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Banksy Art (1990-Now)

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  This blog will be slightly different from my past blogs. In the past I have covered specific styles of art, and artwork in a certain place and time. In this blog I will instead be covering the artworks of a single artist, known only as “Banksy”. Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist who uses his art as a form of political activism. His art is always politically involved in some form or another, usually acting as not-so-subtle commentary on political and social issues. As a graffiti artist, what he’s doing is technically a crime, which he states as one of the reasons he prefers to remain anonymous. In the early stages of his career(1990-2000), he was often chased by police before he was able to finish the artworks, so he switched to stenciling because it is a much faster method of graffitiing. In the present day, his artwork can be found all over the world, not just in the United Kingdom. He has visited political hotspots such as Ukraine following the Russian invasi...
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Soviet Art (1917-1991)

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, more commonly known as the USSR or the Soviet Union, was the successor of the Russian Empire, and the precursor to the Russian Federation. The Soviet Union was officially founded in 1922, after a 5 year civil war (the Bolshevik revolution) against the Russian empire. This blog will be focused on artwork created during the Soviet era, including art created during or just before the civil war, and until the union's eventual collapse in 1991. Revolutions often come with a drastic shift in culture, which also brings with it an equal shift in the production, purpose, and place of art within society. Revolutions are a great opportunity for previously unpopular artforms to rise in popularity, and for the artform that was popular pre-revolution to fall out of style. The dominating style prior to the Bolshevik Revolution was Russian avant-garde, which is an umbrella term that covers several styles, including one I have covered in a previous blog (Sup...
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Art from the Palestinian genocide

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      For my non-western art exhibit, I have chosen art created during the Palestinian genocide. Most/all of the art in this blog was created by individuals outside of Palestine, because it's kind of hard to create art while there's an active genocide being committed against you. All of my art will be from different creators on Instagram, because I'd rather get the artworks directly from their artists rather than some random website. I had the idea of of choosing artworks from various not well recognized countries, but the assignment I'm doing this blog for requires only a single country and time frame, so I chose the ill-recognized country  that's gained the most traction in media recently; Palestine.     The first piece of art I have chosen for this exhibit was posted to instagram on mothers day(march 7th) of this year, 2024, by Seyma Sarıyıldız . This piece of art intends to remind the more fortunate people that less fortunate people are dying every day ...
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Age of Connection (1980-Now)

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     With the widespread commercialization of the cordless telephone and the birth of the internet in the early 1980's, humanity became connected in a way that would be incomprehensible to earlier generations. The trend of connection has since kept up with the invention of the cellphone and social media, which allow you to instantly communicate with nearly anyone, anytime. This drastic increase in connectivity has effected the rate at which information spreads, how cultures blend, how we treat each other, and so much more, all of which have an effect on the art and media created after the 1980's.      My first work for my Age of Connectivity exhibit is the 2019 videogame "Death Stranding", developed by Hideo Kojima. I'm not sure if videogames count as a work for use in an exhibit, but I'm going to use it anyways because I don't think there's enough time for me to email the professor to ask, get a response, and finish the assignment in time. This game i...
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Early Modern

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My first artwork for my early modern blog is " Epidemic "(1900-1901) by Alfred Kubin. First and foremost, I would absolutely not own Epidemic . This piece of art is creepy as hell and I would not want to see it while walking around my home. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool drawing but the creep factor is not doing it any favors in the ownability aspect. Much of this piece is unexceptional and wouldn't draw attention, but then there's an oddly proportioned bone colossus taking up a majority of the frame spreading what I can only assume to be death and disease(given the title) to the houses below. This drawing is closely connected to scientific innovation through the discovery of diseases and viruses. Germ theory had not become popular until the late 1800s, shortly before this piece was drawn, and I believe it derives a lot of inspiration from the then-recently popularized theory. My second artwork is "Black Square"(1915) by Kazimir Malevich. I ...
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Romantic era blog

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    My first art style for my Romantic era blog is is romanticism. My artwork for the romanticism style is " Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog",   Made by the German painter Casper Friedrich in 1818/1817.     Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog  is a pretty neat looking piece of art, and it's regarded as one of the most popular artworks from the romantic era by multiple sources. This artworks popularity has continued into the modern day, as a pixelated version of it is featured in "Minecraft", one of the most popular videogames to this day. I like Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog  aesthetically because its use of symmetry and color really appeal to me. One of my closest friends is fully deuteranopic colorblind, so the only colors they see are shades of blue and yellow, which happen to be the main two colors that show up in this piece. There is a hint of green on the wanderers suit, but it's so minor that I had to zoom in a bunch to see it, so I don't thin...
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Classical Blog

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My chosen topic for this "virtual exhibit" is revolution and art in the 1700's. "Lansdowne Portrait" by Gilbert Stuart, 1796     " Lansdowne Portrait"  Is a George Washington sized painting of George Washington which shows him looking very cool and assertive and official, in the middle of doing what I assume is very official president related stuff. It was painted by Gilbert Stuart, a dude very well known for painting portraits such as this one. He was so well known and cool that the United States government even put his face on postage stamps, along with 34 other cool dudes(dudes is gender neutral here because they weren't all men). This painting is connected to the influences of the classical era through the American Revolution; George Washington was a general in the American Revolution and was appointed as the first leader of the independent nation that the revolution had sought to create. I do not find this painting very appealing via aesthetic...
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