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Simone
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Edgar Degas |
Degas is known as one of the pioneers of Impressionism. Over half of his work includes ballet dancers, which show his “mastery in the depiction of movement.” There is usually not much detail on the face, which draws attention to the dancer’s movement and stance. Although vivid, the color palette is not too varied, and bold brushstrokes are used.His paintings are very washy and almost see-through. Unusual vantage points and asymmetrical framing are also common in his work.
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A ballerina in rehearsal is a common motif in many of his paintings. He created an estimated 1500 pieces of art with ballerina(s) as the subject. Degas’ paintings of ballerinas often show them backstage in rehearsal, and focus on their gestures and poses as they “practiced, waited, primped and stretched in the rehearsal room”. While his earlier portraits portrayed the subjects as individuals, his paintings of dancers represent a type of person rather than a specific individual. They are focused less on the face and more on the movement and gestures of the body, often using contorted postures which explore the physicality of ballet dancers.
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Quinn
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Salvador Dali |
Salvador Dali painted what he saw in his own mind, and believed that your subconscious was more artistic than your conscious mind. Dali’s art varies significantly in style and media, but he is most well known for his surrealist paintings. Dali called his method of painting the “paranoiac – critical method” of accessing the subconscious for greater artistic creativity. . His paintings are mostly done with oils paints but he used very small paintbrushes that allowed his paintings to very smooth and not have very many brush strokes.
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Dali’s paintings show dream like images of realistic things. He painted melting clocks in his famous painting The Persistence of Memory. The melting clock symbolizes Einstein’s idea that time is relative and not fixed. Another Motif of Dali’s is the elephants, which were inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's statue base in Rome of an elephant with an obelisk on his back. These elephants have extremely long limbs and look like something straight out of a dream. Other motifs of his are, his wife gala, ants, butterflies, and skulls this created the dream-like illusion. Dali’s paintings often can tell you about what was going on at that point in his life. A lot of his paintings incorporated his wife Gala in them. He also painted about current politics specifically World War II and after the war Dali gained an interest in science and religion.
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Alison
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Jawlensky |
Jawlensky was in the forefront of expressionist painting in the early 1920’s. His intention was to paint how he felt about the subject rather than what he saw. A common occurrence in his work is the use of bold brush strokes that help to create a sense of roughness. His use of layered colors and shapes throughout show emotion rather than realistic features within the portraits he painted.
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Influenced by strong colors and simple forms of expressionism, he painted calm and spiritualized images of the human faces. The subjects of his most well known pieces are typically women, with dark features in the face and hair. Contrasting colors of deep and lush jewel tones gave his pieces a harsher quality.
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Paloma
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Dali |
Dali portrayed dreams and the subconscious realistically with this in mind he wanted to make his dream-like paintings as real-looking as possible. He would often take naps to enter this unconscious state, and he wanted to illustrate the feel of that state in his paintings. He juxtaposed ordinary subjects in settings where they would be unusual. He was very inspired by the styles of Spanish painter Fransisco Zurbaran, Messonier (who often painted sieges and battles) and Baroque painter Velasquez, and emulated certain aspects of their styles in his paintings.
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A reoccurring motif of Dali’s was juxtaposition. In the Tuna Fishing study, for example, there is a juxtaposition between the people in the background (who are painted monochromatically and with little detail) , and the people in the foreground of the paining, who are painted with more colors and using more shadows to show extreme detail; Dali often painted with very small brushes to create a lot of detail. The smooth shadows and shading are a technique Dali used to give his paintings the surreal effect. Dali often painted based upon childhood memories and dreams, and would juxtapose them with symbols he frequently used (like clocks in The Persistence of Memory) to express his views on certain subjects.
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Madison
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Magritte |
Magritte put ordinary objects in unusual environments to try and create poetry with in his art. By doing this he is giving new meanings to familiar objects. He made the objects look realistic but if you look at the rest of the painting there are not. He uses silhouettes; however instead of them being black he put textures and backgrounds to show a multiple reality. His work questions his audience of the grasp of reality.
