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  Cultural movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies.
When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade.
Originating in the 19th century with Symbolism, the Modernist movement composed itself of a wide range of 'isms' that ran in constrast to Realism and that sought out the underlying fundamentals of art and philosophy.
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 New Art Posters & Art Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Art Print: Frank Dicksee was a member of a noted artistic family, his father, Thomas Francis, his brother, Herbert Thomas, and his sister Margaret Isabel were all well-known painters, and the family lived in the Bloomsbury area of London; He was initially trained by his father, before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870.
Art Print: Renoir's paintings show vibrant light and colour, and harmony of lines; His initial paintings show the influence of the artistry of Eugène Delacroix, and of his friend Claude Monet with whom he developed the impressionist style and the influence of Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, and Camille Corot is also seen in his work.
Mini Art Print: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was from an old aristocratic family and was the first son of Comte Alphonse and Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec; Toulouse-Lautrec lived for his art and became an important post-Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer, and recorded the bohemian lifestyle of Paris at the end of the 19th century.
www.popartuk.com /art/new   (1149 words)

  
 Renaissance Classicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Classicism sprang two movements: a countermovement that was extremely anti-classicist, Mannerism, and a later movement that became a sort of exaggerated Classicism on a grand scale portraying power and authority - Baroque.
The Classicists entered on the heels of an artistic revolution, which was popularly known as the Renaissance and ushered in during the Reformation (da Vinci and Raphael died during the years Martin Luther was ordered to recant).
Michelangelo would be arguably the most powerful of the classists, unintentionally influencing the Mannerist movement with his anxious painting.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Renaissance_Art   (572 words)

  
 WPA _Guide_to_The_Old_Dominion:_ "Art"
Though art was appreciated from the beginning, as indicated by the early importation of British paintings and objets d'art, a number of factors hindered local creation.
Art festivals are held in many Virginia centers, and a series of exchange exhibitions has been conducted-followed in 1938 by the first All-Virginia Exhibition of paintings sent to New York City, and the inauguration of a Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Art departments in various colleges and flourishing summer art schools are promoting art appreciation and training Virginia's artists of tomorrow.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/va-art.html   (3101 words)

  
 Mona Lisa
Blinkered by their assumptions about high art, Louis Lepine and his detectives imagined the priceless painting installed in its own apartment, kept in style like an expensive mistress, and it never occurred to them that the thief could be one so humble as Peruggia.
Such an elevated, if extravagant, ideal of art demanded a new kind of criticism that would match, and even surpass, the intensity of the impressions that a painting evoked in the sensitive viewer, and the aesthetic critic responded with ardent prose poems of his own.
A private art historian with a passion for the Renaissance believes she has uncovered the identity of the Mona Lisa and the heartache behind her sad and mysterious smile.
www.arlindo-correia.com /020602.html   (12943 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
In the story of modern art, Grosz is a brilliant anomaly: a satirist and caricaturist whose brutal humor was instantly recognised by the avant-garde as avant-garde, yet was widely accessible.
His art of the 1920s is a gross carnival of horrors, charting with beery cigar-chomping cynicism the rise of German militarism in a society of maimed zombies.
His elegant art encouraged the movement away from Baroque drama towards a more tender, rocaille style in harmony with the earliest manifestations in Naples of the Arcadian school of poetry and of the Enlightenment.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4jul/art0726.html   (4328 words)

  
 Art Painting Information on Artistic Styles and Periods
Art painting has its roots in ancient prehistoric times, and was in fact one of the earliest forms of communication dating back to the Upper Paleolithic some 40,000 years ago.
Early Renaissance painting bridges the period of European art history between the art of the Middle Ages and the art of the Renaissance.
The works of art of this period features mainly religious themes (the Church was the main client of these artists), but also some purely figurative themes.
www.artpainting.info   (1596 words)

  
 Art History & Practice videotapes: Media Resources Center UCB
Art critic Robert Hughes discusses the current nature of modern art, which he believes is characterized by attempts to remove art from the highly organized system of dealers and museums and replace it with conceptual art, earthworks, and body art.
The subculture of street art is significant because it is an embodiment of subversive content and a form of public expression, a form of media and a means of political and social protest.
Surveys cubist art in the context of its period by focusing on The Cubist Epoch exhibition originally shown at the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Artvid.html   (15860 words)

  
 Victorian Classicism: Artists and their Works
The Classicists were closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, many artists being influenced by both styles to some degree.
Both movements were highly romantic and were inspired by similar historical and mythological themes -- the key distinction being that the Classicists epitomized the rigid Academic standards of painting, while the Pre-Raphaelites were initially formed as a rebellion against those same standards.
Frederick Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema were the leading Classicists, and in their lifetimes were considered by many to be the finest painters of their generation.
www.artcyclopedia.com /history/victorian-classicism.html   (166 words)

