Research a work of art from the book and lecture. Write a paragraph about the work and the art movement it belongs to? What kind of rebellion is taking place?
“Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” By: Boccioni, Umberto
This specific sculptor falls under the abstraction art form of “Futurism.” It was created in a time when World War I was about to begin. Automobiles, planes, and Einstein’s theories peaked the minds of many. The people desired for a big, better and different art style that would fit this new and exciting life style. A French poet named Filippo Marinetti was one of the first to ask for art that followed a more aggressive and high-speed representation. “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” gives a great precise of this new art movement. The statue looks as though its strides in place, as it gives the perception that a mystical wind is twisting its clothing in all sorts of directions. This statue was one of the first to bring an abstract form to life. By: Chasity Burg
This was one of my favorite paintings because it really represents and expresses the changes at that time period, the beginning of the 19-century. This painting “Dog on a Leash” is part of the Italian Art Movement, the Futurism. At that time, cars were being made, air plains are being used, and everything was passing by so fast. People were also angry with the government; people were having money problems, etc. In this painting, the artist really depicts the “beauty of speed” breaking all traditions in a very photographic way. The colors are also very simple and dramatic. The black and white shows that dark aspect of the new technologies.
This painting is an example of Cubism and it conveys the uncertainty in life that is emphisised by the overall gloomy tone of the painting. It was created in 1942 and was considered one of Braque's "late works". This piece symbolizes that art doesn't come from one thing, but from many different cultures and people. It shows that even though art is diverse, all art is still connected.
Braque and Picasso, who were close friends, invented cubism which was a new and completely nonillusionistic and nonimitative method of displaying the world.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude and one of the most inspiring and revolutionary artist of the 20th c. They embody the notion of "pure art", or art that is created without any constraint. Their projects ranging from wrapping Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, to umbrellas in California and Japan and finally The Gates in New York's Central Park. The only objective of their art is to make the ordinary environment beautiful and therefore draw attention to it. When i traveled to New York to witness the unveiling of the Gates i finally understood their mission. Central Park looked orange in the midst of a February day. It was spectacular. Christo and Jeanne-Claude created art against whatever was popular at the time; their works usually span decades, some 26 years for Gates for example. They truly follow their calling until the end and do not give in to temptation to sell out.
LEE.L Known for his odd behaviors and deemed controversial, Salvador Dali joins the surrealist movement in 1929. Surrealism is a style defined by the use of visual imagery from the subconscious mind. Before then he did worked in other styles like cubism, futurism and metaphysical. Some of his work includes: persistence of Memory, which he did in 1931, The Hallucinogenic Toreador 1968, and Presentiment de la guerre civile. His work always features everyday objects and people in awkward form and posses. His style is like a dream. His work later became more religious in theme and his style became more classical and less surrealistic.
It was painted to be the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair. It was painted during the Spanish Civil War. The piece falls under the category of abstract art. The reason I chose this work was because I don't really like it. I am a fan of abstract, but just not a fan of this. I researched what every image portrayed within the piece, but I don't get why you would use some of the images to describe war. To me war is a very serious thing that needs to be portrayed that way. I know that Picasso could do more realist paintings and for the subject of war I think he should have. War to me has these flashes of beauty, tragedy, gruesomeness, and poetry. Weather it be a flower in a field of battle or a child dieing from a stray bullet. I would not think that he would have been lacking in subject matter. I truly feel that if he was not so far away while he painted, "Guernica," he would have painted something more realistic. I think his work shows the distance he felt during the Spanish War.
"The Fountain" was the work of Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, who considered the piece to be "readymade". This was when the artist didn't have to actually create. As a general rule for something to be "readymade" it had to be a mass produced object in which Duchamp would select and then sign the object. This type of art was greatly rejected during its time, but the Dadist sought to demonstrate their beliefs against war and politics by rejecting the standards of art. This movement paved the way for the Surrealists.
"Sketch I for Composition VII" by - Wassily Kandinsky
This painting belongs to the expressionist movement. For its time it was very abstract and boundless. This painting is non-representational. It provokes the viewer's imagination senses, emotions, and beliefs for what 'art' is or is not. When just 10 years earlier, the majority of popular paintings emphasized figures and landscapes. With a strong sense of movement and explosion of brilliant colors, this work captures the essence of an experience, and not the instinctual object or figure most artists tend to focus on. An inexperienced eye can quickly come to a conclusion that any curious child could paint this. But the groupings of warm and cool colors in a complementary fashion, as well as the occasional soft gradients of each suggests otherwise.
Shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida completed this self-portrait of two different personalities. Kahlo had a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral habits. She was motivated by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization. Definitely all the details of her amazing life influence many aspects of her work, however her representation of her body and experiences can also be seen as a response to wider cultural and political debates.
