Abstract art

Abstract art started during the 19th century, when the art culture had been shown as alternative way of describing the visual experience.

Where the main element that abstract art has is impressionism, romanticism and expressionism. By showing the visual form of colour and symmetrical shape where it indicates the departure of reality. Of the idea of imagination of using spiritual and immoral into representing from what the artist can see, that inspired them into visualising the theme.

For example:

Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15th 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in America.

During her years O’Keeffe art was recognised from her school by the time her art teacher and principle, by encouraging her to further development with her artistic skills.

As O’Keeffe is inspired with experimenting her own effect of capturing the subtle of sunlight and shadow with paint into re-transformation the shape and colours.
From showing her art work in nature, as her artwork is influence from the abstract artist called Wassily Kandinsky,where his influence helped O’Keeffe to encourage her style of her art.

Since when O’Keeffe went to new York she encountered people from ideas that influence her, from the help of her friends.

Into helping her by understanding the tradition abstract art, from the idea with representational art to experimenting with abstract. From the two contracts element by showing non- representational shape and pattern from using her own idea.

for example:
jack-in-the-pulpit 1930

O’keeffe painted series of six canvases of jack-in-the-pulpit.
Where she used the outline design of the jack-in-the-pulpit which is a plant that O’Keeffe rearranged the pieces. As her painting show a striped and hooded bloom as the appearance to shows the complexion, using the middle thick, to give a depiction of abstract. By showing a significant strong interest of the plant essence from the image of the jack-in-the-pulpit as a plant from colour effect. Using a haloed circle to the light into showing a glowing effect by causing the light to reflect from a ice crystal in the atmosphere.

Surrealism

Surrealism is an art movement from the early 20th-century during 1924 after world war 1, where it’s based on representing the subconscious mind.
By creating imagery and juxtaposing elements that shows the contradict each other, by showing the elements like dreams and nightmares.

Since surrealism shows the conflict of struggling into showing vision of movement, by giving subconscious in art form, into showing inspiration of deeper thoughts.
Into showing an expression of philosophical moment from using the idea of an depictive expression ,where there’s a meaning of an ordinary object.

for example:

Artist like Salvador Dalí was born on may 11th 1904 Figueras Catalonia, a major region of Spain, died 1989. During his time, he studied drawing in 1916 as he discovered modern painting on a summer trip to Cadaqués.

As Dali was interested with the ideal of psychologist Sigmund Freud, by the time his work showed the artistic and subconscious mind which had caused him to focus into portraying.
By the time in Dali had officially joined the surrealist group from the leader who started surrealism by André Bret.

From 1926 Dali visited Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
As most of his work where influence from the two artist by Picasso and Miro, as he soon later developed his own complementary style of art.
His influence from Picasso was rearranging the object of his work from an intense colour , and by Miro was to re-create the subconscious mind by visualisation.
Into portraying the his work from a still life painting of an elements that he uses for most of his work.

From example:
‘’The Persistence of Memory’’ 1931

The artist introduce his work by showing the melting clocks from using pocket watches with no attached from the chain. Into showing the movement where it slowly lays down from the rock next to the tree branch. Where it shows the sentimental of emotion where he use an hard object like a clock into becoming weak inexplicably limp.
Since it shows a deceiving capture from an imagination that the artist used by making the theme of the setting very life like.

As the evidence of the landscape of the sea from the background he uses his location of his home country of Catalonia into his work. Where Dali shows the mountain near his home from showing by symbolising the identity of his home.
By showing together the system of the event from a dimension time where it gives the method from a sustainable period into symbolising the time is value.
As the clock represents to Dali point of view of showing a metaphor that time passes from nature of mankind throw death and weakness , into showing as a metaphor with nature of time set against humanity.
By making the theme giving a washed ashore decaying throw the flesh ,of struggling from gasping throw air from showing the ruins by giving heat into giving a reality as a gravity form of a distort time, where a fetus-like head laying died onto the ground like a fish.

