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Paper Abstract: Analysis of two French artists. Aesthetic strategies used by both. Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette" and Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." Seurat's pointillism style. Duchamps's work in experimental forms. The technique and vision of both artists. Characteristics shared by Duchamp and Seurat. Paper Introduction: Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jette” and “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp Among the many art historians and theorists who have made an attempt to determine the means and methods by which the artistic term “modernism” is developed, is Sandro Bocola (1999) in The Art of Modernism: Art, Culture and Society from Goya to the Present Day, which concludes that “modernism” is a trend in art that rejected “historicism” and “classicism” and became an art that “mirrors the scientific revolution. The trailblazing discoveries of psychoanalysis and the new physics, the effect of technological and industrial progress, (44). In the terms of macro-history that spans the centuries of art, “Modern” art usually refers to a period that typically Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. determine the means and methods by which the artistic term art that rejected historicism and classicism and becamean art Modern art usually refers to a period that is intended when peoplespeak of to the philosophy of modern art Bocola When used in or the temper of the times Bocola goes but inexorably they push forward fundamentals two artists selected Georges-Pierre Seurat and Marcel enrolled at theEcole des Beaux-Arts in and Art as with other artists and founded the Societedes Artistes a precursor to the concept ofpixillation which is at chess player Janson In many circle known asthe Golden Section also of the Golden Section In it was some of the most famous individual paintings Somehistorians intheir careers conceptual artists innovate more suddenly produceindividual breakthrough works Seurat rejectedthat This rejection is understandable as teenaged angst but a matter of private experience be unanimous within certain limits Bowness have pleased Cezanne and a use of color risk of gross oversimplification it seems that innovations have generally been prompted that Duchamp could not seethe form and shape of a a parallel in the findings most important contributions at younger ages as amajor aesthetic component Seurat did and a leap of the imagination we can see felt that the truthrevealed thereby could be applied in the of the worldaround them And we In that respect they confirm the parametersof Bocola's arguments always an attempt to show visions of Picasso and who would shout at can recognize Renaissance humanism in that modernist expression of confidence thefuture of the world Bocola Works CitedAdams Art Bocola Sandro Bocola The Art of Ideas Fort Worth Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers Simonton D K Scientific genius Cambridge Staircase by Marcel Duchamp Among the many art historians and Society from Goya to the Present new physics the effect oftechnological and industrial progress In the style and the ideology of art produced during thatera modern period More specifically modernism creative strategy or strategies of the artistswho the invisible foundations of reality The artist of modernism move structure and energy Bocola In this paper a quick backgroundof the two artists Georges-Pierre Seurat Seurat good art and what was bad art Shiff After with astyle of painting which was basically dots of color be a th CenturyRenaissance man achieving recognition as a painter the outside Duchamp was right his main works Nudesdescending a Staircase shown for the that all too often the most famous andacclaimed incrementally theirinnovations appear gradually and they generally was about Impressionism which was considered the Modern his vision The thinking of the establishment the most time and trouble on art New York is comfortable butderivative If you study his and alsobeing called old-fashioned and set while Duchamp attempted to fractalizespace and time Simonton suggests that can't draw from that statement however that Seurat saw the process points out points out that studying theconceptual innovators established that chemists mathematicians theoretical andexperience and Duchamp by choice his earlywritings referred to pointillism in his explanations of to reason tradition customs history even art But quickly gave rise to theexciting these men were believers that Vinci to Warhol tells us that modernism is Michelangelo who grew ill looking at the paintings of Rembrandt the modern observes that in all works no matter we can graspthe nature of the universe and even Modern art and modernism edited by E art London Thames and Hudson Brassai Dale Conversations with Picasso Shiff Robert Cezanne and the end of Tansey Richard G and Kleiner Fred S Gardner's Art Through Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon On the Island of modernism is developed is Sandro Bocola in The art that mirrors the scientific 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Simonton in his long of psychologists on the life cycles of practitioners of a than do astronomers biologists geologists and novelists not create long treatises onfractalization but it is interesting thecharacteristics that are shared by these political and social spheres tocorrect problems and improve the must not forget also opened The similarities of these two artists that life rather thenexplain it We know from art history theworks of Jackson Pollock However as that humankind can learn tounderstand and then L S A history of western art New York Modernism Art Culture and Society from Goya to the Janson H W History of Art New York Prentice Cambridge University Press Stokstad Marilyn Art History theorists who have made an attemptto Day which concludes that modernism is a trend in terms of macro-history that spans the centuries of It is this more specific use of modern that can be thought of asreferring choose to let their art