The art of the 20th century contained many elements previous styles that had begun in the late 19th century. The Impressionists had abandoned the appearance of nature to concentrate on color and its relation to the quality of light. (Collier's Encyclopedia, 745) This was then abandoned for a kind expressionism, a personal and subjective style created. A number of outstanding 20th century artists working outside the many movements of art created works of great individuality. (Collier's Encyclopedia, 745) Some major trends of the art in the 1920's were Impressionism, Art Deco, Cubism, Abstract Art, and Realism.
Along with the exhibition came a catalogue adorned with a schema, produced by the curator and director of the gallery Alfred Barr Jr. The schema attempted to organise important aspects of art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries into a coherent linear history. The history he outlined excluded social, political and economic factors in favour for a stylistic interpretation that focussed on formalist qualities. I argue that Barr made this decision as an attempt to remove the avant-garde from adverse political interpretation, therefore protecting it from threat of extermination. I also point towards the influence of Barr’s schema on art criticism from that time, suggesting that it was this model that set the terms for discussion in the formalist focus of Clement Greenberg.
Romanticism in turn, was an early 19th century response to constraints of Neoclassicism (“Neoclassical Painting and Romantic Painting”). Current events highly influenced art movement during these time periods. The paintings often projected the events in their works. Neoclassicism in particular was influenced by the Enlightenment movement, a movement which glorified freedom of religion on separation of church and state and emphasized civil liberties. Over time the art changed to express what the people of the time desired, becoming more and more logical and realistic in representation of their art work.
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Essay Topic #1 Identify define or describe, and finally compare and contrast two of the Expressionists groups of the early 20th century. Refer to specific artists and works to illustrate your points. “Expressionism is a tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; its subjective art form.” (1) Expressionism was seen in many different kinds of forms which included literature, theater art, paintings, music and architecture. Expressionism developed in the late 19th centuries and in the early 20th centuries and they were academic standards which were overcome in Europe since the Renaissance which were between 1300 and 1600. (2) An artist tries to see the most compelling form in the piece of art.
Uniformity of cause and effect in a closed system with no possibility of miracles. III. What is a human being? Human beings have intelligence and a sense of morality; however Human beings have no essential relations to God. The human character is not grounded in God.
It lacks any recreation of emotion, which is again a typical neoclassic trait. The repeated element Line forms a pattern that creates a visual harmony. The final appearance which is composed of line and contours
The decline of colonial empires after Second World War led to the rise of several sovereign states in the Arab world and elsewhere. Most of these independent states have been significantly influenced by imperialism and colonialism. Consequently, the need to achieve a functional reality was very demanding as was the need for re-creating national identity, which had been partially or completely damaged, corrupted and marginalized. In this context, a new mode of writing emerges as an autonomous literature that foregrounds cultural conflicts and puts into question the relationship between the centre and the periphery. This suggests that Arab literature produced after the colonial era significantly and consciously questions and challenges Western cultural patterns of knowledge, which played a crucial role in fixing the relationship between Europe and the Arab world; a relationship based on naturalising the superiority and purity of Western civilization and the inferiority and corruption of Eastern one.
Artworks that are powerful, experimental, radical and new that push the boundaries of art, culture and politics are the stem of Avant-garde. One such person is the famous Russian Avant-garde artist Kasimir Malevich. In this essay will explore his famous iconic work the “Black Square on White ground in 1929” examining his ideology of supremacy. I will also explore the works of contemporary artist Gillian Carnegie’s “Black Square 2002 Oil on canvas”, which was inspired by Malevich. I will discuss how her work shows in the form of illusion and geometry, the nature of sublime that shines in her paintings.
However under the grandeur of the newness surrounding early 20th century Europe there were also feelings of discord being raised. Social theorists and philosophers felt a new age was steadily approaching and that psychological change had to be made at not only personal levels but societal levels as well, theories of anarchism, futurism and Marxism expressed a growing discontent with many aspects of society new and old. All of these theories, trends and changes were depicted and interpreted in the works of Henri Matisse and the Fauvists and set the social canvas for the