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Everything but the Paper Cut: Eye-popping Ways Artists Use Paper | Fast Company
In the year since the Museum of Art and Design reopened in its new digs on Columbus Circle, they've been delivering consistently compelling shows--from punk-rock lace to radical knitting experiments. The newest, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife" , opened last weekend and runs through April 4, 2010. The focus is paper--and the way contemporary artists have used paper itself as a medium, whether by cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G (in the Beginning) , seen above. Here's a sampling of the other works on display: Mia Pearlman's Eddy :Surrealism
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí ( Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi] ), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres , Spain . Dalí was a skilled draftsman , best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory , was completed in 1931.
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Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement , initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Expressionist artists sought to express meaning [ 3 ] or emotional experience rather than physical reality. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War.Edvard Munch
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔχ] ( listen ) ; [ note 1 ] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). [ 3 ] [ note 2 ] His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele ( German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə] , approximately SHEE-luh ; June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter . A protégé of Gustav Klimt , Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism . [ edit ] Early lifeArt Nouveau
Gismonda, 1894 by Alphonse Mucha , a leading artist of the Art Nouveau movement Art Nouveau ( French pronunciation: [aʁ nu'vo] , Anglicised to / ˈ ɑː r t n uː ˈ v oʊ / ) is an international philosophy [ 1 ] and style of art, architecture and applied art —especially the decorative arts —that were most popular during 1890–1910. [ 2 ] The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art". It is known also as Modernisme in Catalonia ( Spain ), with its most notable contributions by the architect Antoni Gaudí . Known as Jugendstil , pronounced [ˈjuːɡn̩tstiːl ] in Germany, German for "youth style" or "the style of youth", named after the magazine Jugend , which promoted it, as Modern (Модерн) in Russia, perhaps named after Parisian gallery "La Maison Moderne", as Secession in Austria-Hungary and its successor states after the Viennese group of artists , and, in Italy, as Stile Liberty from the department store in London, Liberty & Co. , which popularised the style.Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði] ; 25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism . Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona , notably his magnum opus , the Sagrada Família . Much of Gaudí's work was marked by his big passions in life: architecture , nature, religion. [ 3 ] Gaudí studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics , stained glass , wrought ironwork forging and carpentry . He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís , made of waste ceramic pieces. After a few years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of the Catalan Modernista movement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Alfons Maria Mucha [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ( listen ) ; Ivančice , 24 July 1860 – Prague , 14 July 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha , was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, [ 3 ] known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. [ edit ] Biography [ edit ] Early years
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