Thursday, May 17, 2018

Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Marcel-Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada. His artwork is very intricate and usually uses only 1 or 2 colors. A lot of them use Cubism and those pieces are the more intricate pieces. His sculptures are also very intricate as well. Some of them contain multiple wheels, and some of them I don’t even know what they are. Readymades were found objects, which Duchamp chose and presented as art.








Thursday, May 3, 2018

Fauvism

     Fauvism is a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color. It had success in Paris from 1905, but was short-lived. Even though it was short lived, it had an important influence on subsequent artists. Especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure. Some Fauvism artists are Henri Matisse, André Derain, George Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Kees Dan Vongen, Albert Marquet, Georges, Rouault, and Amedeo Modigliani









Goya

     Francisco Goya is from Fuendetodos, Spain. A lot of  oya’s art seems have some non-human creature. Most of Goya’s art uses a lot of dark tones, but uses just enough light tones to brighten the painting up. This gives the painting a cool effect. Some of Goya’s paintings are very weird. For example, one of them consists of a creature devouring a human body. 









Thursday, April 5, 2018

Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan in the 1920s. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and was essentially anti-industrial. Some artists are named William Morris, Gustav Stickley, Edward Burne-Jones, Harry Clarke, Eric Gill, and many more.








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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Rococo

      Rococo was a decorative 18th century European style, which was the last expression of the baroque movement. It pushed to the extreme the principles of illusion and theatricality, an effect attained by dense ornament, asymmetry, fluid curves, and the use of white and pastel colors combined with gilding, drawing the eye in all directions. The style of Rococo was mainly architecture but also influenced painting, sculpture, literature, music, and theatre. Some famous Rococo artsists consist of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Henrietta Johnston, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher, François Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Thomas Gainsborough, Jean-Baptiste Pater, and many more.






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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Johannes Vermeer

      Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. There are 38 pieces of art attributed to him. There are a lot of sharp edges in his paintings and there is a nice contrast of dark and light colors in all of his paintings. All of the artwork I took a close look at had people in it. All of those people are extremely life like with great facial expressions.





Thursday, February 8, 2018

Jan Van Eyck

     Jan van Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painter who lived  in Bruges. He is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting and one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance art. The materials he used were oil paints.  Van Eyck has painted many religious commissions and portraits of Burgundian courtiers, local nobles, churchmen, and merchants. After looking at this painting closely, I can obviously tell that this painting is of a couple. The woman is pregnant and they probabaly want the child because the man is holding the woman’s hand which symbolizes his care for her. 

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Giotto

      Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic or Proto-Renaissance period. The painting that I viewed had a weird form of perspective. The angels at the top particularly stood out for me. Some were pointed almost completely down. I’ve never seen that angle used in anything before. Some were also pointed up. I have seen something like that before. One person also had his arms completely spread out which seemed strange to me. I can’t figure out why.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Gargoyles and Grotesques

             A gargoyle is a decorative sculpture that diverts water away from buildings. A grotesque is a very ugly, or comically distorted, creature or image.


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Grotesques





Thursday, January 11, 2018

Byzantines and Mosaics







Byzantine Art




          The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. Byzantine art that is still in good shape today is mostly religious. They followed traditional models that translate church theology into artistic terms. Mosaics were the main media, and figurative sculpture very rare except for small carved ivoriesA mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the formation of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. Most mosaics are made of small, flat, rough square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors. This is known as tesserae.