For example from his other work:

The Disintegration

of the Persistence of Memory 1952-1954

Metamorphosis of Narcissus
1937

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was born in 1895 a rustic farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway.
In 1875 he studied in technical college into study engineering after his ambition of becoming a painter by the time his father disapproved from the following year, later in 1881 munch enrolled at the royal school of art and design of Kristiania.
From his career munch was influence from style of naturalism and impressionism by showing his creative passion.
As Munch was influence by showing his expression from a deeper thoughts into situation by showing into exploring his own emotion and psychological state. Since he kept information by self examination to shows his reflection as a person of his identity, into recording his thoughts by helping him to move on to a new art.
Where his artwork shows the emotional content, from the uses of impressionism from his own tone of style into depicting the state of mind instead of the contents of reality.
By creating tension and emotion where he is stylistically influence by post impressionism.

For example:

The Scream1893:

The scream that munch painted was to show munch’s agoraphobia from fear of open space towards public, into portraying by showing a figure, as a reaction of life.
Where the meaning of anxiety from searching between the difficulty from an identity of a figure of himself.
Into giving an subconscious emotion, as the artist used a powerful and expressive colours from the colour red ,dark blue and orange.

By the time the artist was showing a reddish sky from the background during the time he had seen a powerful volcanic eruption. From the mid air as the ashes turned the sky red of Krakatoa during 1883.
where the sence identifies the location from the view of a road overlooking the Oslofjord and Hovedøya, from the hill of Ekeberg.

His quotes:
I was walking along a path with two friends—the sun was setting—suddenly the sky turned blood red—I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence—there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city—my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety—and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

Weeping Nude, 1913.

The Dance of Life (1899-1900),

Art Deco

Art deco is a design that is international art design movment from the 1920’s until 1940’s. Its based on a decorative art that is a mixer style from an element of Constructivism,Neoclassical, Art Nouveau,Modernism , futurism and Cubism.
Since art deco is well known as decorative art such as architecture, industrial design and interior design till today.
Since the style is evolved from many sources based on a cultural background of Sociality from the influence of other cultural building till today.

Art deco features :
- Ziggurat shapes: Terraced pyramid with each story smaller than the one below it
- Cubic forms
- Complex groupings of rectangles or trapezoids
- Bands of color
- Zigzag designs
- Strong sense of line
- Illusion of pillars

http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/Historic-Styles/Art-Deco-.htm

For example:

Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is known as a skyscraper, which the building was built in 1930. As it is known as the tallest structure in the world.

Since the design was made by an architect called William Van Alen.
Where his idea came from his inspiration of an technology age of a ornamental details from using the idea of futurism.

Where the design came from the influence of the Great Mosque of Djenné 1907.

As the building material is made from a largest mud brick building in the world, as it influence other architects to one of the conceiving greatest achievement from the influence of the mosque. Which is one of the most landmark in Africa since the building is now located in the city of Djenné, Mali on the flood plain of the Bani River.

Arts and crafts

Art and craft was invented from the Great exhibition of the work on industry of all nation since the exhibition took place in Hyde park in London during 1851 .
The exhibition showed that took part in culture and industry where Britain shows its place by the empire of its nation that they had collected during the time.
As it become popular during the 19th century as it inspired other artist from finding out the knowledge from early revaluation of machine into creating an art form.
From the decoration technique from a new design of an art nouveau.

For example artist like:


Alphonse Mucha




Mucha (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) is French illustrator who dose painting advertisement as well as making his own jewellery, carpets, wallpaper and theatre sets.
As he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris while at that time he was producing advertising and magazine since he got his first carer into volunteering a poster.
That he produce in lithographed within two weeks by the time of 1st of January 1895 as the poster was finished, it was ready for advertise a theatre company in Paris called the Théâtre de la Renaissance.

After that year his poster became successful as he became well known since his poster appeared in a street, as the people in Paris announced to see his new creation of style, by the time he was satisfied into his success from his first poster.
By the time his style inspired others as he was initially called ‘mucha style’, because he was the first to begin to show his design to became well known. Which was known as art nouveau since he was internationally called.


