Expressionism*

a.) Expressionism is when an artist distorts reality for emotion, and effects on that emotion. It's a subjective art form. The artist wants people to feel the emotion, almost looking at something you see in your dreams or something similar to that. Expressionism, is why we make art, and why people look at art. Cognitivism contributes more to knowledge, and knowing things. Artist point this out in their work, providing knowledge in their art that shows unique things about our world and our knowledge of that.

b.) Art is something that an artist puts on a canvas or in a book that they themselves have felt or been through, making the audience feel these feelings as well. It's not always purposely done, but it happens, and that's why art is art, in Tolstoy.

c.) In Collingwood's definition of art, the viewer, collaborates with the artist by being an active participant in creation. The viewer must imaginatively reconstruct the artist's emotive and imaginative expression.

d.) Kiki Smiths art doesn't really have a meaning to her past or her life experiences. In most of her work she uses the image of the human body. She uses the human body forms and and organs, that most the time are awkward to look, to portray the existence of the human body. Louise Bourgeois creates art from her memory, and life experiences. Things that she has been through in her own life. Some of her work is from her relationship with her parents, and things from her childhood dealing with bad things, or lost things. But she remembers everything, so she puts it into her work.

e.) I choose Jennifer Caviola, because her art shows emotion and feelings on how she must feel about something. It's more expressive than anything i will make, but it resembles most to my work, because my work has a lot to do with my feelings and how i felt when i was in the present time being.

Formalism

An artist has a certain way of building a piece of art. The way it is formed and how much an artist puts into their work, trying to get the audience to think about it. It's placement is an important thing too look at also. To me, this is formalism. It's How the artist puts their piece together.
Kandinsky portrays my definition of formalism in my eyes. His work builds on itself, it tells a story of something happening, not sure what the meaning behind it all is, but it's there. I would love to know what he was thinking, what inspired him to paint this piece of art. His work has so many things going on in a single piece.
I think that Kandinsky's art fits into formalism because his artwork is put into a certain form, it makes it appealing, visually and physically to the audience. It's form is good and and that's what makes it fit into this category.
Robert Malinowski is the artist i choose, his work has allot to do with feelings and relationships. A lot of my work including this project has to do with these same things.