Gilded Age

 

This is one of the paintings that was made in teh Gilded Age. It is a very nice painting in which it shows great art work as well as great demonstration of that era. In this painting- a group of musicians provides the rhythm for a lone flamenco dancer who performs for an audience of clapping listeners. It is a snapshot of a specific point in time: the apex of the dance, a moment rife with energy and sensual drama. The footlights cast haunting silhouettes on the rear wall; the raw passion of the dance is palpable. The stark contrasts between murky shadow and dazzling illumination allow the painting to visually pop – a phrase that is often used in describing art but rarely so aptly. Due to the loose, frothy brushstrokes, there isn’t the sense of a true illusionary space, yet the light (and hence the vitality) of the scene seems to emanate outward from within the work, as though El Jaleo commands a life of its own.
 I feel that Sargent intent was to capture the mood through the lighting -- the dark room with low lighting and the shadows thrown against the wall. Secondly, and this is my own feelings, Sargent has taken us to a local cantina in Spain and we're voyeuristically glimpsing a group of performers that are playing as much for themselves as any intended audience. 

Modernism Art

This piece of art is called the Les Demoiselles d' Avigon. The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picaso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avinyó Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura. In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both cubis and modern art. Demoiselles was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement, even amongst his closest associates and friends.

I feel that this pice of art is very important because its regarded the painting as an attempt to ridicule the modern movement, which is very crucial. I feel that it is a very wonderful piece of art. As far as I know generally, Pablo Picasso is famous for unnaturally distorted figures in his paintings of that year, and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a great example.

Abstract Expressionalism

Abstract Expressionism was never an ideal label for the movement which grew up in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. It was somehow meant to encompass not only the work of painters who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a vigorous gestural expressionism. But it has become the most accepted term for a group of artists who did hold much in common. All were committed to an expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes, and most were shaped by the legacy of Surrealism, a movement which they translated into a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. In their success, the New York painters robbed Paris of its mantle as leader of modern art, and set the stage for America's post-war dominance of the international art world.

Abstract Expressionalism

1960's pop art

Andy Warhol

Jasper Johns

When Jasper first started drawing he drew the American flag, and his own lithographs series featuring simple images of roman numerals. Then he started to change his ways. One of his famous paintings was called, " Untitled (2) ". It looked like he took paint, splatted it on, then he took a stamp and wrote all of the colors' names.

You now know many things about Pop Art. You know some of the famous Pop Artists, where it started, and how the artist drew. Have you ever tried Pop Art before; if you haven't you should. Who knows you could be an artist.

Warhol was one of the most famous pop artist. He drew pictures and then repeated the object, or person. One of his most famous paintings was called, "Marilyn green, pink, red, and gold." Marilyn Monroe was the most popular person in her time. You can tell his paintings because he made 20 objects of the same thing in 1 painting.

Great Depression Art

Art and the Great Depression

 

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Hoboes walking by a billboard proclaiming 'Next Time Try The Train

Breadline beneath a billboard 'World's Highest Standard of Living'

These are iconic images from the era of the great Depression in America, and they gain their power from the juxtaposition of people enduring poverty against a context that promises them innovation, quality of life, abundance. As you might recall, I’ve become interested in the Depression, because of what it has to tell us about the economic situation we’re currently in. It’s been fascinating to study, as what seems to have come out of this era is the consumer culture of today, the mass market. And even more intriguing, it was in this era that the Great Divide, as it was known, came into being, between high and popular art.

Art of the Great Depression