For example from his work:



Maude Adam as Joan of Arc June 21 1909



The image of a women is an American actress Maude Adams in a role of john of Arc.

Where his art work suppose to symbolise a women to present the image of john of arc. By showing extraordinary from cultural and religious views into present the history.
Into showing the women represent the icon of an androgynous ,from showing the feminine of an impression. since the image shows flowers to use to describe the beauty.

Where he used the idea of this design show a distinctive style uniquely characteristic of a particular person of a women. Which it show a strong revival of a flurry enchanted atmosphere, where it captures a designated filed of a decisive moment. Which shows controversy expression through a communication feeling of a characteristic of a person.
As his work showed the uses a foreground style of foreshadow from the background of forest.
Into showing the direction toward the audience how the artist produce, the technique of his work to show the contrast in a variable representation of his meaning of his work.
Of showing a person terrified by being alarmed, into by showing the physical reaction of its own features from a movement by the expression.
Since the image of a women is personified as a sentiment.

Where I like about the features is where the flowing neoclassical of a robes that comes out of the image which revivals the classicism of art from 18 or 19 century.
As it shows it has a simple symmetrical of ancient Rome style, since the loose long outer garment comes out where the robes which attracts the concept of the artist image.
Where the background symmetries the correspondence from the position of the pattern where it has surrounded of growing lush flowers that is vigorously shows a rich tastes of colour. That gives a luxurious decoration, from showing a dramatic style into giving emotional respond to contrast the light effect on the position.

African influence

The beginning of the European had travelled to African from the 19th century during the time of the French revaluation, as French invaded Africa.
By the time the French used the belonging of the Africa cultural artefact, as a exhibition for dispaly in a museums of paris.
Where the influence of African art had shown the world that wouldn’t have been today which is one of the main resoruce that had influence well-known artist like Picasso.

For example:

PABLO PICASSO

As Picasso was interested in African art he researched African artefact as part of his inspiration from his work of an African style from the early beginning of his work, for example from the image of an ales Demoiselles D’avignon 1907.
Since his painting shows the element of African art from a female figure mask shape as part of showing the African cultural into creating the portrayed by giving a savage and mysterious atmosphere into creating a distinctive characteristic from the impression of his painting.
As most of his portrayed images shows a still life image of painting of the five nude female prostitutes where the body of the shape has disjointed body shape since the characteristic represents from revealing the exposing of the body form.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon









Where his painting showed the object by realism using the element ,where the African sculpture showed the different position of rearranging the shape.

Since the prospective angle was to show how flat the 2-D image instead of 3-D from showing two point prospective in 3-D dimensional.
From showing the element of still life, using a primary source from how Picasso shown from a strong effective piece by the enscones of life.
Where from the background of the shape and the way the first prospective is shown from the geometry how it was shown from the point of an angle, from the curve and surface from a solid position.
Into capturing the way of body into rearranging the parts from different position of the proportion using a style of an African analytic cubism.

As Picasso was inspired the way the sculpture was produce into getting his attention from the idea of cubism since the creation shows how the three-dimensional of the African sculpture was in a distinct way from a geometric shape. From using the idea of simple lines and shape from the combination of the idea of cubism since toward an artistic style using a colourful bold colours that stand out the atmosphere from the proportion of the object.
As you can see there some African mask from the image of his painting how the similarities are which is quite intersting.

KEHINDE WILEY

Kehinde Wiley is an American urban artist where he is another famous 21st century artist.
where he used the rearranging the element from his figurative painting by re-imagineering the historical balance from the past, that he is inspired into creating his own inspiration of urban painting from the contemporary of the element from constructing the urban African American style from using history.
Into rearranging the characteristic of present by comparing the traditional style, from using architecture design of Islamic patterns combining with west African textiles design.
For example by using urban hip-hop artist into representing the status of young African American men since his art work shows the influence of the a figure that inspires the artist from the power of status.
Into showing to represent to a unique complementary way, from his own configurative design based on the idea of historical painting.
For example:

