Modern Art

This was painting by Romare Bearden around the late 1960s and 1970s. During this time, Bearden decided to start using more vibrant colors in his art work. He began doing this through the patterns in the patchwork quilt and his repetitive incorporation of cloth in his art pieces. Bearden stressed the idea that when certain things are removed from their normal context and are reworked, and then pushed into a new context, they receive a new display and meaning to them. For example, a patchwork quilt is rich in pattern and is made up of rags and articles of other materials considered secondary. The colors of the cloth in this painting contrasts the nude figure. This painting is expressing a distinctive African American tradition. I enjoyed this piece because I do not often see patchwork cloth and it caught my eye from the clash of the nude figure and decorative color of the quilt.

I chose this painting from 1975 because it stood out to me the most. I have never seen artwork like this before, it is very interesting to me. This painting is of an African family gathered around the dinner table, with what looks like a naked women behind the door. The women's hand to the right is very enlarged and you can see that all of their skin tones are different from one another. 

This is a collage done by Romare Bearden. The collage is made up of different shapes that come together to form the overall scene of a football player being tackled. I chose this artwork because this is the first time I've seen a collage form a scene that could actually exist in reality, which is different from collages that have random pictures in random places. This artwork teaches me that even collages can be formulated accurately to make something that resembles reality.

Romare Bearden's "Slave Ship" was created in 1972. The images focused mainly on the culture and religion.  This is a good piece because i like the small attention to detail at the bottom and the picture makes sense but also has other random elements in  It. 

This collage created by Romare Bearden caught my eye because of its simplicity. There is clearly a mother and child, the focus of the art, but the background is solid. I thought this was quite different from his other works which were busy and cluttered with layers of collage pieces. This piece of art has good composition because the figures are not centered and it grabbed my attention. I read that he had a great appreciation for his mother, as we all should, and I thought it was symbolic. This could represent him and his mom. Overall, I thought it was a nice collage and an interesting way to create two people and such a powerful image out of collage scraps.

Romare Bearden's "Slave Ship" was created in 1972.  Bearden had many art pieces with the focus on rituals and social customs of twentieth century rural Black America. The images of spiritual ceremonies, baptisms and burial, industrial hardships, musical arrangements and daily life have become the themes that critics and collectors most frequently associate with his work. The piece that caught my eye the most was "Slave Ship", due to it having Africa and a African woman as the big features of the piece. The bottom holds the rest of the slaves but they aren't sad or chained, they are depicted as fighters beating a white officer. 

Summertime was finished by Romare Bearden in 1967. Romare was born in North Carolina but moved to Harlem when he was a child. There are four people in this picture and they all except the one in the window in the top left have different colors on their faces. I also like how a lot of this picture is in black and white. It makes it different from many of his other works.

I like this painting because in incorporates a lot of rich browns and blues suggesting "the blues" the African American folk music. Bearden was actually influenced by the Social Realists of the Great Depression, along with the Mexican Muralists such as Diego Rivera, who was well-established in New York City. As a Social Realists, he among many others were influenced by the art and politics of Soviet Russia, and focused on the working class, the poor, the masses, and folk culture as their subjects. He was one of the many realists that seeked to ignite progressive social change. Bearden turned to the folk music and Southern folk culture that he knew from his youth. He flattened the pictorial space and created figures with Cubist block-like forms that overlap and are compressed while simultaneously, enlarging the trio's hands to indicate their humble working origins. The brick wall behind the blues musicians serves to move them into our picture plane, so that we can more...

Romare Bearden was born in North Carolina on September 2, 1911. He would later move to New York City where he would spend most of his career. His works ranged from a variety of different themes, techniques, and styles. Bearden began doing collage work in the mid 1960's when he found himself struggling with expression in his art. What I enjoyed about Guitar Magic  was the liveliness. The use of color and texture added to the mood of this piece. Romare bearden would work with different textures (sandpaper, paint, graphite) and mediums to eventually combine them together. I feel as though this contributed greatly to the mood. The warm colors helped to elicit (red, orange, yellow) feelings of happiness and good energy.  Dimension was also present throughout Guitar Magic, Bearden strategically placed the subjects to contribute to the pieces the depth. Overall, I truly enjoyed the energy of this collage. 

