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Uz, Ayfer. "Resimde Duygu ve Gerilimin Çekiciliği Francis Bacon (1909-1992)." Journal of Social Research and Behavioral Sciences 7, no. 13 (November 29, 2021): 703–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.52096/jsrbs.6.1.7.13.36.
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Abstract Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 to an English family. The artist rejected the literary field and perceived his painting directly as an act of expressionism. The period he lived in and the effect he had on it was reflected in his paintings as horrifying images emerged in them. The figures in his paintings were distorted, trapped in a strong motion, caught in a vortex or storm. The audience subjected to the emotional tension of the figures were subjected to intense emotions. The aim of this study, which was conducted by qualitative research method, is on Francis Bacon who, even though did not receive academic art education, managed to have a strong emotional effect on the audience with his expressionist art. Keywords: Francis Bacon, Figurative Painting, Expression in Painting, Motion and Art.
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Jung, Ju Eun, and Hye Kyung Kim. "A Study on Fashion Design with Application of Abstract Expressionist Painting - Focused on Franz Kline's Painting -." Korean Society of Fashion Design 15, no. 4 (December 31, 2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18652/2015.15.4.1.
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Maram, Thirupathi Reddy. "An Abstract Expressionist: A Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard." Shanlax International Journal of English 7, no. 3 (June 1, 2019): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v7i3.448.
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The novel, Bluebeard (1987) presents a dialogue between abstract and representational painting, pointing out both the value and shortcomings of each school. It may end by imagining a type of art in which the usual boundaries separating the real and the artificial fall away; an art that is able to capture the complexity, sorrow, and beauty of life itself. On the other hand, it focuses on human’s cruelty to human. However, the novel also shows that even in the midst of war and death and sorrow the innate human impulse is a creative one. The novel discovers the human desire to create as it investigates the nature of new art itself. Vonnegut was mostly inspired by the grotesque prices paid for works of art during the past century. He thought not only of the mud-pies of art, but of children’s games as well.
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Subedi, Abhi. "Abstract Paintings and Nepali Context." SIRJANĀ – A Journal on Arts and Art Education 8, no. 1 (July 13, 2022): 6–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sirjana.v8i1.46652.
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Abstract art as discussed in this essay covers a period of time that spans about sixty years. The introduction of the abstract art in Nepal marks a certain opening in both art education and practice among the artists. The initial challenge of the abstract art was to make it a familiar subject both among the art lovers as well as among those who respected art but were not able to appreciate it fully. A challenging period came when artists began to work towards making abstract art an acceptable and a very useful artistic practice. The tension between skill of the artists and the indifference of the public is a universal problem. But now the gap is being narrowed down everywhere. The concept of abstract art in Nepal comes from education in schools in Europe and India in the initial phase and later in Nepal itself where art pedagogy became a norm in different art schools and colleges. But artists freely made their paintings abstractas the commonly accepted mode of art. Artists of different generations execute abstract paintings without being critical or interpretative about it. But now things are changing in Nepal. New generation artists who are oriented to the abstract and free forms of art are working to develop a system by putting together the art education, practice and very importantly, the level of public acceptance for that. We should carefully review the history and the present status of that. We should also make the art works 'desirable'. The other important character of Nepali abstract painting is that the artists always work in the contact zones of the representational and the expressionist features. I have interpreted that meeting point as a contact zone. This article attempts to give examples of that dynamic process. Nepali abstract paintings mark a new mode of artistic dynamism in Nepal.
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Hilsabeck, Burke. "Frank Tashlin's Jackson Pollock." Modernist Cultures 11, no. 2 (July 2016): 243–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2016.0137.
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This paper situates Frank Tashlin's Paramount-produced Artists and Models (1955) alongside a genealogy of modernist painting. Beginning with the observation that the opening sequence of Tashlin's film burlesques Abstract Expressionist painting and Jackson Pollock in particular, it puts Artists and Models in conversation with Clement Greenberg's paint-on-a-flat-canvas modernism (and Greenberg's interest in articulating this modernism through the figure of Pollock) with a distinct account of cinematic specificity. The essay then places Tashlin's film and the figure of Jerry-Lewis-as-Jackson-Pollock in relation to Pop Art of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It concludes by suggesting that Tashlin's Pollock can help us to better think about the relationship between high modernism and mass culture.
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Stoker, Wessel. "De Rothko kapel schilderijen en de ‘urgentie van de transcendente ervaring’." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 62, no. 2 (May 18, 2008): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2008.62.089.stok.
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Since the Romantic period, painters have no longer made use of traditional Christian iconography to express religious transcendence. Taking their cue from Schleiermacher’s Über die Religion, painters have sought for new, personal ways to express religious transcendence. One example is Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Monk by the Sea’. Rosenblum argues, in his Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, that there is a parallel between Friedrich and the abstract expressionist Rothko with respect to the expression to religious transcendence. In this article I investigate how the experience of transcendence that Rothko’s paintings want to evoke is to be described. Is it an experience of the sublime in the Romantic tradition? Is it the evocation of the ultimate in accordance with Tillich’s broad concept of religion? Does it display affinity between Rothko and the postmodern sublime of Lyotard? Or is it a transcendent experience that cannot be situated so easily within the options supplied? After determining Rothko’s understanding of transcendence, some issues will be brought up that could be fruitful for Christian theology.
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Fox, Christopher. "British Music at Darmstadt 1982–92." Tempo, no. 186 (September 1993): 21–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200003065.
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The new music summer school in Darmstadt is perhaps the most important gathering of and performers of contemporary music in Europe. Launched in 1946 in the then American Zone of occupied Germany, as part of the postwar process of internationalization (and, therefore, de-Nazification) of German culture, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse quickly gained a reputation as a forum for the promulgation of a radically abstract musical aesthetic, based on reductive analyses of the serial works of Webern in particular. While some composers saw this new aesthetic as a ‘mechanistic heresy’, the music of what came to be known as the Darmstadt School – Boulez, Maderna, Nono, Stockhausen – soon attracted official support since, like Abstract Expressionist painting, ‘a seemingly abstract art could readily be elevated as an emblem of “terrible freedom”’. This ‘terrible freedom’, the freedom to be unpopular, was a potent symbol of Western individualism in the symbolic battle that characterized the European theatre of the Cold War during the 1950s.