  
 Entropy and Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Related symptoms in other branches of art are the use of random sequences of words or pages in literature, or a musical performance presenting nothing but silence so that the audience may listen to the noises of the street outside.
Works of art also are examples of human products created by outside intervention, although here the situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that only in the physical sense is the work of art an object on which a human body operates from the outside.
In Christian times, secular art split off from religious art; and whereas early art had presented standardized figures, placed in one plane and "exposed to the same degree of light," a later development led to individualized figures of differentiated shape and color, varied in lighting and distance (63, 124).
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 Richard D. Mohr / Pottery, Politics, Art
Pottery, Politics, Art uses the medium of clay to explore the nature of spectacle, bodies, and boundaries.
Richard D. Mohr revives from undeserved obscurity the far-southern Illinois potting brothers Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1814-90, 1828-96) and examines the significance of the haunting, witty, and grotesque wares of the brothers' Anna Pottery (1859-96).
Classicist, social theorist, public intellectual, he has also written extensively on art and architecture in such journals as Architectural Record, Art Issues, the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association, and Style 1900.
www.press.uillinois.edu /s03/mohr.html   (342 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Cultural movement
Beginning in the early 1600s with Cartesian thought (see Rene Descartes), this movement provided philosophical frameworks for the natural sciences, sought to determine the principles of knowledge by rejecting all things previously believed to be known about the world.
The first art movement oriented towards the landscape of the computer screen.
Increased emphasis on art as part of a system (e.g., in architecture) or in integrating several different disciplines into one work of art (e.g., involving the internet community as a prelude to a movie release, e.g.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cultural_movement   (1323 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
His late landscape works stand out due to their very liberal painterly execution and realistic depiction and are a part of the progressive tendencies of the landscape painting movement of the day.
The association of Minerva and the Muses was in line with the tradition that made her patroness of the arts.
Even at this early point in his career he felt it unnecessary to work in a major art center like Paris, as he believed that particular urban environment was a considerable hinderance to the development of his own painting style.
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 Edgar Degas Biography - Renoir Fine Art Inc.
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under a disciple of the famous French classicist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, where Degas developed the great drawing ability that was to be a salient characteristic of his art.
In Woman with Chrysanthemums (1865, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City), the female subject of the picture is pushed into a corner of the canvas by the large central bouquet of flowers.
In 1881 he exhibited a sculpture, Little Dancer (a bronze casting of which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and as his eyesight failed thereafter he turned increasingly to sculpture, modeling figures and horses in wax over metal armatures.
www.renoirinc.com /biography/artists/degas.htm   (614 words)

  
 Spanish art - Art in Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The art Asturian prerrománico that he/she took elements of the Visigothic tradition and of the art carolingio, he/she acquires personality characteristic with the churches of Santa María of the Naranco and San Miguel of Lillo (century IX).
With the XIX century he/she was also born already the call bourgeois art that acquired, to the edge of the XX century the impressionist technique (Joaquín Sorrolla, Darío of Regoyos).
In Architecture, the XIX century he/she began under the aesthetic neoclasicista and it finished with the modernism that flourished in Catalonia with figures as Antonio Gaudí and Lluis Doménech i Montaner; among the modernist painters it is necessary to mention Ramón Houses, Isidre Nonell and Santiago Rusiñol.
www.historia-es.com /usa/a_07_in.htm   (841 words)

  
 French Culture | Art | French Patrimonial Art in USA, Season 2003-2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Art by living French artists is found on our Contemporary Art pages.
The North Carolina Museum of Art presents some of the finest masterpieces of modern art with Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art.
His art was inextricably linked with the political and social upheaval of his era.
www.frenchculture.org /art/events/0304index.html   (6213 words)

  
 EVENTS/ART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Young Poland witnessed the birth of modern Polish art, engaged in formal experimentation.
The art of Tadeusz Makowski was influenced by cubism; Wladyslaw Strzeminski and Henryk Stazewski worked within the idiom of constructivism.
Baroque and Classicist literature was a factor uniting the multinational Poland together.
home.btclick.com /polishembassy/info/faq_culture.html   (1330 words)

  
 Classicist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is gratifying to be able to note that the formula is modified by the presence throughout the art of the past twenty-five hundred years of an army of infants busy at perfectly frivolous tasks.
Far from being 'frozen music', it is an art constantly attempting to realize in solid, stable form those effects which music is able to conjure up in an instant--effects which succeed each other rapidly during the progress of a musical work.
Almost, the two arts are the same art, the one able to express nearly everything which the imagination is capable of conceiving, the other bound by the rigours of economy and use.
classicist.blogs.com   (5616 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Whistler’s position in the history of British art is as paradoxical as his personality: flamboyant dandy and wit, he was also a serious craftsman, tirelessly dedicated to the perfection of his art.
Velázquez, and became a devotee of the cult of the Japanese print and oriental art and decoration in general.
Whistler's art is in many respects the opposite to his often aggressive personality, being discreet and subtle, but the creed that lay behind it was radical.
www.geocities.com /johncanu/art/art4jul/art0717.html   (7744 words)

