...The most prominent way that the Black Arts Movement reflected the socio-political shift from Civil Rights to Black Power is from its shift from the plea of the written word to an ignition of action through its aesthetics.The Black Arts Movement aesthetic became a statement against social-political injustices. Unlike the earlier eras, the ethics and the aesthetics of the art worked in unison to incite a response and participation from its audience. Amiri Baraka writes in "The Revolutionary Theatre" about the abilities of the theater that "even the language must show what the facts are in this conscious epic, what's happening. We will talk about the world, and the preciseness with which we are able to summon the world will be our art. Art is...
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...and promote his or her own individuality and subjective understanding of reality in a fancy way that has nothing to do with the psyche of aesthetic. Art is becoming much of a personal media of artist instead of representation of seeking beauty in physical or philosophical terms. For example, Pollock promotes a sense of recklessness in a world with massive wars; his personal understanding of world is valuable but not the art works. However, Vitruvian Man of Da Vinci bears its own value independent of the man who made it. Beside, art or being and artists includes a certain amount of privliage; it is true that barriers of participation to art is high but communicating that everybody is great and special and eventually reproducing the idea that real art is beyond human is a structural hypocrisy. Hence, performance arts went down from ballet or theatre to Marina Abramovic who does not perform but processes experience and creates participation to art. Moreover, established system crushes people just the right amount so that some of the artistic people use their capabilities to rebel and nothing more. Regardless of individual effort art as we know it will cease to exist. Though reasons can create a remarkable list, they can be categorized in under three major titles; loss of aesthetics, loss of craft and economy of rewards in arts. Loss of aesthetics is a necessary evil that post-modernism and liberal societies bring along. First and utmost cause of...
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...twentieth century that caused writers of now-standard art histories to grudgingly pose the question "What is art?" It may be the most important question for a philosopher to concern himself with. What is art? How is it known? And how, given the answers to these questions, may it be evaluated? We will look at two books on this subject: Beauty by philosopher and critics Roger Scruton and Cynthia Freeland: but is it art? Both writers are consummate prose stylists who display as well as discuss a fine aesthetic sensibility. We will use the Holy Virgin Mary painting by Chris Ofili and the Matana Roberts performance as the template for which we will assess the fine line between aesthetics and ethics according to these philosophers. The Holy Virgin Mary is a painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996. The subject of the work, and its execution, caused considerable controversy– describing Ofili's work as "sick". The piece features a yellow-orange background, the large painting (8x6) depicts a black...
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...situati2on of the scientific landscape followed by how these landscape was then being interpreted as symbol or metaphor. In the early-nineteenth-century, outwardly, geographers adopted landscape photography as a mean to produce and reflect scientific precision geography images of the objective world. It was when people started accepting photographs as the only authentic reproduction of visible reality, a sustainable visual appropriation that could be disseminated among a population far broader than an aesthetic landscape painting could have addressed. Nevertheless, these images had later become more about social and cultural meaning than simply describing numerical geography or demographics within thin geographical literature. In the late-twentieth-century, for the arising topographic photography, related photographers like Joe Deal, John Schott, Stephen Shore etc., had conveyed substantial amounts of visual information through their works, which claimed to be produced by aesthetic arrangement intentionally instead of any cultural meaning. Nonetheless, the surface details of these captured landscape form, though captioned according to a laconic place-and-date titling formula, these topographic landscape could still be charged with meanings that derive from those photographers’ gender, class, race and personal histories, that transmitted to the audiences with their own social and psychic predispositions even without any superfluous referencing or statement. The development of these...
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...| Visual Analysis of Chanel Advertisement | University of Minnesota | DES1101W Introduction to Design Thinking | | Emily Dearing | Abstract Chanel’s advertisement is meant for viewers of this particular magazine, Vogue, to stop and gaze what is being photographed. Here we have two models in an upward movement, with lots of aesthetic appeal between the clothes and the handbags. The point of fashion advertisements is for consumers to familiarize themselves with the newest fashion line in hopes they will in turn purchase the items being shown. Through the elements of design color, texture, and line and also principles of design balance, harmony, and emphasis we are able to analyze this image. Introduction This image is coming from the October issue of Vogue magazine. The image is from Chanel, a high fashion brand specializing in couture, ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods, and fashion accessories. This image is meant for viewers of the magazine to stop and stare. It is also used to show Chanel’s most updated fashion line hoping to appeal to consumers. It shows high aesthetic value with utilitarian and symbolic function also present. Description of Image The image I chose from Vogue magazine is an advertisement for Chanel, a high-end French clothing company. The image features two female models making direct eye contact with the camera. They also appear to be jumping off the ground at the same time and are in the air while the picture was being...
