Essays on Art Movements

Although the sociological and cultural landscape of White Noise is located fundamentally in a postmodern world, the Blacksmith town exists on a space amid modernism and postmodernism. Various scholars have explored Don Delillo’s novel, White Noise to analyse its postmodernism theme. The researchers have unveiled three major arguments to support...

This piece of writing focuses on The Brass Family of art by Alexander Calder. He is one of the most famous and best artist in the sector of sculptors from the twentieth century. Alexander Calder was born in Pennsylvania, the United States of America in the year 1898. He was...

Arts are there to entertain people and represent various situation affecting people. Different artists do their work related to a specific culture, political and social events happening in an environment or changing peoples lives while other people it's just for entertainment. Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist born in...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist born on the 22nd of December 1960, and he died on the 12th of August 1988. Basquiat was a significant African-American artist who rose to fame during the 1980s (Debord 67). His artworks made significant contributions to uplifting graffiti artists into the realm of...

Lilla Cabot Perry - An American Impressionist Lilla Cabot Perry was an American impressionist who trained in Boston and later went to France for further studies, meeting Claude Monet in 1889. In the next ten years, she spent time in Monet's company, thus becoming one of the influential proponents in the...

The Need for Realism in Art The need to present a "reality" that is clear and realistic led to the first revolution in modern art. For many years, the artist used the form of art known as romantic, which presented more imaginative ideas than the real ones. After realizing this downside...

The Korean art industry is growing and the recent art diversity in the sector has seen a rise in the number of contemporary artists who have contributed to broadening the reach of their creativity (Lee 133).  Lee (137) appreciates that “as the country's contemporary art scene gradually becomes more broad...

Shahzia Sikander: A Contemporary Pakistani-American Artist Shahzia Sikander is a contemporary Pakistani-American artist. Currently residing in New York City, the artist was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1969 (McCarthy 147). However, her artistic practice constantly moves easily between the boundaries and borders, depicting her as a transitional artist with shifting identities....

Senga Nengudi emerged one of the most intensive artist in the 1970’s because her works brought together the performance art and the abstract sculpture. Today, she still constructs poetic environments out of air conditioning units, sand, bubble wrap, panty house and other material used every day. In her hands, the...

Art theory aims to broaden one's understanding of art or to theorize on art without using classical definitions. Art is important in society as it's through art that we preserve human culture and traditions. The society can express itself through artwork where one's message can be immortalized in a piece...

This paper is an art critique of three artworks observed at the San Antonio Museum of Art situated in Texas The artworks are done by a single artist, John Marin. The critique examines various elements in the artworks to determine what they mean or the message that the artist intended to...

Rebecca Belmore is a contemporary performance artist who is less in the visceral and puts much emphasis on poetry. Her exhibition, “Facing the Monumental”, curated at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), promotes the idea that her work has always been open-ended and non-pedantic.             Belmore’s work explores a range of...