Non Objective Art, Impressionism and American Art Essay

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: * The art movement that Composition with red, yellow and blue was created in was Surrealism. * After returning to Holland in 1914, Mondrian was fascinated by abstract paintings. * With the war outbreak in Holland, Mondrian was forced to stay in Holland, where in 1916-1917, he helped form the Neo-Plasticism movement. Neo-plasticism impacted and brought out the best in a number of people, where it broke down the forms of nature, reducing the form to a pure, abstract design. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ART WORLD: * Mondrian attempted to represent the world through vertical and horizontal lines which to him represented the two opposing forces: the positive and the negative, the masculine and the feminine, the dynamic and the static. * possesses a sense of simplicity whilst simultaneously comprises of complexity TRIVIA: * Mondrian has used oil on canvas as his materials and has created the artwork to a size of 72.7 cm by 69.2 cm. * Composition with red, yellow and blue is currently located at the Tate Gallery. * Mondrian painted for thirty years and never made a curved line. http://pto.hawthorn73.org/downloads/PTO_Art_Adventure_Grade4_Lesson1.pdf http://www.markedbyteachers.com/gcse/art/composition-with-red-yellow-and-blue-composed-by-piet-mondrian-from-1937-1942-possesses-a-sense-of-simplicity-whilst-simultaneously-comprises-of-complexity.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian IMPRESSIONISM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: * Claude Monet worked on WaterlilyPond from 1904 to 1905. * In 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTWORK: * The meaning of the painting is to inspire nature and give great beauty to whoever views it. * It is one of Monet’s larger paintings, meant to show off the beauty of the scene it captures. * The sunset color reflecting off the water is one of the many aspects of his choice to make the meaning of this painting beauty and inspiration TRIVIA: * Monet’s brush stroke — precise and pristine in the paintings of 1899 — took on an expressive vitality that was unprecedented in any of the earlier works. * In 1900 he exhibited a series of ten canvases of the pond, showing a single subject in differing light conditions. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-oscar-monet-the-water-lily-pond http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110001575 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies_(1919) http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/artwork/claude-monet-giverny-paintings11.htm AMERICAN ART Cliff Dwellers HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: * In 1913 George Bellows painted a work titled â€Å"Cliff Dwellers.† Bellows was part of the Ash Can School, a group of artists who were influenced by every-day life and often depicted scenes in urban centers. * SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTWORK: * â€Å"Cliff Dwellers† is the name Ash Can School painter George Bellowsgave his 1913 depiction of lower Manhattan tenement life. * depicted the â€Å"crudity and chaos† of city life in the immigrant neighborhoods. TRIVIA: * The name of the painting comes from the title of a book about life in the new tall apartment buildings popping up in big cities. * The people were called â€Å"Cliff Dwellers† because they lived high up in small, cramped quarters like the ancient Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. http://secondat.blogspot.com/2010/08/cliff-dwellers.html http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/george-bellows/ http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=12254;type=101