Carlos Schwabe Part A Carlos Schwabe was famous symbolic artist which he was born on July 21st, in 1866 and died in 1926. When Carlos Schwabe moved to Geneva in Switzerland from Altona he started studying art which he got brief success there which his talent was later unlocked when he moved to Paris while he was still a young man. He developed considerable graphic skills. He soon became active in Symbolist circles winning, favour as an illustrator of mystical religious themes. His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany texts such as Le Reve by Emile Zola While working as a wall paper designer he became familiar with symbolist artists which then lead him to usually painting mythological and allegorical topics.
Wassily Kandinsky There is no doubt that Wassily is a unique and influential artist who had left his mark upon the Expressionist Movement. He started by studying Art in the Munich Academy of Art where he developed an interest and what was known as decorative art. Soon Wassily became a well known figure in the art community in Munich. But Munich was not enough for his dreams and ambition. In the period between 1903 and 1908 he had a tour around Europe with his friend Gabriela Munter and they participated in many exhibitions.
Many art historians consider the Impressionist movement to be the successor to romanticism. Today, romanticism expresses itself through lyrical poetry and novelistic writing, as well as contemporary paintings, photography, and digital art. Today’s society has expanded its limits of expressiveness and intellect to reach further boundaries of contemplation and philosophy that can be found when observing such contemporaries, especially in postmodern literature. Romanticism is exemplified through examples of contemplation and observation, acceptance, and optimism
The Rite of Spring: Awakening the Power of Imagination “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” (Warhol) Andy Warhol encourages humanity to take action in order to change the world instead of simply watching the hours tick away. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky sought to be the spark of progress in the disadvantaged society of early 20th century Russia. Born in 1882, Stravinsky was a young star in the music world. Having enjoyed the success of two hit ballets, he wrote his third in Switzerland, safe from the prying eyes of the Russian government. The Rite of Spring (1913) was the result of the young composer exploring the vast landscapes of human imagination.
Learning to draw was pivotal for Mies, the early on demonstrated his talent is occasionally lettering for one of his father’s tombstones, then in technical drawing at school and shortly theater in drafting large scale decorative details fora stucco fabricator for whom he worked for two years. Mies later recalled, ”If I thought I knew how to draw before, I really learned now. We had huge drawing boards that went from floor to ceiling and stood vertically against the wall. You couldn’t lean on or against them; you had to stand squarely in front of them and draw not just by turning your hand but by swinging your whole arm. We mad drawings the size of an entire quarter on a room ceiling, which we could then send on to the model makers.
As for his painting career, there is only a few paintings he is fully credited for or recognized as his work. In his paintings, he has had help and collaborated with his pupils that passed as apprentices in his workshop. A couple of the most famous of his pupils include Leonardo Da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi. Whenever Verrocchio didn’t finish something, he would leave it to someone else to put some finishing touches. He left amazing art behind soon died of an unknown cause in 1488.
[2] A primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of three-dimensional form in the late works of Paul Cézanne. [3] A retrospective of Cézanne's paintings had been held at the Salon d'Automne of 1904, current works were displayed at the 1905 and 1906 Salon d'Automne, followed by two commemorative retrospectives after his death in 1907. [4] In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. [5] The impact of Cubism was far-reaching and wide-ranging. Cubism spread rapidly across the globe and in doing so evolved to greater or lesser extent.
Introduction Introduce Stravinsky and his noted works. Briefly introduce the idea of opposing forces throughout his life and his works as to whether he was a Russian through and through or whether he was a man who was trying to shed his Russian culture and adopt a new one? In favour or Stravinsky’s Russian musical ideals Discuss his Russian roots and how these affected him. Explore his personality, how he liked a vodka! and his religious beliefs.
The Bauhaus is one of the first colleges of design. It came into being from the joining of the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts. It was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and was closed in 1933 by the Nazis. In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts From 1919 to 1922 the school was changed by the pedagogical and aesthetic ideas of Johannes Itten, who taught the Vorkurs that was the introduction to the ideas of the Bauhaus. Itten was heavily influenced in his teaching by the ideas of Franz Cizek and Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel.
Abstract expressionism was first used as a term in art in 1919, when an Berlin artist Wassily Kandinsky works was described as abstract, but the real movement of abstract expressionism art didn’t really take off until after World War II, (1950’s), putting New York City, in the center of the art world. Abstract Expressionism began as a combination of emotional intensity and self-expression, and action painting. In 1943, Arshile Gorky (1904-1948) painted “Garden of Sochi. Which is the third in a series of paintings of his childhood memories. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) used action as a form of abstract expressionism, in which paint is spontaneously splashed, smeared or dribbled on canvas.