Cubism Cubism Cubism was an art movement that developed in the early 20th century. The term cubism acquired its name from the comments made by painter, Henri Matisse and critic Louis Vauxcelles, who described Georges Braque's 1908 work "Houses at L'Estaque" as resembling a bunch of cubes. Cubism has been called one of the most influential and revolutionary movements in art. Cubism was

Cubism Picasso and Cubism Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) invented a modern art movement called cubism. Cubism received its name from French art critic Louis Vauxelles after seeing Picasso’s painting Houses on the Hill, at Horta de Ebro. He said the houses had a three-dimensional, cubic quality. Cubism is art created with concepts introduced by Paul Cézanne, similar to tribal art. Céza

Cubsim Picasso’s development toward cubism reached its climax with the monumental justly celebrated Demoiselles d’Avignon (1906). This painting, named for a brothel in Barcelona’s Avignon Street, depicts, in a highly stylized form, five angular nude or partially draped women grouped around an arrangement of fruit. This final, condensed version, developed through many preparatory works, w

Baroque Era Essay #1 Humanism symbolizes an intellectual movement that begun in Verona. Humanist had faith in and emphasized the dignity and worth of the individual. That faith turned into the rediscovery of culture of classical antiquity, which contains elements of literature, history, rhetoric, ethics, and politics. A basic premise of humanism is that people are rational beings who

Don Manuel Osorio Manrique De Zuniga The Painting I have chosen to critically analyze is Don Manuel Osorio Manrique De Zuniga. The great Francisco Goya painted it in 1784. Goya is considered to be the “Father of Modern Art”. Goya’s art spanned a total of 60 years. He began painting in the late Baroque period. The painting consists of a boy dressed in an extravagant

Cross Reference Over many decades people have been making creative designs. Whether they be sculptures, drawings, paintings, sketches, photos, ceramics, glassworks, textiles, or prints does not matter because all of these are considered art and the people that made them artists. The following artworks are those that are kept in the New Central Library in Memphis, Tennessee. They have

Nicomachean Ethics In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he expresses his opinions on the basis of thought through eudaimonia and arete. Eudaimonia is the goal of human conduct, or telos in Greek. In English, Eudaimonia translates into happiness, but Aristotle uses it as a well being through prospering and flourishing. To achieve this “prospering and flourishing,” one needs satisfaction

Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, a

Cummer Museum The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens was started by Ninah M.H. Cummer in 1959. With more than 4,000 objects in its permanent collection it is the largest fine arts museum in northeast Florida. Its artifacts cover tapestries, porcelain, painting and sculpture from the Middle Ages all the way through to the 20TH century. Since it covers so much time with its collection, the m

Salvador Dali- Symbolism Rough Draft Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904. Just 9 months before he was born, his older brother died, so his parents found ways to convince him that he was a reincarnation of him. Apparently, Dali even told people that the terrifying memory of this dead brother haunted him for the rest of his life. It’s been heard that one of his favorite pastim

Batik During recent decades, we have found ourselves searching for personal identity and values in a world that seems to have little room for them. The vast expansion of technical information expertise and the population explosion impinge on our relationships to each other as individuals and to the world. The need for self-identity has never been greater, and the arts and crafts provid

DaVinci DaVinci is famous for many works. Some of the paintings he did were very unique. He would cross hatch left to right because he was left handed. In writing he also wrote different, writing right to left. Leonardo's most famous saying is "To know how, to see how." But he had many good sayings. A few for example are "Truely man is the king of the beasts, our brutality exceeds theirs

Degas Ballet Dancers Edgar Degas painted the impressionist piece The Dancing Class in 1871. The painting is oil on canvas that is approximately 85 X 75 cm. Edgar Degas was a French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of b

Degas The Ballet Class is an oil on canvas painting by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, and was created approximately in the year 1880. This painting portrays two distinct groups of young female dancers in various arrangements and poses. In the upper left hand corner of the painting, a young ballerina wearing a yellow bow on her tutu performs an arabesque on pointe, while two other dancers p

Bauhaus Essay The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by an architect named Walter Gropius. Gropius came from the Werkbund movement, which sought to integrate art and economics, and to add an element of engineering to art. The Werkbund movement was unable to achieve this integration, but the founding of the Bauhaus saw the solution that had previously been overlooked. The Bauhaus was founded