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Hayati, Rizka Azizah. "Self Healing dari Trauma Masa Lalu dalam Karya Seni Lukis Abstrak." INVENSI 6, no. 2 (December 16, 2021): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/invensi.v6i2.4648.
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ABSTRAK Manusia sering kali menolak emosi negatif, sebagai bentuk pertahanan diri yang berpengaruh negatif kepada alam bawah sadarnya. Pada beberapa kasus, hal ini bisa menyebabkan trauma dan self healing sangat penting untuk memperbaiki hal-hal yang belum terselesaikan itu, agar bisa berdamai dengan masa lalu untuk hidup yang lebih baik. Latar belakang tersebut merupakan landasan bagi pencipta dalam berkarya. Selain observasi pada diri sendiri dan lingkungan sekitar, penciptaan ini juga menggunakan teori Sigmund Freud sebagai referensi. Bentuk yang dihasilkan berupa seni lukis mix media. Penciptaan seni ini ditujukan sebagai media katarsis diri penulis dengan pemaknaan ulang kejadian dari masa lalunya. Self Healing from The Past Trauma in the Expressionist Abstract Painting ABSTRACT People tend to resist negative emotion as a form of self-defence that mostly gives bad impacts on their subconscious. In some cases, it could be a trauma whereas self-healing was needed in this situation to live better as the result of passing over the bad experiences. It became the foundation of the creator to create the work. Besides doing observations, the theory of Sigmund Freud was also followed as a reference. The shapes created were in the form of mixed media painting. The work was intended as a medium for the creators to re-interpret the past event as a self-catharsis.
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Isman, Sibel Almelek. "Eiffel Tower Through The Eyes of Painters." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 11 (December 27, 2017): 01. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i11.2845.
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The Eiffel Tower, the global icon of France, was erected as the entrance to the Paris International Exposition in 1889. It was a suitable centrepiece for the World Fair, which celebrated the centennial of the French Revolution. Although the tower was a subject of controversy at the time of its construction, many European painters have been inspired by the majestic figure of the Eiffel Tower. They picturised the tower in their portraits and cityscapes. Paul Louis Delance, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and Henri Rousseau were the first artists to depict this symbol of modernity. Robert Delaunay and Marc Chagall used the image of the tower most frequently. Maurice Utrillo, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger, Diego Rivera, Max Beckmann and Christian Schad can also be counted among the artists who picturised the tower. The Eiffel Tower appears differently in the eyes of pointillist, expressionist, orfist, cubist and abstract painters. Keywords: Eiffel Tower, European art, painting.
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BOUTWELL, BRETT. "Morton Feldman's Graphic Notation: Projections and Trajectories." Journal of the Society for American Music 6, no. 4 (November 2012): 457–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196312000363.
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AbstractIn the winter of 1950–51 Morton Feldman composed a series of pieces titled Projections in a new notation of his own invention. The first-known graphically scored works of the postwar era, the Projections were immediately championed by Feldman's friend John Cage in the language of his budding philosophy of non-intention, a framework of thought largely alien to Feldman. In later years, Feldman instead explained the Projections through the discourse of abstract-expressionist painting, substituting its model of willful creative action for Cage's Zen-inspired doctrine of aesthetic indifference. Yet the story behind his graphic notation is more tangled still, for its sources included both Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe, composers whose spatialized vision of sound influenced Feldman's new conception of the creative act. An examination of the origin and reception of the Projections offers insight into the forces that catalyzed experimental notation in postwar New York and the rationales that were ultimately ascribed to it.
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Rutkoff, Peter M., and William B. Scott. "Appalachian Spring: A Collaboration and a Transition." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 209–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006062.
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In late October, 1944, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed Appalachian Spring at the Library of Congress, establishing Graham as the master of modern dance. The significance of Appalachian Spring, however, went well beyond Graham's artistic development. Notwithstanding its traditional theme, Appalachian Spring heralded an important shift in American art. Following the Second World War a large segment of New York City artists abandoned the effort, so dominant in the interwar years, to create an explicitly “American” art in favor of a “modernist” aesthetic, best exemplified in abstract expressionist painting. Choreographed by Graham, composed by Aaron Copland, and designed by Isamu Noguchi, the “Ballet for Martha” marked an early expression of the shift from American realism to modernism. But unlike much of the radically nonrepresentational work of the late 1940s and early 1950s Appalachian Spring continued to embody the concerns of American realism, even unabashedly displaying its creators' continued embrace of the folk vernacular, while moving toward its modern aesthetic.
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Vasiliu, O., D. Vasile, F. Androne, M. Patrascu, and E. Morariu. "Between creativity and death: Abstract expressionists and alcohol use disorders." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S519—S520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.687.
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American Expressionists were a group of American artists who valued free expression of unconscious elements, combining emotional intense expressions with anti-figurative abstract style. Their main place of creative debates was Cedar Tavern in New York City, considered by art critics an important incubator of the Abstract Expressionism. Jackson Pollock, one of the most prominent figures of this movement, suspected of having bipolar disorder, abused alcohol during long periods of his life, for which he even underwent psychotherapy. Unfortunately, he died in a car accident while driving under influence, after decades of innovative work, during which he created a new painting method and produced compositions which are nowadays between the most expensive works of art. Mark Rothko also had periods of heavy drinking, and finally he died by cutting his arms with a razor. He is considered a genius, who created a completely new perspective over painting, and his works are also between the most expensive paintings in the world. Willem de Kooning was affected by alcoholism since his early years, and developed dementia, at least partially induced by abusive drinking. Although affected by neurocognitive disorder, he continued to produce amazingly creative paintings until his final years and in 2016 one of his works obtained the record for the most expensive painting ever sold. Using alcohol as a tool for increasing creativity risks to expose the creator to severe disorders or even death, the subject walking on a narrow line between sublimation of unconscious impulses and tragic resignation before them.Disclosure of interestThe presenting author was speaker for Bristol Myers Squibb and Servier, and participated in clinical research funded by Janssen Cilag, Astra Zeneca, Eli Lilly, Sanofi Aventis, Schering Plough, Organon, Bioline Rx, Forenap, Wyeth, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, Dainippon Sumitomo.