Three Folk Musicians is one of Romare Bearden's most recognizable pieces. For nearly 50 years is has been seen in top museums.  The collage was seen in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1971 exhibition “Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual.” Afterward, seen in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of California Art Museum in Berkeley, North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.Pasadena Art Museum, and High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The collage was featured as the cover for Sharon F. Patton’s “African-American Art". I enjoy the colors used for the instruments and the background colors really stand out.

Title: "Three Folk Musicians Created By: Romare Bearden Written By: Madison Herley I choose the painting "Three Folk Musicians" created by Romare Bearden in the year of 1967 because my eyes were drawn to all of the different mixed media used in order for the artist Bearden to create this piece. This piece of art was created using a various amount of paper with paint and graphite on canvas. I enjoyed admiring all of the different pieces of objects used in order to create this collage. It was different and unique for this time period. Bearden is known as "one of America's pre-eminent artists" and "the nations foremost collagist." In addition, Bearden got his style of creating art with the attribution to Cubist pioneers Pablo Picasso and George Braque and then developed his own twist on visual art. Furthermore, researchers believes the "Three Folk Musicians" was inspired by Bearden's childhood in Charlotte and Harlem in the...

A pioneer of African-American art and celebrated collagist, Romare Bearden seamlessly blended images of African-American life in the urban and rural South with references to popular culture, religion, and Classical art and myth. He depicted jazz musicians, monumental subjects, nudes, or mythological characters set against abstract, fragmented backgrounds. Each of his collages integrated images painted in gouache, watercolors, oil paints, which he would then fix to paper or canvas. 

This collage by Romare Bearden Shows a woman in the water near the shore  possibly washing up. It’s very natural and the use of colors makes it look very tropical. Although created in the 80’s it looks almost tribal.  The style I think is used to connect people back to their roots to their ancestors. The name at low tide makes sense  because that is when people were able to go to the water and wash up or lean or help bring boats to shore.

In 1964 Romare Bearden created this work of art called "Pittsburgh Memory".  Bearden continuously blended pictures of African American life in the urban and rural South with references to popular culture, religion, and Classical art and myth. Each of his collages blended  images were painted in gouache, watercolors, oil paints, and would put onto paper or canvas. "Beardens goal was to give the African American experience a universal, monumental, and Classical representation". I really enjoy this piece of Beardens work because its shows the realness of that time. It almost makes you feel like your on the streets of Pittsburgh taking in the lifestyle that was in adjustment. He really collaged the pictures so seamlessly that you can see who and what he was trying to create onto the canvas.

Romare Bearden was an cubist artist in the mid 1900s. He used the invention collage in Cubism and made it into his own form. His use of collage was very unique and he used different elements to make one piece. The collage that stood out to me the most was "The Family", created in 1948. I really enjoys this piece because he took different shapes and colors and made them into an abstract version of a family. If you look close at it, you can see two adults and the one on the left is holding a baby. He took his form of art and made it into a portrait of a family different then the average person's view of a family.

I liked this collage by Bearden for a number of reasons. The colors he uses really compliment each other and helps bring the picture to life. It looks like some sort of jazz band either practicing or playing on stage. It also really has somewhat of a Harlem renaissance feel to it. For some reason, I also really liked how he made the setting of the picture look like a nightclub/bar.

Romare Bearden is a collage created in 1987. This was my favorite work I found of Bearden. I love the water color in the background, especially in the sky and on the rocks next to the woman. The bird are interesting to me because it looks like you can see the pencil marks that were used to outline them before the artist cut them out. My favorite part is the women. She stands out more than anything else and is very bold.

Family (mother and child) was painted by Romare Bearden in 1980. Depicted there is an African American mother sitting in a chair with her child on her lap. The painting is very abstract and unusual because the mother's eyes and nose are distorted while her hands are extremely realistic. He worked with collage and this painting is not the greatest at showing that compared to his other work, however it does slightly show. Bearden's work revolves around the importance of African American art and culture. 

