artists of Brazil

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

20th Century Modern Artists

it can be said, changed to reflect this. Edouard Manet painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and rever...

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

Rothko's Use of Color

known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express bas...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Franz West and Anish Kapoor's Installation or Environmental Art

the visitor regardless of past educational experiences in the world of art is not only entertained but fascinated by the sheer eno...

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 ...

Modernist Movement and Artist Mark Rothko

"unreal city" (as T.S. Eliot put it) indicates the crucial importance of a metropolitan social life for the emergence of modernist...

Comparison of Rococo and Baroque Art

In nine pages the social and political backgrounds of these artistic periods are discussed along with differences and similarities...