I liked this street photography because it looks at street photography from different angle. As a reflection and not really focusing on just one thing. You can see a reflection but also see through that reflection which is the store.

I like this one because it reminds me of the idea of true love. Everyone around them is moving fast, and they are just focused on each other and nothing else. How the photographer angled the camera to focus on them made an emphasis on everything else crazy (moving) while they are still.

I liked this one because I found it funny because they are all in a line going toward the direction the arrow is facing. Kind of reminded me of our society. How we follow one after the other to get where we are trying to reach in life.

I liked this one because I never really saw makeup on people back in the day. This also goes back to the idea of capturing history and right now looking at this image we are able to see how life was back then.

I like this one because everyone looking has different emotions. How the photographer captured the people on the bus really shows you how each person is different especially at these times, different emotions either on the way to or coming back from work/school.

It was an art style in which you take imagery from popular culture and make them more expressive or combined with unrelated materials such as objects, shows, cartoon, artists and more. Exaggerating art first became popular during post world war 2 and developed in New York City in the 1940s.

Some popular artists were Eduardo Paolozzi , Richard Hamilton and a popular artist Andy Warhol. 

Some popular examples of the art movement was Andy Warhol when he took a simple Campbell can of soup and exaggerated and used it for advertising. Some other items he did were Campbell tomato juice box and Marilyn Monroe to advertise mainstream culture.

This piece reminds me of a cliffhanger of a show when it says but, it also inspires me to make my own scenario to add to the story and make it my own. This is good example of pop art because of the bold color yellow but also it’s subtle in other areas with the dot work and low color. 

The first thing to catch my attention was the big symbol presented is money and who doesn’t like money right, but I really like how all the colors come together and create a bold and life like feel to it. I feel like this piece is a good example of abstract art because although I know red mice with glasses doesn’t exist it’s fun to look at and inspiring to see what other ideas I can come up with that doesn’t exactly exist. 

This piece drew my attention because of the different color of dots used which is a popular technique in pop art but also reminds me of a cartoon bang. Like when something explodes in cartoons and it makes a loud bang and something similar like this pops up to exaggerate it and draw viewers attention. 

I remember doing something like this in high school art class with a picture of a dog in different colors and it made me feel nostalgic because I enjoyed it. This piece inspired me to try digital art again and create more pieces like that but more bold to fit more the exaggerative style of the pop art style. 

I love the burgundy color which first drew my attention. Also the dots of red and black are interesting because some are covering half the plate and some aren’t. I also enjoy the darks and lights of the fruits and drinks how everything is nicely spread around which makes it a good example of simple but nice art. 

This artwork is called Untitled No 111 / Important modern abstract expressionist - Bay Area Figurative. The artist of this painting is Elmer Nelson Bischoff (1916-1991), American. The period the movement is active is from 1980-1989. The painting above was created in 1988. For this painting, the material he created cotton canvas and acrylic to make such a unique piece. The movement and style of the work are Abstract. The dimension of the pieces is height: 76 in (193.04 cm), width: 68in (172.72 cm), and depth: 3 in (7.62 cm) This painting impressed me because it was pretty fancy. Although it looks quite simple with sweeping brush strokes, the artist has combined the colors very harmoniously. from 1st generation together to create a special photo and it is considered is truly beautiful and historical work. 

The work above, titled Woman, was created by artist Willem de Kooning (American (born in The Netherlands), Rotterdam1904–1997 East Hampton, New York). The years was this artwork movement active was between 1950 and 1953. The above work was composed by him in ca.1952. Materials he used in this work include oil, cut, and pasted paper on cardboard. As for the dimensions, it would be 14 3/4 x 11 5/8in. (37.5 x 29.5 cm). This painting impressed me the first time I looked at it as there were two eyes, one on the left and one under the chest. The photo shows us another woman with a rather sophisticated and colorful hair machine. The impression of how he created the photo is not only drawing but also adding collage details to make the photo quite interesting. The strokes all bring a hint of something like humor or energy.

The work is titled The Liver is the Cock's Comb. The artist of this painting is Arshile Gorky. This work was created in 1944. The material used by the artist in this work is oil on canvas. This work measures 73 1/4 x 98" (186 x 249 cm). This piece catches my eye because the title preceded me when I read it. Next are the unique details, including multiple colors. Different colors and combinations of shapes make the work unique and brilliant to catch the eye of the viewer.

