project- Ricardo Dominguez

Futurism

Futurism developed in Italy around the same time as cubism appeared in France. Like cubism, futurism was short-lived, lasting only from 1909 until 1916.
Futurism was the first of many movements that tried to break from the past in all areas of life. Art of this period glorified the machine age, modern life, and war. Artists wanted their work to capture the power, excitement, and speed of modern industrial society. Futurism artwork often depicted motorcycles, automobiles, and trains. Artists learned to break up realistic pictures to into multiple images and overlap the various colors.

Why does it represent the history of that time?

Because one thing that is important for us is the future more than the past and by this type of art we can appreciate or try to see how we could life be in the future

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

It represents the culture of that time because at that time there was a transition in art, and the persons were looking to see how life would be in a future.

Why and what does it represent something you really fond of that time or period?

Because is the period that maybe some or all of us maybe will live and for me something really good or interesting is to see how art started with the things as simple as you can imagine and know days how it became very complex and helps you imagine how the art will be in the future.

Why do you like that particular artist that much?

I don’t looked up for any artist it just that I remembered a place I visited and was the inspiration in this my third partial project  the place I’m talking to you is times square

Works Cited

"Art Education." Art Education - Australia. na. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://www.arteducation.com.au/art-movements/futurism.php>.

"New York." Jocelyne Pink Ny. na. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. <http://wwwjocelynepink-jocelyne.blogspot.com/2010/06/ny-new-york.html>.

Jessica Cárdenas-- 3rd parcial project

Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)
 Daisy Waterfall (Rain Machine), 1971
mixed media and xographic prints
107 x 248 x 69 in. (271.8 x 629.9 x 175.3 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Anonymous gift
©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
1991.1

Why does it represent the history of that time? 

This represents contemporary are and very modern. This time if day nature is a big impact, and in the this image we notice the waterfall and the daisies.

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

 it represents the culture because its all about nature. and i oersieve it in a way where it says about our water and our flowers, what we need to survive.

Why and what does it represent something you really fond of that time or period?

I am a very nature kind of person. I love the world we live in and i really appreciate what makes it happen. i think nature is the only thing that helps us escapes and deal with our problems. 

Why do you like that particular artist that much?

i like this artist beacuase, andy can be very weird. he is very creative and makes a simply object, or theme a big deal. He uses lots of color which make you think more about the meaning.

I used the sence of nature and how the time changes. Like the trees changing in autum. Also i used the hands together as a sign of peace. the color pinkish purple because it illustrates love and care, and that is something we need in this world.

Fernanda Munguía

POP ART...

“Campbell's Soup Cans”
Andy Warhol. 1962
pop art.
Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases,
Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79809

Pop Art - An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Popartists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products. Leading exponents are Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-), Andy Warhol (American, 1928?1930?-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-), Jasper Johns (American, 1930-), and Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-). 

ArtLex.com

Why does it represent the history of that time?

Because it uses brands and it’s modern, also because we are totally influenced by the technology, the fashion and the consumism of European countries like England and also by the US.

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

Because nowadays, our culture is based on the consumism, the technology and the fashion of the big countries just as England and the US.

Why and what does it represent something you really fond of that time or period?

The use of a new technique, also because it is new, it is something nobody had done before. And the use of colourful colours.

Why do you like that particular artist that much?

Because he was the first one who got the idea of using brands. And I like his work, It was new and modern for that time, also because nowadays he is pretty famous because of his work “Campbell's Soup Cans”

VIDEO

my work...

citations:


moma. web. november 9,2010. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79809


artlex. web. november 9, 2010. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/popart.html

Impressionism- Sergio Arias

The ism I would love to be is impressionism, because sometimes when something impresses me I can represent it, act it, or share it in a fascinating way.

I like impressionism better than expressionism because an expressionist piece of art, from my point of view, is more about the feelings you have, representing your thoughts, your hobbies, and your style, and an impressionist piece of art is characterized of being a representation that expresses the visual impression of movement and that represents something highly remarkable and wonderful, that really went into you, and touched you in an incredible way, that completely changed your mind, and made you wanted to represent it’s greatness through a painting.

 Impressionism:

“Fine Arts

A style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent the effect of light on objects and the visual impression of movement.” (Dictionary.com)

The author that I liked the most of this art movement was Claude Monet, because he was one of the most important painters of this style and because I can relate his creations with me. For example his painting Impression Sunrise, reminds me when I went fishing with my dad in Mazatlan at 6:00am and we saw the beautiful sunrise and I got really impressed and astonished.