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Magritte is known for putting everyday objects in unfamiliar surroundings. Magritte’s objects in his paintings occur over and over again. He puts clouds in eyes and in the black part of a silhouette. He likes to use bright colors, and is very detailed. His paintings are very smooth to where no brush strokes can be detected. His objects tend to be in the middle of his canvas, making them the center of attention.
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Alex
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Rivera |
Rivera had a variety of styles throughout his life. At one point during the mid 1910’s he was devoted to cubism, but he changed styles, saying that cubism was too intellectual and not concerned enough with fluidity of lines.
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In his cubist work there are muted colors, shadows made of multiple colors and distorted objects. He was not Picasso painting in the Analytical or Synthetic style, his cubism was within his paint strokes.
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Massimo
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Peltons |
Agnes Lawrence Peltons motive was to capture the spirit of nature and tranquility using landscapes and surrealism. She described her pictures as, “Little windows, opening to the view of a region not yet much visited consciously.” Pelton has had a wide variety of painting styles, however her particular series of surrealist landscapes.
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Pelton uses dulled colors for her landscape. The imagery of water, ground, and the mountains, as well as changing the contrast of the dark blue sky as you looks very stylized. Providing elements of both surrealism and tranquility is the floating, delicately.
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Jordan
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Frank Stella |
Frank Stella didn’t follow the conventional ways of painting. He didn’t try to use symbols to represent things in his life. Instead, he painted things for the sole purpose as having a nice object to look at. He has been quoted saying his work is, “a flat surface with paint on it- nothing more”. In order to move away from the conventional way of painting often times he wouldn’t make a sketch first and instead let his brush guide him.
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He would create this type of art by using minimalist painting techniques. His first major art collection was called the Black Paintings. They were nothing more than thick black lines separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas. He also uses shapes with bold contrasting colors that overlap each other. Most of the shapes have curved and are concentric. Since his art work wasn’t as interesting as some others he started to create shaped canvases. He started by using L, U, N, and T shapes but branched out into using irregular polygons.
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Nora
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Wayne Thiebaud |
Wayne Thiebaud often used thick layers of colors, and bold, visible brush stroke within his works. The subjects of his paintings do not contain realistic details, his use of accurate colors and shadowing create depth in his pieces.
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Wayne Thiebaud’s motifs were similar to those within the Pop art movement only that they are recognizable. His paintings focused on consumerism, isolating material items on a plain background, comparable to photos in product advertisements. He often painted deserts, pie slices, cakes, milkshakes, ice cream cones, and lollipops. The colors are so realistic; the sweets look delectable and succulent enough to eat. He also used a lot of geometric shapes, like circular plates and pedestals, rectangular glass display cases, and triangular pie and cake slices.
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Nallely
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Robert Delaunay |
Robert Delaunay painted a lot of nude females that were close to him like his wife Sonia. In all of his paintings they are full of bright, vibrant colors and circles that made it seem crazy. The lightest colors were always the center of the piece while the darkest colors he chose for the background. He uses brighter as warm colors in order for the picture to contrast the cooler colors as they lay in the background.
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Delaunay was (similar to abstract art), abstraction and cubism in his art. His art was a key influence related to bold uses of color, and clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. He chose colors that over lapped each other contrasting or complementary. He painted simple circular shapes that made up the image. His work overshadowed by that of his contemporaries, such as Picasso, Braque and Matisse.
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Adam
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Alice Neel |
Alice Neel’s motive was to use portraiture to present the raw emotions of those around her. Her goal was to fully capture the inner workings of the candid human psyche, incorporating her love of psycho analysis into her paintings to garner a stronger sense of feeling.
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Alice Neel’s paintings usually consisted of portraits of influential people in her life but she did some still life and street scenes. She used bold outlines and vibrant and fresh colors.
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Stasi
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Benton |
Benton painted small America towns, to show that parts of America were still unchanged by evolving technological advances. He incorporated rural farmers in the fields, Midwest landscapes, and people dancing freely. He did this to remind people of the true America, the parts that were the most important.
