Abstract-Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism: Centered in New York from 1946 through the 1960's, is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. However great a disaster World War II was, at least something important happened. In leaving Europe for the safety of the USA, artists such as: Piet Mondrian, Max Ernst, greatly extended their artistic influence.

Piet Mondrian

Max Ernst

In the 1940s and 50s, for the first time, American artists became internationally important with their new vision and new artistic vocabulary known as Abstract Expressionism.
Now considered to be the first American artistic movement of world wide importance, this movement put New York in the forefront, replacing Paris as the center of the art world. The term was originally used to describe the work of Archille Gorky and Jackson Pollock.

Gorky

Pollock

The painters who came to be called"Abstract Expressionists" shared a similarity of outlook rather than style--an outlook characterized by a spirit of revolt and a belief in freedom of expression. The main exponents of the genre were Pollock, De Kooning, and Rothko, but other artists include Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Newman and Still. The Term Abstract Expressionism was first used by Robert Coates in the March issue of The New Yorker in 1936. The movement was hugely successful, partly due to the efforts of the critics Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg, who also originated the terms Action Painting and American Style.

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Franz Kline

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"Eagle Nebula"

Eagle Nebula
From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. Through this window, a brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed. In this cavity tall pillarsand round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas remain where stars are still forming. Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. The Eagle emission nebula, tagged M16, lies about 6500 .gov/docs/Starlight years away, spans about 20 light-years, and is visible with binoculars toward the constellation of Serpens. The above picture combines three specific emitted colors and was taken with the 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA.

Sugar my beautiful 2 years old Shih Tzu

Sugar, is my sweet precious pet. A year old Shih-TZu, her noble Chinese ancestry as a hightly value, prized companion and palace pet. She is a delightful puppy to have and to care for.Sugar is a sturdy, lively, alert puppy by nature. She is my best friend!

The silky Sugar is sweet and playful puppy, she also get her little spunk now and then. She is not afraid to stand up for herself though she usually behave well, she as well get along with strangers after a while of her first contact.


Finally, She is has a distinctively arrogant carriage with head well up and tail curved over her back. She is also capable to be a good watch dog. This breed was first recognize by AKC in 1969.

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Scientists, cosmologists, astrophysicists, see the universe as a world of stellar beauty full of wonders. They've more questions then are answers. The universe is a stunning, and puzzling in its beauty of divine power of heavenly creation, I would say mostly everyone, and scholars alike have questions about what they see in the sky. The answers may vary depending on the philosophical, and creative knowledge of the individual.


When I see a pictures have been taken by Hubble, seeing these breathtaking photographs of the universe, always amazed me. The Hubble telescope is one of the most powerful of its kind, and is needed to appreciate the hidden beauty the universe offers.

Hubble
I find these galaxies photograpgs are in the heaven so incredibly beautiful. Even though some of these galaxies are million , and millions of light years away from our galaxy, are counter-part of this milky way galaxy.

(Perseids)

Young galaxy Furthermore there are some galaxies they haven't been discovered yet never the less exist. When I see these heavenly bodies incredible images. I always think about Professor Hawking's statement that goes something like this: "My goal is simple, it is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exits at all"

Photos by NASA.

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History of Modern Art

The history of Modern Paintingpart II, if you have read the previous entries in this blog you already know it has been discussed -- Cubism and Futurism two different periods of Modern painting lead to --

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The reunion of conscious and unconscious realms of experience so complete that the world of dream and fantasy be joined to the everyday rational world. It Flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Sigmund Freud one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century has the theory that an absolute world of reality, a surreality, will joined together in everyday life, from which Andre Breton, French poet, critic, leader of Surrealism movement, saw the unconscious as wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm which he believed could be attained by poets and artist alike. Here are some of the painters of the Surrealism movement:

Jean Arp, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, SalvadorDali,

, yves Tanguy,

Paul Delvaux

Joan Miro

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Futurism: Modern Art movement that follows Cubism movement. Its first manifesto took place in Italy in the beginning of the 1900s by the Italian, Felippo tommaso Marinetti. It didn't appear until the end of World war I. Visual art, music, and literature marked the efforts that would give its formal expression and mechanical processes to futurism painting. This painter was concerned with expressing movement in his paintings. This idea was taken up by Marcel Duchamp that


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along with others painters: Giacomo Bella; Umberto Boccioni Carlo Carra; Gino Severini, they thought that art was a machine on motion

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Introduction to Modern Painting...