I like this collage by Bearden because it is simple, and I like the different shades of blue. I like how he arranged the piece. I like the nose and eyes of the mother. Everything is in proportion. I like how the blue in the child's dress stands out from the rest of the picture. In comparison to the rest of the image, Bearden uses realistic hands.

https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-imagined-landscapes-the-south-and-the-city Read the article and find a work that inspires you by Romare Bearden

This simple, but meaningful piece of art, known as Glass Tears is part of the DADA movement in 1932. Man Ray took this photograph, representing his interest in cinematic narrative. I chose this artwork because I enjoyed how the eyes expressed such a great deal of emotion. When I came across this image, I immediately noticed the level of distress this girl is feeling. The direction of her eyes makes me wonder what she looking at. I especially appreciated the eyelashes coated with mascara and the large teardrops resting below her eyes. After researching, I found that Ray created this artwork after his break up with Lee Miller. This is one of his many artworks representing their break up.

Lito Mayo was a Filipino  artist since the 1970's. I love the creativity in this painting,  Self-Portrait of Lio Mayo made in 1981. He was not known as a Dada artist but they considered his work to be apart of the Dada movement. He was offically known as a  Filipino graphic artist, print-maker, avantegarde poet, social activist, sculptor, satirist, and art professor. He spent a lot of time in museums working on art pieces before moving into his offical career as an artist.

L.H.O.O.Q was done by Marcel Duchamp and the reason I chose this one is because it stood out to me the most. This was done in 1919 and was referred to as readymades. Marcel Duchamp was very influential thoroughout the DADA movements which is why I decided to choose a piece from him.

This is a painting known as L.H.O.O.Q, and was painted by Marcel Duchamp. The reason I chose this painting is because I like how it has a different feeling than the Mona Lisa, even though it is not much different from the actual original painting. I believe Duchamp made this just to have fun being immature with paintings that have been considered sophisticated for many years. 

The most famous work by Hausmann, The Mechanical Head in 1920, is the only surviving assemblage that Hausmann produced around 1919–20. Constructed from a hairdresser's wig-making dummy, the piece has various measuring devices attached including a ruler, a pocket watch mechanism, a typewriter, some camera segments and a crocodile wallet.

Hannah Hoch was a  Dada style artist during WWII.  Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Wiemar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany” reflected her views of the political and social issues that during WWII  in Germany. There are strong images in this collage, the head of an expressionist artist being pieced by a spear, an image of the minister of defense, and a German government official's head placed on top of a topless dancer. it was a wild time that was filled with emotion and it certainly comes through in the art.

Dada was an art movement that was used to protest against society and government. Dada became popular around the time of World War one and was used as protesting against the war. Dada is also a form of anti art with many people changing around famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa and adding some of their own changes to "stand up to the man." This sculpture is called Military Guard and was created by Sophia Taeuber-Arp in 1918. This piece represents how the solders are used as puppets and are manipulated by the powerful people above them.

Artist Hans Arp initially became frustrated that he could not form the shapes in the way he wanted to and thus, his accident became a famous technique. The Dada concept can be seen through the aims of "anti-art" and the inability to have artistic control which would also become a defining element of surrealism. His artwork challenged the traditional methods of art.

This is a postcard style painting done by famous Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. This work is considered a readymade. A readymade is when you take something that already exists and change its purpose, in this case by adding to it. Duchamp took the original Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo Davinci and  added a mustache, and the acronym at the bottom L.H.O.O.Q. What makes this dada; which seems like a predecessor to surrealism and in this case pop art, is that it make you feel a certain way. At the time, in 1919, This probably angered or frustrated a lot of people because it seems to poke at a renown painting. Possible made people laugh as well. Another interesting part is its name. L.H.O.O.Q is meant to be said a the five separate letters in English, but, if you say it in french it sounds like the phrase "she has a nice ass" which I find hilarious and the exact point of Dadaism.

The Persistence of Memory is an oil on canvas painting by Salvador Dali in 1931. This painting is set in what appears to be the desert, with stopwatches that are drooping, or melting. The surrealism movement was going on during the time of this painting. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s in France and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious. The Persistence of Memory shows realistic techniques with a look that is found in dreams rather than a persons reality. Most of Dali's painting revolved around landscape and something as simple as this makes it beautiful. 

