...Reading is everything for me. Reading makes me feel like I have accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. A good book is an education of my heart. It enlarges my sense of human possibility what human nature is of, and what happens in the world. I believe that books enrich my vocabulary. An improved vocabulary is the most obvious outcome of a strongly established habit of reading because while reading books, especially challenging ones, I find myself exposed to many new words I would not be otherwise. Moreover, while reading “The Classics” I come across words that are no more commonly used. In addition, Books are a fantastic source of inspiration. Unlike fine art, architecture or travelling, books help me to create my own mental illustration for what I read on paper. And this is very important for a student like me. It has been scientifically proven that people learn faster if they plug in imagination. In a way, reading books makes us all artists and creators of our own mental cartoons, movies or illustration collections. This in turn keeps our minds constantly working which is extremely beneficial mainly for older people. Moreover, reading also helps me to reduce stress. Where I might have had a stressful day in college, a book can easily distract me. Especially fiction is fantastic for this. So why do I read? For all those wonderful reasons that have been given. With James...
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...My collage includes pictures of who I believe are the major stakeholders in a local school community. I started by incorporating pictures of people on the top who actually create rules for the children and teachers within the schools. I was sure to find a picture that showed a group of what I perceived as an administrator, a state representative, a superintendent and a principal gathering to create ways to better the education of students. My idea was to actually show someone from the state meeting with school board representatives with the new rules mandated. I added a picture of a gentleman separate which I choose to reflect the principal who would then pass the information learned down to his teachers. The second level of my collage is to show the teachers first having a meeting amongst themselves and making sure they all know the new curriculum put upon them for the students and the education of them thereof. The second picture shows a teacher having one-on-one time with the students to ensure they are understanding the material taught to them. The third picture is an example of a teacher meeting with the parents of the child. I choose this picture to show how teachers can incorporate family so that they also know what is being taught ensuring the support is not only there for the child at school but also at home. The next level, which is the second to bottom portion of my collage, represents families actually putting the time in to help the child at home and actually displaying...
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...HR ineffeciency * PROBLEM AREAS IDENTIFIED 1.With the company’s growing size, the company became more process oriented and started leveraging its experience to perform repeatable projects, employees realized that they were being deprived of creative and technical ingenuity that had been inherent in their work during the initial years. Employees thought the organization was becoming more impersonal and that some of the perks of initial years were being repealed. 2.As the company started scaling up across multiple locations, Infosys articulated the core values it believed in and wanted every employees to adhere to through the acronym “C- LIFE”: customer delight, leadership by example ,integrity & transparency, fairness and pursuit of excellence. They wanted to stick to their core values even when the company was expanding to new territories. 3.The company also showed high employee turnover when it was expanding its operations, which was mainly due to lack of proper communication between the middle/higher level managers and the lower level employees. 4. The introduction of “variable pay” was a great step in the direction of improving performance but it was not properly supported or backed with a good means to support this change. Infosys did not properly communicate the concept to the employees that a section of the employees were sceptical about the company’s intentions. 5. The broad-banding policy that was a leap towards a role based organization...
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...Beginning in 1907 the Cubism movement was set into motion by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; this would eventually become the most internationally influenced movement of the 20th Century. The movement has roots dating back to European traditions of the Renaissance, which can be seen it its illusionism and deconstruction of linear perspective. The Cubism movement can be broken down into two primary styles of Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, each equally influential in their own way. First up was Analytical Cubism; this references the artist objective of analyzing and breaking down of the form and space within the picture plane. Analytical Cubism was the period from 1907 to 1912; it was formed primarily at the hands of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and George Seurat. Analytical Cubism was a period of exploration in separating the perceived reality of what we can view and the intellectual reality of what we know. These characteristics include flattening the pictorial surface and simplifying the picture plane to only a basic geometric fragmentation of the subject. Additionally, minimal color was used in order to further flatten the subject. Flatness was a key characteristic of Analytical Cubism; lack of warm and cool hues prevented the subject from becoming dimensional and eliminated any single focal point. With the goal of Analytical Cubism being to separate realities, artist used easily recognizable items or ordinary subjects. Things used were often just found around the artist...