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Radonjic, Ana, and Slobodan Markovic. "Judgement of paintings belonging to different tendencies in the 20th century painting." Psihologija 37, no. 4 (2004): 549–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi0404549r.
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In this study Trifunovic? hypothesis that there are three objective lines in the development of modern art was psychologically evaluated. According to Trifunovic, in the first line (C?zanne - cubism - neoplasticism - suprematism) the geometrization of form prevails, in the second (Van Gogh - expressionism - abstract expressionism) the use of color is dominant, whereas the main features of the third line (Gauguin - fauvism) are symbolic use of color and reduction of perspective. Fifteen reproductions of paintings that represent the three developmental lines were used as stimuli. The subjects were asked to judge the stimuli on nine bipolar 7-step scales. These scales constitute the three factors of instrument SDF 9: Evaluation, Arousal and Regularity (3 scales x 3 factors = 9 scales). Four clusters of paintings were obtained: Abstract-expressionistic (moderate Evaluation, high Arousal and low Regularity), Figural-expressionistic (very low Evaluation, low Arousal and high Regularity), Constructivistic (moderate Evaluation, low Arousal and high Regularity) and Realistic (high Evaluation, high Arousal and high Regularity). The results partially confirm Trifunovic? hypothesis indicating that, besides the formal features, the content (abstract vs. figural) is also significant factor of subjective clustering of paintings.
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Liu, Xu, and Taig Youn Cho. "Neuroaesthetic Study on Mondrian's Painting Style." Korea Institute of Design Research Society 7, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46248/kidrs.2022.3.149.
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Peter Mondrian (1872-1944) is a representative of abstract expressionism, whose paintings and thoughts still play an important role in art. Through the study of Mondrian's life and painting style changes, it can be seen that his visual language has changed from the realistic representation of visual objects to the use of pure colors and absolute lines, which can be distinguished by the level of visual nerve activity. According to the performance characteristics of Mondrian's painting, this study first divides the artistic change process into three stages: learning period, exploration period and mature period. Then, based on the research of cognitive neuroscience, the symmetrical neural structure of Mondrian's three-stage painting style is explored in the painter's neural activities. The learning period adopts the neural learning mechanism of imitating the expression of painting, and the exploration period uses the neural mechanism of creating painting style. While, the mature period carries out the neural mechanism of forming pictures through cognitive structure. Finally, this paper analyzes the different visual processing mechanisms and aesthetic preference structures used by viewers to appreciate Mondrian figurative paintings and abstract paintings based on the research in the field of neuroaesthetics.
From the perspective of natural science, this study explains the style changes of Mondrian's paintings, establishing a neuroaesthetic interpretation method, so as to deeply understand the charm of his works, further understand the beauty. Therefore, it can provide reference materials for the later art education of his works.
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Actis-Grosso, Rossana, Carlotta Lega, Alessandro Zani, Olga Daneyko, Zaira Cattaneo, and Daniele Zavagno. "Can music be figurative? Exploring the possibility of crossmodal similarities between music and visual arts." Psihologija 50, no. 3 (2017): 285–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi1703285a.
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According to both experimental research and common sense, classical music is a better fit for figurative art than jazz. We hypothesize that similar fits may reflect underlying crossmodal structural similarities between music and painting genres. We present two preliminary studies aimed at addressing our hypothesis. Experiment 1 tested the goodness of the fit between two music genres (classical and jazz) and two painting genres (figurative and abstract). Participants were presented with twenty sets of six paintings (three figurative, three abstract) viewed in combination with three sound conditions: 1) silence, 2) classical music, or 3) jazz. While figurative paintings scored higher aesthetic appreciation than abstract ones, a gender effect was also found: the aesthetic appreciation of paintings in male participants was modulated by music genre, whilst music genre did not affect the aesthetic appreciation in female participants. Our results support only in part the notion that classical music enhances the aesthetic appreciation of figurative art. Experiment 2 aimed at testing whether the conceptual categories ?figurative? and ?abstract? can be extended also to music. In session 1, participants were first asked to classify 30 paintings (10 abstract, 10 figurative, 10 ambiguous that could fit either category) as abstract or figurative and then to rate them for pleasantness; in session 2 participants were asked to classify 40 excerpts of music (20 classical, 20 jazz) as abstract or figurative and to rate them for pleasantness. Paintings which were clearly abstract or figurative were all classified accordingly, while the majority of ambiguous paintings were classified as abstract. Results also show a gender effect for painting?s pleasantness: female participants rated higher ambiguous and abstract paintings. More interestingly, results show an effect of music genre on classification, showing that it is possible to classify music as figurative or abstract, thus supporting the hypothesis of cross-modal similarities between the two sensory-different artistic expressions.
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Taha,PhD, Dr Aseel Abdul-Lateef. "Abstract Expressionism Techniques in John Ashbery’s "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 218, no. 1 (November 9, 2018): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v218i1.531.
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John Ashbery (1927-) is one of the most prominent postmodern poets in America who is known for his innovative techniques. He continues to be the most controversial poet, as he disregards the laws of logic in picturing reality. Ashbery’s style is deeply influenced by the experimental methods of modern painting. He has been mostly associated with Abstract Expressionism that signifies the great progress in the European avant-garde visual art. The Abstract expressionists often choose to present subjects in graceful distortion, rather than attempt to record life with absolute accuracy. Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” is typical of ekphrastic poetry. It is inspired by a painting which has the same title by the sixteenth-century Italian painter, Francesco Mazzola. The painting is not a realistic portrait of the painter, for it is deliberately distorted as it would be in a convex reflection. Ashbery unfolds the essence of postmodern poetry which illustrates the inability of the forms of language to capture the reality beyond the mental image. Like the Abstract Expressionists, he makes of his poems a depiction of the real workings of the mind which is liberated from all the constraints. Furthermore, the poem is a verbal depiction of the painting; it assumes and transforms the inner voice of the portrait.
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Porwal, Tina. "THE IRONIC EXPLORATION FROM ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM TO MINIMALISM." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 1, no. 2 (September 30, 2014): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v1.i2.2014.3078.
