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

The ism I would love to be...

Here is your chance to be creative and find a way to express yourself through the creation of an artist.

I would like you to find one of the modern art expressions, one of the isms... then find a particular artist or a particular piece and explain the reasons that made you identify with that movement.

For instance:

I would love to be EXPRESSIONISM... because....

you have to include at least three images, (portraits of the artist and examples of his or her pieces)

Good luck and have lots of fun! This post is due Wednesday october 27

The Smiling Spider

1881

by Odilon Redon

Charcoal, 49.5 x 39 cm

Odilon Redon was a french symbolist artist. Interesting?

Best of luck on this assignment,

Charlie.

Feedback

Hi everyone, thank you very much for your wonderful posts.

I have read all of them and then I have decided that since most of you did not follow my corrections, instead of writing individual comments I am posting a general feedback.

Your grades are already online. I considered the extra points for your presentation and the ones for the picture.

Fredele. Congratulations! I am glad that you are enjoying this class. 100

Fernanda. Good job! You need to double check your spelling. I would like you to include your personal opinion of the piece as well as the information you found. 90

Beatriz, congratulations! That is precisely the type of comment that I am expecting. My only recommendation for you is to indicate which quote belongs to each source. In our class next Monday I will explain to the class how to do it. 100

Jessica. Although the information is interesting, it is what you have found. I would like to know your opinion. Also, to make sure that you include information that has not been posted by your classmates. 85

Manuel. What a wonderful interactive feature! I think it is going to be very useful for you and your classmates not only for this class but for History of the Ideas (in 4^th semester or 5^th) Make sure that you indicate which information comes from each source. 90

Daniel. Wonderful job! You visited lots of websites and I can tell that you have learnt a lot. Just make sure that you indicate which information comes from each source. 100

Ricardo. I don’t think you are providing any new information. That is the challenge, you need to find new data that will be interesting for the rest of the class. 70

Sergio. I like the fact that you express your personal opinion, but I am not reading any new information. Make sure that you do more research next time. 70

Florence's Cathedral -Sergio Arias-

In this work for this partial I tried to make a painting representing some great details of the Renaissance Period with a mixture of Contemporary Building Technique.

Why does it represent the history of that time?

It represents the history of that time because the dome in particular was very representative during the renaissance period. Many authors in this case, filippo Brunelleschi, as always, demonstrates his capability of making an immense dome with very few architecture techniques that haven’t been developed and he did a wonderful piece of art.

He is the author of the Cathedral of Florence and other great piece of art is the dome at St Peter’s Square that he did along with Michelangelo.

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

It represents the culture of that time because this great piece of art has a lot artistic details, which were all commissioned by the Catholic Church.

The culture that is expressed in this building is that Renaissance People were really devoted to religion and most importantly they input a lot his attention to the word of god and represent their greatness through incredible sculptures. For example David in the same time, and this temple the sculptures of the saint’s along the walls, etc.

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

I loved the dome of the cathedral; certainly I think that besides St. Pete’s Basilica this piece of architecture is the greatest because of the size of the dome that makes unique around other cathedrals of the world.

Why do you like that particular artist that much.

I like this artist in particular because I’m really into architecture and got astonished when I visited this great cathedral and I wonder how this awesome people like Brunelleschi did a so perfect structure with few resources.

This depicts that intelligent people were chosen to express their abilities; In that time The Catholic Church it was the most powerful authority in that time.

renacimiento en colima

Diana cazadora

Villa de alvarez, Colima



La identidad de quién posó para el artista fue un misterio, hasta que en el año de 1992 se supo que la modelo tenía entonces 16 años de edad, se llamaba Helvia Martínez Verdayes (hoy de Díaz Serrano) y trabajaba como secretaria en la empresa Pemex, en una oficina dirigida por Vicente Mendiola, amigo del escultor. Fue ahí donde éste le propuso que modelara para la escultura. Después de pensarlo unos días la joven aceptó, pero para evitar el escándalo ella misma pidió guardar en el anonimato su identidad, como declararía en entrevistas para Canal 22 y la revista Macrópolis en junio de 1992; además ella fue la modelo de la Fuente de Petróleos 10 años después, en 1952.

El nombre que se le dio al monumento fue el de la "Flechadora de la Estrella del Norte", pero popularmente se le conoce como la Diana Cazadora. Desde su inauguración fue motivo de escándalo por su desnudez, por lo cual se le llegó a cubrir con un faldón de bronce, lo que provocó su deterioro al serle retirado en el año de 1967. Por esta razón se fundió una nueva escultura, mandándose la original a Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo.

yo piens que este es un modelo renacentista de colima.

DAVID- ALBERTO OCHOA

 david of michelangelo

1501-1504

white marmol, 4.1 m height

THE ACADEMYIES GALLERIE, FLORENCIA, ITALIA



why does it represent the history of that time?



because this is the most known sculpture in the rennessaince time and his creator is considered as one of the best artists that has ever existed and much of his paintings had to do with religion but they were created in a way of perfectionism.

why does it represent the culture of that time?

