...will compare and contrast two works of art using concepts I am learning about for evaluating art. The two works of art I chose to compare are The Eros Sleeping at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Aphrodite at the Louvre Musuem. The Eros Sleeping is my first choice for a piece of art between 30,000 B.C. and 500 C.E. I think this is a beautiful piece of art. While looking through thousands and thousands works of art at several different museum sites this piece really caught my eye. The Eros Sleeping is a bronze statue from the Hellenistic period, and dated at the 3rd-2nd century B.C. It is one of a few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity. The statue is of a cute little chubby baby with wings asleep on a rock that was added at a later date. (Eros Sleeping, nd) The second work of art I chose was also from the Hellenistic period and was dated to 100 B. C is The Aphrodite. Aphrodite is a beautiful Greek sculpture of a half- naked woman sort of leaning to one side. (Aphrodite, nd) Two blocks of marble were used to make it. Her arms were never found. Both piece to me are masterpieces, but kind of hard to compare. The Eros Sleeping is made out of bronze whereas Aphrodite is made out of marble. Both pieces are three dimensional. Neither piece has any color but I have read that the Aphrodite once wore metal jewelry. She wore a headband, earrings, and a bracelet. The holes still remain. The Eros Sleeping and the Aphrodite are sculpted with so...
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...Can Sleeping Affect Your GPAs? Our statistics project is about how the amount of sleeping hours can affect your GPA. Researchers have shown that lack of sleeping will affect the ability to study of the students. We are told that sleeping is very important as it restores your energy after a whole day working. Having lack of sleep can weaken the ability to concentrate, stay alert, think critically and solve problems of the student and thus, can affect their academic performance. Is it true and does it differs between different major students? In this project we would like to compare students who are majoring in Arts and Business and how lack of sleep or having more hours of sleeping affects their overall GPAs. Our null hypothesis is that there is no significant difference in the relationship of the hours of sleep and the students' GPAs. We are expecting on our alternative hypothesis that there is a significant difference in that relationship. In order to conduct our research, we will select randomly 2 samples of 15 Art students and 15 Business major students. We agreed that less than 4 hours of sleep is not enough to perform well in school and having more than 4 hours of sleep is beneficial for the students to do well academically. Why should our project be considered? We think this is important for students to know whether sleeping can have a significant impact on their academic performance or not. Being acknowledged about the importance of sleep can help the students...
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...artist has own art practices that are reflected upon their sleeping styles in the Remaking the World. Although artists are sleeping in the same white environments, they all sleep differently. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Rrap selected a different type of artists, many of whom she is acquainted with at different stages in their real lives and art careers. Rrap invited artists to her studio, asked them to sleep on the concept of remaking the world, and then filmed them (Stephens). In this art experiment, Julie Rrap is also one of the experiential bodies. Julie wraps her entire body by the thin white blanket and sleeps in the fetal position ("Artist Julie Rrap Remakes the World"). Fetal position is when people lie on their side with arms and knees pulled...
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...Explain the role of the Sleeping Mexican in Mexican Folk art. Is the Sleeping Mexican a cultural icon of Mexican folk history or is it disparaging cliché? The role of the Sleeping Mexican icon varies on whom you ask. It was first drawn by Diego Rivera, and sculpted by Mardonio Magaña, both in the 1930’s. Some from within the culture are believe it to be a symbol of the hard work that they do. The sleeping Mexican begins in the late 1800s. American travelers first wrote about how Indio’s, how after a full days work they would wrap themselves up in sarapes, lean against buildings to rest. To my understanding, within the Mexican culture it the norm to take a siesta after a meal. Some also see him as just that, a man taking a quick nap after...
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...Chezelle Coqueran Prof. Jennifer Swoboda ART 123 – Art Appreciation 24 August 2011 A World of Art The world is full of art. Some art is easily recognizable and pleasant to the viewer. Some art work is challenging and confusing to the viewer. And yet there is still art work that is non-appealing and even controversial, but is still worthy of conversation or debate. In this art assignment I selected five different pieces of art, by five different artists. The art work has appealed to me for different reasons, whether it was the color or controversial matter, I feel like with art, it’s not like picking out a hair style or an outfit to put on where everything needs to make sense or match, it just needs to appeal to the viewer, and depending on the viewer’s mood at the time, the art pieces can be very different. The first art piece I selected was from the Museum of Modern Art; The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 by Henri Rousseau. (Rousseau) I liked this oil on canvas painting for its simplicity and calmness. Henri Rousseau, a toll collector by trade, was a French Post-impressionist self-taught painter; even though he was never properly trained his natural born talent was admired by other artist including more famed avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso and Vasily Kandinsky. His type of art “derived from the style and subject matter of popular print culture”. (Rousseau) Rousseau described the painting of the gypsy as wandering Negress who played the mandolin. She was so tired that she...