Title:  L.H.O.O.Q. Created By: Marcel Duchamp Written By: Madison Herley The portrait painting "L.H.O.O.Q. "  known as the Mona Lisa, altered look was a work of art   created by Marcel Duchamp in the year of 1919 during Dada Movement. The Dada movement was a artistic and literary movement that begun in Zurich, Switzerland. It first emerged when a couple of Zurich artists and poets declared an all out artistic assault on a modern society degraded by nationalist politics, repressive social values, conformity, and an overemphasis on reason and logic. Marcel Duchamp was one of the artist who led the Dadaism era to spread throughout much of Western Europe and to New York. Dadaism artist transformed art and society through their work based around the ideas of irrational, chance, intuition, absurdity, and humor.  It also had an impact onto Surrealism art work which followed some of Dada's tradition. Therefore, t...

The Dada movement was an artistic assault on politics, social values, conformity, and an emphasis on reason and logic during the 20th century. Francis Picabia is an artist that contributed to the Dada movement. Otaiti is an oil on canvas painting done in 1930. This painting portrays Spanish women, also known as the Espagnoles , the monsters, which has creatures with multiple eyes outlined in black. This image caught my eyes because it contains multiple figures, it has a lot going on. The women is what grabbed my eye, she kneeling with her hands raised. According to MOMA, the women's over sized hands was a "reference to Michelangelo's image of the hand of God from the Sistine Chapel in Rome." Reference: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/picabia-otaiti-t11982 

My favorite dada artist was Max Ernst. The art he did that I liked the most was one he illustrated for the book    Une Semaine De Bonte .  Ernst would take make collages using Victorian encyclopedias and novels. A lot of his work birds with peoples bodies. This was my favorite because I found it funny. I like that the bird-humans look confused and don't really know what the are doing or what they are running from.

Dada artists were very different than artists prior to this movement.  They aimed for total freedom within their artwork and incorporated every day items into their creations. They used readymade objects and worked with chance to incorporate them into the artwork rather than meticulously planning their pieces out. It was a short lived movement, but it still has an impact on art today. I chose this piece by Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp. It is called L.H.O.O.Q. It was created in 1919 and was "readymade". Duchamp simply added a mustache and goatee to Mona Lisa. He transformed this original artwork, a ready made item, by adding new features to it. I thought it was interesting because most would be intimidated to alter a famous piece of art, but part of the Dada movement was having the freedom to do anything.

The Dada art movement was a lot different than any art movements that have been seen before. These artists when against all of the norms of traditional art, they used already made objects and manipulated them for their own works. Hans Arp was one of the most influential artists during the Dada period. "Enak's Tears" was done by Hans Arp in 1917 at the beginning of the Dada era. This wood sculpture is made of two cut pieces of wood laid on top of each other. Arp's work was focused on World War I and all the tragedy and loss was represented in his work. What I like about this piece is that it is very abstract and there are no clearly defined shapes but everything blends together nicely. I also like how even though this piece is meant to represent sorrow and tragedy, just by looking at it you wouldn't assume the meaning but that is how he interpreted it and how he coped with his feelings during the time.

This painting, called L.H.O.O.Q, is a readymade painting by Marcel Duchamp from 1919. I chose this artist because he is the most famous of the Dada movement, and i chose this specific painting by Duchamp because it stood out the most to me. Initially i thought this painting was fake, but it turns out to be a real, very popular painting from the artist. In Dunchamps readymades, he takes paintings and adds to them, then changes the names. In this case, he took the already made painting of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, and added a mustache and beard. 

The Dada movement flourished as a response to the inequalities of life. Artists expressed their feelings about violence, war, nationalism, and politics. I chose Marcel Duchamp's work  Fountain  -1917. This work is considered one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century. Marcel Duchamp submitted this piece to the Society of Independent Artists' salon in New York. The society claimed they would take any piece if the artist paid the fee. The society declined Duchamp's submission stating that it was not a true work of art. The piece is an upside down urinal with the signature "R. Mutt 1917." Some feel that it was a pseudonym or fake name. Theories claim the "R" stands for Richard a french slang term for money bags. While "Mutt" may be referring to JL Mott ironworks a New York company who manufactured the above porcelain urinal.  What I love about this piece is Duchamp's ability to take an everyday object and...