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...examine and briefly describe Aesthetic theory as part of visual communication, as well as the three different disciplines used to study it namely philosophical, scientific and artistic. A visual example from the Destiny video game, has been selected to be examined and related to the theory of aesthetics. 2. AESTHETICS THEORY 2.1 Aesthetic Theory According to The Handbook of Visual Communication, Aesthetics theory tries to describe why we as human beings find appeal in specific visual shapes and configurations. In essence it asks the question, what is beauty? It therefor attempts to determine why we find certain things beautiful (Dake 2005:3). Beauty is something that affects us on a deep emotional and psychological level; therefore aesthetics is a crucial and fundamental part of visual communication. The three approaches – philosophy, science and art, have been used to understand and study Aesthetic 1 theory. However visual art gives us the most thorough and complete definition and understanding of the theory (Dake 2005:3). The philosophical branch is the oldest discipline from which Aesthetic theory is studied. This discipline uses rational thought –arguments supplemented with theories and hypotheses, to try and illustrate what beauty is. It is criticized for using written words to try and define the concept of aesthetics when aesthetics itself comes to being only through visual mediums (Dake 2005:4). The second discipline, through which aesthetics is studied, is art. More...
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...THE RULES OF THE GAME: NOUVELLE EDITION FRANCAISE/THE KOBAL COLLECTION DEEP FOCUS CANON FODDER As the sun finally sets on the century of cinema, by what criteria do we determine its masterworks? BY PAU L SC H RA D E R Top guns (and dogs): the #1 The Rules of the Game September-October 2006 FILM COMMENT 33 Sunrise PREFACE THE BOOK I DIDN’T WRITE I n march 2003 i was having dinner in london with Faber and Faber’s editor of film books, Walter Donohue, and several others when the conversation turned to the current state of film criticism and lack of knowledge of film history in general. I remarked on a former assistant who, when told to look up Montgomery Clift, returned some minutes later asking, “Where is that?” I replied that I thought it was in the Hollywood Hills, and he returned to his search engine. Yes, we agreed, there are too many films, too much history, for today’s student to master. “Someone should write a film version of Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon,” a writer from The Independent suggested, and “the person who should write it,” he said, looking at me, “is you.” I looked to Walter, who replied, “If you write it, I’ll publish it.” And the die was cast. Faber offered a contract, and I set to work. Following the Bloom model I decided it should be an elitist canon, not populist, raising the bar so high that only a handful of films would pass over. I proceeded to compile a list of essential films, attempting, as best I could, to...
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...is an American conceptual artist and analytical philosopher. Her work addresses ostracism, racism, social identity, and gender. She has produced an exceptionally impressive body of work spanning from a period of over thirty years. She has played a formative role in the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s and even more crucial role in the development of identity based art in the 1980s and 1990s. Piper produces artwork in a variety of traditional and nontraditional media, such as photo-text collage, drawings on pre-printed paper, paintings, video installations, sculptures, performances, and sound works. She is an extraordinary artist that is very passionate and socially engaged as she has mentioned, “ I love thinking about aesthetic issues, the organization of line and form in space—that is never very far from me—but I want to speak to everyone, not just the art world. I want to keep my eyes on the big issues, the issues that are going to take centuries to solve, that really plague people all the time…For me the biggest problem, the most...
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...elements, principle, or the intended meaning, every piece of art may mean something different to every person, as we all have different experiences and points of view. The Definition of Art According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, art can have two very distinctive definitions, both of which are very controversial. The first distinctive modern conventionalist definition focuses on the institutional features of art. This will tend to focus on the way art changes over time, modern works that appear to differ radically from traditional art, as well as the relational properties of artworks that relates it to current history or genres. The opposite or less conventionalist definition uses a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties and focuses on art’s pan-cultural and trans-historical characteristics (The Definition of Art, 2007). While there are many different viewpoints regarding the definition of art, the institutionalism view holds that to be a work of art, a thing must be an artifact of a created kind, by an artist, that is to be presented to an art world public. A diachronic view holds that artworks necessarily stand in an art-historical relation to earlier forms of artworks. This is further defined by Arthur Danto, who later clarified what it took to be considered an artwork. He stated that a thing was a work of art only if it had the following characteristics: it had a subject, it projects some attitude or viewpoint, engages audience participation...
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...Nelson Goodman, one of the most influential figures in contemporary aesthetics and analytic philosophy, saw the arts as contributing to both the understanding and building of the realities individuals live in (Giovannelli). Therefore, art is entirely a subjective experience that is based on the associations one makes between it and other things. It has been said that entertainment should make people feel good, whereas art should transform them; thus, art surprises, and does exactly what isn't expected. Though Stephen King may be better known for his ability to terrify, as readers move beyond representation and recreation the echoes of human experience are unobtrusively revealed within his work. Embedded throughout “My Creature from the...