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...be fully understood with simple cursory glances that barely give us time to notice the subject matter of a painting. In order to get the full effect of any piece of art, it is crucial to recognize that every twist of a line in a painting or indentation in a sculpture was created with a purpose of evoking a certain or impression from us. Since art does not usually come with a written description explaining what the artist was trying to communicate, it becomes our responsibility to think critically about the artist’s decisions. Then, the audience can come up with an educated interpretation as to what the true meaning of the painting is. In his chapter entitled “An Analysis of the Work of Art,” Joshua Taylor emphasizes the importance of thoroughly analyzing artwork to have the full artistic experience. Taylor defines subject matter as the objects and incidents represented and visual form as the techniques chosen by the artist to express meaning. The combined effect of these terms is referred to as expressive content...
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...Art of Change: New Directions from China and The Discourse of the Ridiculous and the Sublime. Art of Change: New Directions from China, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 7th September 2011 to 9th December 2012. While long regarded as two ends of the spectrum, the Sublime and the Ridiculous have never been seen as two aspects that are inherently irreconcilable. The Ridiculous, when utilized effectively, is able to assist in perpetuating the sublime despite their disparate natures. The Ridiculous in art has the ability to probe sublimities that deal with transcendence and venturing beyond liminal boundaries. However, the relationship between the Sublime and the Ridiculous must be one of careful consideration as when construed inappropriately, the ridiculous nature of an artwork can overblow and nullify the Sublime, rendering it as purely ridiculous in its entirety, displaying the precarious nature between the Sublime and the Ridiculous and how “one step above the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime” The discourse on the relationship between the Ridiculous and the Sublime of this essay will start with the works of Chinese artist Duan Ying Mei that are located early in the exhibition, Art of Change: New Directions from China. Duan’s Sleeping, 2004/2012 (Fig.1), a performance installation of a live performer silently sleeping on a white shelf elevated high up on a gallery wall. Exhibiting in the same space is also Duan’s In between...
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...Violence in the Movies: Art Imitating Actuality Brenda McCain AIU Online Abstract This paper focuses on violence in the movies. It will address the psychological aspects of murders and domestic violence in the U.S. and the effects that are related to violent films. It will also concentrate on intimate partner violence on the silver screen. Violence in the Movies: Art Imitating Actuality This paper will provide an overview of violence in the movies. It will address the effects of the killings and its association with the violence in art. It will also focus on how intimate partner violence has been one of the most omnipresent factors globally affecting women in public health. This paper will dissect the psychology and effects of murder and domestic violence and its depiction in popular movies. It will also reveal the obsessive violent nature that our society has embodied in motion pictures. Dissecting Murder The first detection was the “crisis of violence,” in the psychology of murder. This is practiced and carried out so much on the silver screen that society has become desensitized by murder. Adams (1972), states, “That easy empathy with cinema slayings, together with a growing tolerance of real-life brutality suggests a dismaying conclusion: beneath the surface, Americans may be less alarmed by murder—and more attracted to it—than they care to admit” (p. 58, 4p). Though this has become reality as we know it, murder...
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...The early part of the twentieth century ushered in several profoundly evolving styles of painting. Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Dada could assault the senses and offend the viewer’s ideals while simultaneously extracting intense emotions. These movements were based on the beliefs that the artist could express their emotions directly to the viewer through the art, and that art should not be restricted by reason and social limitations. With a kind of nihilistic approach, and an almost selfish attitude, these new styles were the first to present a truly individualist nature. This unique take on artistic expression led to the formation of the Surrealist movement in the 1920’s. Surrealism, as defined by the Collins English Dictionary, is: “a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially [sic] from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements.” Although he was not limited to one particular style, or even one particular medium, no one artist is more identifiable with surrealist paintings than Salvador Dali. His surreal works, which he calls “hand-painted dream photographs,” are filled with images, often grotesque, over stretching landscapes which in and of themselves could send a viewer into a cycle of deep contemplation. Dali’s most famous painting of this type is The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas, 1931. The small canvas, only 9½ x 13 inches, shows us images...
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...Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about a character who is hubris and caring at the same time? Yes it would be cool so lets talk about it, but first let me explain the purpose of the essay, the purpose of the essay is to try to get people interested in The Odyssey, and to teach about the greek mythology legends. The book is called The odyssey by Homer and the book is called Oh Brother Where Art Thou by the director named Joel and Ethan Coen which is also the writers of the movie as well. Odysseus is very caring and loving especially on Calypso’s island when Penelope and Odysseus were hugging. Another reason on how Odysseus is showing that he is caring and loving is when him and Penelope are also crying while they are hugging. In the movie...
