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Examples of Art From History
Art History: From the Early Modern to the Contemporary
Superrealism
A Girl
Ron Mueck
Produced early 2000's
Media - Scuplture
Ron Mueck - "A Girl" (Lina, 2011)
This sculpture is a huge lifelike portrayal of a baby girl. Whereas many artists wish to portray images of life at its best, or better, superrealism movement has tried to show life as it actually is. This work is fascinating because of its size and what it represents. All of us have had this experience, but it is not a memory we have access to.
Making Political Statements
An American Tragedy -- Evergood (The Art Story, N.d.)
An American Tragedy
Phillip Evergood
Oil on Canvas
This painting is labeled a piece within the Social Realism movement and portrays a conflict in Chicago and was based on real events. Evergood, the artist, had experienced the oppression of the police personally and was said to have been beaten up by a cop at a different event. The passion for the event is quite clear in the piece and it illustrates the a diverse group unified in solidarity against an attacking police force who killed and injured many people during the real life event.
Racism and Sex
Figure 3 - Die -- Ringgold
Die
Faith Ringgold
1967
Oil on Canvas
Faith Ringgold produced works that were visually challenging to viewers and displayed graphic scenes of the consequences of the tense race relations of the 1960s. This piece shows a bloody scene that portrays the same characters in different sequences in the events that unfolded. "Ringgold's mastery of the Western canonical strategy of expressing narrative and figurative movement by placing the same group of figures across the picture plane in various stages of the scene. In contrast to act of reading left to right, the artist situates the stampede-like wrestling of forms in the right side of the canvas, almost spilling over to the left portion of the composition (Harvey, N.d.)."
Post Modern Architecture
Figure 4 - Michael Graves' Portland Building (Graves, 2016)
"Before there could be postmodernism, there had to be a modernism for it to rebel against (Graves, 2016)."
Modern architecture can be summarized with the "less is more" concept in virtually all of its different forms. These forms promoted ideas such as rationality, simplicity, and functionality which held appreciation for some time. Yet, many rebelled against the "blandness" of these forms and began to…
Sample Source(s) Used
Works Cited
Graves, M. (2016, April 8). Bauhaus 1920s - 1930s. Retrieved from Postmodern Timeline: http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=88,5
Harvey, M. (N.d.). Faith Ringgold, Who I Am and Why. Retrieved from IRAAA: http://iraaa.museum.hamptonu.edu/page/Faith-Ringgold,-Who-I-Am-and-Why
Lina, D. (2011). 13 Hyper-realistic Sculptures by Ron Mueck. Retrieved from Bored Panda: http://www.boredpanda.com/13-hyper-realistic-sculptures-by-ron-mueck/
The Art Story. (N.d.). Social Realism. Retrieved from The Art Story: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-social-realism-artworks.htm#pnt_3
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