This work is called Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). The author of this painting is Jackson Pollock. For Pollock and the Artists of Abstract Expressionism, it had to convey meaningful revelatory content. He had his first drip painting in 1947. As for Autumn Rhythm, it was done in October 1950. The material used in this work is Enamel paint on canvas. The size of this piece is 207 inches wide. This work strikes me when I see it is with a work of art with intricate lines, swirling around and bringing out the image. The artwork is created by the artist creating lines that collide with each other so that the painting exudes intense energy. Although the work looks simple at first glance, it is just the lines planted on top of each other, but it is a turning point of contemporary art combined with modern creating stage art - Abstract Expressionism.

Two specific pieces of art that exemplify the movement are from John Olson when he photographed these women during a protest/march for women's rights. And also from Leonard Fink when he photographed Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera during the 1973 pride march in New York. Both of these images were at protests or marches where the people in them weren't posing for a picture but instead doing what they were doing in a public place, while the street photographer captured the moment.

I feel like now with the technology we have, the newer cameras we could see the artist's color and dynamic lines more, but since I focused these images from the 1960-1980s it's in black and white. Though I do feel that the images are very focused on the people and backgrounds themselves, telling a story. And the angles the photographers took to enhance and emphasize the people and the action of what they were doing (protest or marching).

The movement that I chose to research and showcase was the Muralismo movement.

2. Between which years was this art movement active?

The Muralismo movement was mainly active from 1925 through 1945.

3. If the movement you chose is associated with a particular country or region, in what places was it found?

The art of the Muralismo movement is mainly associated with Mexico following the events of the Mexican Revolution, however, some inspirations from it do appear in the United States as well.

4. Who are at least three of the main artists associated with this movement?

Three main artists that I associate with this movement are Dewey Crumpler, Michael Ríos, and Nancy “Pili” Hernández. 

5. Describe the primary visual characteristics of this movement.

The art form utilized many bright colors and included lots of realism rather than abstract art. 

6. What was going on in the world while this work was being created? Give us some cultural context here, for example, was there a war going on? Was there a struggle for racial or gender equality happening? Was the artist commenting on the social or political events of his/her time?

According to “América: El Muralismo Mexicano y El Arte En Los Estados Unidos, 1925–1945.”, an article by the Whitney Museum, the Muralismo movement awoke during a “Fragile Peace” that occured after the ten-year Civil War in Mexico. The Muralismo movement was also part of the Mexican Renaissance that occured at the same time. 

he 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Matisse, Picasso, Surrealism, Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America such as Hans Hofmann from Germany and John D. Graham from Ukraine. Graham's influence on American art during the early 1940s was particularly visible in the work of Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, and Richard Pousette-Dart among others. Gorky's contributions to American and world art are difficult to overestimate

Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002), a member of the Montreal-based surrealist-inspired group Les Automatistes, helped introduce a related style of abstract impressionism to the Parisian art world from 1949. Michel Tapié's groundbreaking book, Un Art Autre (1952), was also enormously influential in this regard. Tapié was also a curator and exhibition organizer who promoted the works of Pollock and Hans Hofmann in Europe. 

Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko.

 Pollock is closely associated with Action Painting because of his style, technique, and his painterly touch and his physical application of paint, art critics have likened Pollock to both Action painting and color field painting. Another critical view advanced by Greenberg connects Pollock's allover canvasses to the large-scale Water Lilies of Claude Monet done during the 1920s. Art critics such as Michael Fried, Greenberg and others have observed that the overall feeling in Pollock's most famous works – his drip paintings – read as vast fields of built-up linear elements

            Naoko Takeuchi is one of my favorite artists because she is a rare woman in the industry and created Sailor Moon in 1991. Akira Toriyama created the highly successful Dragon Ball Z series, my favorite cartoon as a child. Junji Ito has inspired so many with his bizarre horror comics, and he created Tomie, one of my favorite characters; a beautiful young woman who is much more horrifying than she first appears. I really enjoy the Heavy Metal Darkness of BERSERK by Kentaro Miura. This comic is so dark, brutal and violent that it was kept plastic-wrapped on the shelf at Borders. This comic explores ideas and situations “too dark” for most comics, yet has inspired many other artists in many other formats. The very popular video game series Dark Souls credits their entire games world to Kentaro Miura and his dark fantasy series BERSERK.

            Although manga draws off its own rich Japanese visual art history, and follows its own rules of form, balance, and presentation. I think the two most iconic visual characteristics of this movement are the Hair and the Eyes and how they are drawn and presented in Manga. 

