Avante – Garde Art Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominentlay as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation
What is Modernism in the arts ? Modernism is a complex term for historians. There appears to be no specific agreement about the dates of the movement, leading Tony Pinkney ( in Shepherd-Barr,2005:61), senior lecturer and author at Lancaster University, to call it “ the most frustratingly unspecific, the most recalcitrantly unperiodizing of all the major art-historical ‘isms’ or concepts.” Some historians set modernism at 1890-1930, others place its beginnings at around 1900 and others maintain
says that we have left the modern world like an obsolete futurist to extinction and also questions that how this world exists beyond the present tense. But strangely he says that the world is fast becoming Post-Modern as we can see examples of sculptures, dance, films, philosophy and literature which accept the irreversible nature of the modern world and modernisation and often has links to the Pre-Modern past and this past is also very much part of the present. And reasons for this historical
establishment of the time in France. "A 19th century French school of art, Impressionism was more concerned with representing the "impression" some object or scene creates on a viewer rather than what the object "really" is. Thus, a painting of the same object or scene would be done in totally different ways if the atmosphere, lighting, etc. of the situation were to change because such a change would necessarily create a different impression on a viewer." (Cline, Unknown). The Impressionist movement sought to
Modernism is a term that refers to the period of time beginning in 1870 and ending in 1970, where art was approached with new ideas and a fresh mindset. Although paintings took a significant change throughout this period, it is the transformations of sculptures that will be looked at, and in particular, the evolvement of modernist sculptures into minimalist sculptures. However, this evolvement was a gradual progress, and the development of many ‘isms’ such as Impressionism, Cubism and Dadaism came
upon the contemporary crafts. ‘Knitting has become dangerously cool’ To fully explore how the contemporary crafts responded to Post Modernism, it is first necessary to examine the key movements previous to and during this time. How have crafts developed and been perceived over the last two centuries? What movements and schools of thought have been instrumental in the progression and definition of the crafts? What were the political and social states in the country and what effect has this had upon
MODERN TIMES: ART & FILM Many twentieth century artists have been fascinated by the art of children, folk artists, the insane, and those regional or non-European cultures mis-named ‘primitive’. Discuss no more than three artworks created in the early decades of the 20th century that draw upon ONE of those sources. In your answer speculate on the reasons why these arts should have so strong an appeal to the modernist artist or filmmaker. Chosen source: ‘primitive’ art In the early decades
The first mention of the phrase could be ascribed to the american sculptor Horatio Greenough, who in 1852 was relating it to the organic principles of architecture.[1] The American architect Louis Sullivan, who admired rationalist thinkers like Greenough, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Melville - picked it up, in 1896, in his article «The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered». Here Sullivan actually said "form ever follows function", but the simpler (and less emphatic) phrase is the one usually
about sculpture, certain sculptures or artists may come into mind. Almost all of us have a preconceived notion of what sculpture is and should be. When discussing sculpture we may automatically think about Michelangelo’s David, or the Venus de Milo. These examples of sculpture represent very specific points in the Classical and Renaissance periods of the past. But what we may not think about is the notion that sculpture can be created solely for the purpose of conveying the feeling of movement through
Figurative Sculpture of Giacometti, How can sculpture evoke emotion? ********************************************** I have been interested in sculpture for a long time and a visit last year to the Bronze exhibition to see Matisse, among lots of other fascinating sculptures spanning many centuries, really got me thinking for this years project. Also during our summer project work looking at drawing and how artists approach not only the sculpture itself but also the space it embeds itself