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An art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extremesimplification of form and colour. A school of abstract painting and sculpture that emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. Also called ABC art, minimal art, reductivism, rejective art. The early 1960s brought about a significant shift in American art, largely in reaction to the critical and popular success of the highly personal and expressive painterlygestures of Abstract Expressionism. Minimalist artists produced pared-down three-dimensional objects that have no resemblance to any real objects. Their new vocabulary of simplified, geometric forms made from humble industrial materialschallenged traditional notions of craftsmanship, the illusion of three dimensions, or spatial depth, and the idea that a work of art must be one of a kind.
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JITAI WANG. "Influence of Western European abstract expressionism on Chinese painting." Декоративное искусство и предметно-пространственная среда. Вестник МГХПА, no. 2-1 (2022): 384–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2022_2_1_384_398.
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Roeder, George H., and Michael Leja. "Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s." Journal of American History 81, no. 1 (June 1994): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2081140.
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Przyblyski, Jeannene M., and Michael Leja. "Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s." Art Bulletin 76, no. 3 (September 1994): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3046049.
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Somerville, Kristine. "Living Energy: The Abstract Expressionist Paintings of Michael West." Missouri Review 38, no. 2 (2015): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.2015.0027.
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Savițkaia-Baraghin, Iarîna. "The Landscape - A System of Plastic Expressions." Review of Artistic Education 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 240–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rae-2021-0029.
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Abstract The principles of mastering landscape painting, applied by past masters, as well as theoretical elaborations in the field of chromatics, psychology and pedagogy of the arts, become important components in the improvement of outdoor painting in contemporary conditions.
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Alvarez-Ramirez, J., E. Rodriguez, F. Martinez-Martinez, and J. C. Echeverria. "Fractality of Riopelle abstract expressionism paintings (1949–1953): A comparison with Pollock’s paintings." Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 526 (July 2019): 121131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.121131.
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Wang, Jitai. "Works of the artist Zeng Fanzhi in the dialogue of traditions of Western European and Chinese painting." Человек и культура, no. 4 (April 2020): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2020.4.32802.
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This article is dedicated to analysis of the works of a contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi in the context of dialogue of traditions of Western European and Chinese painting. The author reviews the stages of formation of this original artistic manner that combines different stylistic approaches and techniques; reveals the key artistic peculiarities of his works – from referring to Western expressionism to formation of an individual style. A detailed analysis is conducted on the principles of conceptual art of Zeng Fanzhi realized in the use of meaningful images and symbols, such as “masks”. The author examines the methods of abstract painting in the works of Chinese artist reflected in the technique of “chaotic brush”, which is based on the expressive linear abstractions. In the period after 2018, which marks the period of experimental painting, Zeng Fanzhi combines the artistic methods of Paul Cézanne with the concept of traditional Chinese art, with the “found object” technique, offering a completely new interpretation of the works of Chinese classical painting. The article discusses the specificities of linear constructs and brush strokes in the artist’s works for determining the features common to his works of various periods. A conclusion is made that the paintings of Zeng Fanzhi represents a visual manifestation of harmonious interaction of the Western European and Chinese art tradition. Each stylistic approach used by Zeng Fanzhi demonstrates a profound understanding of painting, reveals his creative interpretation of artistic principles of Western European art that formed as a result of personal experience and high level of education. Chinese painting entered the era of non-modernism, remaining in many ways similar and simultaneously different from the art of Western modernism and postmodernism.
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Saviţkaia-Baraghin, Iarîna. "5. Bessarabian in the Modern Engraving Constitution and Interference with its European Art." Review of Artistic Education 12, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 199–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rae-2016-0024.
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Abstract Runing the new century (XX) attests in Bessarabian art, the experience of several decades of professional artistic activity (the first Evening School of Drawing appears in Chisinau in 1887 and is due scholar Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Terinte Zubcu). Such short experience has not met any of the neighboring countries' national schools. In Bessarabia from the beginning of the twentieth century is established the main areas of professional art – painting- with remarkable portraits, landscapes, genre paintings; sculpture with respective genres; stampa as a kind of graphics. Marked by the period and by the influences of art schools, where Bessarabians have studied, it is clear that in painting and sculpture and graphics in the first round, have dominated peredvizhnik influences their color and monochrome theme. Guidelines of Bessarabian plastic artists in the development phase of modern art, is the decisive moment of establishment of the Bessarabian engraving as a kind of professional art, marked by tendencies that have appeared in European art and Russian at the limit of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Expressionism in the works of Sneer Cogan, George Ceglocof and Art 1900 in the works of Theodor Kiriacoff, Elisabeth Ivanovsky or Moissey Kogan.
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Kedl, Justin. "Cowboys: Abstract Expressionism, Hollywood Westerns, and American Progress." Arts 12, no. 1 (February 14, 2023): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12010033.
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Abstract Expressionism has been influenced heavily by the popular theory of America’s undying, progressive spirit, originally conceived by Frederick Jackson Turner and given its most potent form in Western films. Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” was embodied in stories of John Wayne and other cowboy heroes taming the supposed edges of civilization. The mythic West as constructed by Turner and these films cemented American identity as one of exploration and innovation, with the notable condition of Indigenous Americans ceding their sovereignty. While Abstract Expressionism was commonly connected to the mythic West through the origin stories of Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still, the critical understanding of this movement as the height of painterly achievement built on Native American precedents evinces a deeper connection to Turner’s popular Frontier theory. As critics like Clement Greenberg cast flatness as the last frontier of painting, and as artists like Pollock and Barnett Newman claimed Native American ritual practices as a part of their aesthetic lineage, Abstract Expressionism proved as effective as Hollywood Westerns in corroborating and perpetuating the idea of America’s frontier spirit.
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Wijaya, Hanny. "Wassily Kandinsky: Seni Modern dan Teori." Humaniora 4, no. 1 (April 30, 2013): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v4i1.3445.
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Modern art development, especially in abstract art had been started since Expressionism period in Germany. Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of pure abstract art, he created his masterpieces not only as an artist, but also as an art theorist. Although at first he did not have the education background in art field, since Kandinskywas an academic faculty in art and economic, however he gained his success because of his high interest and spirit in art field.Besides, Kandinsky had created many art theories and perspectives of colors, compositions, forms, and had succeeded to apply it in his paintings. His style was inspired by Claude Monet’s painting ‘Haystack’ and the opera performance ‘Lohengrin’ by Richard Wagner. Kandinsky began to study new theories of art by learning art elements and principles more profound, he learned about colors deeply and tried to develop Goethe’s color theory, he also tried to elaborate the meaning of forms and applied the compositions in his artworks as well.
