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Neoplasticism (or neo-plasticism), originating from the Dutch Nieuwe Beelding, is an avant-garde art theory proposed by Piet Mondrian [a] in 1917 and initially employed by the De Stijl art movement. The most notable proponents of this theory were Mondrian and another Dutch artist, Theo van Doesburg . [ 1 ]
Some art theorists have proposed that the attempt to define art must be abandoned and have instead urged an anti-essentialist theory of art. [9] In 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics' (1956), Morris Weitz famously argues that individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions will never be forthcoming for the concept 'art' because it is an ...
Theo van Doesburg's theory of Elementarism emerged from his evolving views on Neoplasticism, leading to a departure from the strict principles upheld by Piet Mondrian. While Mondrian adhered to the exclusive use of horizontal and vertical lines to express equilibrium and balance, Van Doesburg introduced diagonal lines, which he believed added ...
R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, 1938; Monroe Beardsley, Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, 1958; George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things, 1962; Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, 1968/1976; Richard Wollheim, Art and Its Objects, 1968
Heinrich Wölfflin (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvœlflɪn]; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. [1]
Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914 Workshop Wyndham Lewis, c.1914. Ezra Pound had introduced the concept of 'the vortex' in relation to modernist poetry and art early on in 1914. [11] At its most obvious, for example, London could be seen to be a 'vortex' of intellectual and artistic activity.
Terry Michael Barrett (1945 - October 29, 2023 [1]) was an American art critic, and Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University.His many books, anthology chapters, and articles about contemporary art, art criticism, aesthetics, and the teaching of these, have had a significant impact on the field.
The ideogrammic method was a technique expounded by Ezra Pound which allowed poetry to deal with abstract content through concrete images. The idea was based on Pound's reading of the work of Ernest Fenollosa, especially The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, composed by Fenollosa but edited by Pound after the author's death, 1908.