Task 3 - Broadening Awareness & Facilitated Learning Essay on Art Movements
Introduction:
Art Movements - I plan to reflect on my acquired knowledge & approach to studying in terms of broadening awareness and facilitated learning. I will do this by talking about the theory and time-line of the movements, their features, key artists, and influences on culture. I plan to begin with several movements that were mentioned in the lecture Barry Brown gave us on art movements I will use these as a starting point to start my research on the internet.
Development:
The Renaissance, which means “rebirth”, was one of the first art movements and began in 14th century Italy. It was such a popular movement because for the first time art no longer looked flat, painters added depth and a sense of reality to their
paintings. It was a time when art became more individually expressive they moved away from religion and concentrated on the men and women of our society. Renaissance was a period of such great artists such as: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo & Raphael. Michelangelo really captured the Zeitgeist in his Renaissance Sculptures of ‘David’ & ‘Pieta’, but the sculpture ‘David’ really set the standards on how brilliant minded the artists in this period were, to the point that to this day it still remains one of the best pieces of art we have seen. The ideas from the Renaissance helped develop and influence a new movement known as Mannerism, which matured in 1520, the year Raphael died. Mannerists were different from the
Renaissance artists in a way that in the Renaissance period the artists looked for their inspiration and used their observation to acquire knowledge & creativity for their art; The Mannerists drew their inspiration from art itself, getting it from the early works of great artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci & Raphael.
Modernism follows the tradition of using forms of expression that separate the styles of arts and literature of the late 19th and 20th century. The meaning of modern has changed we are quick to think modern is a contemporary piece, or just ‘new’ but during this historical period, the term ‘modern’ refers to European history and art critic Harold Rosenberg deemed modernism has ‘the tradition of the new’ but modernism does not describe an historical period neither does it favour contemporary values over traditional ones.
This kind of art specifically requires the audience to observe and analyze for gathering the facts about the artists intentions, the environment and the artist him-self.
“Simply put, modernist aesthetics are different from traditional ones. Artists, writers, musicians, designers and architects, as both creative innovators and intellectual critics, became the vanguard, or avant-garde, of modernism.”
(Walz, 2008, p. 7)
So modernism was expressed through the creativity of such artists, writers, musicians, designers and architects. But it also became an attitude of people for the intellectuals who wanted to use their knowledge to take humanity towards a better future.
Cubism - born in the 20th century and lead foreword by Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque. They discovered that their paintings had developed a new art style. It’s such a contrast from the earlier periods of the renaissance because in that period they tried to re-create reality where the cubists tried to distort reality by taking three-dimensional subjects and fragmenting them into several different view points. It broke away from the tradition that art should be from a single viewpoint but instead they chose to show a diverse set of perspectives.
Pop Art - began in London during the mid 1950s and reached its peak in New York in the 1960s and influenced the world of arts and media massively. The pop-artists collected their inspiration from popular & commercial culture. Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Oldenburg & Warhol were the big name pop-artists but the modernist critics found pop-art distasteful due to their use of such low subject matter and to the extent of their uncritical treatment of it.
The pop-artists seemed to almost glamorize the culture during that period such as celebrities & political movements of the 60s. We see this clearly in some of Andy Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Troy Donahue and Elizabeth Taylor his use of bright colours attract you to the paintings instantly, there is not much depth to the painting in terms of subject matter it’s quite simply bright happy colours.
Conclusion:
I used the notes from Barry’s lesson to begin my research on art movements. I found this was a good starting point to go by and began to type key movements into google the search results were phenomenal so I decided to just start browsing through websites that looked interesting I found one website that was a real good starting point. I also found a time-line of art movements, which came in useful I’m finding it hard to research still because I’m not too sure what sources are correct so I consulted my friend who is currently studying her masters to help me out and she pointed me in a new direction. She told me about e-books and e-journals that can be found through the database on the university website, but I ran into another problem because Staffordshire University haven’t enrolled our course properly so I haven’t got a student card and can’t access the database.
I feel extremely frustrated about this because I’ve been limited throughout this year & I worry the effect this might have on my work.
However in the next lesson with Barry he handed out 8 printed pages from a book on modernism which has helped me touch deeper into the subject of art movements, the theories and ideas of the modernists. I read through the print-offs, which I decided to highlight key sentences, words and people that I thought would be useful towards my essay.
I also used this information to go on the internet with to research the research I thought it might be worth going over certain subjects that Robin Walz touched upon in hope that I might find something I may of missed or didn’t understand so well the first time around. I found that I really enjoyed the subject which helped my research because I felt more enthusiastic about what I was doing and more determined, I found it was the way I went about it that drew me into the subject of art movements. At first a lot of it didn’t interest me so I went about finding something that interested me and that lead me from one thing to another and before I knew it I found myself deeply interested in the theories & ideas of the arts & art movements.