Modern Art, painting, sculpture, and other forms of 20th-century art. Although scholars disagree as to precisely when the modern period began, they mostly use the term modern art to refer to art of the 20th century in Europe and the Americas, as well as in other regions under Western influence. The modern period has been a particularly innovative one. Among the 20th century’s most important contributions to the history of art are the invention of abstraction (art that does not imitate the appearance of things), the introduction of a wide range of new artistic techniques and materials, and even the redefinition of the boundaries of art itself.

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Comprehensive and readable by far a good introduction to Modern Painting from its roots in the work of Cezannethrough; Cubism, Futurism, and Surrealism and the early decades of 20th century and on to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950's through out this period this movement has develops in the world of art.

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Here are some of my work hope you like it,
I work with oils, acrylic, the truth is I work with different mediums.oils, acrylic
I like to paint abstract compsitions.
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Modern Art Movement (Cubism)

Cubism is an important movement of the history of Modern Art it began on the early 19th century.

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Picasso introduced to us a new style called Cubism. The painting Les Demoiselles D' Avignon was the first example of this new style. Many other artists: Georges Braque; Albert Gleizes; Juan Gris; Fernand Leger; Jean Metziger, and sculptors Alexander Archipenko; Henri Laurenns contributed to the Cubism movement. Picasso and Braque were the pioneers to this period in the history of Modern Art.



I would like to suggest to go to this excellent sites Artlex.com and Cubism image Bank to learn more about it.

"We all know the Art is not truth. Art is a lie that make us realize the truth, at least the truth is given to us to understand" (Pablo Picasso)

Modern Painting

I would like to educate you just a bit in Modern Painting and its origins. I'm not a scholar, nor a historian, just a simple man who loves art and does art as habit (you may call me an artist)... I would like to share some personal knowledge about the world of Modern Painting The movement of Modern Painting, modernpainting
its history began with the various ways in which man has seen the world. The way we want to see it, and the way we actually see it, is determined by the desire to discover a credible world. To appreciate it, you must begin to understand the artist's perception, and expression. The artist is simply the man who has the ability and the desire to transform his visual perception into a material form . I don't think it is possible to say the Modern Painting has ended its development. This philosophy of art defines art a very positive and decisive manner.

There was not Mystery about this world for the French painter Paul Cezanne: who wished to see the world objectively as was contemplating an object with any intervention from nature, while others saw subjectively, which is product of various points of view.
The impressionists: Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro: have seen the world , as we know it."Realization"(realisation) and Modulation (modulation):"Realiser" Means to bring into being, "Moduler" means to adjust a material (in this case paint) to a certain pitch or intensity that the motif... "Salient thematic element, a dominant idea"Cezanne: felt he couldn't realize his vision with out of an organizations of lines and colours that give stability and clarity to the image transferred to the canvas. If you wish to learn some more I would like to invite you to visit these two sites: Musee Mormottan, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art; Fine Art Museum of San Francisco; Musee D' Orsay.

I also would like to share some of my favorite artists. Henri Matisse; Salvador Dali;
: Georges Braque, and check out some of his work: as well as Edmondo Bucci: Pierre Soulages, and Alberto Magneli. My favorite of all time is Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Recently, some of the new artists in the music industry. Have gotten my attention. Artists: Such as Leona Naess; Michelle Branch; Nora Jones;
Michelle 
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Sarah 
are awesome beautiful women as well Howie Day, Jason Mraz these two guys are alright! All this new music come from good song writing this genre is characterized as an Adult alternative. I must say, It's great new music from this age of time. They are pretty good artists, though, My preferences have been always Classic Rock and would be untill the of time. My all time favor is the greatest band ever be

Led Zeppelin As long as I can remember I have been always a Zepp fan, and I always will. I have other favorite bands that I like such as
The Who, Rush to Pink Floyd, and all the great bands from the same era. I love all of them. I would also mention other fabulous artists from Lynyrd Skynyrd, to Neil Young and never the less the poet Joni Mitchell, and many other great musicians of the same category. This is my personal opinion of what define a great Classic Rock.
The Who  

Pink Floyd 


In my mellow moods I would take Alternative Adult as my second choice. I really like the very attractive females artists and their talented song writing suit my taste, they sing well, they have some good catchy tunes!