In 1907 Pablo Picasso a George Braque began to experiment with a new way of representing forms and space called Cubism. They used overlapping geometric shapes and subtle shade to create compositions. This developed further into Analytic cubism where they used more monochromatic colors to concentrate more on structure. This painting from 1910 is an good example of this analytical style. Picasso was always trying to find new ways to paint. He said “a painter’s study should be a laboratory. He should invent, not just copy nature like an ape.”
Salvador Dali, (1904-1989)was part of the surrealist movement. He was known as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his time, painting dreamlike landscapes. He became leader of the Surrealist Movement, but after a clashing with the group, because of his lack of interest in the war, he was expelled in 1934. He is most known for the painting "The Persistance of Memory""Surrealism a is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible" Artcyclopedia.comDenise Hutchins
Giacomo Balla was born in 1871. His works were greatly influenced by Seurat and the pointillist movement. Balla himself was apart of the first wave of futurist painters. Balla sought to break down elements such as light, speed and movement to the simplest form. Balla was so involved in his belief in futurism that he named his two daughters propeller and light. In this painting you can see the influence of pointillism, but I thought it was interesting how Balla almost slowed down time in his panting so you could see the motion that the violinist was making, its almost as if he changed the shutter speed for a different exposure on a camera. I really like this painting but for some reason the black corners on that make the "V" shape bothers me .
Umberto Boccioni "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
I really like this statue because of the sense of movement it reveals. At your first initial look you’re given a great sense of direction and wind-like movement in the piece. The specific art form is futurism and is apart of abstraction art. The twisting and turning of the different elements throughout the statue truly is an astonishing view and that is way I think that the name definitely fits this unique work.
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“Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
By: Boccioni, Umberto
This specific sculptor falls under the abstraction art form of “Futurism.” It was created in a time when World War I was about to begin. Automobiles, planes, and Einstein’s theories peaked the minds of many. The people desired for a big, better and different art style that would fit this new and exciting life style. A French poet named Filippo Marinetti was one of the first to ask for art that followed a more aggressive and high-speed representation. “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” gives a great precise of this new art movement. The statue looks as though its strides in place, as it gives the perception that a mystical wind is twisting its clothing in all sorts of directions. This statue was one of the first to bring an abstract form to life.
By: Chasity Burg
Giacomo Balla - Dog on a Leash
http://extremecraft.typepad.com/extreme_craft/images/2007/08/16/paintballa.jpg
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~rudzsky/mobacl2_files/balla.png
This was one of my favorite paintings because it really represents and expresses the changes at that time period, the beginning of the 19-century.
This painting “Dog on a Leash” is part of the Italian Art Movement, the Futurism. At that time, cars were being made, air plains are being used, and everything was passing by so fast. People were also angry with the government; people were having money problems, etc.
In this painting, the artist really depicts the “beauty of speed” breaking all traditions in a very photographic way. The colors are also very simple and dramatic. The black and white shows that dark aspect of the new technologies.
"A Man With A Guitar"
By: Georges Braque
This painting is an example of Cubism and it conveys the uncertainty in life that is emphisised by the overall gloomy tone of the painting. It was created in 1942 and was considered one of Braque's "late works". This piece symbolizes that art doesn't come from one thing, but from many different cultures and people. It shows that even though art is diverse, all art is still connected.
Braque and Picasso, who were close friends, invented cubism which was a new and completely nonillusionistic and nonimitative method of displaying the world.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/braque/man_guit.jpg
"The Gates" by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude and one of the most inspiring and revolutionary artist of the 20th c. They embody the notion of "pure art", or art that is created without any constraint. Their projects ranging from wrapping Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, to umbrellas in California and Japan and finally The Gates in New York's Central Park.
The only objective of their art is to make the ordinary environment beautiful and therefore draw attention to it.
When i traveled to New York to witness the unveiling of the Gates i finally understood their mission. Central Park looked orange in the midst of a February day. It was spectacular.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude created art against whatever was popular at the time; their works usually span decades, some 26 years for Gates for example. They truly follow their calling until the end and do not give in to temptation to sell out.
Haris Silic
http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/html/photos_others.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
http://christojeanneclaude.net/index.shtml
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Known for his odd behaviors and deemed controversial, Salvador Dali joins the surrealist movement in 1929. Surrealism is a style defined by the use of visual imagery from the subconscious mind. Before then he did worked in other styles like cubism, futurism and metaphysical. Some of his work includes: persistence of Memory, which he did in 1931, The Hallucinogenic Toreador 1968, and Presentiment de la guerre civile. His work always features everyday objects and people in awkward form and posses. His style is like a dream. His work later became more religious in theme and his style became more classical and less surrealistic.
