Intro Blog 1st blog Art FX200

  Forming in the middle of the 20 th   century, Postmodern art was said to burst onto the artistic scene sometime between the 1960s and 1970s. This movement replaced Modernism as the primary artistic style at the time, and was viewed as a form of art with no standard guidelines that dictated the practice. Postmodern art stretched over two decades, coming to an end in around the 1990s when other artistic styles that had borrowed characteristics from Postmodernism began to develop. Existing as a body of art that incorporated different movements, Postmodern art borrowed aspects from a variety of artistic practices when creating artworks. The Postmodernism era described a form of art in which artists were able to truly express what they thought and felt, with pieces from this period typically characterized by complete freedom from politics and other societal influences. Postmodernism was  an unstable mix of the theatrical and theoretical . It was visually thrilling, a multifa...

  Kleine Welten II, 1922, Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art, possibly after Hilma af Klint. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. I chose this painting as like the artist the appealing display of abstract art speaks in volumes, Kandinsky is one of the first pioneers of abstract art. bringing music as his influence on the canvas. When I look at this portrait, I feel that maybe he was listening to something classical. The tones are smooth at first although the grey shading bring another perspective. Stilleben mit Bordeuauxflasche  (‘Still Life with a Bordeaux Bottle’, 1919) by Juan Gris It is said that artist of the Early Modern Era brought forth a style of painting from their imagination, although this painting gives the impression of the canvas being made from wood....

  The Nightmare  (1781) by Henry Fuseli;  Although the woman is enveloped in bright light, Fuseli suggests that the light cannot pierce the nightmarish realm of the human mind. The relationship between the woman, the incubus, and the mare is not explicit and therefore remains suggestive, emphasizing the frightening possibilities. The Nightmare  frightened and shocked its audience when exhibited at London’s Royal Academy. It was unlike anything the public was used to seeing, as the subject matter was not taken from the bible or a moment in history, nor was it created for the sake of moralizing the viewer. Upper Fall of the Reichenbach: Rainbow  (1810) by J. M. W. Turner Turner expressed the notion of the “sublime” in his paintings, a concept postulated by the philosopher Edmond Burke, where he depicted the feeling one sensed when experiencing the overwhelming force and grandeur of nature. Caspar David Friedrich   Wanderer above the Sea of Fog  (c. 1818)...