Essays on Art Movement

The Joy of Life In 1906, Henri Matisse completed in what is regularly viewed as his most prominent Fauve painting. It is a huge scale painting portraying an Arcadian scene loaded up with splendidly hued woods glade, ocean, and sky and populated by bare figures both very still and in movement. Similarly as with the...

Alex Katz is an American artist specializing in simplified portraits and landscapes, also known for his large-scale paintings on a monochrome background. Katz’s artistic career began in New York in the 1950s, at the time when Abstract Expressionism was the most vigorous. He responded to the abstract style of the dominant trend at the time...

The controversy of postmodernism has been widely discussed for decades of years and it is still mentioned among architects and artists nowadays. Postmodernism was the term given to the ‘complex contemporary socioeconomic, cultural, political, and technological transformations,’ that ‘did not merely represent a temporary interruption of longer-term developmental patterns but indicated the emergence of distinctively...

Orientalism has evolved into a more complicated term when it comes to the 21st century, the era of globalisation. The changing form of this discourse has been even more striking when considering Japan’s economical and technological advancement since the eighties. In this essay, I will situate my analysis on Ghost in the Shell franchise (highlight...

Fauvism is defined as a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and non-naturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Key artists that contributed heavily to this movement were Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Georges Braque. Some major characteristics...

Art Nouveau means the new art and this movement took place in countries all over the world. The movement began in 1861 when the Arts and Crafts movement wanted there to be a closer relationship between decorative arts and fine arts. They also wanted to make sure they showed more function and nature in their...

I will be looking at the relation and concerns between social contexts and contemporary art. There have been so many pieces of contemporary artwork that can be related to social contexts. These pieces often referred to and understood as social art. These pieces can send powerful messages via the social platform, they can be interpreted...

When Fredrick Sandys asked Keomi Grey, a Romani woman, to be the model for his Medea, he definitely have something oriental fantasies surging over his brain. In Euripides’ drama too the character of Medea associated with the myth of her where they shows her as a princess of a barbaric race and thus devoid of...

Over time, art has evolved and changed in meaning. However, one specific period created a revolutionary and permanent world shift known as the Renaissance (“Renaissance Style”). This profound era, during the 15th and 16th centuries, marked a fundamental change in artistic and creative visions and gave way to the transformation of traditional thought and action....

Pop Art was an influential movement in the 20th century. There was an idea within the modern movement, that one had to respond to one’s own time. Pop Art was a reaction to the post-war period of mass production and advertisement imagery. The movement of Pop Art produced a group of artists who worked with...