THE ARTS HISTORY FTA411

the Cubisme introduction :  the Cubism ia about a new way of looking at things in the twentieth century. the artistimagination and invention concentrate on pictorial mechanics and the arrangements of patterns, shapes, textures, and colour. the cubist painting became play of planes and angles on a flat surface. in contrast design is predominantly anglar and rectilinear. the cubism also viewed the world from many points of view rather than form a single viewpoint. in addition the cubists were convinced that pictorial space, limited as it is by the two dimensions of the flat canvas, was something quite apart from natural space.thus,cubism colour was purposely confined to the rather neutal tones of grey, green, olive and ochre.  the artist in cubisme art    Pablo Picasso birth at : October 25, 1881 death at : April 8, 1973  He was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and mos...

REMBRANDT- THE NIGHT WATCH The Night Watch, the cutdown in the eighteen century to fit into a space in a Amsterdam Town Hall. rambrandt's a genius lay in depicting human emotions and characters. he suggested detail without including it and i find he is taking this appoach in The NIGHT WATCH. Here he concentrates on atmosphere and implication. in the the Barouqe art, the artist invites the viewers to share in an emotional experience, to enter in, rather than to observe. the resulting scene shows great vigor and dramatic intensity,true to the baroque spirit. As a dramatic scene, the painting plays a common perfomance of baroque lighting and movements.Rembrandt presents a symbolic of a free people.some of the figures fade into the shadowa. Other stand hidden by the gestures of those placed in fornt of them. Rambrandt has use light for dramatic purpose only. while in the figures appear realistically. no such claim can bemade for the light sources. references : Sporre, Den...