HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
* The art movement that Composition with red, yellow and blue was created in was Surrealism. * After returning to Holland in 1914, Mondrian was fascinated by abstract paintings. * With the war outbreak in Holland, Mondrian was forced to stay in Holland, where in 1916-1917, he helped form the Neo-Plasticism movement. Neo-plasticism impacted and brought out the best in a number of people, where it broke down the forms of nature, reducing the form to a pure, abstract design.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ART WORLD:
* Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the masculine and the feminine, the dynamic and the static. * possesses a sense of simplicity whilst simultaneously comprises of complexity
TRIVIA:
* Mondrian has used oil on canvas as his materials and has created the artwork to a size of 72.7 cm by 69.2 cm. * Composition with red, yellow and blue is currently located at the Tate Gallery. * Mondrian painted for thirty years and never made a curved line.
http://pto.hawthorn73.org/downloads/PTO_Art_Adventure_Grade4_Lesson1.pdf http://www.markedbyteachers.com/gcse/art/composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-composed-by-piet-mondrian-from-1937-1942-possesses-a-sense-of-simplicity-whilst-simultaneously-comprises-of-complexity.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
IMPRESSIONISM
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The Essay on The Writing On The Wall (is graffiti an art form?)
“Graffiti is an art form” Or is it? There are many arguments for and against graffiti. In this essay, I will try to tackle the various aspects of these arguments, giving proof along the way. My interest in graffiti is purely artistic; I feel this essay may be more biased towards graffiti as an art form, as I think it is a beautiful and interesting branch of artistic talent and ...
* Claude Monet worked on WaterlilyPond from 1904 to 1905. * In 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTWORK:
* The meaning of the painting is to inspire nature and give great beauty to whoever views it. * It is one of Monet’s larger paintings, meant to show off the beauty of the scene it captures. * The sunset color reflecting off the water is one of the many aspects of his choice to make the meaning of this painting beauty and inspiration
TRIVIA:
* Monet’s brush stroke — precise and pristine in the paintings of 1899 — took on an expressive vitality that was unprecedented in any of the earlier works. * In 1900 he exhibited a series of ten canvases of the pond, showing a single subject in differing light conditions.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-oscar-monet-the-water-lily-pond http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110001575 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies_(1919)
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/claude-monet-giverny-paintings11.htm
AMERICAN ART
Cliff Dwellers
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
* In 1913 George Bellows painted a work titled “Cliff Dwellers.” Bellows was part of the Ash Can School, a group of artists who were influenced by every-day life and often depicted scenes in urban centers. *
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTWORK:
* “Cliff Dwellers” is the name Ash Can School painter George Bellowsgave his 1913 depiction of lower Manhattan tenement life. * depicted the “crudity and chaos” of city life in the immigrant neighborhoods. TRIVIA:
* The name of the painting comes from the title of a book about life in the new tall apartment buildings popping up in big cities. * The people were called “Cliff Dwellers” because they lived high up in small, cramped quarters like the ancient Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. http://secondat.blogspot.com/2010/08/cliff-dwellers.html
The Term Paper on Gladioli by Monet
The painting, Gladioli, by Claude Monet is temporarily on display in the Italian wing of the Detroit Institute of Art. Due to the renovations being made to the newer sections of the museum, only the “old”, main area of the museum is open to the public during the construction, so Gladioli had to be moved in order to be put on display Located on the right side of the main entrance the ...
http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/george-bellows/
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=12254;type=101
