New World

(noun)

The term used by Europeans to describe the western hemisphere, specifically the Americas, during the "age of discovery" beginning in the early 16th century. 

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Examples of New World in the following topics:

  • The New York School

    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • The artists of the New York School drew inspiration from surrealism and other contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theatre, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
    • The post-World War II era benefited some of the artists who were recognized early on by art critics.
    • Poets drew on inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular the Action painting of their friends in the New York City art world like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
    • In the 1960s, the work of the avant-garde Minimalist composers La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley became prominent in the New York art world.

  • New York

    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York.
    • The New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular: action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the New York art world's vanguard circle.
    • The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
    • Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

  • Japanese Art after World War II

    • After World War II, Japanese artists became preoccupied with the mechanisms of urban life and moved from abstraction to anime-influenced art.
    • Welcoming the new post-World War II period of Japanese history, the government-sponsored Japan Art Academy (Nihon Geijutsuin) was formed in 1947.
    • Styles of the New York-Paris art world were fervently embraced.
    • Japanese painter Ushio Shinohara paint boxing at SUNY New Paltz, 2012.
    • Describe the flourishing of painting, calligraphy, and printmaking after World War II.

  • The Development of Abstract Expressionism

    • Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
    • In practice, the term is applied to any number of artists who worked (mostly) in New York during the 1940s.
    • Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York and California.
    • New York replaced Paris as the new center of the art world.
    • Gorky's contributions to American and world art are difficult to overestimate.

  • Changes in Technology

    • With the Industrial Revolution, the increasing availability of new building materials such as iron, steel, and sheet glass drove the invention of equally new building techniques.
    • Around 1900, a number of architects and designers around the world began developing new solutions to integrate traditional precedents (classicism or Gothic, for instance) with new technological possibilities.
    • The work of some of these were a part of what is broadly categorized as Art Nouveau (New Art).
    • The aftermath of the First World War would result in additional experimentation and ideas.
    • Following the experiments in Art Nouveau and its related movements around the world, modernism in architecture and design grew out of stylistic threads originating throughout world.

  • Malagan Carvings

    • New Ireland, a large island in Melanesia lying northeast of the island of New Britain, has a rich cultural history in the Oceanic arts.
    • Malagan carvings, now world-famous, are the wooden carvings which are created for use in these ceremonies to honor the deceased.
    • These carvings are elaborated with anthropomorphic symbols, which are thought to represent the link between the people of New Ireland, their creation, and the spiritual world to which they eventually pass on.
    • Contemporary masters of Malagan form include Ben Sisia of Libba Village (northern New Ireland) and Edward Salle of Lava Village (Tatau, Tabar Islands, New Ireland).
    • Many Malagan carvings are held today in museums around the world.

  • Photography in the Latter 20th Century

    • As the harsh realities of World War I began to spread around the world, the public's taste for the art of the past began to change.
    • Pictorialism gradually declined in popularity after 1920, fading out of popularity completely by the end of World War II.
    • As the developed countries of the world turned their focus to industrialism and growth, art reflected this change by featuring hard-edged images of new buildings, airplanes and industrial landscapes.
    • Additionally, new technological trends in digital photography have created the possibility of full spectrum photography, where careful filtering choices across the ultraviolet, visible and infrared lead to new artistic visions.
    • Ansel Adams, Church, Taos Pueblo National Historic Landmark, New Mexico, 1942.

  • New Britain

    • New Britain, one of the larger islands in Melanesia, is heavily influenced by the Oceanic art of the region.
    • New Britain is the largest island of the Bismark Archipelago of Papau New Guinea.
    • Melanesia, comprising New Britain and the surrounding islands, has perhaps the most striking art of all Oceania.
    • The second World War brought with it a great cultural disruption that led to another decline in traditional art; however, decades later a new appreciation for native art forms again began to emerge.
    • Examine the effects of westernization on the art of New Britain.

  • The Early 20th Century

    • The early 20th century was marked by rapid industrial, economic, social and cultural change, which influenced the worldview of many and set the stage for new artistic movements.
    • After the relative peace of most of the 19th century, rivalry between European powers erupted in 1914 with the outbreak of the first World War.
    • Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilized from 1914–1918 as countries around the world were called into the conflict.
    • The rapid rise of technology impacted artists both directly and indirectly, from the invention of new artistic materials to subject matter and themes.
    • The death and destruction of World War I contributed to the desire of artists to abstract life.

  • Neue Sachlichkeit

    • Neue Sachlichkeit (or The New Objectivity) was an artistic attitude that arose in Germany in the 1920s in reaction to Expressionism.
    • Leading up to World War I, much of the art world was under the influence of Futurism and Expressionism, both of which abandoned any sense of order or commitment to objectivity or tradition.
    • The New Objectivity was a reaction against this.
    • The New Objectivity comprised two tendencies, characterized in terms of a left and right wing: on the left were the verists, who "tear the objective form of the world of contemporary facts and represent current experience in its tempo and fevered temperature;" and on the right the classicists, who "search more for the object of timeless ability to embody the external laws of existence in the artistic sphere. "
    • Describe the aims of the New Objectivity movement and its representative artists