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Lintel, Amy Von, and Bonnie Roos. "Expanding Abstract Expressionism: Elaine de Kooning, Action Painting, and the American West." American Art 32, no. 2 (June 2018): 52–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699610.
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Lee, Jae-Sook, and Jung-Rye Lee. "Analysis of Hair Art with the Formative Characteristics of Art Informel Paintings as Motives." Korean Society of Beauty and Art 21, no. 3 (September 20, 2020): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18693/jksba.2020.21.3.111.
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In modern capitalism, logical and rational thinking and philosophical thought are emphasized. Therefore, modern people ask for an ordered system under strict rules and regulations. Since World War II, European abstract expressionism, ‘art informel’, developed in search of a worldly and fundamental meaning against the inhumane aspects brought about by a geometric world, which emphasized strict and balanced order through reason and rationality. The formative characteristics and colors of such art informel painting patterns can be the origin of new ideations in hair art. Therefore, this study attempted to escape from the traditional order of hair art using formative characteristics after the analysis of art informel artists’ works and liberate human emotions by altering situations. To this end, this study analyzed the formative characteristics of art informel paintings and created formative hair artworks using them as a motive. It is anticipated that there would be further studies on art informel and creative hairstyles through broad and in-depth analysis.
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Župan, Ivica. "Majstor mirenja, spajanja i kombiniranja suprotnosti." Ars Adriatica, no. 2 (January 1, 2012): 257. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/ars.454.
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Igor Rončević has been painting for a very long time with the consciousness that his painterly signature can be constructed from a series of disparate fragments, and so his collage paintings are composed of elements or stylistic details thanks to which his canvas has become a place where ambivalent worlds meet - an ntersection of their paths. Rončević is therefore, a painter of ludic individualism, but, at the same time, painter with wide erudition and above all, a curious pirit, who, in a unique way - in different clusters of itations - applies and joins together experiences from he entire history of art. In his works we have for some ime observed the meetings of some of at first sight rreconcilable contrasts - the experiences of Pop art, European and American abstraction, experiences of gestural and lyrical provenance, different traces and tyles of figuration... All this heterogeneous material has been relativized in his interpretation, often even in blasphemous combinations; in a conspicuously easy and organic way, these combinations merge into a unique whole consisting of forms and meanings which are difficult to decipher. Analysis of Rončević’s paintings reveals the absence of a specific rational system that accumulates the building blocks of a painting - a mental landscape - but not the absence of a peculiar talent for creating compositional balance in a painting.The basic building block in the cycle Dulčić’s fragments is the line - stripes, that is linear, ribbon-like shapes, curved lines which meander on the surface of the canvas, and in the painted area, lines freely applied with a finger in fresh paint. The basic ludic element is colour, and the cartography of the canvas is a road with innumerable directions. The painter, treating the surface of the canvas as a field of total action, creates networks of interlacing multicoloured verticals, lively blue, blue-green and brown hues, coloured without an apparent system or principle, and also of varying width but, despite the seemingly limited starting points of his painting, he creates situations rich in interesting shifts and intriguing pictorial and colouristic happenings. The painter’s main preoccupation is the interaction of ‘neon’ colours (obviously a reference to the twentieth-century’s ‘neon’ enthusiasts), which has been achieved with a simple composition consisting of a knot of interwoven ribbons of intense colours which belong to a different chromatic register in each painting. Streams of complementary or contrasting colours, which spread out across the painted field like the tributaries of a river, subject to confluence, adopting features of the neighbouring colour, sharing the light and darkness of a ‘neon’. Although the impression implies the opposite, the application of colours, their touching and eventual interaction are strictly controlled by the skill of a great colourist. Dulčić’s fragments display Rončević’s fascinating power of unexpected associative perception. The painter now reaches for the excess of colour remaining on his palette from the work on previous paintings. He applies the colour to the canvas with a spatula in a relief impasto, and he revives the dried background with a lazure glaze of a chosen colour. On a saturated but still obviously ‘neon’ grid, the painter - evenly, like a collage detail - applies islands of open colour on the surface of the painting, which he finally paints with a brush, applying vertical white lines over the colour. These shapes of an associative and metaphorical nature are an integral part of the semantic scaffolding of composition but, without particular declarative frameworks and associative attributes, we can never precisely say what they actually represent although they are reminiscent of many things, such as seeds, bacteria, cellular microcosm, unstable primitive forms of life, the macrocosm of the universe, the structures of crystals, technical graphs, calligraphy, secret codes... The linear clarity of the drawing makes motifs concrete and palpable, possessing volume, in fact, possessing bulging physicality. In new paintings, the personal sign of the artist, which arrived in the painting from the activity of the conscious and the unconscious, has been replaced with small shapes, most similar to an oval, which look like separate pieces attached to the surface of the painting and which are reminiscent of specific painterly and artistic tendencies. Their monochrome surfaces are filled with verticals which are particles of the rational or, to put it better, from the constructivist stylistic repertoire, reminiscent, for example, of Daniel Buren’s verticals. Two divergent components - the abstract and the rational - stylistically and typologically separate, but chronologically parallel - pour into an evocative encounter which reveals a nostalgia towards two-dimensional painting. Experiences of posters and graphic design, gestural abstraction, abstract expressionism, lyrical abstraction and everything else that can be observed in this cycle of paintings are a homage to global modern painting, while the islands on the paintings pay tribute to the constructivist section of the twentieth-century avant-garde. The contents of Rončević’s paintings are also reminiscent of the rhythmicality of human figures in Dulčić’s representations of the events on Stradun, town squares, beaches, dances... In addition, to Rončević, as a Mediterranean man - in his formative years - Dulčić was an important painter and, if we persist in searching for formal similarities in their ‘handwritings’, we will find them in the hedonism of painterly matter and the sensuality of colour, luxuriant layers, the saturation of impasto painting, gestural vitality, but mostly in the Mediterranean sensibility, the Mediterranean sonority of colour, their solarity, the southern light and virtuosity of their metiérs. Like Dulčić, Rončević is also re-confirmed as a painter of impulses, of lush, luscious and extremely personalized matter, of layers of pigments, of vehement and moveable gestures, of fluid pictorialism…* * *Let us also say in conclusion that Rončević does not want to state, establish or interpret anything but to incessantly reveal possibilities, their fundamental interchangeability and arbitrariness, and following that, a general insecurity. With the skill of an experienced master painter, he also questions relationships with eclecticism and the aesthetics of kitsch; for example, he explores how far a painter can go into ornamentalization, decorativeness and coquetry without falling into the trap of kitsch but to maintain regularly the classy independence of a multilayered artifact and to question the very stamina of painting. He persistently reveals loyalty to the traditional medium of painting, the virtuosity of his métier and a strong individual stamp, strengthening his own position as a peculiar and outstandingly cultivated painter, but he also exhibits the inventiveness which makes him both different and recognizable in a series of similar painting adventures.
