While recording the changing face of Australian society, The Archibald Prize has indeed triggered controversy. Various artists from around Australasia instantly became motivated to undertake this competition after the first Archibald Prize being awarded in 1921. The money the prize offered wasn’t the only motive that made the artists eager, but the publicity involved giving them an opportunity to have their work shown in a major gallery. However, the major matter really deserves to be considered controversial is the quality of the painting. The conceptual framework of artist, artwork, audience and world is definitely evident in the process of creating a portrait legible to submit to the competition.
Prompt 4: Analyze artistic and literary responses to industrialization over the course of the nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century had a dramatic impact and influence on European life. While many aspects of life and society changed in response to these new developments, art and literature were heavily impacted as well. Three major forms of artistic responses to industrialization were Romanticism, Realism, and several new revolutionary styles of and made in reaction to the invention of the camera. All of these various styles responded to the industrialization of Europe in their own unique fashions, and resulted in a strange conglomeration of art, ideals, and themes.
There exists a clear thread from Jefferson, through Thoreau ,Emerson and Whitman, and on to Keating: Each lives in a period preceding significant cultural and political upheaval, where strong minded men were challenging the status quo. Jefferson was a champion of the rights of the individual. He understood that value of individualism, the importance of nature and proper place religion. He tried to build a new country based on those principals. Similarly, those literary figures considered transcendentalists were most active immediately before the Civil War, when men were challenged to rise against the popular thought, think for themselves, and make critical changes that would shape the way the United States grew for the next century.
France wasn’t part of the colonies like America was, America was sick of being treated badly, and unfairly so they decided to fight. But as for France they were having trouble with their government and needed to create a new one witch they did. And to me it seems like America had much more at stake. The American and French Revolution both worked out in favor of France and for America they both got what they wanted France got the government they fought for, and America parted ways with Britain. The two revolutions were a big part in both America’s history, and a big part in Frances history.
It took History a long time to figure out that something must have happened between the Dark Ages and the Reformation. So historians came up with the word Renaissance. In the mid 1850s, well a long time after it started, history would find the word Renaissance that explained what happened. A long time after the Renaissance in Italy historians finally found out that it was this Renaissance that gave us the Reformation. This letting loose of artistic creativity that for the first time in history the average person controlled with his money and
Indeed, the Transcontinental Railroad was a monumental accomplishment for the United States, but it came at the expense of many people. The burgeoning industrial strength of America in the 1800’s cannot be fully appreciated without first understanding the history behind the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad. Long distances and slow transportation hampered contact between eastern and western commercial centers, before the Transcontinental Railroad was built. The Oregon Trail initiated the westward expansion movement beginning in 1841, demonstrating the need for faster, safer transportation methods (Henretta and Brody, pg. 471).
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
George Washington was born at Pope’s Creek in 1732 George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 (February 11, 1731/2 Old Style) at Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, about 40 miles south of Mount Vernon. His great-grandfather came to America from England in 1657 aboard a ship named Sea Horse of London Eager to learn a new and important trade, George Washington read mathematical texts to learn the geometric principles necessary for surveying. At seventeen years of age and largely through the Fairfax influence that he had cultivated, Washington secured an appointment as county surveyor for the newly created frontier county of Culpeper, Virginia. He was well on his way to a successful and profitable career. Not only did he receive substantial fees fur surveying, but he discovered firsthand an ability to identify and select the best plots of land for purchase, an especially important consideration in colonial In 1754 Washington led an attack that started a world war Directed to press Virginia and Britain’s claim to the Ohio country to the French, George Washington led a force of soldiers from the Virginia Regiment and
People had only used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing—not for taking photos—until 1827, when Joseph Nicephore Niepce successfully captured a scene. These heliographs or sun prints were the first prototypes of photos. The images, however, required eight hours of exposure and later faded. In 1829, Louis Daguerre formed a partnership with Joseph Niepce to improve the process Niepce had established. During 1839, Daguerre eventually developed a more convenient and effective method through the use of silver-plated copper, iodine and silver chloride, naming it the daguerreotype.
This is sometimes referred to as “the second birth of photography.” One of photography’s most unique faces was World War Two. Most of the artists associated with Abstract Expressionism matured in the 1930s. They were influenced by the era’s leftist politics, and came to value an art grounded in personal experience. Few would maintain their earlier radical political views, but many continued to adopt the poser of outspoken avant-gardists protesting form the margins. Many of the artists changed how they viewed the world.