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Minimal Art
When we think of Minimalism, a concept emerges attached to the term itself: simplicity. We are talking about a philosophy of life, style and artistic movement transversal to several disciplines. Despite their differences, these have in common the desire to get rid of everything “bombastic”. Like all ideology, minimalism is also subject to human subjectivity, which in this article leaves us faced with the challenge of interpreting an art without contradicting its own principles, that is, explaining Minimal Art in a simple way. Exploring the context, we will begin to understand that for many of the artists of the 20th century, the traditional art and technique of Western painting and sculpture were over-exploited. This led contemporary artists to search for new languages, many of them totally isolated from the paradigms of classical beauty and harmony, even from the purpose of art itself. Then, the Historical Artistic Avant-Garde arose, within which historians consider Minimalism the last movement of modernity. Directly imbued with the Dutch neoplasticism of the twenties, Russian constructivism, geometric abstraction and modern reductivism, Minimalism consolidated itself as a movement, theoretically based on their respective manifestos, in the sixties of the twentieth century. New York City was the scene where […]
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Photography as an artistic form
There have been two visions of photography: on the one hand, technical skill and on the other, the ability to create an image that gives us a different perspective on the world. When the two come together, we are creating an artistic graphic work, thus, seeing photography as an artistic form.
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Industrial Revolution: The Influence on art
With the industrial revolution, important inventions were born, and with them important changes that profoundly marked the history of humanity, thus was its beginning, understood as a period of major and significant technological, socio-economic and social changes collectively. With the advances obtained from the creation of the multi-bovine spinning machine, which greatly optimized textile production, added to the great leap in commerce with the invention of the steam engine, which promoted the improvement of transportation routes, the technology of mass production and distribution began, almost completely replacing manual labor. Many paths were opened to art and architecture, but all of them can be summarized in one: the freedom of creation. The influence of the industrial revolution in art had its continuity in artistic expression. Since then, and even today, art continues in the same direction. Now, how does art and architecture behave in the face of such a drastic change? How does the demand for technology and mass production affect the handcrafted creation of unique pieces? What is the collective perception towards the individually produced in comparison to mass production? These are some of the many questions that arise in the face of such a radical transformation; which are developed […]
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Color Psychology
Color can induce moods and dictate powerful sensations. Since some centuries back, as early as the 15th century, the artists in the quest of expressing their emotions while looking to provoke their audience’s, used different pigments in their artworks. Notwithstanding, it wasn’t until the 18th century that a compendious and extensive color theory (which are the rules for the use of colors in arts) was introduced, with Isaac Newton’s color wheel. With the arrival of Goethe, sometime later, a theory that explained the color linked to human emotional experienced was presented. Until the mid-17th century, scientists believed that colors were a combination of light and dark. They experimented by projecting sunlight onto a surface through a prism and claimed that the crystals colored the white light from the sun, resulting in some of the colors of the rainbow. It was Isaac Newton who, in 1665, confirmed that what the prism did was to separate the colors that make up white light rather than to color it. He did this by refracting the light onto a surface at a much greater distance. In 1666, Newton created a circular scheme with the 7 colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, green, […]
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Van Gogh and Japan
Japonisme is a concept used to describe the study of Japanese art and its influence on European artists. It was present in several currents, including art nouveau and post-impressionism. But this phenomenon is more closely related to Impressionism, as artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were inspired by the themes, perspective and composition of Japanese prints. Objects such as lanterns, screens and lacquerware were popular with the city’s designers. Artists such as Monet, Degas and others collected Japanese prints, to later incorporate the Japonisme into their own artworks. By the hand of Samuel Bing (1838-1905) a great collector and dealer who possessed a great culture (which led him to become very passionate about Japanese art) this ‘Japonisme’ had arrived in Paris. Bing, born in Hamburg, moved to Paris in 1871, and in 1895, together with his Japanese partner Hayashi Tadamasa, founded the gallery L’Art Nouveau, which was to become one of the great centers of Parisian intellectual life. He also founded a club where members wore kimonos and ate with chopsticks, known as the Jing-lar. In 1875 Bing himself had travelled to Japan, where he bought numerous prints and other valuable objects which, on his arrival in Paris, […]
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Contemporary Art
“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we’re living in.” Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Here is a controversial issue par excellence: what is contemporary art? If we analyze the literal meaning of the nomenclature we can understand that the qualifier is inherent to the art of all times. That is, any artistic production, of any period, will always be “contemporary” for those who coincide in the same time period. In keeping with Pollock’s thinking, contemporary art is one that responds to the cultural consciousness of the moment, to its society, to joint needs, to the spirit of the time. In this quasi-arrogant claim that invades theorists to explain and recreate formulas for social behavior, we find ourselves with a contemporaneity that increasingly expands its capacities for expression and analysis tools. That is why the concept of “contemporary art” itself has the fascinating quality of emerging over and over again as a topic of discussion, it is immortalized in the face of its constant demand for updating, and it will always appear new. Before starting to speculate on “what is art in our contemporary world”, first let us make the pertinent caveats […]