"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso
It was painted to be the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair. It was painted during the Spanish Civil War. The piece falls under the category of abstract art. The reason I chose this work was because I don't really like it. I am a fan of abstract, but just not a fan of this. I researched what every image portrayed within the piece, but I don't get why you would use some of the images to describe war. To me war is a very serious thing that needs to be portrayed that way. I know that Picasso could do more realist paintings and for the subject of war I think he should have. War to me has these flashes of beauty, tragedy, gruesomeness, and poetry. Weather it be a flower in a field of battle or a child dieing from a stray bullet. I would not think that he would have been lacking in subject matter. I truly feel that if he was not so far away while he painted, "Guernica," he would have painted something more realistic. I think his work shows the distance he felt during the Spanish War.
Jennifer Polk
"The Fountain"
By: Marcel Duchamp
"The Fountain" was the work of Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, who considered the piece to be "readymade". This was when the artist didn't have to actually create. As a general rule for something to be "readymade" it had to be a mass produced object in which Duchamp would select and then sign the object. This type of art was greatly rejected during its time, but the Dadist sought to demonstrate their beliefs against war and politics by rejecting the standards of art. This movement paved the way for the Surrealists.
"Sketch I for Composition VII"
by - Wassily Kandinsky
This painting belongs to the expressionist movement. For its time it was very abstract and boundless. This painting is non-representational. It provokes the viewer's imagination senses, emotions, and beliefs for what 'art' is or is not. When just 10 years earlier, the majority of popular paintings emphasized figures and landscapes. With a strong sense of movement
and explosion of brilliant colors, this work captures the essence of an experience, and not the instinctual object or figure most artists tend to focus on. An inexperienced eye can quickly come to a conclusion that any curious child could paint this. But the groupings of warm and cool colors in a complementary fashion, as well as the occasional soft gradients of each suggests otherwise.
http://www.ownapainting.com/popup_image.php?pID=698055
Las Dos Fridas (1939)
By: Frida Kahlo
Movement: Mexican Surrealism
http://i.kdaq.empas.com/imgs/qrsi.tsp/5590661/7722380/0/2/A/two_fridas-zmundori.jpg
Shortly after her divorce from Diego Rivera, Frida completed this self-portrait of two different personalities.
Kahlo had a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral habits. She was motivated by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization.
Definitely all the details of her amazing life influence many aspects of her work, however her representation of her body and experiences can also be seen as a response to wider cultural and political debates.
Gloria Perdomo
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/p/picasso/vollard.jpg
“Portrait of Ambroise Vollard”
By Pablo Picasso
In 1907 Pablo Picasso a George Braque began to experiment with a new way of representing forms and space called Cubism. They used overlapping geometric shapes and subtle shade to create compositions. This developed further into Analytic cubism where they used more monochromatic colors to concentrate more on structure. This painting from 1910 is an good example of this analytical style. Picasso was always trying to find new ways to paint. He said “a painter’s study should be a laboratory. He should invent, not just copy nature like an ape.”
Salvador Dali, (1904-1989)was part of the surrealist movement. He was known as one of the greatest Spanish painters of his time, painting dreamlike landscapes. He became leader of the Surrealist Movement, but after a clashing with the group, because of his lack of interest in the war, he was expelled in 1934. He is most known for the painting "The Persistance of Memory""Surrealism a is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible" Artcyclopedia.comDenise Hutchins
Giacomo Balla
The Hand of the Violinist, 1912
Giacomo Balla was born in 1871. His works were greatly influenced by Seurat and the pointillist movement. Balla himself was apart of the first wave of futurist painters. Balla sought to break down elements such as light, speed and movement to the simplest form. Balla was so involved in his belief in futurism that he named his two daughters propeller and light.
In this painting you can see the influence of pointillism, but I thought it was interesting how Balla almost slowed down time in his panting so you could see the motion that the violinist was making, its almost as if he changed the shutter speed for a different exposure on a camera.
I really like this painting
but for some reason the black corners on that make the "V" shape bothers me .
http://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/giacomo_balla/images/Giacomo_Balla-The_Hand_of_the_Violinist-Oil_on_Canvas-1912.jpg
by : Josh Sears
Umberto Boccioni
"Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"
I really like this statue because of the sense of movement it reveals. At your first initial look you’re given a great sense of direction and wind-like movement in the piece. The specific art form is futurism and is apart of abstraction art. The twisting and turning of the different elements throughout the statue truly is an astonishing view and that is way I think that the name definitely fits this unique work.
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