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...search bar at the top middle of Art21’s homepage. Watch how they work and what they say about their process. Briefly critique each artist using the Formal, Contextual OR Expressive theory. One critique per film. This cannot be an artist we have viewed previously this semester. Mark Bradford in “Paradox” Looking at his paintings, to me they would describe what mixed media is about. The technique, range, and composition is spontaneous and expressive. He is using the process of adding, subtracting, and viewing different concepts in his collages that is always changing. His background from working in his mother’s hair salon gave him vision of what he would see in his artwork from making uses of what he could find and imagine. He uses elements in his artwork from everyday uses – remnants of poster boards, caulking, carbon paper, polyester cords and other objects that would bring his artwork to life. He then used these advertisements to make collages about his interests in mapping communities and underground economies. I find his work very expressive and intriguing. Trenton Doyle Hancock was a very interesting fellow when describing his work and cultural history. He would make collaged felt paintings which tell a story of a fantastical nature. He uses an explosion of color in his artwork that would tell a contextual theory about his nature and culture. He would describe his family and faith into some of his drawings and the characters would formulate his imaginary world. He was very...
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...Barbara Kruger : Old Is Original The concept of postmodernism is typified as a return to traditional materials and forms. Consequently, much of the art of this genre is filled with imagery and objects that pertain to previous original concepts. These modern artistic endeavors also include the creativity involved in postmodernism which comes from the new arrangement of said past concepts. The primary notion of postmodernism rejects the modernists preoccupation with aestheticism as well as the formal qualities tied to the movement. In effect, something new is created from something old. As postmodernism progressed, many artists and critics alike began to question the fundamental and intrinsic values and motivations behind the modernist movement. While postmodernists were beginning to explore their newly created movement, French philosophers Jean Baudrillard and Roland Barthes introduced new theories regarding the flourishing artistic practices of simulation and appropriation. In 1967 Roland Barthes wrote in his essay "The Death of the Author," stripped both dominion and creation from artists and writers, declaring, “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God), but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.” According to Barthes, no new creations were unique in any way. They were all merely reinterpretations of those ideas which came first. Consequently, many...
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...Romare Bearden’s Fine Art Romare Bearden was an African American Artist. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina then moved to New York City as a child. Bearden has done many different types of works including oil, cartoons and collage. Romare is best known for his collages. He is recognized as one of the most creative and original visual artists of the twentieth century. He fills his work with the symbols and myths of the American black experience. In this essay I will compare and contrast two of Romare’s pieces. It was difficult to narrow down to only two pieces because Romare has a large quantity of remarkable work. The two pieces I decided on are “The Block” and “Golgotha”. “The Block” was made in 1971. It shows a Harlem neighborhood with an optimistic spirit. The neighborhood shows a barbershop, a corner store, liquor store, a church and funeral parlor. The neighborhood seems lively with people outside on the sidewalk, children playing and pedestrians in a hurry. It gives you that feeling of daily life in Harlem. One unique aspect of the picture is that is shows you daily life indoors and outdoors at the same time. The collage shows people at home watching TV, people inside having a conversation and a couple making love. In this collage I see a lot of line being used. Line is a mark by pencil that forms part of the formal design of a picture. I see it with the different buildings. The lines used make it look like the buildings aren’t supposed to be together. The...