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He used a very fluid and sculpted painting style. His works were very natural, and caught people and landscapes at their best - un-posed and loose. He exaggerated parts of his paintings, making some parts of the human body larger and rounder than others. He used vibrant colors, and dark tones in his work.
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Nathaniel
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Robert Delaunay |
Delaunay’s influence from fauvism stemmed from his love of experimenting with colors’ depth and tone. With experimenting, he found it better to use warm colors such as red and yellow in order to make the subject stand out and use cool colors such as blue and violet in the background.
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In many of Delaunay’s paintings, the overlapping circles serve as his motif. These circles represent the color wheels of a nineteenth century chemist by the name of Michel Eugéne, who developed a theory of simultaneous color contrasts. His theory consisted of how well certain colors complimented each other based off of the hue circle which was originally used by Newton. This theory had also been the “touchstone of Impressionism.”
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Lily
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Valadon |
Suzanne Valadon’s motive for her paintings was to show people how she saw the world. She was influenced by post-impressionism and cubism. Angles and shapes in her works weren’t always correct but her motive in painting that way was to show what she was seeing and her perspective of it.
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Suzanne Valadon mostly painted people, especially female nudes. She used lots of vibrant colors and bold, heavy brush strokes. Her paintings were made to look very flat and 2 dimensional. She used contrasting colors and dark outlines around everything. Valadon put emphasis on geometric shapes, and her paintings looked almost like cartoon drawings.
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William
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Stella |
The style Frank Stella used in his painting was balanced with symmetrical objects; he also used dull and different shades of colors that contrasted each other in harmony. His art work was made with a protractor as shown in his Flin Flon collection."He titled a number of the works after ancient circular city plans in Asia Minor.”
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Frank Stella’s motive is using geometrical shapes and balancing the shapes by overlapping protractor outlines. The painting technique he used was called minimalism painting. “Minimalism painting could be expressed by using basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very particular manners.”
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Gala
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Dubuffet |
Dubuffet motive reflected his anti-art, anti-society views. His depictions are often
similar to art by children, the naive, the 'primitive' and the psychotic. As a result, he created a totally new form of art which was called "Art Brut" or raw art. Unlike many other painters of his time, who painted beautiful landscapes depicting Paris life at it's best. Dubuffet painted the darker side of everyday life, but in a rather quirky and humorous way. He also emphasized the textures in his art, such as using multiple layers of paint. |
Dubuffet's, "Art Brut" or raw art, usually of people drawn in a crude, childlike way. It is textured with many layers of paint. The background expresses a sense of violent energy from the contrasting colors and unique textures.
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Shea
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De Chirico |
De Chirico’s motive was to express a dreamlike resemblance of the clutter in his mind and sub conscience. The shapes and objects in his paintings may not mean anything to the viewer, but to him they recreated the things he sees often and thinks about most.
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The motifs in De Chirico’s painting were often shapes and resemblances of objects he sees. For example he would often include sentimental things, for example trains. He did this because his father was a train engineer and his town growing up was split in half by a railroad track so therefore trains meant a lot to him. In his paintings he would use subtle surrealism to make the perspective of objects, rooms and building just a little bit off so that it recreates a dreamlike memory.
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Karen
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Tanguy |
Yves Tanguy showed these abstract forms with no meaning, his backgrounds are like a space that is un-used and all his drawings seem to be drifting off towards nowhere. He used light and dark to show difference and throws in a color for dark parts of his painting. He would reuse a lot of blue, black and white. His panting style influenced by Giorgio De Chirico and his second wife Kay Sage. His dreams reflect his paintings and how they are in the middle of nowhere. They call his art style “sort of amoebae turned to stone”. An amoeba is a type of microorganism, giving his paintings an organic look.
