Featured Artists
Frida Khalo: mexican painter known for her man portraits, self- portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Her work 'Roots'set the record for a Latin American piece of Art
Salvador Dali: was a spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work. One of the most influential figures in modern art.
Rene Magnitte: Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought provoking ideas. He often depicted ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers preconditional perceptions of reality.
Klimt: an Australian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects of art. His primary subject was the female body.
Henri de Toulesse- Loutre:
Thomas Hart Benton: was an American artist who's paintings, lithographs, and murals contributed to the Regionalist movement. Bento captured rural american life during the 1920s and 1930s. His large scale works functioned as commentaries on social injustices. Reflecting the values of the working class, the artist often focuses his attention on the plight of farmers in the industrial age.
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Jackson Pollack: was an influential American painter, and the leading force behind the abstract expressionism movement in the art world. His greatness lies in developing one of the most radical abstract styles in the history of modern art. He detaches the line from color, refining the categories of drawing and painting, and finding new means to describe pictorial space.
Unit 7 Artists and Art styles Notes
Banksy: a pseudonymous England Based street artist, political activist, and film director. Real name and identity remain unknown.
Charles Schulz: American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip peanuts. Widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time.
Contemporary art: "the art of today". Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.
Fantasy art: broad and loosely defined art genre. Depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas,creatures or settings.
Photo Realism: highly illusionistic images that reffered not to nature but to the reproduced image.
Conceptional art: art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take presedence over traditional aesthetic, technical and material concerns.
Installation art: three dimensional work of art usually from various materials that create an experience for the viewer. Often used in museums to create an experience
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Vocabulary
negative space: background that surrounds the subject of work
positive space: refers to the subject or areas of interest in artwork
perspective: refers to the representation of objects in three-dimensional space
free form shapes: also called organic shapes, are irregular and uneven shapes. Outlines may be curved or angular
overlapping: the placement of objects over one another in order to create depth or illusion.
Highlight: an area in a drawing that is illuminated'
placement: placing objects that one wants to appear closer to the eye
detail: attention to a subject in individual parts
space: a feeling of depth or three dimensions. Can also refer to the artist's use of the area within the picture plane
form: refers to the element of shape among the various elements that make up the work
holograms: a method of producing a three-dimensional object by recording on a photographic plate or film the pattern formed by a split laser beam and then illuminating the pattern either in a laser or ordinary light
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Notes on art styles
Contemporary art: is the artist of today. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse and technologically advanced world.
Cubism: has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. Brings different views of subjects together in the same picture, resulting in fragmented art.
Impressionism: Characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial.
modernism: is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that arose from broad transformations in western society.
Surrealism: is best known for its visual artworks and writings and the position of uncommon imagery.
abstract: uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.
Art Nouveau: an international style in architecture and design that emerged in the 1890s and is characterized by sinuous lines and flowing organic shapes based on plant forms.
Fauvism: emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representation or realistic values retained by impressionism.
Expressionism: is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting. From a subjective perspective, distorting t radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.
Futurism: was an artistic and social movement. Emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.
More art styles
Pop art: art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
Deco: the predominant decorative art style of the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by precise and boldly delineated geometric shapes and strong colors and used most notably in household objects and architecture.
Surrealism: sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind
Dada: was an art movement formed during the first world war in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by the Dada artists is often satrical and nonsensical in nature
Precionsim: the first indiginous modern art movement in the united states and an early American contribution to the rise of modernism. It is characterized by firm, form, crisp contour, and static composition and usually depicting industrial or architectural matter
Abstract art: art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures
Gustav Klimt
-referred to as a huge bear of a man
-Austrian symbolist painter
- noted for his paintings, murals, sketches and more
-one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
- primary subject was the female body
-most influenced by Japanese art and its methods
- his works are marked by a frank erotocism
- in addition to his figurative works he painted landscapes