The New Objectivity was a movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against expressionism.
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to provoke moods or ideas.
The movement essentially ended in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power.
An archival image is an image meant to have lasting value. Archival images are usually kept off-line on a cheaper storage medium such as CD-ROM (compact disc) or magnetic tape (magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetised medium, developed in Germany) in a secure environment. Archival images are of a higher resolution and quality than the digital image delivered to the user on-screen.
Archival imagery can be historical images of iconic landscapes or landscapes with some sentimental value and often have a big difference in comparison to its new look – for example, it could be built on new land or just given an updated look. You can find many examples of developed landscapes in Jersey.
Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, conceptual or concrete photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create an unreal appearance from objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey an impression. The image may be produced using traditional photographic equipment like a camera or it may be created without using a camera by directly manipulating film/paper.
Abstract photography has rocketed during the 21st Century with the development of computers and hardware and their ease of access to people. The boundaries of abstract photography were expanded beyond the limits of film and chemistry into limitless dimensions.
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In art, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style—the way objects are made and their purely visual aspects. In painting, formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape, texture, and other perceptual aspects rather than the historical and social context.
The philosopher Nick Zangwill of Glasgow University has defined formalism in art as referring to those properties “that are determined solely by sensory or physical properties”.
A formal analysis is an academic method in art history. It requires you to describe things very carefully.
Zangwill defined three types of formalism. He described anti-formalist thinkers as those who “think that no works of art have formal aesthetic properties.”
