Essays on Modern Art

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…

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…

Thangka is a Tibetan word signifying and illuminated Buddhist scroll mounted on silk. Every multitudinous detail in such paintings is symbolic a Bodhisattva might be pictured seated in the center of a geometric mandala, concentration on which is used as a meditation aid. When judging prices, take a close look at the quality of execution of…

            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…

Abstract Does the amount of exposure to conforming pressures of society affect one self’s artistic expression? Environment heavily influences style of art. Without realizing, we start to imitate certain qualities of people and things around us. Art Brut represents the work of people who are the least conformed to and influenced by society. Is there…

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…