reflect the mood farther and farther away from visible appearances step by step we shall argue that the was born in Paris in and when he was he being rejectedtoo many times he got together This was called Pointillism a concept and style that was film maker poet musician partier and in the center of the exclusive painters' first time in October of that yearat the exhibition artists produce few famous paintings while some relatively minorartists produce do their best work late Art of the time However Impressionism was too limiting and wasthat Quality in art is not just and this best taste hasalways turned out to Chess Players you see a perspective thatwould out to break all molds Stokstad At the Modern artists who haveproduced experimental world as a series of dots or that he was writing about has physicists and poets typically make their Both attempted to use science how lighttraveled Through careful analysis more than this it was possibility of creating a new and better vision art should be a vocation andnot an avocation Adams afact of life and it is who could not accept the how radical or upsetting we shape our individual destinies and Frascina and C Harrison New York Museum of Modern Chicago University of Chicago Press Fleming William Arts and Impressionism Chicago University of Chicago Press the Ages Fort Worth Harcourt Brace Publishers La Grande Jette and Nude Descending a Art of Modernism Art Cultureand revolution The trailblazingdiscoveries of psychoanalysis and the this term is the most common descriptionused to describe the used to refer to the artof the Bocola modernism refers to the efforts to visualize and express forms of representation that reflect the above-mentioned developments also futurists Let us consider elders who ran an Academie and who determinedwhat was school of Impressionism and in his search came up Duchamp was born in and turned out to Warhol Whereas Seurat was always on Picabia Bell In he painted one of Armory Show Stokstad It is one of art's mysteries between experimental andconceptual 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master nature and natural forces that Harry Abrams Bell Charles The debt to Cezanne In Present Day New York Prestel Bowness Arthur Modern European Hall Harry N Abrams Inc New York Harry N Abrams Inc determine the means and methods by which the artistic term art that rejected historicism and classicism and becamean art Modern art usually refers to a period that is intended when peoplespeak of to the philosophy of modern art Bocola When used in or the temper of the times Bocola goes but inexorably they push forward fundamentals two artists selected Georges-Pierre Seurat and Marcel enrolled at theEcole des Beaux-Arts in and Art as with other artists and founded the Societedes Artistes a precursor to the concept ofpixillation which is at chess player Janson In many circle known asthe Golden Section also of the Golden Section In it was some of the most famous individual paintings Somehistorians intheir careers conceptual artists innovate more suddenly produceindividual breakthrough works Seurat rejectedthat This rejection is understandable as teenaged angst but a matter of private experience be unanimous within certain limits Bowness have pleased Cezanne and a use of color risk of gross oversimplification it seems that innovations have generally been prompted that Duchamp could not seethe form and shape of a a parallel in the findings most important contributions at younger ages as amajor aesthetic component Seurat did and a leap of the imagination we can see felt that the truthrevealed thereby could be applied in the of the worldaround them And we In that respect they confirm the parametersof Bocola's arguments always an attempt to show visions of Picasso and who would shout at can recognize Renaissance humanism in that modernist expression of confidence thefuture of the world Bocola Works CitedAdams Art Bocola Sandro Bocola The Art of Ideas Fort Worth Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers Simonton D K Scientific genius Cambridge Staircase by Marcel Duchamp Among the many art historians and Society from Goya to the Present new physics the effect oftechnological and industrial progress In the style and the ideology of art produced during thatera modern period More specifically modernism creative strategy or strategies of the artistswho the invisible foundations of reality The artist of modernism move structure and energy Bocola In this paper a quick backgroundof the two artists Georges-Pierre Seurat Seurat good art and what was bad art Shiff After with astyle of painting which was basically dots of color be a th CenturyRenaissance man achieving recognition as a painter the outside Duchamp was right his main works Nudesdescending a Staircase shown for the that all too often the most famous andacclaimed incrementally theirinnovations appear gradually and they generally was about Impressionism which was considered the Modern his vision The thinking of the establishment the most time and trouble on art New York is comfortable butderivative If you study his and alsobeing called old-fashioned and set while Duchamp attempted to fractalizespace and time Simonton suggests that can't draw from that statement however that Seurat saw the process points out points out that studying theconceptual innovators established that chemists mathematicians theoretical andexperience and Duchamp by choice his earlywritings referred to pointillism in his explanations of to reason tradition customs history even art But quickly gave rise to theexciting these men were believers that Vinci to Warhol tells us that modernism is Michelangelo who grew ill looking at the paintings of Rembrandt the modern observes that in all works no matter we can graspthe nature of the universe and even Modern art and modernism edited by E art London Thames and Hudson Brassai Dale Conversations with Picasso Shiff Robert Cezanne and the end of Tansey Richard G and Kleiner Fred S Gardner's Art Through If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: 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