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Non-Western Art

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Huichol Art Wixárika are a group of indigenous people that originate from the San Andres, Santa Catarina and San Sebastian, Mexico but migrated to Jalisco and Nayarit after the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century. The word Huichol didn’t begin into the 19th century and is a term used to refer to those that remained true to their religious beliefs after the Spanish colonization. Huichol art is very popular among tourist areas in Jalisco, Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta Mexico. The deer, corn and peyote referred to as the trinity, are part of their religious beliefs and are seen throughout their art pieces.  Tutukila (1974)  Yarn and beadwork are the most common types of art pieces created as Huichol art. Before the Spanish conquest beads were created from clay, bone, stone, coral, turquoise pyrite, jade and seeds before the introduction of glass beads. The introduction of beads and materials allowed for further creations and traditions to continue on and there is even a museum ca
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Pop Art

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Pop art was very popular in the 1950’s , it was a new way to display textures through lines and patterns and use different gradations of color. It instantly became popular among the mass media being used in advertisements and eventually leading to many homes owning pieces of celebrity portraits as décor. Pop Art was intended to have bold colors, to be low-cost, sexy, gimmicky and with the intended audience for the younger generations. Richard Hamilton is a British Pop artist considered to be a founding father of this modern art movement. He brought on the idea that art shouldn’t just be for commercial use and allowed for other artist to incorporate all objects and ideas into Pop art. One of Hamilton’s famous pieces is a collage he created for a catalog exhibition at the London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 1956. The collage is set to display all the “temptations” a woman and man were sitting upon after the war consumer boom. This is Tomorrow , Richard Hamilton Hamilton used pictures cut ou
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Early Modern Art

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  The Great Depression Many Americans faced difficult times during the Great Depression. Thanks to Works Progress Administration (WPA), created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, artists were able to illustrate the  world through their lenses. Additionally, although purchasing art was considered a luxury during these times, WPA Programs brought art into life’s that had never been able experience it before through murals, music, writing, and design for example.. Community based art focused on homelessness, bread lines and agriculture each artist focused on demonstrating the hardships that was a reality to millions of Americans. Through journalism and writing, Dorothea Lange, a famous photograph during this time was able to focus on documenting the terrible damage the Great Depression caused on the people living during this period. Migrant Mother ,   one of   Dorothea Lange most famous photograph, was taken in 1936 revealing the hardship times that a widowed mother of seven chil
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Romantic Era

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Impressionist art shows the evolution of the new art era through its colors. Yellows, blue and green were now the shades being used that along with quick brush strokes that changed the dynamics of art in the 1800s. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61379.html#overview   Claude Monet’s Woman with a Parasol -1875 is an oil canvas that demonstrates his wife Camille and his son Jeon. Monet painted this in his home in Argenteuil while spending time in the garden. Monet is one of the first to create impressionist art and in this particular piece we can see how it painted in a way that a camera catches a picture, it gives an illusion that the painting is candid and as if his wife and son were caught off guard. The blue sky and clouds give off a bright light even though there is no sun in sight that takes you into the breezy and sunny day they may have been spending outdoors. Lastly, although their faces are painted in light strokes with a blurry and far away style, we can
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