Modern art in the Asia-Pacific region reflects the rapidly changing geo-political landscapes, as well as becoming increasingly integrated into architecture and urban planning. In the Asia-Pacific region, the art of the 21st century can be large scale and includes ambitious installation projects as well as graphic art, graffiti, and urban art. Although influenced by European trends like abstraction and surrealism, the art of the Asia-Pacific region is dedicated to communicating a localized aesthetic. Contemporary art in the Asia-Pacific region can also be politically powerful, designed to make statements. In some… Continue Reading...
and was commissioned by Conger Goodyear, who served as the head of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (PBS, 2005). Frida painted numerous self-portraits through her career, but this one depicted something unique about the artist: the monkey perched just behind her shoulder represented a kind of protective spirit. Frida herself has a look in her eyes that warns the viewer not to try to fool her—for she sees everything that everyone is up to. This paper will explain the self-portrait and what its content, composition and style communicate to the viewer.
Content, Composition and Style
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modern artists and Dada in particular. While Hitler was preparing the Great German Exhibition in 1937, Hoch was living quietly in a small cottage in Berlin, trying to mind her own business so as not to be exiled or identified as a political saboteur (Barron). Hoch continued to create collages until her death in 1978 but her fame, once so assured in 1920, faded with the arrival of the Third Reich and the war—and after the war she never really recovered it.
Contributions to Art History: Five Works
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modern artists such as Drake highlight that hip-hop’s method of expression can be feminist and empowering in both the work of women and men.
When Elliot created her seminal “Work It,” and “Get Your Freak On,” Collins argues that Elliot was drawing upon a tradition that had associated African-American women and men with so-called freakiness or unnaturalness versus the ordinary neutrality of whiteness. Even when African-American artists had embraced the freakiness term, it was usually to suggest the extremity of Black female sexuality in particular. Rick James’ “Super Freak”… Continue Reading...