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...feeling seeing God on the cross. 3 people in the picture 1 man 2 women Modern Art Frank Stella, American 1936 Flin, Fion IV 1969 Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas Terry Winters – 1949 Bitmer, 1986 oil on linen Georgia O’Keefer 1887-1986 Jack in the Pulpit Nov 1930 oil on canvas Cubism Piet Mondrian – Dutch 1872-1944 Teablean No. IV Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow and Black 1924/1925 Oil on canvas Max Weber -1881-19 Rush Hour NewYork 1915 Pablo Pisassco Nude Women 1910 oil on canvas Scuptor Head of a women 1909 bronze Modern and Contemparty Art Raskshaw Downes- Bird’s eye view of NY cont cent and contruction 1982 oil on canvas Henri Matisse cut outs collages of color paper for a book called Jazz La Negresse 1952 paper collage on canvas Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Lavender Mist , Nov 1, 1950 oil, enemal and aluminum on canvas Alexander Calder A group of Six animations painted in sheet metal Reel Panel, 1936 Sheet metal, cooper tubing wire, plywood, lead string and paint Horace Pippin Intereu 1994 oil on...
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...Looking out into the world in which we exist, my thoughts turn towards the turbulent times that we are facing, those that we have already faced, and those that we will face tomorrow. I wonder if there is hope for the present, the future, and if we as individuals and leaders can make a difference, change our behavior patterns and mental models, so we can improve relationships among ourselves our communities and our workplace for the betterment of mankind. I find myself thinking of Kwame Anthony Appiah and his vision of a Cosmopolitanism world. He believes that we must change our minds and we must make our conversation across boundaries worthwhile. He believes that we must not judge different cultures by their values or beliefs, but instead must try to understand them and accept them for what they are, who they are, and what they can offer to the world. He believes that the wealthy must change their mental model too and feels that they hold a tendency to think that unfamiliar cultures of the world are not so much subjects of interest or even curiosity, but as objects of charity. Are we so ignorant to the beauty of different cultures that we think they are objects of charity? Or that they have nothing to offer? Are we as humans unaware of the things around us that we ourselves lack involvement? Arthur D. Colman writes about the Tao Te Ching Philosophy and its way of life and how it teaches us that to be able to function fully within the group, that we must first understand...
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...Creativity is the generating of ideas, the finding of alternatives to solve problems, the communicating with others and the entertaining of ourselves and others. As an active member of society one strives to be creative. Striving to be creative is striving to achieve innovative and complex stimulation and to communicate ideals and values with the public. Art is the most culturally universal and timeless form of creativity. Art has been the most prominent way of communicating emotion, ideals, values and entertainment for mankind over centuries. From intricate instructions on embalming to please the gods in Egypt, to Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup advertisement style pop-art, every piece of art has a history and a story to tell. This story begins with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who are credited with fore fronting the avant-garde Cubist revolution. Abandoning the socially correct representations of objects, which blatantly depicted the actual appearance of said objects, Cubism reduced natural inspirations to their geometric equivalents and used varying planes to depict differing points of view according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cubism is best described by Jacques Lipchitz, a Cubist sculpture, “Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view" (Cubism Movement, 2012). The key to truly understanding an art form is to know...
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...1. Cassandra is an abstract painter with incredible talent but little fame. One of her paintings, entitled Blue Mistress 13, is a work of immense power and sensuality. Twelve months ago, she sold it to SingTel for display in the main public entrance of the company’s new headquarters. Several art critics attending the opening of the new building mistook the painting for a long-lost work of Pablo Picasso. They wrote about it in their newspaper columns as though they had made a great discovery. When people began flooding to the SingTel Building to see the painting, the directors of SingTel were delighted. They even put up a notice that said “This painting, entitled La Dama Azul, is thought to have been painted by Pablo Picasso during his blue period.” Cassandra is highly offended by this notice. Is there anything Cassandra can do about it? Explain. As a member state of the Berne Convention, moral rights of Artists are recognized in Singapore, where it consists of rights to “be recognized as the author/artist” and also “not to suffer derogatory treatment by any unauthorised addition, amendment, deletion or alteration. Therefore, it is obvious that Singtel has violated this basic right of Cassandra under moral rights when it did not acknowledge her as the artist but instead dishonestly put up a notice that the painting is thought to have been painted by Pablo Picasso despite knowing the truth about the artist. Cassandra can therefore bring Singtel to court, demanding them to...
