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Fine Art
Though paintings and sculptures are most often the first things that come to mind when fine art is mentioned, architecture, music, dance, photography, printmaking, and theater created for their beauty, rather than utility, are also fine art. Stroll on in to our Fine Art category to ask and answer questions about fine art in all its forms.
2,535 Questions
When is grandma Moses birthday?
Grandma Moses was famous for the paintings she did. As an American Folk painter, she only took paining seriously when in her seventies.
How has art influenced the world?
Art has influenced the foundation of buildings, sculptures, paintings, architectual work. Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Shakespeare were some of our most famous influences. It is a medium for people to express themselves and for people to make the world a more beautiful place to be in.
The period of cubism continued until world war 1 (1914). It stopped after world war 1 because a author named John Golding, who is widely known for writing his book called the "cubism", stopped writing the past history and analysts (information) on cubism.
What is the difference between western and non-western art?
The difference is in the approach. Non Western psychology believes in being interconnected and holistic in healing. Western psychology believes in the individual and uniqueness. Non western psychology believes in being apart of a group and the harmony within that group.
Who are the most famous abstract expressionist artists?
There are many different kinds of abstract painting, also different views as to what constitutes abstract art. Some experts are of the opinion that many of Claude Monets late paintings are abstract. A few of the trends in American painting after World War II are definitely abstract. E.g. the action painting by J Pollock, color field painting by M Louis or Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko. To mention but a few.
Romanticism
There was no one founder. A group of collectors, curators and artists are required for all art movements. A British critic coined the term "Pop Art" (popular art) in the mid fifties. The movement took off in New York in the sixties.
The movement arose out of a sense of frustration with Abstract Expressionism, a severe school of painting that permitted no reference to the outside world and hoped to achieve direct emotional contact between artist and viewer, leading the viewer inward to the deepest and most sublime feelings of the soul.
What was a Loutrophorus vase used for?
The vases (lekythoi) stored olive oil for the ritual anointing of the dead(every year), more specifically unmarried men
What is African art culture Art and culture?
In African culture, art:generally serves a ritualistic function.
When were the first fountains made?
In 953, Ma'ād al-Mu'izz, the caliph of Egypt, demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes, and was provided with a pen which held ink in a reservoir and delivered it to the nib via gravity and capillary action.
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He died from heart disease in 1983, after all he was already 90 years old when he died. I was actually assumed he was a healthy man before I looked this up, since most people don't live until 90 even when they are not sick!
How did the hard times of the depression influence the subjects that artists painted?
As with artists in any age and at any time, the dominant events and ideas of the age in which Depression Era artists worked had a profound influence on their creativity. The 'hard times' of the American Depression provided many painter-artists with two basic choices for their painting: to focus on the hardships and suffering or to focus on those who avoided the same, whether through 'maintaining' or through prosperity of some enviable kind. It may be said, however, that the most far-seeing (if not always successful) artists of the time chose a middle ground between these two options, preferring instead to depict interactions of the Great Depression's unfortunate and fortunate.
What are elements of Rococo art?
Roccoco architecture is like Baroque architecture lite--it is the result of architects striving to make buildings constantly lighter, more delicate, and sweeter. Roccoco buildings have delicate but still extremely, almost luridly, ornate floral motifs along the walls. Roccoco rooms are usually decorated in pastel colors and the style calls for luxury art objects such as mirrors and finely made furniture.
What artist was part of the expressionist movement?
THere are several groups of expressionists as well as expressionist painters not belonging to a group. One of the famous groups was "Les fauves", Matisse, Derain, Vlamink, e a In Germany there were "Der blaue Reiter (Marc, Macke, Kandinsky) and "Die Brücke" (Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Heckel, etc). OThers: Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, Käthe Kollwitz ....
it is a sacrifice that one has to make between the alterntive he or she chooses to the next best alterntive
What was the relationship that developed between early photography and painting?
The relationship between painting and early photography was complex and soon led to development of a proto-agricultural photography fairly early on after the invention of cameras and photography in the mid-19thy century. Adrien Tournachon's Paris studio photographs of farm animals as much as William Henry Fox Talbot's Pencil of Nature photographs of a haystack and door to a farmhouse in Britain heralded the coming of agricultural photography by two countries.
Many early photographers were also painters and painting suggested artistic conventions of recording and depicting animals, landscapes and farm scenes to photographers - photography became the new pre-eminent mode of the visual agricultural record of agricultural subjects, themes and elements.
Who were four important artists during the renaissance?
In Italy: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian.
Why is the rooster important to the portuguese culture?
Based upon a story from medieval times of a merchant traveling/staying at an inn along his way to market. A woman working at the inn, for a reason I don't remember, hides silver in the merchant's bag & accuses him of stealing from the inn. He is arrested & proves his innocence during his trial. He does this by saying that if he is innocent his rooster will stand up and crow, which his rooster does & saves him.
This is how the story was related to me two weeks ago on tour in Portugal, however from a website, "Nancy's Portugal' I found the following:
The Rooster from BarcelosThe Rooster from Barcelos has become a national symbol. It symbolises "The winning of justice when you fight for it". The legend is many hundred years old and goes, as I know it, like this:
A young man was sentenced to be hanged for a crime he didn't commit. In this case, there was not enough doubt to do the accused any good.
Vainly, he swore his innocence. In desperation, he fell on his knees and prayed to his two favourite saints, the Virgin Mary and St. John. Thereafter, he made his last wish to meet his judge one more time. As customary, this wish was granted.
The judge received the young man in his own home and even served him a fried rooster. Once again, the man swore he did not commit this crime, and, probably inspired by his two favourite saints, he suddenly lifted his right hand's two swear fingers and exclaimed: "Honourable judge, by the Virgin Mary and the Holy John, I once again swear that I am innocent. If I lie, the rooster on that tray will stay where it is, but if I am telling the truth, it will rise and crow".
In the same instant, the rooster was in its earlier feathers, standing up and crowing so it was heard all over Barcelos. The young man was immediately released
Who is associated with pop art movement?
Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns. There are loads but if you go to http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pop.html
then there is an index of all the artists involved in the pop art movement
What are some characteristics ancient greek sculptures?
Some characteristics about Ancient Greek sculptures are to colour the sculptures, make one foot stepping more forward than the other *left usualyl in front of right), left leg larger than right leg, body positioned different compared to way head is facing and feet are facing, details of hair, eyes, mouth and chesr are exactly alike on both sides of the figure.
I have been looking for this same answer all over the W.W.W. but i have found nothing except the historical context no religious or social context i believe was involved in the art period. What i have found so far is that it started in 1905 ended in 1908. Also, i got that they got their name from an art critic who called them Les Fauves meaning wild beasts...thats all i got.
