Andy Worhol is my favorite Modern Artist, he liked the "orinary culture" and did much of his work in the 1960's-Liz

La Nueva Democracia, 1945

El Diablo En La Iglesia, 1947

Echo of a Scream, 1937pyroloxin on board, 121.9 x 91.4 cm

David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and is joined by Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera as the 20th Century's most influential muralists. They revolutionized mural content and style by portraying Mexico's rich history and contemporary economic conditions in visually bold political terms. Inspired philosophically, influenced by Marxism in his treatment of class struggle, Siqueiros believed that public murals were a powerful medium to make his work accessible to a broad audience traditionally ignored by elitist art institutions. After becoming Secretary of the Mexican Communist Party in 1928 he was frequently jailed or expelled from Mexico and nearly gave up painting. It was during Echo of a Scream, 1937pyroloxin on board, 121.9 x 91.4 cmone of these expulsions that he came to Los Angeles. His most productive artistic period began in 1944, when he returned to Mexico after an exile due to allegations of his role in Leon Trotsky's assassination. This fertile period culminated in 1966 with his dramatic murals at Chalpultapec Castle depicting the overthrow of the Porfirio Diaz regime

Christina's World is a work by U.S. painter Andrew Wyeth, and one of the best-known American paintings of the middle 20th century.[citation needed] It depicts a young woman lying on the ground, in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling towards a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house.[1]
Painted in 1948, this tempera work, done in a realist style, is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as a part of their permanent collection.[1]
The woman of the painting is Christina Olson; she had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration that paralyzed her lower body. Wyeth was inspired to create the painting when through a window from within the house he saw her crawling across a field. Wyeth had a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her and her younger brother as the subject of paintings from 1940 to 1968.[2] Although Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, she was not the primary model — Wyeth's wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting.[2] Although the woman in the painting appears young, Olson was 55 at the time Wyeth created the work.[2]
The house depicted in the painting is known as the Olson House, and is located in Cushing, Maine. It is open to the public as a part of the Farnsworth Museum complex[3]; it is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and has been restored to match its appearance in the painting.[citation needed] In the painting, Wyeth separated the house from its barn and changed the lay of the land

Futurists' Forms of Dynamic Movement-->



Girl Running on a Balcony, Giacomo Balla, 1912.
Futurism was a short-lived Italian art movement, launched in 1909, that included artists such as F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Carlo Carra (1881-1966), Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) and Gino Severini (1883-1966). Compare and contrast Boccioni’s and Balla’s lively works to Nicolas Poussin’s static representation of moving figures in Rape of the Sabine Women (1634). Why are the futurists so successful in their depiction of movement?

Dynamism of a Soccer Player, Umberto Boccioni, 1913.

Boccioni’s Dynamism of a Soccer Player (1913) approaches abstraction in its depiction of motion. Like the Cubists, Boccioni’s pictorial language is based on shallow spaces and shifting planes. However, more than any other artists in the modern period, Boccioni and the futurists focus on depicting optical and temporal space, which reflects the dynamic speed and noise of the modern age. Thus, instead of representing a fixed moment, the work depicts a dynamic sensation. Boccioni, in Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture (1913), discusses futurist art as a representation of dynamic forms that propel themselves to the surrounding atmosphere. According to Boccioni, “The figure must be broken open and enclosed in environment”. Therefore, Dynamism of a Soccer Player is not only a painting of a soccer player, but also a representation of the player’s energy, spreading around his surrounding atmosphere. In doing so, the work breaks down the distinction between the body and the body in motion.
Like Boccioni’s painting, Balla’s Girl Running on a Balcony (1912, above) is a kinesthetic study of a figure in motion. Borrowing from the pointillist technique, Balla has not mixed his non-primary colors in advance, but creates those by painting contrasting dots in close proximity to one another. Without emphasizing any element in the work, this technique is repeated throughout the picture surface. Therefore, the work does not have a central point of focus. In contrast, it appears to be continuing outside the canvas to the spectator’s space, emphasizing the continuous and instable character of the girl’s motion. Although Boccioni’s Dynamism of a Soccer Player is more abstract than Balla’s Girl Running on a Balcony, we can make sense of both works as they recall our peripheral vision. They appear, lively and dynamic, as if they represent a passing moment in time, captured by our peripheral vision.

Paintings from Moma

Here are some paintings from artists that interested me at Moma.

Mondrian
"Broadway Boogie Woogie"

Kandinsky

La Mariee, By Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

I liked this painting because their is alot going on in it:)

Chagall believed that love colored his paintings, and expressed that Philosophy in "La Mariee." Focusing extensively on his childhood, his happy, optimistic paintings defy the poverty of his upbringing in a Russian Shtetl. After a brief time in Paris, Chagall escaped to the US during World war II where his career reached new heights including a rare exhibit during his lifetime at the Louvre.

I am not a big fan of "IMPRESSIONISM" but Monet's Waterlilies Left an impression (in a good way) on me since I was a young girl! -Liz