Modern Art

According to Novitz, High Art is the only acceptable Art. High Art are highly associated within our historical pasts. We tend to appreciate older artworks such as Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and etc., wherein we tend to learn and gain knowledge from the past events through…

Introduction to Abstract Abstract Expressionism emerged in America following World War II, placing New York as the focal point of the art world. The term was coined in 1946 by art critic Robert Coates to describe a new American art movement. Its roots can be traced back to Surrealism, which used spontaneous and subconscious creations….

Modern art represents an evolving set of ideas among a number of painters, sculptors, and writers. Although modern art began, in retrospect, around 1850 with the arrival of Realism, approaches and styles of art were defined and redefined throughout the 20th century. Practitioners of each new style were determined to develop a visual language that…

            If one is to speak of consumerism in modern art, the first thing that comes to mind is pop art.  It is because commercialism is inherent in the very concept of pop art.  It may have been a movement that started in the 1960s with the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, but…

Cubism New attitudes towards pictorial space and geometric abstraction with geometric planes (but still based on real objects) -Influenced by African tribal masks/ breaking natural objects into planes/shapes. -Figures simultaneously seen from more than one view through relationships of geometric planes. -Analytical cubism based on process of human vision, eyes scan a subject then compile…

In the eery evening of October 16, 1834, a huge fireball blew up through the roof of The Houses of Parliament. Creating an enormous blaze, to the horror of passerbys, it caught the attention of Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner rushing to Parliament Square with his sketch pad, sketched the inferno as it blazed through…

Kokoschka was born in P’chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and…

Joseph Cornell was born December 24th 1903, in Nyack, New York and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He lived primarily in New York City from 1929. A collage album made by surrealist Max Ernst inspired Cornell to make his signature boxes, something he began in the early 1930s. Cornell had no training for constructing…

The Netherlands-based De Stijl motion embraced an abstract. pared-down aesthetic centred in basic ocular elements such as geometric signifiers and primary colorss. Partially a reaction against the cosmetic surpluss of Art Deco. the decreased quality of De Stijl art was envisioned by its Godheads as a cosmopolitan ocular linguistic communication appropriate to the modern epoch….

The recent exhibition at Frank Lloyd Gallery showcased new stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos. These pieces exemplify the type of work that initially brought the artist renown in the 1950s. The reaction to the artwork was one of astonishment, but it differed in nature from before. Now, the astonishment stems from witnessing the artist’s effortless…