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Parrott, A. C. "Aesthetic Responses to Traditional and Modern Paintings by Art Experts and Nonexperts." Perceptual and Motor Skills 79, no. 1 (August 1994): 297–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.297.
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16 art experts and 18 nonexperts assessed six paintings of different styles. It was predicted that nonexperts would like traditional paintings, whereas art experts would prefer modern styles, but this was not found. Instead, both groups produced their highest ratings for one of the modern abstracts (Klee), while the nonexperts rated the two modern representational paintings (German Expressionist) more highly than the experts.
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Markovic, Slobodan. "Perceptual, semantic and affective dimensions of experience of abstract and representational paintings." Psihologija 44, no. 3 (2011): 191–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi1103191m.
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In this study the difference between representational and abstract paintings in judgments on perceptual, semantic and affective dimensions was investigated. Two groups of participants judged the sets of representational and abstract paintings on three groups of dimensions: perceptual (Form, Color, Space and Complexity), semantic (Illusion-Construction of Reality, Expression, Ideology and Decoration), and affective (Hedonic Tone, Arousal, Relaxation and Regularity). The results have shown that representational paintings have higher judgments on the perceptual dimensions of Form and Complexity, the semantic dimension of the Illusion of Reality (the opposite pole of the Construction of Reality), and the affective dimension of Regularity. On the other hand, abstract paintings have higher judgments on the perceptual dimension of Color, the semantic dimensions of Construction of Reality (the opposite pole of the Illusion of Reality) and Expression, and the affective dimension Arousal. A discriminant analysis indicated that all three sets of dimensions are relatively good predictors of the classification of representational and abstract paintings (61-100%). The results suggest that the subjective categorization of paintings is generally based on the recognizability of pictorial content (representational vs. abstract), but some formal or stylistic properties play a role in the categorization, as well: some expressionistic representational paintings were classified in an abstract category, and some geometrically abstract paintings were classified as representational.
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Aguirre, Mercedes. "Classical Myths and American Abstract Expressionism: The Case of William Baziotes." Collectanea Philologica, no. 19 (December 30, 2016): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.19.08.
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Abstract Expressionism can be seen as a valid expression of the crisis of ‘Modern Man’ and, as a result, it assumed a central role in the cultural debate of its time. Within this crisis can be situated a new form of representing the ancient myths. William Baziotes, an artist who belongs to the New York School, becomes a modern ‘myth-maker’ who creates metaphors and symbols which refer to primitive cultures and primeval worlds. If a few of his paintings allude in their title to a particular Classical myth, others, without a specific title referring to a myth, have strong affinities with mythology. Classical myths seem to be entwined with the artist’s own personal myths, interpreted through his own language and his own symbols.
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Lakhani, Fayha, Hanh Dang, Peter Selz, and Tamira Elul. "Morphometrics Show Sam Francis’s Painted Forms Are Statistically Similar to Cells in Biological Tissues." Leonardo 49, no. 3 (June 2016): 274–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00960.
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The paintings of the abstract expressionist artist Sam Francis contain vivid biomorphic forms. One influence for Francis may have been microscopic images of biological tissues he observed in premedical courses prior to becoming an artist. Using two morphometric measurements common in cell biology, the authors show that forms in Francis’s paintings are statistically similar to cells in biological tissues that resemble his paintings. This study highlights specific similarities between forms in Francis’s paintings and biology. It also presents a novel application of biological morphometrics that could help clarify the creative process and psychological appeal of Francis and other “organic” artists.
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Linden, Diana L. "Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn's Late Paintings." Prospects 30 (October 2005): 665–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300002222.
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The year 1998 marked the centennial of the birth of artist Ben Shahn (1898–1969). Coupled with the approach of the millennium, which many museums celebrated by surveying the cultural production of the 20th century, the centennial offered the perfect opportunity to mount a major exhibition of Shahn's work (the last comprehensive exhibition had taken place at the Jewish Museum in New York City in 1976). The moment was also propitious because a renewed interest in narrative, figurative art, and political art encouraged scholarly and popular appreciation of Ben Shahn, whose reputation within the history of American art had been eclipsed for many decades by the attention given to the abstract expressionists. The Jewish Museum responded in 1998 with Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, organized by the Museum's curator Susan Chevlowe, with abstract expressionism scholar Stephen Polcari (Figure 1). The exhibition traveled to the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania and closed at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1999.Smaller Shahn exhibitions then in the planning stages (although not scheduled to open during the centennial year) were to focus on selected aspects of Shahn's oeuvre: the Fogg Museum was to present his little-known New York City photographs of the 1930s in relationship to his paintings, and the Jersey City Museum intended to exhibit his career-launching series, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1931–32). Knowing this, Chevlowe smartly chose to focus on the later years of Shahn's career and on his lesser-known easel paintings of the post-World War II era. In so doing, Chevlowe challenged viewers to expand their understanding both of the artist and his place in 20th-century American art.
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Pitman, Alexandra. "Trauma, bereavement and the creative process: Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 19, no. 5 (September 2013): 366–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.112.010850.
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SummaryThe artist Arshile Gorky played a central role in the development of Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s. Born in Armenia, his early figurative works recall a childhood of persecution by Ottoman Turks, a period during which he suffered a number of significant losses. The painting The Artist and His Mother (c. 1926–1936) is based on a photograph showing the 7-year-old Gorky with his mother, 7 years before she starved to death during the Armenian Genocide. This article explores the early experiences that haunt this painting and the difficulties Gorky struggled with during his adult life as an immigrant to the USA – factors that contribute to an understanding of his suicide in 1948.
