Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
Neville WestonTag: art-history
The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The Blind Man. In his statement he emphasized that the act of choice was sufficient to justify it as a creative art. Placing it in such a way that its normal use was disguised caused a new reality for the object to be invented. To the criticism that it was rude he replied, logically enough,"How could this object be acceptable when displayed in a plumber's shop window and yet be immoral anywhere else?
Neville WestonTag: art-history
Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.
Neville WestonTag: art-history
The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
Neville WestonTag: art englishmen
The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.
Neville WestonTag: modern-art
[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.
Neville WestonTag: artist
The English artist likes line more than color or texture.
Neville WestonTag: english-art
Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching
Neville WestonTag: art
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