Art Movements - I plan to reflect on my acquired knowledge & approach to studying in terms of broadening awareness and facilitated learning. I will do this by talking about the theory and time-line of the movements, their features, key artists, and influences on culture. I plan to begin with several movements that were mentioned in the lecture Barry Brown gave us on art movements I will use these as a starting point to start my research on the internet.
Development:
The Renaissance, which means “rebirth”, was one of the first art movements and began in 14th century Italy. It was such a popular movement because for the first time art no longer looked flat, painters added depth and a sense of reality to their
paintings. It was a time when art became more individually expressive they moved away from religion and concentrated on the men and women of our society. Renaissance was a period of such great artists such as: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo & Raphael. Michelangelo really captured the Zeitgeist in his Renaissance Sculptures of ‘David’ & ‘Pieta’, but the sculpture ‘David’ really set the standards on how brilliant minded the artists in this period were, to the point that to this day it still remains one of the best pieces of art we have seen. The ideas from the Renaissance helped develop and influence a new movement known as Mannerism, which matured in 1520, the year Raphael died. Mannerists were different from the
Renaissance artists in a way that in the Renaissance period the artists looked for their inspiration and used their observation to acquire knowledge & creativity for their art; The Mannerists drew their inspiration from art itself, getting it from the early works of great artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci & Raphael.
Modernism follows the tradition of using forms of expression that separate the styles of arts and literature of the late 19th and 20th century. The meaning of modern has changed we are quick to think modern is a contemporary piece, or just ‘new’ but during this historical period, the term ‘modern’ refers to European history and art critic Harold Rosenberg deemed modernism has ‘the tradition of the new’ but modernism does not describe an historical period neither does it favour contemporary values over traditional ones.
This kind of art specifically requires the audience to observe and analyze for gathering the facts about the artists intentions, the environment and the artist him-self.
“Simply put, modernist aesthetics are different from traditional ones. Artists, writers, musicians, designers and architects, as both creative innovators and intellectual critics, became the vanguard, or avant-garde, of modernism.”
(Walz, 2008, p. 7)
So modernism was expressed through the creativity of such artists, writers, musicians, designers and architects. But it also became an attitude of people for the intellectuals who wanted to use their knowledge to take humanity towards a better future.
Cubism - born in the 20th century and lead foreword by Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque. They discovered that their paintings had developed a new art style. It’s such a contrast from the earlier periods of the renaissance because in that period they tried to re-create reality where the cubists tried to distort reality by taking three-dimensional subjects and fragmenting them into several different view points. It broke away from the tradition that art should be from a single viewpoint but instead they chose to show a diverse set of perspectives.
Pop Art - began in London during the mid 1950s and reached its peak in New York in the 1960s and influenced the world of arts and media massively. The pop-artists collected their inspiration from popular & commercial culture. Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Oldenburg & Warhol were the big name pop-artists but the modernist critics found pop-art distasteful due to their use of such low subject matter and to the extent of their uncritical treatment of it.
The pop-artists seemed to almost glamorize the culture during that period such as celebrities & political movements of the 60s. We see this clearly in some of Andy Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Troy Donahue and Elizabeth Taylor his use of bright colours attract you to the paintings instantly, there is not much depth to the painting in terms of subject matter it’s quite simply bright happy colours.
Conclusion:
I used the notes from Barry’s lesson to begin my research on art movements. I found this was a good starting point to go by and began to type key movements into google the search results were phenomenal so I decided to just start browsing through websites that looked interesting I found one website that was a real good starting point. I also found a time-line of art movements, which came in useful I’m finding it hard to research still because I’m not too sure what sources are correct so I consulted my friend who is currently studying her masters to help me out and she pointed me in a new direction. She told me about e-books and e-journals that can be found through the database on the university website, but I ran into another problem because Staffordshire University haven’t enrolled our course properly so I haven’t got a student card and can’t access the database.
I feel extremely frustrated about this because I’ve been limited throughout this year & I worry the effect this might have on my work.
However in the next lesson with Barry he handed out 8 printed pages from a book on modernism which has helped me touch deeper into the subject of art movements, the theories and ideas of the modernists. I read through the print-offs, which I decided to highlight key sentences, words and people that I thought would be useful towards my essay.
I also used this information to go on the internet with to research the research I thought it might be worth going over certain subjects that Robin Walz touched upon in hope that I might find something I may of missed or didn’t understand so well the first time around. I found that I really enjoyed the subject which helped my research because I felt more enthusiastic about what I was doing and more determined, I found it was the way I went about it that drew me into the subject of art movements. At first a lot of it didn’t interest me so I went about finding something that interested me and that lead me from one thing to another and before I knew it I found myself deeply interested in the theories & ideas of the arts & art movements.