            As a hairstylist I am greatly inspired by anime. In western comics someone’s hair can be as simple and abstract as a squiggly line. In all anime and specifically Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon, the hair is drawn very specifically and realistically, in detail. If I see an anime haircut, I can most likely reproduce it in real life. In Sailor Moon, all 5 of the Sailor Scouts are unique characters with unique personalities and interests, and each character has their own unique and intricate hairstyle drawn again and again throughout the comics. 

            Eyes in manga are also presented in an iconic way. Very big, bright, and full of emotion. In a manga comic you can almost always tell what the character is feeling by their expressive eyes. They don’t just tell you what they are feeling, they show it. Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, BERSERK and the short Horror stories of Junji Ito all use eyes to showcase emotion. 

            Dragon Ball Z is another long-standing manga series by Akira Toriyama. The story is about Chinese culture, folklore, and martial arts, being retold for a Japanese Audience. So the story explores a foreign culture but retains the style characteristic to Japanese Manga. 

            Manga in its current form of multi-panel comics with speech balloons was inspired by translations of American comics in the 1920s. I think the purpose of these comics is to entertain, educate and inform children and just as many adults. Although they may have started humbly, Manga comics today address themes of social justice, philosophy and even 

Allan Kaprow was a very famous artist that was known for his work in installation art. His first piece was called the Happenings at the Ruben Gallery in New York in 1959. I was named the Happenings to, “suggest something spontaneous, something that just happens to happen.” (tate.org) The audience were invited to participate and experience his artwork. They were told when to applaud, where to move, and how to take their seats. There were performances such as playing music, reading play cards, and painters painting a canvas. The purpose of Kaprow’s work was to give significance to everyday events and bring to light how these events are indeed some type of art. Kaprow stated,‘‘The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps as indistinct as possible’’. (tate.org) 

Rachel Whiteread also came up with Embankment which was a city made up of white boxes. She used over 14,000 different sized boxes to create a city that viewers could look through and admire. Her work represents human life, hence why she chose to build a city out of boxes. 

Kara Walker is also an installation artist whose themes deal with gender, sexuality, race, and violence. She is well known for her room sized silhouettes that take up those themes. Her creations art to evoke feelings about inequality, violence to specific people, and stereotypes in America. Although her paintings are quite simple, they provide enough information about her stories while allowing viewers to interpret them as well. 

Some characteristics of installation art is where the exhibit is specifically placed. Most times the location of the art has some significance to the piece. The art work is also to allow the viewers to interact with. They can look at the work from different angles, walk through, or even walk around to get a view of all of it. Although it is very visual, it can also use other senses such as hearing and smell. Viewers are supposed to experience the work rather than just stare at it on a wall. 

Japanese animators wanted to break into the animation scene just as disney did, and so, Toei animation studios was born. Alongside them, a rival group named Mushi productions also grew. However, Mushi would get the headstart in 1963 with the release of “Astro Boy”. This would mark a huge change in Japanese animation. Astro Boy would skyrocket in popularity in Japan thanks to Osamu Tezuka. The anime was in black and white and drawn by hand. It followed a young cyborg boy that fought against other evil robots. The creator, Tezuka can be credited as one of the main figures of Japanese animation because of his work with astro boy. However, Mushi studios headstart over Toei would not last forever. Global audiences were not as amazed by the works of Astro Boy. Toei would then surpass Mushi studios and reach global acclaim with works by Akira Toriyama. With works such as Dragon ball airing in 1986. The anime,  Dragon ball, followed a young boy with a tail named Goku as he looked for the seven mythical dragon balls. This would be one of the first anime to reach world wide acclaim and further increase the world's love of Japanese anime. Anime is a very recent development, although it has its roots in Japan before world war 1, it’s only in recent years that it has reached massive popularity. An extremely influential anime that would increase the popularity of Japanese anime world wide would be the works of Satoshi Tajiri. Taijiri can be credited with the creation of the Pokemon franchise as well as the Pokemon anime that aired in 1996. The numbers speak for themselves, Pokemon would become the number one highest grossing franchise of all time (bringing in a total of 77.1 Billion dollars). 

Anime is a very recent phenomenon. Although first conceived back in 1906, it is only up until the late 1980’s that it has skyrocketed to a global audience. We are all witnessing a renaissance of Japanese animation. 

I choose this as my first piece for Japanese anime because the film really revolutionized what anime was at the time. It brought life to a flashy nightlife of the city and was a perfect example of what Japanese anime could be. Looking back at the film, it looks smoother than most animation coming out today. Akira was and still is a pop culture icon.

Three artists that were popular during this movement were Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini. Boccioni and Severini were close friends and colleagues, and both were students of Balla. These tree along with Marinetti and a few other artists, signed and published Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of a Parisian newspaper. This manifesto glorified violence, war, speed, and the machine.

