ARTIST PROFILE FOR

JOSEPH MINTON

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Artist Name:         Joseph Minton
Last Updated:        9-19-2006
City of Residence: Tustin, California
Birth Year:          1974

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Art Description:
Joseph Minton focuses in modern expressionism but also has been known to paint impressionist, abstract, German expressionism and expressionistic art works. His preferred medium is oil on canvas but will use a wide variety of materials to paint on such as wood, metal, plastics and plaster.  His greatest influence is the works of Edvard Munch.

Click here to view some of his art works. For a partial history of the artists paintings please click here.  To contact the artist please send an email to jminton27@cox.net.

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Artist and Art Terms and References:

Modern Expressionism:

Modern Expressionism is the artistic style in which the artist or creator depicts not a flat superficial reality but instead combines images and objects with emotions. This is accomplished through the use of both literal and abstract emphasis of color, texture, obscured subject matter, distortion, unnatural depth, exaggeration and modified surrounding imagery. Modern Expressionism feeds off of the roots of Expressionism, German Expressionism and Abstract Expression but takes it a step further by removing the confines of traditional 2D medium and combines the qualities of both Abstract and Expressionism art with current non traditional styles.  An example of modern expressionism is the work of Joseph Minton in his 1998 piece titled “Inside”.

Expressionism:

In the north of Europe, the Fauves celebration of color was pushed to new emotional and psychological depths. Expressionism, as it was generally known, developed almost simultaneously in different countries from about 1905. Characterized by heightened, symbolic colors and exaggerated imagery, it was German Expressionism in particular that tended to dwell on the darker, sinister aspects of the human psyche.

The term ``Expressionism'' can be used to describe various art forms but, in its broadest sense, it is used to describe any art that raises subjective feelings above objective observations. The paintings aim to reflect the artists's state of mind rather than the reality of the external world. The German Expressionist movement began in 1905 with artists such as Kirchner and Nolde, who favored the Fauvist style of bright colors but also added stronger linear effects and harsher outlines.

Although Expressionism developed a distinctly German character, the Frenchman, Georges Rouault (1871-1958), links the decorative effects of Fauvism in France with the symbolic color of German Expressionism. Rouault exhibited with the Fauves, but his palette of colors and profound subject matter place him as an early, if isolated Expressionist. His work has been described as ``Fauvism with dark glasses''.

Reference Source for definition:  ibiblio.org. 

Abstract expressionism:

Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first
specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put
New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. The term
"Abstract expressionism" was first applied to American art in 1946 by the critic Robert
Coates.
Reference Source for definition: wikipedia.org
Medium:
The material or technique with which an artist works: the medium of watercolor. 
Impressionism:
A style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century, characterized
chiefly by short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition to represent
the effect of light on objects.

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