  
 Public Art
Following the civil war, artists were inspired by the heroic and militant world of antiquity, as is seen in the themes and the classicist form favoured at the time.
One is situated in front of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium and was erected in 1952.
Others are at The Art Museum of Ateneum in Helsinki, at Jyväskylä University, and in the city of Turku.
taidemuseo.hel.fi /english/veisto/veistossivu.html?id=207&sortby=artist   (259 words)

  
 Edgar Degas
His innovative composition, skillful drawing, and perceptive analysis of movement made him one of the masters of modern art in the late 19th century.
He was obliged to depend on vibrant colors and meaningful gestures rather than on precise lines and careful detailing, but, in spite of such limitations, these works are eloquent and expressive and have a simple grandeur unsurpassed by any of his other works.
Art is vice, you don't marry it legitimitely, you ravish it!
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Impression/Degas.html   (576 words)

  
 Bohème Magazine Online - The Great Pictorial Movements: Neo-Classicism
The movement was born in Rome but it rapidly spread throughout Europe and even reached the American colonies.
Neo-Classicist art was in general very much inspired by Raphael and Nicolas Poussin, two artists who worked in a classic tradition (Raphael was a Renaissance painter and Poussin a Classicist).
It was also a movement that influenced arts and literature on an international scale, bringing masterpieces in painting and architecture (the Capitol in Washington, for instance).
www.boheme-magazine.net /php/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=384   (1302 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
The following year he enrolled briefly in the Art Students League and then in the New York School of Art (1898), where his ability was recognized by William Merritt Chase.
She was impressed by the chequered tablecloths of the Bonnard paintings on display at the Galerie Petit, which influenced her later work; it was, however, sculpture that she first studied, under Émile-Antoine Bourdelle and then under Charles Despiau.
Attribution of his other pictures is often contested: the father’s work is frequently confused with that of his sons, of which he was the first art teacher: Michel Corneille II [02 Oct 1642 – 16 Aug 1708] and Jean-Baptiste Corneille [02 Nov 1649 – 12 Apr 1695].
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jun/art0613.html   (6094 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
— Degas's innovative composition, skillful drawing, and perceptive analysis of movement made him one of the masters of modern art in the late 19th century.
He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under a disciple of the famous French classicist J. Ingres, where Degas developed the great drawing ability that was to be a salient characteristic of his art.
Degas was very concerned with the accuracy of movements and postures.
www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jul/art0719.html   (5301 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Those who have followed the course of German art during these last, eventful years, those who sensed what the future held in store for the development of that art, also knew Macke.
Sponsored by two Parisian Art Dealers, Vollard and Bernheim (large exhibition in 1901 soon after the Van Gogh's major retrospective) he was assured financial stability and retired in 1902 at Saint Chamas becoming another Provençal recluse artist.
Precursor with Valtat of the Fauvist movement he is sometimes referred to, by certain Art Critics, as the "Black Fauve".
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4sep/art0926.html   (4663 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is thought that this portrait was commissioned by their maternal grandfather, from whose family it comes.
Children's groups were always a challenge to artists, since they required more informality, movement and inventiveness than adult portraiture.
— Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas was a French painter and sculptor whose innovative composition, skillful drawing, and perceptive analysis of movement made him one of the masters of modern art in the late 19th century.
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 Cultural movement
Romanesque seems to be the first pan-European style since Roman Imperial Architecture and examples are found in every part of the continent.
:: See: Baroque art — Baroque music ; Rococo ; Neoclassical (17th–19th centuries) : Severe, unemotional movement recalling Roman and Greek ("classical") style, reacting against the overbred Rococo style and the emotional Baroque style.
It is exemplified by movements such as deconstruction, conceptual art, etc.
cultural-movement.ask.dyndns.dk   (1066 words)

  
 The Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 627 Gandhara sculptures of this Museum are the ones that India received as her share of the Lahore Museum 's collection at the time of the partition of India in 1947.
Most of these settlers were converted to Buddhism, built monasteries, temples and stupas, and created a vigorous art movement, the so-called Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara.
The rigid canons of beauty of the classicist are slowly given up for novelty, more agility, richer decoration and a more romantic concept of beauty.
chdmuseum.nic.in /art_gallery/kushana_sculpture.html   (803 words)

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