George Wyche Essays (194 words) - Art Movements, Visual Arts, Arts

George Wyche Clement Greenberg Modernist Painting The core of this thesis is focusing on the philosopher Kant and how he sort of started the modernist movement. Later in the article the author compares the old masters to modernist painters today. The old masters fought to preserve the integrity of the picture plane in their paintings and images that they to avoid flatness in their paintings and to preserve the three dimensional and lifelikeness of it. Modernist painters today have left the three dimensional aspect of art to the sculptures. Just like the minimalist movement modernists have stripped down everything to the bare bones of shape and illusion. Francesca used abstract style to portray optical illusions and was somewhat recognized as impressionist or a neo impressionist. I know that all modernist paintings are not just colors on canvas with the occasional line but that is what it has turned into today. In my opinion I feel like modernist painting is very sexist at its core and somewhat against white males. I feel like I used to have modernist tendencies in my art work but it was never fully accepted and I chose to find another path to follow.