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Post impressionism In this blog I will be discussing the term impressionism and the reasons behind its existence, I will further more discuss about its characteristic and principles, where and when it was developed as well as provide some examples of the topic at hand. What is impressionism? Post impressionism is a movement mainly art concerned, that was developed in the 1890’s and was influenced by many approaches. Approaches that were mainly subjective as artist preferred to express emotion rather than realism in their work. Even though post impressionism consisted of many styles that widely varied, some paintings did however share a few similar qualities and characteristics, some of these included symbolic motifs, unnatural colours and painterly brush strokes. (Richman, no: 2017). Post-impressionist had a strong believe that a work of art should not revolve around style, aesthetic approach no process but instead impose emphasis on symbolism, communicating messages fr...

Blog My name is Daniel and I am a student at Pearson Institute of Higher Education currently studying to obtain a BA bachelor’s degree in graphic design and this is my first blog. As a graphic designer it is not only a necessity but also an importance that we learn and have knowledge of all the wonderful history of art has to give, this not only teaches us merely about past artists and their artworks but also gives us an insight of their lives, the techniques and skills they used, the messages they were expressing and movements, ideologies and thoughts they instilled through art in order to change a people’s decisions, emotions, perspective of things through art. Without the history of art modern artists would not be who they are today and would not know neither have the principles, techniques and other basics that were set by ancient practitioners of art. We owe it all up to them as they explored, experimented, went through the sacrifices and went to the extent to not only c...

Arts and Crafts and Mediation Definition The arts and crafts movement was an idealism that was most profound and influential that all began in Britain during the 1880’s which quickly spread across America and Europe before emerging eventually as the Mingei (Folk Craft) which was a movement that happened in Japan (www.vam.ac.uk/the arts and crafts movement) Whereas mass mediation refers to what we as people do and utilise the media, whereby a cultural space is created to catch a viewer consumer attention and possibly decision-making Silverstone (2006) explains. Mass mediation is most of the time communicated outside of the face to face boundaries and is constantly and is in simple words the process of altering media before it gets sent out to the public at the aim to give off a specific reaction or receive one from a consumer mass mediation include sources such as the (television, radio, the internet and so forth), (Larsson, no: 2012). Important people who played a ...