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...Throughout history, art has been a tool for many to express themselves and the events surrounding them. The works of great artists are not only personal, but revolutionary. On occasion, paintings can influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her life as a mexican women imposed with Western culture in Las Dos Fridas, while street art gives a loud and accessible message to those who come across it. All these examples exemplify real occurrences, that were published and used as a front for mainstream media. During the surrealist movement of the early 1900s, men were in the spotlight. Few modern movements had prominent figures that were women. While Kahlo faced a multitude of setbacks, her work served as a gateway for female artists, who had seldom been represented. The surrealist label had however, been denied by Frida. She professes that her art was not the bizarre, dream like alter reality of the surrealist movement, but her life. This is significant as the honesty of her work leaves little to the interpretation of the spectators. The work she displayed on canvas was, “the emotional nature of the female artist… by the conjoining of physical suffering with other forms of emotional excess” (Lent 70). Her work leaves a raw portrayal...
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...Similarities – Both Velaszquez and Freud’s works fall under the nature of female reclining nude. Using oil paint on canvas, both artists have worked to embody classical elements such as drapery and furnishing to evoking the relaxed mood, felt in both paintings. In terms of physical composition, both figures appear in the middle of the canvas as to highlight that they are the central focus of the painting. Differences – Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, depicts a far more contemporary scene to that of Velaszquez’s classical portrayal, Rokeby Venus 1647-51. The hefty, robust lounge centred in what appears an empty room, can be seen as a reflection of the woamn’s ample figure. She appears unaware of the audience (or painter’s) presence...
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...A still life is a work of art which depicts inanimate objects such as flowers, plants, plants, food, rocks shells; this also includes man made items such as bottles, glasses, books, jewellery, pipes, vases and so on. Origins within the middle ages and ancient Greek and Roman art, still life paintings gave the artists choices in the arrangements and design within a composition then paintings of a landscape or a portrait. Still life paintings before the 17th century mostly contained religious symbolism relating to the objects painted. Some modern still life breaks the 2 dimensional barriers which employ 3 dimensional mixed objects such as photography, computer graphics and video and sound. Various artists include the Dutch in the 17th Century, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ricky Swallow and Sam Taylor Wood. The Dutch Golden Age The Dutch golden age of painting is a period Dutch history spanning the 17th century. During and after part of 80 years of war (1568-1648). This was the most prosperous nation in Europe and they led European trade, science and art. Dutch painting of the golden age known as the baroque painting, which often shows its characteristics but lacks the idealisation of love and splender which being typical of baroque work. Neighbouring flanders work for the period often reflects traditions of realism from Netherland-ish panting. Distinctive features for this period are genres of paintings with most artists producing the bulk of their work during the golden age. These...
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...The face of war, by Salvador Dali, "Femme en pleurs" by Pablo Picasso, are two depressing paintings. When most people view these two paintings in the first sight, they would think that they would be very different but they actually have a lot of things in common. The first painting would be seen as a disturbing, disgusting visual. The second painting would be seen as a cubical, interesting and a colourful painting. In these two paintings, there are many intentions and secret messages such as fear, ugly truth, and the lonely horror. The date of these two paintings only show 4 years difference. "Femme en pleurs" was completed in 1937, while "The face of war" was done by 1941. Surprisingly, they were both influenced by the Spanish civil war from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939. "The face of war" was finished after the Spanish civil war but also in the beginning of WWII. Perhaps, the reason why the title is called the "The face of war". In this painting, it shows a skeleton of a hand in the right bottom corner. The skeleton obviously represents what was left after the death. Weird thing about this hand, is that it is separated and not connected to the face but the direction of the dead hand is towards the face. In my opinion, the separated body parts shows an effort to live but fails to survive and scattered into different places on this desert. The character failed to survive the war and gained fear. On the other hand, "The weeping woman" secretly shows the skeletons in her face...
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