From his artwork
ice T
2005

Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
1806 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Where it shows the bold colour to make the colour texture more vibrant from the field towards how it shown to compare with an old fashion image of them his painting which stands out the colour as his art work shows the prose in style from using the idea from the 18th to 19th century from European ideas of art from relating the influence of French Rococo.
As he used his painting of Ice T into relating the from the artist work of the portrait of Napoleon on the imperial throne from jean Augusta Dominique Ingres. By relating the figure of his work from the material that the artist had used for oil paint on canvas ,by using the same technique how Dominique Ingres used for his painting of Napoleon on the imperial throne, into showing the relationship between the similarity of the artists work.
Where the reason why he chosen to copy the style of the artist work of Napoleon on the imperial throne of the painting of his style to represent the propose imperially against the distinction, since he used the conflict against the customary of the tradition way of other usual cultural painting from western European style instead of using his own cultural race of young black man. By representing using famous black rapper like example like Ice-T into showing the complementary of status by showing the French rococo influence into giving visualised from his own imagery material in a evident in hip hop culture.

from his quotes:

“I discovered hip-hop when I was in college, which was a little bit strange for a young kid growing up in South Central Los Angeles back in the ‘80s. I think it was part of the contrarian nature of a young artist trying to carve his own sense of identity. And it was about, you know, sort of teenage rebellious angst. And so I was listening to Tera Vaughn when Biggie was on. I was listening to Louie Armstrong when Tupac was out. That said, I wasn’t completely ignorant to what the broader culture was doing. I just didn’t really have much of an interest in it. “A interviewer said: “Hip-hop and art history collide on Wiley's canvases, in which contemporary urban black men pose as angels, prophets, and saints against richly colored swirls of ornate baroque and rococo ornamentation.” Wiley’s paintings make use of one of the most basic art-historical principles of the medium: the figure to ground relationship.''

from his other releating work:

The Officer of the Hussars 2008

Théodore Géricault The Officer of the Hussars 1814

Impressionism

Impressionism started during the late 19th century art movement in France ,where during the time impressionism was reaction against from academic tradition art.
Since the painting was a new style based on leading the development in French fine art , as people in Paris did not understand the meaning of impressionism art, as salon did not accept the idea of impressionism.

By the time the artist named Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the leading French artist for the development style of impressionism, from the member who where part of the impressionist group including Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille and Claude Monet .

For example artist like:

Claude Monet

Monet was the founder of the group name for impressionism. From his early work Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) 1872.

During the time when Monet saw the movement of the sunrise in France from the location of harbour at le Havre by the time he stayed there, from the spring 1872.

By the time he stayed there he manage to captured the movement of a primary
drawing of a sketch, of the sunrise by quickly getting the atmosphere of the movement into catching the boat painted.
From a quick painting of the seine of the river, into showing the element of a constructing the light and water. As he used his brush stroke in a very loose way from a quick appearance into creating the atmosphere of the impressionism from landscape.Where there’s a reason why he chooses the name of his painting called the impressionism because it shows how the expression that is visualised from what he sees from the distance of the river from the sun. Into getting the quick movement by showing the way of light changed though out the day.
Since he entitled his painting to be called impression soleil levant (sunrise).
From his quotes:

“Landscape is nothing but an impression, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground....They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Impression”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise

From his other work:

La Promenade (La Promenade, la femme à l'ombrelle- Woman with a parasol) 1875

The Japanese Bridge,1923









Vincent Van Gogh

The starry night
Painted 1889

The starry night was painted during the mid September 1889 when the time when Van Gogh captured the image from the village of saint-Remy in Paris during the night.

As it shows he used his own free style of painting by showing his personal expression of emotional feeling from his point of view into showing post expressionism.Since he applied different style using freely from the use of colours to form a describe emotion movement, by emphasising into his demonstrating of his painting.

