Abstract Expressionism / Art & Architecture Comparison
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A 20 page paper that explores layering, spatial depth, minimalism, combination of materials, objects and colors, and the moralist vein, all of which typify abstract expressionism. The artists and architects reviewed and compared include: Pollock and Richard Gluckman, Helen Frankenthaler and Garth Alexander Oldershaw, Jasper Johns and James Stewart Polshek, and Barnett Newman and Sam Durant. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer
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A 2 page paper which discusses two different analyses of the engraving "Adam and Eve" by Albrecht Durer. No additional sources cited.
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African American Artists during The Great Depresson.
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(10pp)The Harlem Renaissance watched the flourishing of African American literature, music, dance, art and social commentary in the neighbor- hood newly transformed by the great migration of African Americans to the North during WWI. The renaissance was a time when Black Americans had a chance to demonstrate the creative and intellectual abilities that they possessed. Nightclubs, community centers, cafes, publishing houses and galleries sprang up in Harlem amongst the enormous level of energy and excitement. 'It captured all that the wild young things of the 1920s wanted to be.' Bibliography lists 10 sources. (sources follow)
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African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden
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A 5 page paper which compares the life and art of Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African Art’s Influence on Picasso and Matisse
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A 4 page paper which examines the influence African art had on Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Alexander Calder's Untitled Mobile
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10 pages in length. The creative genius of Alexander Calder spanned the better part of the twentieth century, with the American sculptor establishing his niche of motorized abstract mobiles in the 1930s. With a history of sculptors on his paternal side of the family and his mother a painter, it was no surprise how easily Calder filled those artistic shoes. Fashioned from aluminum and steel, his untitled 1976 creation drew from his past perspectives, including time spent in the Parisian Piet Mondrian studio. Calder expanded his interest in wire and spheres by assembling a collection of brightly colored disks that were held together by way of weights and counterbalances, allowing for the sculpture to reflect his spatial approach to art: free to move with the movement of the atmosphere as it hangs suspended in mid air. This ephemeral aspect of Calder's artistic endeavors became the calling card for the National Gallery of Art's East Building, inasmuch as he was beckoned to produce a piece of work that would capture the true essence of what this new structure was to ultimately represent. Calder's challenge brought to life the giant mobile whose presence seemed to defy gravity and spatial limitation. Sadly, he would not live to see his nine hundred twenty pound aluminum masterpiece hoisted to the ceiling in 1977, nearly eighty years after his birth. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Alice Neel (1900 - 1984).
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(5 pp) Alice Neel's daring, endearing, disturbing portraits of people and places are among the great treasures of 20th-century art. A retrospective of her work opened in June of this year (2000) at the Whitney Museum in New York. Seventy paintings and an important body of works on paper, celebrates the centennial of her birth. Her 1980 Self-portrait is discussed.
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