Art-203 – Final Exam Preparation

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About the final examination, please review all art movements (~isms) I mentioned and posted on the blog (http://pxstudio.us/blog/?cat=54). The questionnaire will focus on artists, their artwork, and related art movements. Please make sure to review those movements and the key figures of each movement. The answer of every question is available in each post I […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 24 : Dali & Surrealism | Spring 2015

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Title: Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil war) (1936) | Salvador Dali Artwork Description and Analysis: This painting is an allegorical response to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, but it is also a garish and gruesome depiction of a body destroying itself. Dali painted this work prior to General Franco’s invasion, yet […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 23 : Munch, Modigliani & Expressionism

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Expressionism was a modern artistic movement, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 22 : De Stijl & Bauhaus | Spring 2015

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We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.” — Theo van Doesburg De Stijl (1917 – 1931), also known as Neo-plasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement and school of painting established by Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian in Amsterdam. Proponents […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 20 : Klimt & Symbolism Art | Spring 2015

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Symbolism was a 19th-century art movement rejecting Realism. It expresses ideas over realistic descriptions of the natural world. Symbolism initially developed as a French literary movement in the late 19th century, and it was soon identified with the artwork of a younger generation of painters who were similarly rejecting the conventions of Naturalism. Unlike the […]

Art-203 Writing About Art (WAA) – Assignment Guidelines | Spring 2015

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Hello Class: In tomorrow’s class, your task is going to write your second WAA paper. Although some of you have already submitted your second paper, you still have time to reedit it further. If so, I will return your paper tomorrow. If you don’t want to make any further changes on your paper, please work […]