Essays on Abstract Art
So, who does get to decide if art is great? To answer this question, I begin with discussing the two biggest art movements that dominated the 20th century, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Abstract expressionism was a post-world war 2 movement developed in the 1940’s the name for it was first applied by art critic,...
Wassily Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art not only because of his seminal works of the genre, but also due to his influence on the subject at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture starting in 1922. During his time there, Kandinsky augmented his color theory with new elements of form...
Abstract art comprises a plethora of artworks that exemplify a movement away from the formal, academic styles emphasized throughout history. Such a change is especially evident in Russia during the early 1900s. In the years leading up to the Russian Revolution (1917), Russia lost a number of wars which exhausted an obscene amount of manpower...
There are many types arts that influences many different types of people. It was a way to express a thought or to just showcase the light through thought. Cubism was something that paved the way for artists in the 20th century to finally be free to draw and paint on how they would like with...