I like this sculpture because of the detail in it and the artist's interpretation behind it. Haussman believes that the average member of corrupt society "has no more capabilities than those which chance has glued outside his skull; his brain remains empty." This sculpture represents Haussman's disillusion with the German government. I like how the artist took mundane objects from his time to make a statement against society. The head has been carved and polished well. It shows off a mindless dummy. 

Hannah Hoch is a famous Dada Artist, her work is extremely interesting and quite intriguing to the viewers eye. She uses shading to capture where the light hits and certain objects appear darker than others captioning the real life look of the painting and making it seem realist within the still life painting. The objects are random as well giving the painting a mysterious look and the railroad tracks make the entire look of the painting. I'm not sure if she used paints or specific colored pencils to create the look but the type of art she used to create her work instills a certain I really enjoyed the color choice and how the cool colors(Blue, and Green) matched up with the warm colors(Orange and Brown) they complimented each other nicely and made the painting like as if it had a 3D affect. The shapes were also relatively unique in a sense that it made the whole painting has an almost translucent look and added a certain depth to the artist painting. -Tori Laiso   

The name of this artist is Hannah Höch, she  was a German Dada  artist. S he was one of the originators of p hotomontage.  She made this collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media and out It all together.  I like this photo because there is a lot going on but It all ties together at the same time which i think is kind of a cool idea.  

The artists Salvador Dali painted the painting called "Galatea of the Spheres" in 1952. Salvador wife Gala's is the main focus within this painting. Salvador wife was his world and signed her name in many of his works. The Galatea of the spheres contains a science aspect to it, such as atoms. The colors presented in this painting are quite warm and go together perfectly. My favorite part of this work is Gala hair isn't all in atom shapes. You can really see Salvador love for his wife Gala within this painting.

"Dada is a new tendency in art" Dada art really stands out to me because of the reason behind the movement. People who follow dada art are trying to send a message. This movement revolved around trying to get the message out there about the war that was going on, politics that were protrayed, etc. I really enjoyed this painting because its everything in one. You have to take your time looking at this painting and understand what this person was trying to say about this time as they had painted it. You get more than just a painting, but you get a handful of new and information about what time and hardships that person was living in within their country and or community. 

Read the article, research Dada and post an image from a Dada Artist. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-100-years-on-why-dada-still-matters

My Grandparents, my parents and me was created by an amazing and eccentric painter in 1936. Frida Kahlo created this painting for the little girl being herself in the painting holding a red ribbon that represents the family blood line. both sides of Frida's family are presented above in attempt to show the viewers of her on creative personal family tree. the art work is detailed and define when looking at the cacti and buildings and body of water behind and below the floating image of the family. I am very impressed with the background and the detail within the generations on the canvas. -Tori Laiso 

This is such an interesting piece, the first in her series of life events. She says that this is pobably what her both looked like. It also looks as if she was birthing herself. She does a lot of work involving birth due to how badly she wanted children. The blood in this painting is said to represent her recent miscarriage.

The reason I chose Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird is because I like how she incorporated animals within her self portrait. I also like the variation of colors being used throughout this portrait. In this painting you can see that the animals seem to be very calm as well as Frida herself. I think the hummingbird is a sign of peace which was incorporated throughout the entire painting by the use of colors and animals in the background.

This beautiful self portrait, “The Frame,” was painted by the famous Frida Kahlo. It was one of many self portraits of hers. Once it was bought by the Louvre, it became known as the first artwork by a 20th century Mexican artist to be sold to an internationally renowned museum. I chose this painting because I enjoyed the use of bright colors surrounding Kahlo. I especially loved how two birds are included in this, yet they are somewhat blended in. Frida Kahlo painted the self portrait and the blue background on a sheet of aluminum and painted the boarder of the birds and flowers on the back of a glass that rests on top of the portrait. This type of painting is known as “mixed medium.”

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist who painted many self-portraits. I chose the above painting The Broken Column, 1944 because of the strength it portrayed. Frida painted nails on her skin to depict the pain she felt after the bus accident. She even includes a corset like the cast she has been in. The corset seems to be the only thing holding the broken column together. Even in the landscape is covered in dark divots, but Frida is still standing. This piece displays great composition as she doesn’t stand straight in the middle. This piece is neatly painted and contoured it lacks extravagant brush strokes. The clean lines and colors add to the strength of the piece.