Dada

Dada

         The Dada or Dadaism was not exactly an art movement but more like of an artistic and bookish movement born in Europe during World War I. The Dadaists were a group of artists, academics and writers who rebelled against the European society of that time for allowing the war to happen so they used their own areas of expertise to rebel in their own ways against the war. 

   The Dada style was based on ‘’Shock Art’’ which contained humor, vulgarities, puns and everyday objects. At these artworks, the public were shocked and disgusted. This made the Dadaists happy because their objectives were being reached. The artist which left a great impression on this movement was Marcel Duchamp by painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa and scribbled some vulgarities on the art work. 


Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. 2013. Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm. [Accessed 18 May 2013].

Bauhaus

     The Bauhaus also known as the “Staatliches Bauhaus” was a school that merged fine-arts with crafts. This school was famous because of the unique sense of design it taught. The school started to operate from 1919 to 1933.
   

     The founder of the school was Walter Gropius in Weimar. Although Walter was an architect the school did not have an architectural department in the first few years of the school’s existence. The purpose of this school was to incorporate architecture and art and use them to create artworks with these elements. Throughout time the school changed the locations of where it was and the directors for 3 times.
   

       The Bauhaus was spread all over America, Canada, Israel and Western Europe because either they fled the country or the Nazis exiled them. During the mid-1930s; Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy joined forces together in Britain to live and work on the Isokon project. Gropius and Breuer went to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and worked together as a team before they stopped working together. Their collaboration produced The Aluminum City Terrace in New Kensington, Pennsylvania and the Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburgh and other projects.

The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. The Bauhaus, 1919–1933 | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bauh/hd_bauh.htm. [Accessed 13 May 2013].

Milkshake

Milkshake






Not for Girls:

I like this artwork because I like the human figure. The artwork is kind of simple but very well done because of the certain smoothness that is on the arm and the colors of the tattoo and the jewellery on the artwork which go well together.




Unknown:

     
I like this artwork because of its dimensionality and the fact that it is hanging. I like the textures of the art work which aren't smooth and they look like skin.  

Renaissance

 Italian Renaissance



     The Italian Renaissance was the most earliest form of the general Renaissance art Movement, an era in which there were a lot of cultural changes and achievements that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the movement between Medieval and into the Early Modern Europe. The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt.
        
Although the origins of a movement that was limited largely to the literate culture 
of intellectual attempt and patronage can be traced to the earlier parts of the 14th century, many aspects of the Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissance movement did not come into full swing until the end of the century.
        

The word renaissance (Rinascimento in Italian) means "rebirth" in French, and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages. 


Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. 2013. Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].

Fine Arts Exhibit

Fine-Arts Exhibition



The exhibition in Fine-Arts museum was one that I call ''plain'' in the sense that the artworks are great but in contrast with the modern ones they lack the innovation and the touch of colors and the emotion in the viewers eye. The busts have a lot of detail on them which kind of makes them come alive. 

Contemporary Face of Faith

Contemporary Face of Faith


This exhibition is an example of abstract art and how each individual expresses and projects his art (and thoughts) on to the canvas. The way the paintings are done are very interesting because the outlines and the color schemes used for the works are simply great because of how colors blend well with each other and the different forms used in the artworks.  What I really liked in this exhibition are the colors and the curves applied to make the faces.

Forces Exhibition

Forces by George Muscat

The artworks in this exhibition are very nice because they show great detail in the anatomy of the humans. Personally I like the colors applied to the ‘’female body artworks’’ because they blend together so well it goes very gentle on the eyes of the viewer. 

    This artwork is very nicely done because the color scheme is very lightly toned and the graphics on the body look like tattoo's and the tonality blends well with the color.

  

 This artwork in my opinion shows the diversity of many people in one single artwork in the sense of different forms of the faces, lengths, difference in the noses etc.

             This artworks is smooth yet nice because of the textures and the way the glazes have been applied to the artifact.

I like this one because the fish are very realistic and it gives a sense of motion to the viewer because of the on-going state of the fish.