Impression, Sunrise. I like it also because was one of the first artworks created during this art movement, and that marked the turning point of modern art.

The characteristics of impressionism are:

·      Stroke Brushes

·      Colorful Colors

·      Asymmetrical Balance

·      Use of Colored Shadows

·      Use of Pure Color

·      Broken Color or Broken Brushstrokes

·      Use of Impasto (or Thick Paint)

·      Subject Matter

·      High Horizontal Line

·      Photographic Influence

·      Influence of Japanese Prints

·      Painted "En Plein Air"

IMAGES

Impression, Sunrise.

Artist            Claude Monet

Year            1872

Type            Oil on canvas

Dimensions            48 cm × 63 cm (18.9 in × 24.8 in)

Location            Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Wheat Stacks

Artist            Claude Monet

Year            1890-91

Type            Oil on canvas

Dimensions            60 cm × 100 cm (23.625 in × 39.375 in)

Location            Art Institute of Chicago

Street in Vétheuil in Winter

Artist Claude Monet

Year 1879

Type Oil on canvas

Dimensions 53 × 72 cm

Location  Museum of Konstmuseum

Portrait Of Monet:

Claude-Oscar Monet – Impressionist Painter.

Claude Monet, photo by Nadar, 1899

Was born in 14 November 1840

Paris, France

All these paintings made me identify this movement of impressionism since they have pretty much the characteristic of representing landscapes and the style of stroke brushes that were the most important in this paintings.

Overall, I like this style because it is diferent from the renaissance style painting that they depicted a lot details and used methods like sfumato, perspective, anatomy, etc. All these creations I find them more relaxed and calm, and that’s what I liked the most.

methods

Bibliography

*On line Learning The Fox Chase. Web. < http://www.flogris.org/learning/foxchase/html/about_impressionism.php>, 23/10/10.

*Web Museum, Paris. Web. < http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/>, 23/10/10.

*Impressionism. Web. < http://www.uncg.edu/rom/courses/common/impressionism.htm>, 23/10/10.

*Images (Caption).

I would love to be Impressionism... (Daniel Castillo)

Impressionism is an art movement and style of painting that started in France during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint candid glimpses of their subjects showing the effects of sunlight on things at different times of day. The leaders of this movement were: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926), and Pierre Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Some of the early work of Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906) fits into this style, though his later work so transcends it that it belongs to another movement known as Post-Impressionism.

Characteristics:

E	Everyday life
L	Light
B	Brushstrokes
O	Outdoor settings
W	Weather  and atmosphere

I would love to be Impressionism because it represents daily scenes and every day life of normal people, mainly middle-class people as I am. I like it because it doesn't need to represent like kings or princes or exagerated scenes to be beautiful. This type of painting makes us remember the beauty of common things that we have at our disposition and that we do not notice. Also, I would be impressionism because of the fact that I'm a very simple person that likes being outdoor and doing daylight activities with my family and friends, and seeing people doing that type of activities is one of the things that I found most interesting.

Also, being impressionism would mean having extraordinary beauty  brought from just "impressions" of real things, this means that real beauty doesn't come from very detailed things, it comes from what you can see in the scenes or the pictures, depending on your person. Beauty dependes on the persons that sees it.

Claude Monet, Self-Portrait with a Beret (Autoportrait de Claude Monet coiffe d'un béret), 1886, 56 x 46 cm, oil on canvas, private collection

I think that my favorite artist of this period would be Claude monet. (http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/) Link to Claude Monet's life.

 Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise (Impression: soleil levant), 1873, oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm, Musée Marmottan, Paris.

Claude Monet, The Regatta at Argenteuil (Régate à Argenteuil), 1872, oil on canvas, 19 x 29 1/2 inches (48 x 75 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Claude Monet, Waterlilies, Green Reflection, Left Part, 1916-1923, oil on canvas, Orangerie, Paris



Sources:
Artlex.com "Impressionism" Michael Delahunt. 23/10/10
Giverny.org "Claude Monet" Modified :Wednesday, 20-Oct-2010 04:51:34 . 23/10/10

Beatriz de la torre - EXPRESSIONISM

The ism I would love to be is probably expressionism because I am usually very easy to read and I like to show my feelings as they are, like if I'm angry or happy or stressed or scared or nervous... I always say what I think and how I feel and also, I tend to overreact to certain situations and I usually make them bigger than they are... so that's why I think I'm very similar to this art movement.