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Around 1927 Tanguy started painting using lunar and marine backgrounds.There is a common ground for sky and earth in many paintings of his; he also has objects or things that mean nothing but reoccur. The use of color incorporating the dark and lightness of his paintings is not a complete fade but a noticeable difference. His brushstrokes are almost un-noticeable and he has shadows that give life to his abstract objects.
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Pauline
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Beckmann |
Max Beckmann was part of the “New Objectivity”, which was a branch of expressionism, and is a term used to characterize the public life during Weimar Germany as well as the art made during that time. He expressed emotional experience, and whatever was going through in his life in his paintings, so his paintings showed his attention to modern society and the conflicts going on in Europe.
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Max Beckmann painted something that was familiar to him. This painting was something he saw often in Germany. It was of the landscape near his home. You can see in his paintings the darkness of the shadows, and the bright of the subject, his shading is very abrupt goes from dark to light without much in between. He got the shape of everything rather then all its details. His use of diagonal and vertical lines set the mood of sadness, conflict, and loneliness.
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Sam
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Thiebaud |
Wayne Thiebaud wanted to show the world his life experiences and history through his paintings. He grew up in Long beach working at multiple restaurants including a café named the mile high and red hot, and exemplifies some of those experiences through his paintings of pastries and desserts.
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Thiebaud uses high contrast and texture in his portraits of pastries of pies. He puts a lot of detail into his subject and usually utilizes a simple background color with texture. Shading is very important in Thiebaud’s work. He will often place a dessert on a circular platter and contrast that shape by using a triangular slice of pie.
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Gabriel
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Magritte |
Magritte loved creating new worlds in his paintings so as to transport the viewer into an alternate setting. His main theme for these new settings was to put ordinary objects in very bizarre. He wanted to expand the conscious of understanding of reality by displaying utterly improbably scenes with objects very familiar to you and me.
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A few very common motifs found within his paintings include the apple, curtains, spheres, silhouettes, trees, and the sky. The apple is a biblical reference to Adam and Eve, with the most literal definition of the story featured in “The Son of Man.” The painting itself is actually a self portrait of Magritte, with the apple representing the evil that a business man faces everyday in the world. The apple in the painting serves another purpose though, which is to hide the man’s face. By hiding the man’s face, the viewer takes a sudden interest in wanting to see that which is hidden from him or her, despite the fact that what is able to be seen quite plainly (the apple) is right in front of the viewer’s face. In his paintings, the two sides represent reality and illusion, which is why his paintings include very real objects in surreal landscapes.
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Jordin
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Stella |
Frank Stella produced works which emphasized the picture-as-object, rather than the picture as a representation of something. He once said a picture was “a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more”. He used various shades of flat colors to show contrast and make some appear closer to the viewer than others.
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Geometric shapes, repetitive patterns, flat/smooth colors and brush strokes that are so fluid his paintings look print-like. Brush strokes are undistinguishable.
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Molly
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Stella |
Stella focused on the relationship between the literal shape of a painting and the shapes
depicted on the surface of the painting. Stella's work, by contrast of the abstract expressionist movement thriving when he first entered the art world, was inspired by the works of Barnett Newman's "flatter" surfaces and the "target" works of Jasper Johns. |
For Stella, his motive and motifs are somewhat identical. The lack of meaning (his motive) gives way into Stella's use of shape (his motif). Stella implements four basic motifs into all of his works. Balance, Symmetry, Composition and Contrast are all essential
components of Stella's work. In addition, Stella is famed for his lack of brushstrokes, creating dramatic and clean shapes. Each vivid color within these shapes is separated by a thin white line which serves as the separation between them. |
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Katie
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Dove |
His paintings were inspired entirely by nature, the colors, the shapes and texture. “The first step was to choose from nature a motif in color, and with that motif to paint from nature, the form still being objective.”-Arthur Dove He was known as being one of the first American abstract painters, so even though his pictures are based entirely off nature, the abstract shapes and shades are what make his paintings recognizable.
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Each painting of Dove’s is of a landscape, inviting the reoccurring theme of nature. His paintings were always based off what he saw in nature. Shading is key when it comes to Dove’s work, making the landscapes look heavy and dark.
