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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
The painting is composed of symmetrical rectangular blocks of magenta, black and green colors on orange background. [1] No.3/No.13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) was also influenced by the loss of Rothko's mother, who died in October 1948. [1] It is held at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.
Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design is a 2012 non-fiction book by the American architect Lance Hosey. The first book dedicated to the relationships between sustainability and beauty, it outlines a set of principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design. It was first published on 1 June 2012 through Island Press.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art , non-figurative art , non-objective art , and non-representational art are all closely related terms.
Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet, writer, and illustrator. [1] [2] He was a key figure in early American abstract art.[3] [4] Shaw's paintings are part of most major collections of American Art, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris, Museum of Fine Arts Boston ...
Ecological art is an art genre and artistic practice that seeks to preserve, remediate and/or vitalize the life forms, resources and ecology of Earth. Ecological art practitioners do this by applying the principles of ecosystems to living species and their habitats throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere, including wilderness, rural, suburban and urban locations.