Artistic expression has been, and will continue to be, extremely influential in showing the nature of the western world
1600 + 1700's
CLASSICISM
Classicism was the favoured style during the age of enlightenment. Artists needed serious art for serious times to express there feelings and make an impact on the viewers about the problems that were occurring at the time like. Paintings and sculptures also represented history for its people and to display it publicly can remind the people to have positive outlooks. Statues were meant to represent its people and their rights.
-“ I might help to bring the arts nearer to their true destination which is to serve morality and to elevate the soul, thus extend to the hearts of the spectators those generous sentiments called into being by the productions of the artists! It is a great secret to touch the human heart, and by this means a great impulse might be given to the public energy and to the national character.” (Haberman 111) - Jaques Louis David
-The culture of exhibition or showing art in public offered life to the poor and produced positive energy and warm hearts in the attraction to the art. According to David , public exhibition is good. and since then many pictures, images and statues have been a representation of something or someone whether it be historical or spiritual.
1800's
Romanticism
Romanticism is the reaction to the revolution and the Enlightenment, that emphasized nature, emotions, spirituality, and intuition. Romanticism, also known as the romantic era was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. A reaction to the Industrial revolution, it was felt most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. In visual arts romanticism first showed its form in landscape painting.
Art comes in many ways and forms. Visual art, art of love, music, literature etc. That's how the history of art has expanded and has been expressed over the years and it will continue to do so. Once there is an expression or feeling behind love, music, or literature it can be considered art in today's world and these years of building the artistic expression have paved the way for artists today. Gustav Courbet and William Blake are two artist that really stood out in this era. William Blake is now considered a Seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the romantic era. He admired the human body and was one to start the art of naked women in paintings.
"Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd." (William Blake)
"Exuberance is beauty." (William Blake)
REALISM
The realist movement began in the mid 19th century as a reaction to romanticism painting. Realist painters used regular people in regular surroundings engaged in real activities as subjects for their works. Realism is the accurate representation in art of the visual appearance of scenes and objects. Realism is also called naturalism, mimesis, or illusion-ism. Emphasized to paint what you see.
"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it." -(Gustave Courbet)
"To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim."- (Gustave Courbet)
1800- 1945
Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th century art movement that started with a group of Paris based artists that had independant exhibitions that brought them to fame during the the 1870's and 80's. Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, but visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
A number of identifiable techniques and working habits contributed to the innovative style of the Impressionists. Although these methods had been used by previous artists—and are often conspicuous in the work of artists the Impressionists were the first to use them all together, and with such consistency. These techniques consist of
- Colours are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, a technique that exploits the principle of simultaneous contrast to make the colour appear more vivid to the viewer.
- Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. Pure impressionism avoids the use of black paint.
- Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and intermingling of colour.
- Impressionist paintings do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films (glazes), which earlier artists manipulated carefully to produce effects. The impressionist painting surface is typically opaque.
- The paint is applied to a white or light-coloured ground. Previously, painters often used dark grey or strongly coloured grounds.
- The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object. Painters often worked in the evening to produce effets de soir—the shadowy effects of evening or twilight.
- In paintings made outdoors, shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness previously not represented in painting. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)
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Dada or Dadaism was a form of artistic anarchy born out of disgust for the social, political and cultural values of the time. It embraced elements of art, music, poetry, theatre, dance and politics. Dada it was more a protest movement with an anti-establishment manifesto.A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty. Dadaism was basically angry painting that still exists today and will continue to exist.
Post- 1945
- Jackson PollockAbstract Expressionism
- Abstract Expressionism is a post world war II art movement that began in New York in the 1940's. It was the first American movement to receive International influence and put New York City in the middle of the western art world, a role previously filled by Paris. Modern art was used to express individuality and started the argument of whether it can be called art because of how simple the piece of work looks and how much it can be sold for. But to create the artwork takes a variety of skills and patience to go along with time and technique. Paint what you feel it doesn't have to mean anything.
Art has came a long way since the 1600's and all forms of art are beautiful. As time goes by different techniques and types of art are created to expand the artistic nature as we seen through the centuries how different art can be and still have international influence.
“Expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces… modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feeling rather than illustrating.” “New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and means of making their statements.” “ Each age finds its own technique… the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”- Jackson Pollock (Haberman)
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOsR0TzbJ8
work cited
http://www.quotes-famous-artists.org/claude-monet-quotes
Wikepedia
http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=1031#.VXzi7Pm4Tct
http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=458#.VXzjBfm4Tct
I agree with your opening statement that artistic expression has been and will continue to be a large part and influential of the western world.
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- Interesting to know that it's the favored style of the enlightenment.
- Although the time was a fairly dark time, it's interesting to know how people reacted to these times and how they could express their feelings.
1800's Section
It's interesting to see how the paintings look like, good for including samples.
Romanticism was a really interesting era, thanks for letting us know a little bit more about that era
Realism was probably my favorite era. Interesting to see how it really played out in history.
“Expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces… modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feeling rather than illustrating.” “New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and means of making their statements.” “ Each age finds its own technique… the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”- Jackson Pollock (Haberman) - really nice quote that explains to how each era has their own technique. Do you think that modern art in todays world was as deep and interesting as previous arts? Why or why not?
Video at the end was a nice touch to the post.
I agree with your statement about how art is and will continue to be an influence on the western world. It's a great way to express oneself, when words can't seem to do your thoughts justice. Dadaism was/ is a great example of that. It was artists getting angry at society, and to get their point across, they painted crude things, or created any form of art in order to show society how angry they were with them, in order to be seen or heard, like you stated, they were the artistic anarchists. I think it's interesting how they chose to do that and how it's still evident in todays society as well, graffiti, or street art, is another form of artistic anarchy. It's one of the most popular forms nowadays. It's a way for people to show their opinion on todays society, including politics, in a positive but also negative way (if that makes any sense). I think you're very right when you say that art has come a long way, and has changed the techniques and structures but still has international influence. Art is constantly changing, yet it never really changes, you know? Do you think art is ever really going to completely change? Or even just die out? Personally I think it's always going to be evident in society, I think there's always going to be that form of expression for people who aren't good with words. I think it's never truly going to die out.
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