I choose this as my second entry because it was truly the first anime to become globally known. In some parts of the world, it is more popular than the home country's entertainment.

Artist: Gino Severini (Italian, Cortona 1883–1966 Paris)

Date: 1915

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 29 5/8 × 30 3/4 in. (75.2 × 78.1 cm)

The art piece that I liked the most was painted by "Gino Severini" in 1915 and was called "Dancer = Propeller = Sea". Severini used both geometric and organic shapes to convey movement and flow. Cool tones and different hues of green and blue were used to show the movement and flow of water around the dancer. The dancer on the other hand was painted with the warm colors of orange, yellow, and pink. The curves are perfectly placed so that you can make out a woman’s silhouette. I think that the woman’s body was painted with warm colors to support the idea of a dancer’s energy and movement. This piece was painted around the time that Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary. The dancer may represent Italy and its political atmosphere at the time, and the water may represent the rest of the world, and the propeller could represent the war.

Date: 1914

Artist: Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Physical Dimensions: 149 x 130 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas

The animal face is what caught my eye. Then I saw the title of the painting and instantly knew what it was about. I tried to read this novel in high school, but it is hard to get into. I really like the lines and the colors that were used. To me, it looks like there is an eye just below the horse’s stomach.

I choose this as my 3rd piece because it was one of the first anime in Japan to become massively popular throughout the country. Astro Boy revolutionized anime at the time and helped raise its popularity.

Artist: Giacomo Balla

Date: 1916-1917
Dimensions: 130 x 106 cm

Medium: tempera and tinfoil on canvas

I like the cool colors that were used. To me, the painting reminds me of a playground with a tree in the background. The part of the painting that caught my eye was the color and shape above the purple triangle. The red in the middle of the painting also caught my eye.

Artist: Giacomo Balla

Date: 1925

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions 279 x 381 cm

I like this painting because it reminds me of a winner, or the podium for when you win first place. The placements of some of the shapes resemble stage lights to me. From the title, I feel like the artist was saying “look at me, I’m the winner. I’m important.”

Creator: Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson

Date:1913

Dimensions: 762 x 635 mm

Medium: oil on canvas

I like this painting because it’s very busy. There is a lot going on. When I saw the 2 red and black tipped columns, I instantly thought of the Titanic. Judging by the name I would assume that this boat may have brought him over to the US. The boat is signaling his arrival to the US

I choose this as my 4th piece because at a global scale, it increased the girl audience of Japanese anime and gave power to them via the "Pretty Guardians". Additionally, it helped get new audiences into anime.

I choose Pokémon as my last entry because not only is it one of the most recognizable anime, it is also the highest grossing franchise of all time. Pokémon solidified itself as a household name and everyone knows at least one of the 1000 pocket monsters.

 Dan Flavin

1966

Fluorescent Light

Dimensions of the Piece: 96 x 96 inches

I find this piece intriguing because of the way Flavin uses light as his primary medium. The fluorescent tubes create a luminous glow that interacts with the surrounding environment, giving the piece a dynamic quality. and you can't tell its not aesthetic!!

Artist's Name: Carl Andre

Year Created: 1966

Media/Materials Used: Firebricks

Dimensions of the Piece: 120 x 120 x 1/2 inches

I am drawn to this piece because of its use of mundane materials and its repetitive structure. Andre's work embodies the minimalist principle of reducing art to its most basic elements.

Donald Judd

1967

Media/Materials Used: Enamel on Steel

Dimensions of the Piece: 60 x 48 x 36 inches

This piece draws my attention because of its simplicity and the way it interacts with the space around it. Judd's use of industrial materials and clean lines exemplify how minimalist it is!!

Artist's Name: Joseph Kosuth

Year Created: 1965

Media/Materials Used: Wood, Photograph, Text

Dimensions of the Piece: Variable

This piece is interesting to me because it challenges traditional notions of what art is. The work consists of a physical chair, a photograph of the chair, and a definition of the word "chair." Kosuth's use of language and conceptual art exemplify the minimalism movement.

Artist's Name: Frank Stella

Year Created: 1958

Media/Materials Used: Enamel on Canvas

Dimensions of the Piece: 96 x 96 inches

I appreciate this piece for its use of color and the way it plays with the viewer's perception of space. Stella's work is often associated with minimalism, as he frequently uses geometric shapes and a limited color palette in his artwork. Its also cool to the eye and makes me wonder if im in a maze at sometimes.