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Roh, Youn Sun. "A Study on the Development of Fashion Design Using Abstract Expressionism Painting -Focused on Franz Kline's Works-." Treatise on The Plastic Media 24, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 118–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35280/kotpm.2021.24.2.13.
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MURAKAMI, Shuichi. "A Comparative Analysis of Two Abstract Expressions: An Early Cubist Painting and a French Modernist Garden." Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 61, no. 5 (1997): 445–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5632/jila.61.445.
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Erber, Pedro. "Art and/or Revolution: The Matter of Painting in Postwar Japan." ARTMargins 2, no. 1 (February 2013): 37–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artm_a_00032.
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Japanese art critics of the 1950s perceived the locus of a new materialist aesthetics in the new trends of informal abstraction emanating from the United States and France. This revealed a stark contrast with the idea of individual freedom that informed North-American discourse on Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on the writings of Miyakawa Atsushi, Haryū Ichirō, and Segi Shinichi, this article explores the political significance of the question of matter in Japanese postwar art criticism and indicates its importance for the subsequent development of avant-garde art in 1960s Japan.
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MOCTEZUMA, R. E., and JORGE GONZÁLEZ-GUTIÉRREZ. "MULTIFRACTAL STRUCTURE IN SAND DRAWINGS." Fractals 28, no. 01 (January 30, 2020): 2050004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218348x20500048.
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The construction of an abstract expressionist artwork is driven by chaotic mechanisms that sculpt multifractal characteristics. Jackson Pollock’s paintings, for example, arise due to the random process of depositing drops and jets of paint on a canvas. However, most of the paintings and drawings try to recreate with fidelity common forms, natural landscapes, and the human figure. Accordingly, in the context of the formation of statistically self-similar objects, a question persists: will it be possible to find some vestige of multifractal structure in drawings or paintings whose elaboration process tries to avoid chaos? In this work, we scrutinize into several artistic drawings in sand to answer this intriguing question. These pieces of art are elaborated using craters, furrows, and sand piles; and some of them are inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. We prove that the sand drawings analyzed here are multifractal objects. This finding suggests that a piece of visual art, which may initially appear ordered, contains many components distributed at different degrees of self-similarity that substantially increase the structural complexity.
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Rapoport, Sonya. "Digitizing the Golem: From Earth to Outer Space." Leonardo 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 117–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2006.39.2.117.
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Sonya Rapoport, a multimedia artist, traces five decades of her career, coalescing art, science and technology. She provides a personal history in a scientific context that leads her from painting and abstract expressionism to computer-assisted interactive installations and webworks. The artist uses the metaphor of the golem, her self-described avatar, as a means to question and explain the autobiographical evolution of her iconography, choice of media and style. Her journey includes the influences on her interdisciplinary art expression in which anthropology, chemistry, botany, religion and topics of gender and transculture are intermittently treated with parody, humor and mysticism.
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Wango, Kamau. "Stylistic Approaches in Portraiture Painting: Analysis of Selected Portraiture by Contemporary Kenyan Artists." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 48–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.601.
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Portraiture painting remains an important and popular sub-genre in art where artists paint portraits as a response to various motivations. Some artists paint for the fun of it, or what is often referred to as art for art's sake, where they are more captivated by the flow of vivid colours, tones and textures which they capture with their brushstrokes to study pertinent aspects of the face; others wish to study the likeness of their subjects in detail as they appear on the reference photographs; others are interested in the narrative that they perceive to be apparent in the portrait; others are interested in particular facial expressions that denote certain human feelings. These expressions are incorporated in their portraits to draw attention to given circumstances and emotions such as anger, despair, joy, scepticism, displeasure or anxiety as the case may be. Others are obsessed with the peculiarity of facial details and the study of absolute likeness or even surpassing likeness to create hyperrealism. Others do not think that these absolute details are necessary and are only interested in those aspects that capture the transient face. In all these motivations, there is one common denominator that is often the foremost motivational factor; the individual artist’s stylistic approach. Whatever reason or motivation for embarking on portraiture, the major driving factor is always the application of personal style. In this regard, whether the personal style is hyperrealism, realism, abstract, expressionism or even stylized, artists work within the realm of their personal styles that make them feel comfortable and helps them not only to meet their immediate artistic objectives but to enjoy their work. Artistic styles are different in approach but aim to achieve the same goals in different ways. Subsequently, artists respond to these styles differently and utilize those that they subscribe to in order to meet their artistic objectives. Likewise, the respective audiences or viewers also respond to these styles differently, such that in any circumstance, there is no style that is superior to the other as such, since each style appeals differently to the multitude of viewers and meets its purpose within its own stylistic confines. In examining portraiture, what is ultimately important is to determine whether painted portraits carry the impetus in their own right as works of art to elicit certain desired responses from the audience. It is also important to examine the extent to which the artist’s intent is significant in this elicitation. This paper examines portraiture from different Kenyan artists to determine their stylistic approaches, their particular motivations and the essence of such varied approaches in the comprehension of the purpose of painted portraiture. The paper also examines whether, in this context, the portraits featured carry a visual message. The paper examined selected portraits from a number of practising Kenyan artists in Nairobi, Kenya where many of them are based. The portraits featured do not necessarily cover all styles of portraiture.
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Kowsari, Masoud, and Mehrdad Garousi. "Fractal art and multi-blended spaces." Virtual Creativity 9, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/vcr_00003_1.
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Abstract Artworks, especially in the last two centuries, have been more created through a process of blending than at any other time. This blendedness is seen not only in many modern and postmodern works of art, from German expressionist woodcuts to Picasso's paintings and spontaneous action paintings of Pollock, but in fractal works of art perhaps more than anywhere else. This study, based on Fauconnier and Turner's blended space and conceptual blending theories, will show how fractal artworks are the result of a multi-blending process. This multi-blending is not only because fractal artworks have roots simultaneously in science, technology and art but also because their creation and understanding is dependent on knowledge of fractal aesthetics. Fractal aesthetics not only makes the artist have a continuous back and forth movement between mathematical, digital and artistic spaces, but simultaneously makes the visitor/audience have such an effort as well.1
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JITAI WANG. "Abstract expressionism in European and Chinese painting from the beginning of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century." Декоративное искусство и предметно-пространственная среда. Вестник МГХПА, no. 1-1 (2022): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2022_1_1_197_210.