Because there is no human more perfect than the sculpture of David, and the religious influence on the people. In this sculpture we can see the maximum expresión of perfectionism and this meaning being more close to the lord and the human being something close to be divine.

why and what does it represent something you really fond at that time of period?

The enligtment of the people and the human being perfect, those things I can see in this sculpture. and that after a war that killed people that were considered as vain, so this was a sculpture pos that war.

why do you like that particular artist that much?

Because he is a genius and all his works, should have no money value, there are the inspiration of many of today’s artist and those times artists, this sculpture and the XVI chapel are the most recognized piece of art he has.



Second partial project Fredele

For my project, I wasn't based in one particular piece of art, but I based on the whole concept of renaissance. What I did, was a series of writtings, two are cites of Shakespeare and one of my own.

The characteristics from the renaissance used are shown in the capital letters, the curves, the colors and the details that I used.

This pieces represent, for me, the whole concept of the movement, because in it, we can see the ideas they had (Shakespeare was a great example of a renaissance artist). We can also see the artistic characteristics, as I mentioned before.

I love the way Shakespeare writes, I like the metaphores he used, the way he said things and even his insults. This is why I citated him and decided to write something simmilar to what he wrote.

PS: the citations are in each piece. (:

second partial project

Why does it represent the history of that time?

I think it represents history because of the extraordinary architecture and dynamic shape, if you focus on the top of the church you can see the religious symbols over main entrance and the cross symbol on top of the church.

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

I think it represents culture because it’s showing what the renaissance is about extravagant new architecture and that’s what I think about the culture this church is representing .

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

What I really like about this period is that they try to make new innovations , that they are trying to express something new that we had never seen before create a new culture bases obviously on the past cultures.

Why do you like that particular artist that much?

I really liked this church mostly because of its architecture and dynamic design I think it’s a breathtaking site.

My Creation: 

The birth of materialism

1.-Why does it represent the history and the culture of that time?

Venus, the Classical goddess of love and beauty at that time, is brought vividly to life.And in my pice of art, I contrasted this painting to modern era

2.-Why do you like this particular artist that much?

I liked the style of this particular artist and I found this pice beautiful and very something that I also noticed from this artist is that I saw that he has similar paintings to this one many of his other painting are nudes and women with the same facial expression.

3.- Why and what does it represent something you really fond at that time of period?

I personally like the Renascence because it’s the re birth of many things from that era and it’s a good  transition from the middle ages, since in the middle ages it was all dark, now its more of a thinking new era.

Project- Ricardo Dominguez

original work 

Why does it represent the history of that time?

It represents the history of that time starting from his creator the great Michel Angelo, and the piece itself that has special characteristics of renascence for example the proportions of the body

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

It represents the culture of that time because the image they had of a perfect man with muscles and the propositions, the David covers those so it was something to reaffirm these beliefs 

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

The things that I liked the most about this period called renascence is the way the humans perceived what they called the perfect man, however mostly of the people in that time did not comply with those characteristics.

Another thing I like it what we discuss in class about the postures, the posture of the David it is not an easy posture and it not a very common posture either

 Why do you like that particular artist that much?

I liked this piece of art not the artist but the piece I founded it interesting and “perfect”, and especially beautiful because when you see the original its something impressive, cause the size of it and the perfection it has.

my work 
works cited:The David. Digital image. Bibliocriptana. nd. Web. 6 Oct. 2010. <http://bibliocriptana.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/david-miguel-angel-2.jpg>. 

partial project - Manuel Gomez

Manuel Gomez

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Art and culture

“Partial project”

 

da vinci, Leonardo. The last supper. 1499. Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, italy.  

Why does it represent the history of that time.

In that time, all the paintings were focused on religion and Christianity.

The Last Supper was the last meal Jesus shared with his Twelve Apostles and disciples before his death. Is a 15th century (renaissance) mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron and his duchess.

Why does it represent the culture of that time.

You may think this painting is a fresco, one of the techniques seen in many paintings in the renaissance, but this is a usual mistake, if it were a fresco we would still have it in great conditions. The technique used by Leonardo to paint this was tempera on dry plaster.

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

I find very interesting that all the great painters of the renaissance, they maybe never got a chance to express themselves through their paintings because they mostly painted for the Catholic Church, so all the paintings have a similar meaning. I’m sure that if they did painted different stuff, we could get to know the real artistic side of the painter.

Why do you like that particular artist that much.

as we all know Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest painters of the renaissance and some say the father of renaissance. I like the way he wanted to create a new way of panting and discover new stuff like this technique. I like the fact that the painting is very fragile because that gives some value to the art work. 

thankyou very much!