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Timoteo
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Lipchitz |
Jaques Lipchitz a cubist sculptor motive was to assemble geometric shapes into abstract forms. Lipchitz primarily sculpted the human body, but his style changed throughout his life. His earlier work was angled and abstract while his later work was rounder and utilized much more detail. Lipchitz also made many sculptures influenced by African art
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Lipchitz would break up figures into geometric shapes and rearrange them. The shapes and angles make the bodies abstract, but the forms were clearly representative of something (i.e. human). Apart from the form, Lipchitz often used little physical detail in his early work.
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Nicole
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Georgia O’Keeffe |
O’Keeffe was a feminist and she was one of the first women to paint obviously sexual paintings. Many of her paintings were close up portraits of flowers but they obviously resembled female genitalia. She was a big influence to female artists at the time.
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Georgia O’Keeffe is most known for her paintings of flowers as well as desert scenes. Her time in New Mexico influenced her skull paintings. She is most well known for her close up paintings of flowers.
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Daniel
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Beckman |
He considered his art to be dark modernism, his works use a lot of large black outlines, and dark tones to create an evil/ominous look to them. He shows this through his painting by depicting a river scene light by the full moon right before WWII took place in Germany.
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Beckman uses, large dark outlines, doesn’t blend colors, overlaps lines/colors unevenly, and uses dark colors. His painting seems to geometrically laid out, and very simple and un-detailed at the same time.
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Emma
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Magritte |
René Magritte was a surrealist who became famous for his clever and thought-provoking paintings. When he was young, his mother committed suicide. He was there when they found her body in a river, and apparently her dress was covering her face. Many of Magritte’s paintings had subjects with covered faces, and these were most likely due to emotional scarring from his mother’s death. Many of his paintings were of ordinary, everyday things, like pipes or apples. He would write on the painting, “this is not a pipe” or “Ceci n'est pas une pipe.” With these paintings he strove to point out that no matter how realistically, through realism art, we come to showing an item accurately, we can never actually catch the item.
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Magritte’s paintings are filled with images that recur over and over again; faces obscured by items or curtains, with the rest of the body showing; doves; human eyes filled in with sky and clouds or the ocean; bird nests; floating humans; reflections; easels; and caskets. There are usually bright colors and high contrast, and the texture is very detailed.
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Chandler
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Mel Ramos |
Ramos produced art that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. Ramos motive was to show beautiful women. They were unreal in the sense that they were perfect. These women were usually hinged on top of products like cigars and candy bars. His mimicry of contemporary advertising clearly illustrates his awareness of the all-American desire to be, well, all-American
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Mel Ramos motif was women. Beautiful women, as some describe as “sun kissed pin up girls”. He incorporated these girls into products in mass media or well-known things, such as fruit, cigarettes, coca cola ect.
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Thaddeus
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Pomorodo |
He then opens up the objects at various points to display the inner working of the piece with different shapes and mechanisms. His motive is to make people think of everyday objects and what is inside that allows it to function.
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Arnoldo Pomorodo’s makes simple objects like cubes, spheres, and cones out of brass. Even some of his most famous art works use a sphere inside a sphere. These objects open up or crack open in various places to reveal rows and rows of different shapes to represent the inner workings of the object.
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Andrew
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Thiebaud |
Thiebaud was a San Francisco Expressionist painter. He used recognizable images that were abstracted into a “proto-pop” composition.
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Many of Thiebauds paintings focus on desserts or other types of food. He uses very realistic shadowing and exaggerated colors to add texture and realism to his paintings. Most of his works use basic shapes and rely mostly on bold color and shadowing to give his paintings detail.
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Gavin
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Magritte |
Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He tried to create new worlds through his paintings by creating unique settings and objects. He put ordinary objects in interesting contexts.