Diego Rivera Diego Rivera was the most famous Chicano artist. He was born on December 13, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico. Rivera had a twin brother whom was named Carlos Rivera. Carlos died in 1888 which left Diego as an only child. Since he was very young [he begin to draw at the age of three] he love to paint, so much that his father covered a room of their house in Guan

Different Persectives In Art Perspective is an important aspect in art work, used to make the piece appear more realistic and dramatic. Brunelleschi developed the theory of perspective as well as the three kinds that we have discussed; atmospheric, logical, and observed. Atmospheric perspective creates the illusion of depth with a gradual reduction in the brightness of color and detai

Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painte

Donatello English/ Western Civilizations 10 Pre-IB April 15, 2002 Donatello and His Art Revolution “Our Glory is all the greater since we, with neither precursors nor models, are creating arts and sciences of a kind never seen or heard of before” (Alberti qtd. in Poeschke). In the Early Renaissance, artists and scholars were incorporating the values and ideals of Anc

Drowning Girl, Roy Lichtenstein DROWNING GIRL DATE PAINTED: 1963 MEDIUM: Oil on Canvas PRESENTLOCATION: The Museum of Modern Art, New York SIZE: 171.8 x 169.5 Drowning Girl (1963) is an example of Lichtensteins comic style which began in the early 1960’s. Drowning Girl is a large picture of a girls head surrounded by a tumultuous wave with the caption reading “I don’t care!

Edvard Munch The viewer is left to make his own conclusions as to what the artist is trying to show us. The depressing sunset in the painting can bring into play all kinds of images of horror. Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” was painted in the end of the 19th century, and is possibly the first Expressionist painting of that time. The Scream was very different from the art of the time, whe

Egyptian Art And Architecture Egyptian Art and Architecture There are many different kinds of art and architecture that have been made by different civilizations. Some of this art have been retrieved and put into exhibits in museums to help people further understand these works of art. One civilization that stands out very much is the Egyptian civilization. This civilization has had

H.L. Mencken Essay In the selection by H.L. Mencken, Mencken portrays artists as impersonal, grumpy and drawn-back. I have to disagree with Menckens conclusion, to me artist are just the opposite. In humans whole existence, artists have always been present. In the stone age, with stick figures depicted on walls, to present day artists who design sculptures and paint elaborate pi

Eve Of Saint John Extra Credit Gallery Review I chose a piece from the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park entitled the “Eve of Saint John”, painted by Peter Hurd. Also known as “Noche de San Juan” due to the strong hispanic influence in the artists’ life. Born in Roswell, New Mexico, Hurd originally was destined to be in the military for one Hurd had fought in ev

Evaluation Bench Mark: We learn new skills in each project which we are then able to apply in future assignments no mather what they are. In this project I learned how to stretch a canvas, a skill which I will use in all future paintings, and also how to create very emotional work through color. Up until this unit I thought landscape painting was a boring and lesser art, but this

Expressionism Expressionism Expressionism was one of the main movements in the later 19th and 20th centuries. No other artistic style has had as much an impact on 20th century art as expressionism has. Expressionism not only has influenced the art movement, it has influenced other expressive, creative areas such as literature, theatre and cinema. One of the two Expressionist mo

F.D. In Frederick Douglass’s words, “He then told her to cross her hands; he tied them with a strong rope, and led her to a stool under a large hook in the joist, put in for the purpose. He made her get upon the stool, and tied her hands to he hook.” He remembered the cries of his Aunt for mercy. “I remember the first time I ever witnessed this horrible exhibition. I was quite a child,

Fashion Fashion designers design clothing such as coats, dresses, suits and other varieties of clothing. They prepare design sketches either by hand or on the computer. From these sketches the designs become the clothing. Designers find this job difficult but an enjoyable career. They enjoy making or designing clothes and seeing people wearing them. Many designers start out as an as

Museum Of Fine Arts Museum Of Fine Arts During my recent visit to the Museum of Fine Arts I was able to see many different arts on display. Some of the arts that were displayed were from ancient Greek and Roman times. One of the statues I saw was the Torso of Aphrodite. The statue was talked about during the classical style in our lectures. The Torso of Aphrodite was done i

Flower Collage The Flower Collage When I saw the flower collage finished, with the pictures already cut and shaped to fill in the empty space on the clean white page to form the collage, it was as if I had seen the flower collage photos for the first time. The photos vividly portrait the colors of the flowers, the greenness of the grass, and the sunshine of the clear, blue sky. I