Henri Cartier Bresson Decisive Moment

Henri Cartier-Bresson, was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He also helped the life reportage, which created the Decisive Moment art. Cartier-Bresson is the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. This photograph for Henri Cartier-Bresson is called USA. 1971. USA. New Mexico. Near Taos, The Lama Foundation community.

Walker Evans Instant Collage

Collage is a technique of visual art where the artwork is made of different forms assembled together to form a different object. The collage art can be detected back hundreds of years. However, after the rise of the photography, this art took a different direction. This collage is for Walker Evans, called Interior detail. The collage describing the American living using different materials.

Nam June Paik Video

Paik, Nam June, 1932, Beuys/Boice

Material

video-sculpture

                    Material

video-sculpture

Video is cheaper than film and more immediate that’s simultaneously seen on the monitor Nam June Paik’s video installations explore the limits and defining characteristics of the medium. “altered TVs” displayed images altered by magnets combined with video feedback and other technologies that produce shifted patterns of shape and color.

Louise Nevelson Assemblage

Assemblage, is the process of bringing individual objects or pieces together to form a larger whole. For example, Nevelson managed to make a piece of almost endless variety and difference appear unified and coherent through the asymmetrical balance of its grid structure, the repetition of forms and shape and even more the black color. To Nevelson, black means totality, it means contains all because black encompasses all colors.

 

Louise Nevelson, City-Sunscape
Polyester Resin Cast

Robert Arneson Modeling

Molding is taking a handful of clay, smack it with hand, pull it, squeeze it. Then rebeat the same process with another piece to build a specific shape. The last process of Molding is firing the object in a kiln to become hard and waterproof. We all call the works made of clay Ceramic.

Robert Arneson, American, Benicia, California, 1930-1992, Benicia, California

Material

glazed ceramic

Material

glazed ceramic

Molding is taking a handful of clay, smack it with hand, pull it, squeeze it. Then rebeat the same process with another piece to build a specific shape. The last process of Molding is firing the object in a kiln to become hard and waterproof. We all call the works made of clay Ceramic.

Michelangelo Carving

 
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, 1475-1564,
Awakening Captive: detail of face, material is Marble

Carving is a subtractive process in which the material being carved is chipped, gouged, or hammered away from the inert, raw block of material. Michelangelo wrote, “Each stone held within it the secret of what it might become as a sculpture”. Carving is very difficult even the best artists had difficulty realize the concept.

 

Robert Rauschenberg Mixed Medium

Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925-2008
First Landing Jump
Cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, and oil paint on composition board, with automobile tire and wood plank

Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) is rightly famous for his freestanding and wall-hung "combine" (mixed-media) pieces created between 1954 and 1964. These works were both influenced by Surrealism and a harbinger of Pop Art and, as such, form an art historic bridge between movements. Rauschenberg picked up trash and found objects that interested him on the streets of New York City and brought these back to his studio where they could become integrated into his work.

Charles Burchfield Wter Color

Charles Burchfield, Road and Sky
Watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper

Watercolor is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle. Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes.



Vincent Van Gogh Oil Paint

Vincent Van Gogh, European; Dutch, 1853 - 1890, (painter)
The Olive Trees

Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. One of the most popular artists who used this type of painting is Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. Due to his mental illness he stayed in a hospital, during his stay, the clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings. He was allowed short supervised walks, which led to paintings of cypresses and olive trees.

Jasper Johns Encaustic

Jasper Johns, American, born 1930, flag

 Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. Johns is best known for his painting Flag (1954–55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flag

Print Wood Engraving

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, After.
Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer, was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His vast body of work includes altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings. Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve (1507) After he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520. His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

Print

Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker

Nolde's intense preoccupation with the subject of flowers reflect his continuing interest in the art of Vincent Van Gogh. His most important print, The Prophet (1912), is an icon of 20th-century art. Between 1884 and 1891, he studied to become a carver and illustrator in Flensburg. He spent his years of travel in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.

Contrast

Manuel Neri, Mujer Pegada Series No.2
Exhibited at Charles Cowles Gallery, Fall 1999

Texture is the word we use to describe the work of art’s ability to call forth certain tactile sensations and feeling. In Manuel Neri’s bronze sculpture from the Mujer Pegada Series, we can see texture contrast. The actual texture of the bronze is booth smooth where it implies the texture of skin and rough where it indicates the unfinished quality of the work. My vision, the sculptural represent how the artist think of women.  

Visual Movement

Seurat, Georges-Pierre, The Stone Breaker
The Phillips Collection
Acquired 1940

Most viewers react instinctively to the expressive qualities of line and these expressive qualities are closely associated with their orientation in the composition. Seurat, Georges-Pierre in his drawing, The Stone Breaker illustrates the continuation concept. First I looked at the tool in the man’s hand and then my eyes went down to the stones and after that comes the carriage that carry the stones. At the end I started looking at the background and the details.

Proportion

Katsushika Hokusai, From the Illustrations to 100 poems by 100 poets: Fujiwara no Toshiyuki Ason, 9th CE: Two lovers in a sailboat, hidden before the eyes of the world

Proportion refers to the relationship between the parts of an object and the whole or to the relationship between an object and its surroundings. In this Hokusia’s drawing, Two lovers in a sailboat, hidden before the eyes of the world the boat is the main object in the drawing and we can’t even see the two lovers in the sailboat. It illustrates the importance of the location regardless who’s inside the boat.

Repetition and Rhythm

Auguste Rodin, The Three Shades, 1881-86

Repetition always implies monotony. If we see the same thing over and over again, it tends to get boring. However when the same or like elements-shapes, colors, or a regular pattern of any kind- are repeated over and over again in a composition, a certain visual rhythm will result. I found this capture of the three scale but from a different view other than the one in our text book. From this view I can see the three shades are similar and it’s more clear that they are all for the same person but different body position.

Emphasis

Georges de la Tour, A Smoker
Art, Archaeology and Architecture
(Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)

Artists employ emphasis in order to draw the viewers attention to one area of the work. Artists refer to this area as the focal point of the composition. A smoker in Geroges de la Tour’s drawing, we see the focal point is the smoker face where the light is so bright. The second focal point is the smoker’s hand holding the match and the third one is his sleeves

Asymmetrical

Childe Hassam, North American; American, 1859-1935
Improvisation,
Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Formerly in The AMICO Library

Asymmetrical Balance can be achieved even when the two sides of the composition lack symmetry, if they seem to possess the same visual weight.  In this picture, Improvisation for Childe Hassam we see light-colored area as light in weight, and dark-colored areas as dense and heavy. The light area where the woman-playing piano, is larger than the dark one because it’s more important.  

Optical Painting "OP art"

Bridget Riley, British, born 1931
Fission, 1963
The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
 

Some artwork are created precisely to give us the illusion of movement. In optical painting or “OP Art” as it is more popularly known, the physical characteristics of certain formal elements- particularly cline and color are subtly manipulated to stimulate the nervous system into thinking it perceives movement. Bridgit riley Fission drawing the black and whites seems they wave

Impasto

 

Robert Ryman, Stage 2002
Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)

Texture is the word we use to describe the work of art’s ability to call forth certain tactile sensation and feeling. Another actual texture that we often encounter in art is paint applied in a thick heavy manner. Each brushstroke seems to have a body of its own. This texture effect is called Impasto. In Stage drawing, thickly impastoed strokes of white are piled deeply above a series of more thinly painted brown marks.