Unit 5

Impressionism

Impressionism started in Paris by a group of artist in the 19th century. The characteristics of impressionism paintings are that they have thin and small brushstrokes, an unusual visual of angles and light also primary colours. The result of impressionism was to capture the artist's awareness of the subject rather than the subject itself. Impressionist paintings contain very bright, bold colors and tend to have very little detail. The founders of this movement were Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Art became more expensive Artists were encouraged to express their own visions in their work and were free to experiment with traditional forms to create their own unique work.

Parlament in London
oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay

Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet

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symbolism

Symbolism is a form, image or subject representing a meaning other than the one with which it is usually associated that happened in the 19th century.Was a movement of the french and Belgian. Symbolism a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, movements which captured the reality. This movements allowed people to think spirituality, imagine, and dream. There were several artists during this time like Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri Fantin-Latour and Edvard Munch. Symbolism was international. Symbolists believed that art shouldsay the truth . They painted scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world events.

Edvard Munch - Scream

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scandinavian art

The Scandinavian countries are rich in artifacts and objects of archaeological interest dating from the end of the Ice Age through the Bronze Age, the Celtic and Germanic Iron Ages, and the Viking period. Viking art is characterized by dynamic geometric design of animal forms. It bears a clear relationship to other European trends, particularly to Hiberno-Saxon illumination.

Frank Stella

Frank Stella was born on the 12th May 1936, he is an american painter and print maker He uses minimalism and post-paint abstraction in his works. He was born in Massachusetts, after high school he attended Princeton university were he majored in history. He was mostly influenced by visiting galleries in New York. Frank Stella moved to New York in 1958 after he graduated. rank Stella has reinvented himself in consecutive bodies of work over the course of his five-decade career.

Frank Stella

Since he moved to New York Stella decided not to use paint like all the other abstract artists.He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object, rather than the picture as a representation of something. Frank Stella married Barbara Rose who became an art critic in 1961. At around this time he said that a picture was "a flat surface with paint on it - nothing more". In the 1960's Stella began to use more colours.

Protractor Series

Protractor Series is one of his paintings were arches are being overlapped and curves and straight lines are being used. These paintings are named after circular places that he had once visited in the middle east. In the mid 1960's Stella started working with printmaking also started working with a master printer, Kenneth Tyler.Stellas abstract prints are made in screen printing, etching and offset lithography. In 1967 he designed a set and costumes for a dance called Scramble. He was named the youngest artist to present a work in the Museum of Art. Later on, Stella started using relief, which he called ''maximalist', his work also became 3-dimensional were he started using free standing metal pieces. These are also considered as sculpture.

A BMW was designed by Frank Stella as part of an installment for the BMW Art Project in 1976.

BMW Frank Stella designed.

From the 1980's to the mid 1990's, Stella produced a number of works. During this time, Stella’s paintings gave way to full three-dimensional, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, french curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements. To create these works, the artist used collages or Marquette.

Stella continues to live and work in New York. On June 6, 2008, Stella published an Op-Ed for The Art Newspaper. Also in 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

Other works of Frank Stella:

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The Victorian Era

Clothes in the Victorian Era were elaborated and limited on the people who wore them. Era was a time period between 1830 and 20^th century.

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De Stijl

De STijl was made up of ultimate simplicity and abstraction, both in architecture and painting. This was by using straight horizontal and vertical lines also rectangle forms. They used primary colours: blue, red and yellow and the 3 primary values which are grey, black and white.

Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red, 1937–42, Piet Mondrian. Oil on canvas

Red and Blue Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917.

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William Morris

William Morris was born on the 24^th March 1834 and died 3^rd October 1896. He was famous for wallpaper and textile design and an important figure in the Victorian era. He was an English textile designer, writer, artist and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. The artistic idea of this brotherhood was to make everything home made at affordable prices, not cheaply manufactured. The brotherhood produced stained glass and tapestry fabrics which all were handmade. William Morris was married and had two daughters. His wife had a long affair with Dante Rossetti, who was an artists model.