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...Titian was known for his remarkable use of colors. Titian joined the workshop of Giovanni Bellini in Venice. However, it was through contact with Giorgione, who was also previously trained in Giovanni Bellini’s workshop, that he mainly developed his early style. He was also known as a painter of various profane subjects, in which he usually painted nude females to represent beauty and charm, his “ Venus of Urbino” is one them, which shows the goddess of love. These skills drew the attention of intellectually ambitious Italian dukes and aristocrats. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art. The painting shows nude young woman, reclining on a bed in the luxurious surroundings. The painting represents the allegory of marriage and was a “teaching” model to Guilia Varano, the young wife of eroticism, fidelity and motherhood. The evident eroticism of the painting, in fact, reminded the women of the marital obligations...
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...to the old man on a bench by a remarkable picture of a red horse called “the Stubbs chestnut horse”, which is described as a magnificent beast with power and potency. This is where it starts as the old man is trying to teach a younger man about the paintings. The young man is restless and does not have the passion and time for studying art as the older man, and therefore he leaves the gallery. While sitting on the bench and admiring the painting, a French group of school girls enter the room and draws a lot of attention, especially the head of the group which is a sixteen years old French girl, describes as “a package to be admired.. with a pert little face.. she was an original, the ‘card’, the wit, perhaps even the buffoon”. The old man immediately gets spellbound of her, as he starts to reveal to the narrator, who is sitting next to him on the bench, how he got rejected by the love of his life in his past when he was twelve. The French girl reminds him of his love of life as why he can’t stop staring at her. The girl gets drawn by the picture of the red horse and then falls asleep right beside the old man. When the French girl is sleeping on the...
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...Realism is a 20th century art movement which took a diverse approach to representing the figure, yet has being ongoing from around the 18th century. It depicted what was happening in a contemporary way, an attempt to define what was real with no bias or personal preference from the artist. Only portraying what they saw. The movement originated in france in the 1850’s after the 1848 revolution. These Realists positioned themselves against Romanticism, a genre dominating French literature and artwork in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Seeking to be undistorted by personal bias, Realism believed in the ideology of objective reality and revolted against the exaggerated emotionalism of the Romantic movement. Truth and accuracy became the goals of many Realists. Many paintings depicted people at work, underscoring the changes wrought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions. The popularity of such 'realistic' works grew with the introduction of photography, a new visual source that created a desire for people to produce representations which look “objectively real.” Thereafter this new approach to representing the figure grew and new forms such as American realism and social realism where introduced to the art world. Therefore in view of this i will be looking at the American realist Edward Hopper and the realist painter Lucian Freud. Both these artists where at the forefront of modern art and both took different approaches to representing...
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... I’d never give my heart away, No, No, To anyone else Cause I’d burned and I’d been lied to, Couldn’t find love if I tried to Say I’d live alone forever, Was the safest way that I knew There you were, As if you had been, Listening inside my head Everything had fallen apart You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing I used to wake up At the first drop of rain Now I sleep beside you, Through a hurricane Like a window, That was painted shut My heart was closed, And had enough And though I tried to hide away, You knocked until I opened up There you were, As if you had been, Waiting for me all my life Everything had fallen apart You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing There you were, As if you had been, Listening inside my head Everything had fallen apart Then you came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free, It’s a good thing Yeah everything had fallen apart, You came into the picture, Like a work of art I feel your arms around me, And it sets me free It’s a good thing It’s a good thing It’s a good thing It was gonna be you and me, But now your gone. I had planned the rest of my life How am I supposed to move on I can't sleep in our bed Or on the couch You left so many memories When you walked out Kill me for loving...
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...-7th Grade Lesson Plan- Greek and Roman Mythology Overview These lessons were designed to meet the global educational goals of making connections, individuality, inspiring creativity, self-awareness and comprehension through observation of the painting by Nicolas-Guy Benet, Sleeping Endymion. Strands and Standards Visual Arts The Arts Disciplines Students learn about and use the symbolic language of the visual arts. • PreK–12 STANDARD 3: Observation, Abstraction, Invention, and Expression Students will demonstrate their powers of observation, abstraction, invention, and expression in a variety of media, materials, and techniques. Connections: History, Criticism, and Links to Other Disciplines Students learn about the history and criticism of visual arts and architecture, their role in the community, and their links to other disciplines. • PreK–12 STANDARD 10: Interdisciplinary Connections Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering. English Language Arts Language Strand • Standard 3: Oral Presentation Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information to be conveyed. • Standard 6: Formal and Informal English Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal English. Reading and Literature Strand • Standard...
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