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...messy vibrant colours with a visit of bold black spots. The ladders streaming from Basquiat’s face leads the viewer to Phrases of texts, which are written child like in messy black oil paints. Basquiats artwork is a politically illustrated piece constructed from his opinion alone. “Ladders are a tool used to work on over head malfunctions with the surroundings above” Based on what I have read the ladders leading from his mind on to the canvas enables us to see what malfunctions and beliefs he had with his surroundings at the time of “6pm” (stated on the art work”). “The roaches crawled up from the buildings dehydrated” I found from reading I know that the point he was illustrating in this text found at the end of one ladder was people leave there high paid job everyday with more money than values. The text was not to abuse or make fun of it was to inform the viewer of his message. Basquiat’s Leeches is a piece of work that has effectively conveyed the message he was intending to get out. When I first looked at his piece I uncovered the sinister realism of what he was getting out. Which I believe was important due to money still being a socially destructive product. American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on she developed an interest in graphic design, poetry, and writing and attended poetry readings. Her work mostly focuses aesthetics images with bold lettered text containing...
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...ART 110 – Art Appreciation Assignment #1 1. Find and read the course document "Introduction – What is Art?" Write a brief response to the document. After reviewing ‘What is art’ by M. Cawley, I am faced with deciding what I believe to be the true definition of art. In as few words as possible, I would describe art as anything that moves you. A longer definition for me might reference arts ability to speak to our many senses through a variety of mediums such as paint, photography, words, or music. I believe art can be anything that appeals to your senses; even food can be art for both the eyes and the taste buds. 2. What is “art”? According to our textbook, Artforms by Patrick Frank, “a work of art is a visual expression of an idea or experience formed with skill through the use of a medium (Frank, p.3)” This means that if you develop a skill such as a painter or a guitarist, and you paint a picture or play a song, that would be you, the artist, creating a work of art. My own definition of art, as stated above, can be anything that ‘moves’ you. 3. Do you think you are greatly separated from the art world? Explain. I do not think I am separated from the art world. In fact, I feel very much a part of it. I have always had a love of architecture, am an amateur photographer, a lover of music and film, and think I have always been on the creative side. I still have my old notebooks full of sketches and poetry, and I love to spend my Sundays painting with my 5 year old, and...
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...word “art” usually refers to the so-called “fine arts” (e.g. pictorial, plastic, and building)– and to the so-called “minor arts” (everyday, useful, applied, and decorative arts) • The word “art” is derived from arti, which denotes craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness. • Art serves as a technical and creative record of human needs and achievements. The word 'art' is often used in our daily lives. However, when we scrutinize the word in depth, defining what is art may not be as straight forward as it appears to be. SOURCE: Atkins, R. (2010). Art Speak; A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords. In this module, we are dealing with the subject of aesthetic visual arts, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, and so on. Aesthetic art, in my opinion, is something...
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...The Self-Concept is a complicated process of gaining self-awareness. It consists of mental images an individual has of oneself: physical appearance, health, accomplishments, skills, social talents, roles, intellectual traits, and emotional states and more –all make up our self-concept. The development process begins at about six or seven months of age. The child begins to recognize “self” as distinct from surroundings. They stare at anything they see, including their own body parts; hands, feet, toes, and fingers. As they grow, their sense of identity expands through interactions with others –creating self-esteem levels that become the “booster” for the ability to interact. As people’s outcomes in life depend heavily on how others perceive and evaluate them, they are motivated to convey certain impressions of themselves to others and to refrain from conveying other, undesired impressions. Thus, no matter what else they may be doing, people typically monitor and control their impressions, i.e. a process known as: self-presentation. A great deal of human behaviour is, in part, determined or constrained by people’s concerns with others’ impressions and evaluations of them. ’I’m too short’’. ‘’I’m too tall’’. ‘’I would be happier if I were skinnier, fatter, had bigger muscles, smaller ears, had straight hair, curly hair’’. Do any of these statements ring a bell? Are you used to demoralizing yourself? If so, you are not alone. As a teenager, our body changes dramatically...
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...The Meaning of Visual and Preforming Arts The Arts have been around, as long as man has had imagination. They define humans as a species, recording history, defining the present, and pursuing the future. The Arts encompasses many meanings. What one person views as art, another may view as worthless expressionism. Exploring this subject will cause one to open their horizons to enable one to see the world from a different perspective. Defining visual and performing arts. Visual and performing arts have evolved over the centuries. Originally the arts were limited to the fine arts, such as paintings, sculpture, music, theater, and dance. It also included the cinema in the twentieth century. Applied arts were considered decorative not expressive and was excluded in the definition of art (Sporre, 2011). To myself, art is a myriad of things, visual perception, and emotion. My experiences in the Arts. I find art has many forms. Visual art can be found everywhere. It is in the architecture around us such as the mantel in an ornate fireplace to the buildings created by an architect such as Frank Lloyd Wright (Steffensen, 2009). It is found in the drawing a small child makes to the masterpieces of Michelangelo found in the cathedrals of Europe. It may be viewed by one as the simple elegance found in a crystal vase, to the sculptures found in the Great Pyramids. Nature is another place to find art, from the simplest flower to the intricacies of a wasp nest. The performing...
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