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Magritte puts ordinary objects such in unordinary contexts. He does this to challenge people’s perception of reality. In The Shadows Magritte juxtaposed a pipe with a tree to create a surrealistic and unusual painting. Or in the Son of Man, where there’s a man in a suit and his face is obscured by an apple. The point of this painting was for the viewer to wonder what is behind the apple, and why the apple is in front of his face.
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Talen
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Davis |
Stuart Davis brought a vivid portrayal of New York through his paintings. He shows almost pop-art features within his paintings. Davis was influenced by American jazz nightclubs he continuously visited in New York City. By painting iconic images of American life, Davis was one of the rare painters of the 1900’s that successfully transformed cubism into something more American.
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Bold primary colors, in contrast with distinct black lines. Davis includes a few identifiable buildings among abstract shapes and objects. Bits and pieces are all he gives the viewer
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Maria
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Dalí |
Salvador Dalí is a surrealist, he painted dreamlike compositions. He liked to paint about religion, sexual expression and his Gala, his wife. He recreated his memories. His paintings have great detail, making the dream look more like reality. He had a love of everything luxurious.
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Salvador Dalí had many different recurring images. The more famous one is the melting clocks, and Camembert cheese melting in the sun inspired him. Elephants in his painting were inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture, and he was fascinated by their legs. Eggs symbolize hope and love. He painted small cities also. There are many other animals in his paintings that represent different things. The setting of his paintings is usually a sky full of a horizon or clouds. He often used shadows and dull colors.
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Sianni
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Benton |
Thomas Hart Benton was a painter during the Regionalism Movement. The focus of this movement was to stray from city life and new technology and paint rural scenes. Benton was a leftist and was active in politics. He tried to show everyday people in his paintings. Benton has been criticized for portraying people in the raw, and not concealing controversial parts of real life. He was criticized for a painting that represented Ku Klux Klan members.
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The subject of Benton’s paintings is usually either a room full of people or a landscape. The landscapes are always of rural scenes inspired by his time spent on Martha’s Vineyard, the American West, and the American South. His style is to paint the image sort of wavy and distorted. The paintings almost always have a high contrast with darker backgrounds and almost white highlights. Another reoccurring theme is the feeling of happiness. In the paintings that have people as its subject, they are sometimes dancing, playing music, or at a party/get together setting.
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Christina
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Thiebaud |
Wayne Thiebaud’s devotion to traditional methods, favor of realism, and support of hard work as opposed to creativity serves as his motive. Although his pieces date from the 50’s and 60’s (a time before classic Pop artists), his work is still coupled with Pop Art movement because his art subjects are items of mass culture. He is known for his heavy and thick use of paint, along with well-defined shadows, and the exaggerated colors used to illustrate his subjects.
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Thiebaud’s paintings are still-lifes of simple everyday items such as cakes, pastries, toys, boots, lipsticks, etc. His art subjects are painted just as they look, and sometimes seem almost too simple. His still-lifes have the characteristics of advertisements, and his cartoonist style shows through. You can also see the thickness of the paint and the brushstrokes. Thiebaud has also painted landscapes, streetscapes, and famous icons such as Mickey Mouse.
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Nina
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Beckmann |
Though Max Beckmann’s work has been classified as German Expressionism, he rejected the term and the movement. He painted what he saw to be modernism, using dark colors and bold black lines. Beckmann frequently showed the imminence of war in Weimar Germany.
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Beckmann uses strong geometry, bold lines, thick brush strokes and dark colors. Even in the night sky the colors glow. The painting style is rough and sharp and rudimentary. His figures are simplified and frequently shadowed. All of his colors have been darkened and dulled with black, conveying his depressive mood.
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Kevin
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Magritte |
Magritte’s motive was to play with reality; his paintings always juxtaposed ordinary objects with an unusual environment. According to Magritte, his paintings are suppose to evoke some kind of mystery, he says “they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
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Pipes, eggs, apples, nicely dressed gentlemen, naked ladies easels, etc. All of these things are commonly seen in Magritte’s work. These objects are most often placed with outdoor scenery or with a piece of furniture.
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