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Simmons, William Sherwin. "Abstraction and Empathy on the Eve of World War I." Konturen 5 (June 26, 2013): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.5.0.3246.
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This essay considers continuities between the impetus towards abstraction within Jugendstil and Expressionism. Both Hermann Obrist and Franz Marc sought through empathy to intuit and image abstract forces at work within the materiality of the organic and inorganic natural worlds. Their creative practice and theoretical writings share much with Wilhelm Worringer’s discussion of the “expressive abstraction” found in the Gothic style, which unified the organic with the abstract. This essay explores the trajectories of this visual and textual discourse, paying particular attention to their nexus during 1914 in Obrist’s monumental sculptures at the Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne and the development of Marc’s paintings over the course of that year.
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Nunokawa, Yumiko. "Influence of Japonisme on Art of M. K. Čiurlionis and His Contemporaries." International Journal of Area Studies 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 85–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijas-2015-0005.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to show how Japonisme was introduced to Europe in the late 19th century and how it influenced artists in major cities. Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), especially those of Hokusai and Hiroshige, fascinated the Impressionists and other contemporaries such as Claude Monet (1840-1926), Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Many of them adopted japonaiserie motifs in their paintings or sculptures, and it formed a major artistic trend called Japonisme. The Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was also influenced by the trend of Japonisme, especially from the paintings of the Impressionists or through artists in Poland. In Poland and Russia, Japanese artworks were imported by artists who had studied abroad, or by wealthy bourgeoisie such as Feliks “Manggha” Jasieński (1861-1929), a Polish collector whose nickname was directly associated with Japonisme, and Sergey Kitaev (1864-1927), an ardent Russian collector of Japanese artworks. In this article, Japonisme in European art in general will be outlined, together with similar tendencies in Čiurlionis’ paintings, and then, examples of Japonisme-influenced paintings in Poland and Russia will be briefly shown. Finally, by focusing on Čiurlionis’ paintings, it will be shown how he adopted Japonisme in three stages. In the first stage japonaiserie motifs were only partially borrowed. In the second stage ukiyo-e’s motifs and pictorial schemes were applied to his paintings, and finally, in the third stage of borrowing, expressions of Japanese motifs in his most sublime style will be shown.
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Ogrodnik, Benjamin. ""The Theatricality of the Emulsion!"." Screen Bodies 4, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/screen.2019.040202.
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This article reexamines the career of Roger Jacoby (1945–1985), an abstract painter and gay liberation activist who became renowned for processing film in his darkened bathtub and for films that featured his partner, Ondine, the Andy Warhol Superstar. Through a consideration of film shorts made in the 1970s and 1980s, the article argues that Jacoby’s principal innovation was the exploration of hand-processing, which resulted in films that resembled abstract expressionist paintings in motion. Additionally, it considers hand-processing as an overlooked, albeit powerful, vehicle for expressing non-normative sexuality in American avant-garde film. It situates Jacoby alongside gay filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, and Jack Smith, and considers how hand-processed media can generate a “corporealized” spectator and disrupt patterns of filmic illusionism and heterosexist protocols of sexual/gender representation.
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Rejano, Rocío Moyano. "“Her tears fell with the dews at even”: The Ekphrastic and Intertextual Dialogue between Victorian Poetry and Pre-Raphaelite Painting." Prague Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2022-0002.
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Abstract This paper seeks to carry out an analysis of the ekphrastic and intertextual dialogue in the character of Mariana in both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s homonymous poem and its subsequent pictorial representation in a painting by John Everett Millais. The character of Mariana is taken from Shakespeare’s comedy, Measure for Measure, which was published in the First Folio in 1623. By contrast, in 1832, Lord Tennyson introduces the character in his homonymous poem, “Mariana”, as a woman who continuously laments her lack of connection to society. Through interfigurality, Tennyson opts to present her as a “tragic” heroine and she is depicted from a pessimistic perspective. The process of interfigurality entails a conversion stage of reverse ekphrasis through which Shakespeare’s source text is turned into another text, Tennyson’s poem. This interaction between both texts is later turned into two visual expressions. In doing so, both texts are later transferred into John Everett Millais’s painting. Millais’s intertextual dialogue with Tennyson’s poem and Shakespeare’s play involves a process of reverse ekphrasis. Taking this approach, this paper will analyse the ekphrastic and intertextual dialogue between the poem “Mariana” and its visual representation in Millais’s artistic manifestations.
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Magada-Ward, Mary. "What is the American Sublime? Ruminations on Peircian Phenomenology and the Paintings of Barnett Newman." Contemporary Pragmatism 16, no. 1 (February 22, 2019): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-0161121.
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I argue that a fruitful approach to exploring the significance of the abstract expressionist Barnett Newman’s body of work, understood as as an attempt to “paint the sublime,” is by appeal to Peircian phenomenology and the conception of “originativity” that it entails. By attending, in particular, to Peirce’s conception of “the firstness of thirdness,” I show how this “reasonable feeling” both signifies our “affinity” with the world with which we transact and, with specific respect to what happens when looking at Newman’s paintings, explains why we are spurred to reflect upon the meaning of these experiences. In this way, “the firstness of thirdness” accounts for our recognition of a form of reasonableness that exceeds that exhibited in ordinary conceptualization.
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Schulze-Witzenrath, Elisabeth. "„compassio“, Leidenschaft, Ekstase." Poetica 52, no. 3-4 (December 23, 2021): 180–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/25890530-05201009.
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Abstract Expressions and gestures of mourning for the loved one have been a theme of religious art from early on. In the Middle Ages, after the discovery of the suffering Christ (“Christus patiens”), they are shown in numerous depictions of the crucifixion, especially in those of the taking down of the cross. Since the 13th century, the attitude of “compassion”, which commemorates Christ’s act of redemption and, according to theological interpretation, thereby brings about one’s own salvation, has promoted empathy with the other. After the theme had been increasingly treated aesthetically in painting, non-religious models of mourning also appeared in poetry from the 16th century onwards, whose actions were oriented towards the respective epoch-specific image of man (passion, ecstasy). The article analyses relevant poetic and musical works.