EXPRESSIONISM: this term is used when talking about distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect, it first came up in the art literature of the early 20th century. When applied in a stylistic sense, it refers to the use of intense colors, agitated brushstrokes and disjointed space.

Expressionism is an artistic style in which the artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements. So this is what I was saying, that the artist usually expresses his or her emotional way of seeing things, exaggerating them.

Expressionism assessed itself mostly in Germany, in 1910. As an international movement, expressionism has also been thought of as inheriting from certain medieval artforms and, more directly, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and the fauvism movement.

Edvard Munch, 1921
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Probably one of the most famous works of art from this movement is "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.

The Scream, 1893

Tempera and pastel on board

91 x 73.5 cm

I like this painting because it expresses freely the feelings of the artist. There is another painting I like better than this one and I read that it is considered part of the expressionist movement:

View of Toledo, 1596-1600

 

 It was painted by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). He was a famous painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish renaissance period. 

The View of Toledo is also known as Toledo in a Storm, because of the dramatic lightening effects of the sky. The reconfiguration of the city monuments and the dramatic and expressionistic style of his painting clearly indicate that El Greco (The Greek) did not belong to any conventional school of artistic thought. Considered as a precursor of both the Cubism and Expressionism movements. 



Sources:
*Art Movements. "Expressionism" nd. Web. Accessed on october 23, 2010.
*Edvard Munch. The Dance of Life Site. "Gallery: anxiety paintings". 2005. Web. Accessed on october 23, 2010.
*Oil paintings reproductions. "View of Toledo" nd. Web. Accessed on october 23, 2010.

Fernanda Munguía

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM...

I think I’m like abstract expressionism because I like to express freely my feelings and I don’t like to be conventional. Another thing is that I don’t like the geometrical things, I prefer something different, something with a little of movement, something which appears to be accident, but which is actually highly planned.

Abstract Expressionism -  Is a painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas. Their work is characterized by a strong dependence on what appears to be accident and chance, but which is actually highly planned.

Some Abstract Expressionist artists were concerned with adopting a peaceful and mystical approach to a purely abstract image. Usually there was no effort to represent subject matter. Not all work was abstract, nor was all work expressive, but it was generally believed that the spontaneity of the artists' approach to their work would draw from and release the creativity of their unconscious minds.

The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself.

My favourite painter that represents that movement is Jackson Pollock. And I want to share something he said:

“On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it, work from the four sides and be literally `in' the painting.” 
-- Jackson Pollock, 1947.

Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56)
Arte Spain.com

Now, i will show you a little bit from his biography:

Pollock, Jackson (1912-56). American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students' League, New York, under the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s he worked in the manner of the Regionalists, being influenced also by the Mexican muralist painters (Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros) and by certain aspects of Surrealism. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project. By the mid 1940s he was painting in a completely abstract manner, and the `drip and splash' style for which he is best known emerged with some abruptness in 1947. Instead of using the traditional easel he affixed his canvas to the floor or the wall and poured and dripped his paint from a can; instead of using brushes he manipulated it with `sticks, trowels or knives' (to use his own words), sometimes obtaining a heavy impasto by an admixture of `sand, broken glass or other foreign matter'. This manner of Action painting had in common with Surrealist theories of automatism that it was supposed by artists and critics alike to result in a direct expression or revelation of the unconscious moods of the artist.

Pollock's name is also associated with the introduction of the All-over style of painting which avoids any points of emphasis or identifiable parts within the whole canvas and therefore abandons the traditional idea of composition in terms of relations among parts. The design of his painting had no relation to the shape or size of the canvas -- indeed in the finished work the canvas was sometimes docked or trimmed to suit the image. All these characteristics were important for the new American painting which matured in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Shimmering Substance (Sounds in the Grass Series), 1946, oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 24 1/4 inches (76.3 x 61.6 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.

The painting that I like the most is entitled, One: Nuber 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock.

I like this painting pretty much bcause I found in it the perfect example of his drip and pour technique, which he popularized during the Abstract Expressionist era.

The painting is 8' 10" x 17' 5 5/8" (269.5 x 530.8 cm) and is one of many Pollocks exhibited in the permanent collection at the MoMA.

CITATIONS:

ArLex on Abstract Expressionism. web. Sat Oct 23. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/abstractexpr.html

Hayleygilchrist. web. Sat Oct 23. http://hayleygilchrist.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/contextual-studies/

New York city daily photo. web. Sat Oct 23. http://nyc2dailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/05/moma-monet-pollack.html