The Madonna and Child is a piece that uses many techniques used during the Renaissance period such as one point perspective, balance, use of geometric design, and religious themes. While the Madonna and Child is very different from the first piece of art that I chose to analyze Buddha Seated in Meditation as both works of art use different mediums, come from different historical periods, and have different religious influences the artists both used symmetry and balance and religious themes while completing their works. The colors used by Raphael in this painting are very bright colors. In this particular painting Raphael used primary colors ,this painting is polychromatic in that it uses many different colors. The used of red and green and yellow adds contracts as red and green are on the opposite side of the color wheel.
Ars Nova The Ars Nova in France was started by Philip de Vitry around 1310 and continued through the 1370’s. Ars Nova was known as the “new art” signifying the new French musical style. It made many improvements in music notation and style, however many people were against this and strongly supported the “ancient art”. The new notation required an open mind and reconstruction of musical time. The first change to be made was allowing the “imperfect” and “perfect” divisions of note values and the second divided the semibreve into minims allowing more rhythmic flexibility and new meters, creating for the first time syncopation.
Cézanne did not agree with the Impressionistic trait of portraying the world through light, instead, he built up images by a generous use of color. Cézanne would distort objects and his works would often consist of numerous viewpoints on the one canvas. Cézanne worked with and was greatly influenced by other Impressionists he associated with, including Degas, Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. From the very beginning Cezanne showed aspects of Abstract and Cubism in his works. Cezanne also admired Romantic painter, Eugene Delacroix, who used color instead of lines to define objects; this inspired him to begin his quest for composition using color alone.
Instead, they placed more emphasis on the “structure, content, and formal order” ("Impressionism & post-impressionism,"). They liked to use unnatural colors and use geometric shapes, unlike the Impressionist’s use of soft lines and natural colors. Also, instead of painting outdoors to capture the moment, Post-Impressionist painted in a studio, and their paintings were based on the emotion and concept of the artist (Emelda, 2011). Like the Impressionists, however, they believed the originality of the painting was important. Like many artists of the 1880’s, the Post-Impressionist wanted to portray “emotion and intellect as well as the visual imagery” ("Post impressionist,").
It was a movement that established the supremacy of individual’s sentiments over the human mind (Forney & Machlis, 2012). Coincidentally, the period brought radical changes in the society. This movement dominated the creative arena of the French art in general. Additionally, impressionism concentrated on the sheer influence of light in utter manifestation of the important field that is art. This movement derived its name from the famous painting of Claude Monet, popularly known as ‘Impression: Sunrise (Forney & Machlis, 2012).’ Since the two periods are very broad, this paper will focus particularly on romanticism music and impressionism music, critically evaluating the relationship between the two art periods as far as music is concerned.
Occasionally, composer simply borrowed popular tunes, but more often, they wrote original themes with a popular character. Classical melodies often sound balanced and symmetrical because they are frequently made up of two phrases of the same length. The second phrase, in such melodies, may begin like the first, but it will end more conclusively and it will be easier to sing. Dynamics and the piano - The Classical composers' interest in expressing shades of emotion led to the widespread use of gradual dynamic change - crescendo (gradually getting louder) and diminuendo ( gradually getting softer). The end of basso continuo - The basso continuo was gradually abandoned during the classical period.
Modernism Essay Modernism was an artistic and philosophical movement between the 19th and 20th century. The movement covers a variety of artistic styles, ideas and cultures including Impressionism, Secessionism, Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Pop Art. Each of these movements has influenced how Modern Art is portrayed and how it will continue to evolve in the future. The pioneers of these ‘isms’ struggled for innovation and were characterized as Avant-Garde. The first inkling of Modernism came after the French Academy refused 5000 works.
I will be drawing from historical facts and also my own conclusions in this essay. The first thing I shall consider is composers- the twentieth century gave birth to many new ideas and so composers of that era also utilized new techniques and styles. Composers of the past, such as baroque composers (like Bach and Handel) would have been commissioned by nobles to compose music for a certain occasion, all the while keeping within the style of the time and what the client wanted. These restrictive attitudes were continued throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, making the musical periods of these times very easy to generalise. Music did evolve and change, but boundaries were never pushed to the point of where it invoked powerful emotions in the audiences it was played to.
Future Exhibition: Exploring Surrealism Through the Years Human beings are visual creatures, reacting to symbols, colors, and images in every day life. Being naturally curious, people are in search for meaning in art; asking why something appears a certain way, how it was made, and what the deeper meaning is behind it? An extremely influential and historical movement came about in the 1920’s that acknowledged and allowed these natural human tendencies to shape our world still today. This movement, known as surrealism, impacted the world politically, socially, and most of all, artistically. This revolutionary idea, derived from Dadaists who believed that overly rational ideals and bourgeois values were at fault for initiating World War I.
Images never merely portray an authentic reality but instead they “inevitably betray the values of the culture in which they were created” (Howells, 2003: 70) Fig1.1: Self Portrait with Necklace of Thorns, 1940, Oil on Canvas Fig. 1.2 Henry Ford Hospital (The Flying Bed), 1932, Oil on Metal This paper will begin with a brief introduction of visual studies, painting in particular and go on to establish the fact that visual images not merely imitate reality but also inform the real world. When one views a painting, it is not complete objective view. There is a very thin line between objectivity and mind working under influence of ideologies. Complex interworking of representation of perceived reality by the painter, ideological approach of the viewer is at play, both, striving to figure out the real.