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Davis has written essays on art and culture for Artforum, Artcritical and The Brooklyn Rail. Her topics have included blackness, [ 48 ] feminist imagery, [ 49 ] the artists Robert Reed and Niccolò di Pietro , [ 50 ] [ 51 ] the Dana Schutz painting Open Casket , [ 52 ] and what she termed "Neo-Romanticism" in young artists' work. [ 53 ]
Drip painting is a form of art, often abstract art, in which paint is dripped or poured on to the canvas. [1] This style of action painting was experimented with in the first half of the twentieth century by such artists as Francis Picabia , André Masson and Max Ernst , who employed drip painting in his works The Bewildered Planet , and Young ...
Clement Greenberg (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n b ɜːr ɡ /) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), [1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician.
Hans Hofmann, Pompeii, oil on canvas, 84.25” x 52.25", 1959. Hofmann's art is generally distinguished by its rigorous concern with pictorial structure and unity, development of spatial illusion through the "push and pull" of color, shape and placement, and use of bold, often primary color for expressive means. [4]
The emergence of abstract art coincided with the invention of Cubism in Paris in the first decade of the 20th century. Paris remained the centre of gravity for later art movements like Futurism, Purism, Vorticism, Cubo-Futurism, Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism until the outbreak of World War II and the Nazi persecution of "degenerate art", which precipitated a mass migration of artists and ...
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
Eftersommar (Late Summer) an early naturalistic work, painted by af Klint in 1903, an example of the works she exhibited to the public during her lifetime. Hilma af Klint was the fourth child of Mathilda af Klint (née Sonntag) and Captain Victor af Klint, a Swedish naval commander, and she spent summers with her family at their manor, "Hanmora", on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren.
Venting through art is the process of using art to attend to and discharge negative emotions. [26] However, research has shown venting to be a less effective method of emotional regulation. Research participants asked to draw either an image related to a sad movie they just watched, or a neutral house, demonstrated less negative mood after the ...