For today’s class lecture, the focus was Early 20th-century art. This type of art did not fit a specific style, rather there was a very large variety in the appearance of the paintings we looked at. This made for a very engaging lecture and discussion. I found that the paintings that stuck out to me the most were the very colorful paintings by the artist Henri Matisse. I found this very colorful style with some abstract elements to be very interesting. It reminded me of some modern art that we see made today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was an initiative earlier in the semester where the modern artist Steve Keene offered to make paintings for Colby students who wrote a paragraph about their favorite piece of art. I participated in this and have found that my painting has many similar elements to Henri Matisse’s. Though I do not think there is any connection or even inspiration, I do find the connection between Early 20th-century art and modern art to be very interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The very small and distinct brush strokes of Andre Derian’s Mountains at Collioure <\/em>also stuck out to me as a very impressive painting. The concept of using these small brush strokes to make the larger picture seems relatively simple, but in practice, I imagine it is very challenging. I was particularly impressed how Derain used color to aid the painting since he was not getting as much detail from each brush stroke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For today’s class lecture, the focus was Early 20th-century art. This type of art did not fit a specific style, rather there was a very large variety in the appearance of the paintings we looked at. This made for a very engaging lecture and discussion. I found that the paintings that stuck out to me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}