From using his brushstroke into making the effect of the composition of the layers using arbitrary colour.Into using the texture of his painting that is flat where he uses a smooth blending technique by brush a stoke to create an effect, by capturing the clouds movements. Into using the very colourful abstracting painting from a range of the element.
From different type of complementary colour that is unique variable colours,since it is constructed together from a wavy technique as it consider to be dark tonal shading from the foreground, as it starts to develop the brightness.
By the stoke from the appearance of making his piece of his work hand drawn from a idiomatic style painting.
As the star brighten up the sky how it is presented into creating a abstracting piece that is bright and powerful how is more vibrant, since Gogh stroke his piece of his painting by creating movement. By the stoke from the appearance of making his piece of his work hand drawn from a idiomatic style painting.

For example from his other work :

L'eglise d'Auvers-sur-oise 1890starry night over the Rhone (1888)

When Gogh finished his painting of the starry night he wrote a letter to his brother:

“The first four canvases are studies without the effect of a whole that the others have . . .The olives with white clouds and background of mountains, also the moonrise and the night effect, these are exaggerations from the point of view of arrangement, their lines are warped as that of old wood.”


Later in this letter, Vincent referred once more to the painting:
“In all this batch I think nothing at all good save the field of wheat, the mountain, the orchard, the olives with the blue hills and the portrait and the entrance to the Quarry, and the rest says nothing to me, because it lacks individual intention and feeling in the lines. Where these lines are close and deliberate it begins to be a picture, even if it is exaggerated. That is a little what Bernard and Gauguin feel, they do not ask the correct shape of a tree at all, but they insist absolutely that one can say if the shape is round or square - and my word, they are right, exasperated as they are by certain people's photographic and empty perfection. Certainly they will not ask the correct tone of the mountains, but they will say: In the Name of God, the mountains were blue, were they? Then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue rather like this or that, it was blue, wasn't it? Good - make them blue and it's enough! Gauguin is sometimes like a genius when he explains this, but as for the genius Gauguin has, he is very timid about showing it, and it is touching the way he likes to say something really useful to the young. How strange he is all the same.”

Later in this letter, Vincent referred once more to the painting:

“In all this batch I think nothing at all good save the field of wheat, the mountain, the orchard, the olives with the blue hills and the portrait and the entrance to the Quarry, and the rest says nothing to me, because it lacks individual intention and feeling in the lines. Where these lines are close and deliberate it begins to be a picture, even if it is exaggerated. That is a little what Bernard and Gauguin feel, they do not ask the correct shape of a tree at all, but they insist absolutely that one can say if the shape is round or square - and my word, they are right, exasperated as they are by certain people's photographic and empty perfection. Certainly they will not ask the correct tone of the mountains, but they will say: In the Name of God, the mountains were blue, were they? Then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue rather like this or that, it was blue, wasn't it? Good - make them blue and it's enough! Gauguin is sometimes like a genius when he explains this, but as for the genius Gauguin has, he is very timid about showing it, and it is touching the way he likes to say something really useful to the young. How strange he is all the same.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night

Romanticism

Romanticism started during the late 1700 toward the 1800‘s, where it was the new environment toward the attitude of characterise culture from many art in Western European civilisation.
Since it’s is based as an artistic and intellectual movement that emphasised a revulsion against established values social order of life and religion.

Where the idea that romanticism shows is by nature, from the passions and inner theme. Against boundaries into exploring the emotion, that is based on the individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature.From choosing the ethnic origins where artist shows there inspiration of a role by choosing to show there inspiration of theme.Into emphasis there imagination and emotion, since romanticism emerged the disillusionment with the enlightenment with the French revelation from 1789 by the expression of the events.

