Lee Krasner:
Born in Brooklyn, New York into an orthodox Jewish family. She joined the American abstract artists group in 1939. After studying art in various New York schools. She worked with the Jackson Pollock in 1941 whom she married in the following year of 1945. Often influencing each other’s art, her style was often known for giving visual expression to the physical energy of painting.
Jacob Lawrence:
An African American artist, who was supported by the wpa, that often captured the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north seeking employment in expanding industries in his tempera style paintings.
CUBISM:
An early twentieth-century painting and sculpture style characterized by geometric depictions of objects,
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Modernity is the constant change that each generation of people often bring to their fellow peers and their supposedly “Pre-Existent” way of life, whether it is simply within the boundaries of their neighborhood or a certain form of deposition that government seeks to implement onto their country. Artistically, modernity has been a staple within the community of painters, performers, sculptists muralists and literary authors. In many forms, it is very possible to find certain examples and broad statements within the artworks of certain artists that represents such forms of rejection. Many forms of modernity have been present within our history without our fully being aware of them, even in our early human history modernity became present to our ancestors. During the 1500s, early modernity began to rise with the publication of a very observant book by a smart young man, in the year 1543, Nickolaus copernicus published the book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). It is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory printed in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. This book had offered an alternative view and model of the universe compared to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been very widely accepted since ancient times. This achievement to challenge what was known as the norm began to spark a very great flame within the embers of modernity. In the 1700s to near 1800s, another form of modernity was introduced, musicians began to create a very different form of music which has become to be known as romanticism, within not only the musical culture but in the everyday culture as well, romanticism was the reaction to the then “ Age of Enlightenment” and the industrial revolution. It began to focus on different
January 28, 1912, Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five boys, and began taking an interest in art after his oldest brother, Charles Pollock. He later enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, first doing sculptures, and then later doing paintings. After getting kicked out for starting fights, he moved to New York and shadowed Thomas Hart Benton, attending the Art Students League. Benton’s family took Jackson under their wing. But after his father died suddenly, Pollock became depressed. This lead to excessive drinking and the threatening of Charles’ wife with an ax that he threw at one of Charles’ paintings scheduled for an upcoming exhibition. He was then kicked out, and the Great Depression started to take place.
African American painter and graphic artist who played a leading roll in the Harlem renaissance.
This time period was a time for the breaking of traditions. “The arts were now beginning to break all of the rules since they were trying to keep pace with all of the theoretical and technological advances that were changing the whole structure of life.” (History of Modernism). This era was the death of
I found that Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania and according to the website called biography.com it stated that she was one of the leading artists in Impressionist movement of the latter part of the 1800’s. She was one of the few women in the 1800’s that were well established who made a mark in the world of art. She was one of the seven kids to of a well-known investment stockbroker and banker, Robert and Katherine Cassatt. She had taken classes such as homemaking, painting, sketching and as well as other to become a good wife and mother. Then moved from the United States to Europe to live abroad for five years visiting many known capitals such as Paris and Berlin and gotten her first exposure to art at the Paris World Fair in 1855.
Scientists started to study the earth and it’s positioning in the universe. This was a time when the people started taking more of an interest in astronomy and mathematical equations. During the time of the Catholic Reformation, artists began to challenge all the rules that society has set for artistic design. Artists starting with Parmigianino, Tintoretto, and El Greco began to add a wide variety of colors into their paintings, challenging the way things have been done in the past. These artists also added abnormal figures or altered the proportions in paintings.
before moving on to work as a commercial artist and a teacher. She married a fellow artist
In this period, there are the bases for the creation of a new movement that will culminate during the 14th century. This particular view is enclosed in a sub-movement called humanism: humanists encouraged to put in the centre of the universe the man. The man is the main centre of the universe and of the thoughts. In this period intellectuals obtained answers in the works of the ancient classics, they embraced the classic culture, especially the ancient Greek culture, leading to the birth of a new science: The Philology, whose main learner was Lorenzo Valla. Classic themes are the inspiration for the artists: from poets to painters, they are all under this influence.
In the article “An Alternative Modernity,” the author François-Xavier Guerra sets out to define and explain the evolution of modernity, in the context of the eighteenth century and Latin America, as an umbrella term for a group of “multiple transformations in the field of ideas, the imaginary, and values and behavior.” In the simplest of terms, modernity can be defined as, according to Guerra, “the invention’ of the individual” (1). Guerra continues on to state that for modernity to evolve it was necessary then for “the creation of new forms of sociability and of its societal practices” (8). To put Guerra’s words in layman’s terms: modern thought and...
In 1930, at age 18, Pollock moved to New York City to live with his brother, Charles. He soon began studying with Charles's art teacher, representational regionalist painter Thomas Hart...
She was born on January 23, 1918 to a Russian emigrated mother and a Lithuanian emigrated father whom owned his own dentistry practice. She had a younger brother, Herbert, who was six years younger than she was. She grew up for the first six years of her life in Manhattan, then when her brother was born they moved to the suburbs of the Bronx.
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He grew up in Arizona and California. At the age of sixteen Pollock studied painting at the Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, and in 1930 Pollock moved to New York City settling in Greenwich Village, where he studied at the Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Pollock began doing all his work in a completely abstract way in the mid 1940s, but Pollock's most recognizable abstract works was after 1947, then came a new approach to drip painting. This was a period when the art world was strongly dominated by the abstract Expressionism movement.
Most contemporary historians define the European early modern period from around the beginning of the sixteenth century, up until the commencements of the French Revolution of 1789. The ambiguity inherent in this apparent catch-all period is problematic, and invokes much debate and disagreement among historians. For the purpose of expediency, this paper will have its modernizing genesis in the thoughts of Mitchell Greenberg writing in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Greenberg states there was a common modernizing compulsion right across Europe during this time period ‘…marked by both a gen...
Modernism can be defined as the post-industrial revolutionary era, where which the western world began to see a change in all spheres of living. The effects of the industrial revolution became prevalent towards the end of the nineteenth century and the modernist movement drew inspiration from this widespread change. Artists, writers, architects, designers and musicians, all began to embrace the changing world and denounce their pre-taught doctrines and previous ways of producing work. Society felt the urge to progressively move forward toward a modern way of thinking and living.
The Romantics era lasted from the year 1798 to the year 1834 and is an era full of changes. In this era the artists had freedom to express what they felt through their arts of work. Therefore, the works of art and the music during this period are truly expressive. Nationalism is also widely expressed by many artists during this era. This era is mostly shaped by many talented artists that became recognized nationally and worldwide. The classical rules were broken in this era and no more political oppression subsided in the streets of England. The air smells like freedom to the people living there, and new boundaries were open to those who decided to pursue their dreams. The artists give life to their imagination in their published works of art. “In various forms, Romances shared a feature that Victorians would take as exemplary of the literary (if not the polemical) imagination of the age: a turn even an escape form the tumultuous and confusing here-and-now” (The Romantics and Their Contemporaries 11). The Romantic era gave the world the supernatural and the mysterious side of art. Creativity also is a word that defines the Romantic era because it gave life to its lit...
Gradually, further developments were made in the field of philosophy throughout time. Modern philosophy brought about a new era of thought. The word “modern” in philosophy originally meant “new”. Modern philosophy was considered to be new thought from the previous medieval time period. Many advancements had been made in the intellectual, religious, political, and social aspects of life in Europe to justify the beliefs of 16th and 17th century thinkers. The explorations of the world, the Protestant Reformation, the r...