For example:

The Raft of the Medusa

The artist named Théodore Géricault
who painted the Raft of medusa during his return to Paris from 1817.
As he heard the incident about the raft of medusa, since he was inspired by the true event which was partially a primarily in human drama of anguish and survival as he couldn’t ignore the dynamic representation of contemporary of reality.
When Géricault painted the raft of medusa during 1819, into showing romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealisation, and rationality that typified the truth.
As it was also to do with some extent a reaction against the orders of life where romanticism can emphasised the from individual by subjective, irrational, imaginative, personal, spontaneous, emotional, visionary.
Since Géricault showed in his idea of the portrait of the raft of medusa where it portrayed to show the moment when after 13 days adrift on the raft, the remaining 15 survivors view a ship approaching from a distance.
As his work set at a moment of the ruins of the raft into using the true event of the incident, that is so subtle reinterpretations of its themes of subdued violence.
Where it shows in detail from the lower left corner of the canvas showing two dying figures
The makeshift raft is shown as barely seaworthy as it rides the deep waves, while the rendered as broken and in utter despair. Where from one old man holds the corpse of his son at his knees; another tears his hair out in frustration and defeat ,as a number of bodies litter the foreground, waiting to be swept away by the surrounding waves. The men in the middle have just viewed a rescue ship; one points it out to another where he is in the top of other survivor. Since it shows the background of land from the few of the rock. Where the standard position from an empty barrel and frantically waves his handkerchief to draw the ship's attention.
As Gericault's masterpiece is one of the great pictures of human aspiration where perhaps it so powerful because it is at once so intensely, physically presented his painting of human form which seem as palpable.
Where the bodies in his turbulent where the painting spill out into the space of the viewer, where the enormous hands of the dead from dying men in the foreground.
Where it seem almost touchable -that is so thoroughly abstract into making a collage from primary and secondary colour.
Where the attention of respond came from the identify from how Gericault's presented with those frantically signalling men at the apex of its composition. Into showing the survivor the out of reach of the distant from the painted ship into a horizon position.
Since the painting is used the pictorial composition of two pyramidal structures in a horizontal grouping of dead and dying figures in the foreground. where it forms the base from which the survivors emerge, surging upward towards the emotional peak ,where the central figure waves desperately at a rescue ship.


By Eugène Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
Painted 1830

The painting is presented showing romanticism by the revelation against race of conflict between social life in avoiding the boundaries that is surrounded.
Since the artist though associated with Romanticism, showing his inspiration of art movement by capturing the moments into being influence using impressionism from symbolic movement into showing the way of shape and forms is how it is presented from the focused of how the colour is formed by abstracting the still life image.
Where it shows his painting captures a very strong dynamic figurer into showing a triangular way from panting.
As it shows a dead soldiers from the foreground in the lower side of the left image be siding with other dead body from the right and left as the women from the liberty is leading from the front of the side into showing the full triangle shape from a vertical line. Since it show a two point prospective by running toward the surrounding of the dead body from the two side of the mob and the other side building ,by showing a horizontal line capturing the realistic life form of a women as a liberty leading the people and the other mob running toward by showing impressionist and symbolists of violent display of killing using guns as a mass distraction.
Even thought the painting stands out the atmosphere from the capturing the only female figure shown as a diversion of surrounding of male creating wildness, into the right from the middle of the picture with French flag symbolises the French as a freedom fighter, by being part of being a community of France civilisation. As the background shows the mob of people from the middle in a vertical line into showing the French people are standing up for there own battle by physically from the leading of the women hold the French flag into giving an expression by struggling to achieve the goal.
Into showing by improvising the static of the depressed life into becoming alive from showing a colourful feature that stand out the tone of the horizontal line of the shading from the colour where the clouds gives the effect from the wavy contours feeling of movement, by visualising the symbolic way from the flag and the cloud construct by showing power that embarrasses the element between the construct. Where the tone of his work shows the darkness from blending the darken tone into the surrounding of the atmosphere by bringing the light from the sky by showing the two complicity from the sky to be more alive colourful feeling.


As the artist is inspired from his own work of liberty Leading the People, during the time of his painting from autumn of 1830, the time he had finished his painting since he wrote a letter to his brother during 12th October, from his quotes:

"My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work. I’ve embarked on a modern subject a barricade. And if I haven’t fought for my country at least I’ll paint for her."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

As after a year since he was accepted to establish his painting at a Salon in Paris in 1881 during the time.