...802 29 November 2015 The Misunderstood Art Form of Graffiti Graffiti is a monumental part of any urban environment. Many view the action of graffiti to be the work of a criminal while others view it as the work of an artist. Vandalism, the destruction of property, is the category that graffiti falls under in many countries. It is understandable that posting graffiti on a private small business is a criminal act. However, graffiti can and should be viewed as a form of art no matter the location. Many art museums have graffiti style pieces, which further reinforces the argument for graffiti being viewed as a work of an artists rather than a vandal. At the end of the day, graffiti is an antisocial (not accepted as a valid form of social expression) form of art. Modern graffiti originated in the 1960s and was used by teenagers as a form of expression; it eventually metastasized into a majority of urban environments and eventually found its way into art museums internationally (Whitehead, 26). However, as the popularity of graffiti grew, law enforcement began to view it as the work of criminal vandals and legislation was passed in an attempt to halt it. As time progressed graffiti’s social point of view has improved as its presence has decreased (Dennant 1997). Modern graffiti first appeared in the 1960s in Philadelphia (CIA). It was mostly about “tagging” or putting your name on a piece of public property. However, as graffiti began to spread to places like New York...
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...Street Art Street art can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs and even trashcans from Tokyo to Paris to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, cloth or even stickers. Its international presence is supported by Web sites, artist communities, books and magazines. Street art has become part of a global visual culture. Now, even art museums and galleries are collecting the work of street artists. It is not easy to provide an exact history of the street art movement. This kind of art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world. Also, street artists usually work secretly because it is illegal to paint public and private property without permission. This secretive nature of street art and its countless forms make it hard to define exactly. And people have different opinions about the movement. Some think street art is a crime and destroys property. But others see this art as a rich form of nontraditional cultural expression. Many experts say the movement began in New York City in the nineteen sixties. Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their “tag” on walls and train cars around the city. This tag was a name they created to identify themselves and their artwork. This colorful style of writing is also called graffiti. It is visually exciting and energetic. Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups. Graffiti also became a separate...
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...Creating art can act as something rewarding, which doesn’t take a big hit on your pocketbook, but the final product can make you empowered. You begin to want to show everyone what you created even if they are strangers. Street artists feel that their art work is aesthetically pleasing and that their art work should be seen the same as if someone was walking through a museum looking at different art works on the wall. These artists feel like their work deserves a place, which is multi-layered and subjective, instead of taking up space which is one dimensional and is only a physical location. II. Introduction In this section I will explain how many people perceive street art as being graffiti or vandalism. They see it as it is taking up space in a community field with different places. This one dimensional ideology really takes away of the real reasoning’s of why street artists put whatever it is up for everyone to see. Many just pass it up as being vandalism and never takes the time to actually question why they painted what they did. Graffiti really wasn’t seen to be vandalism until Mayor Ed Koch coined...
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...The Art of Graffiti Some people say that art and graffiti are two different things. Which makes sense, one is adored and one is despised. One gets bought, and one gets scoffed at and removed for public eye. However, most people don’t actually know the definition of one of, or both of, these words. The definition of art is “Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings.” Sounds about right, although I, personally, don’t find the majority of the art created very beautiful, but, oh well, c'est la vie. Also, the definition of graffiti is “Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.”S, now that you know the definitions of both words, time to learn some facts....
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...Running Head: Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour Louis Rodriguez Jones International University Historical Context of Images for your Virtual Art Gallery Tour [pic] Broken Glass By: Victor F. Gonzalez Dated: 7/27/2012 Artist Victor F. Gonzalez and I quote “Forget for a moment what country your from, what race, what color, and what religion, we are all reaching out, life, and love. The moments that we live! Mr. Gonzalez is an ex-brother in law from East Broadway, New York. From my knowledge he was raised most of his life in the projects of the lower Eastside, my reminder of that area is the Brooklyn Bridge that obviously crosses from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn. To this day I’ve had nothing but great admiration for his artistic paintings and point of view. I find Joey’s painting (It’s the name I always knew him by or called him, since he was a little child) somewhat Neo- Expressionist. Neo-Expressionism as we all know was practiced during the 1920s. According to Artstory.com a Mr. George Baselitz led a revival which dominated German Art in the 1970s. In Germany the return of expressionist art was part of a more general shift in society towards addressing the country’s modern history. Led by Mr. Baselitz revival in the 1980s this resurgence had become part of the...
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...Art as a means for change There are many things art is good for. Expressing one’s emotions, to let a loved one know how much they mean to a person. To visually represent what one has seen and experienced. To save a moment in time for others to enjoy the beauty of it all. Above all else, art is there to convey a message. To put the idea of the artist into the head of another. This is why art has been used time and time again to express political, social and humanitarian injustices throughout history. Art, drawing to be exact, was the first way to express the day to day life of another human being. To save the ideas and memories of early man all the way to modern man. Every period of human history since this point has been filled with the carvings, drawings, paintings, writings and musings of humans who have felt betrayed by the government or community that was suppose to be there for them. Every person has a side of the story that they would like to share, art is one of the easiest ways to get a lasting point across. Princess Hijab uses art in this context to express a distaste for modern day ideologies regarding what is beauty when it comes to the human body. “...her dressing up of billboards is a symbolic act of resistance meant to reassert a “physical and mental integrity” against what she calls the “visual terrorism” of advertising.” (Aburawa 30) Blurring the lines between what is acceptable public art, with advertising, and graffiti, with her movement...
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...Throughout history art has played a vital role in society and the reformation of an era. Artists have been provoked by worldly experiences during their time thus producing artwork that reflects their personal social and political concerns. Through these artworks they are able to influence their audiences. The ability to revolutionise ideas is the only change in the world that is constant; this is where a true artist takes action. Johann Joseph Eugene Von Guérard (1812-1901) was an Austrian born artist. His father took him to Italy in 1826 after he displayed extraordinary artistic talent, here he was able to pursue art as a lifestyle. Guérard travelled around the world from Dusseldorf to England, from England to Ballarat composing many landscape paintings and pencil sketches. In 1854, Guérard married Louise Arnz of Dusseldorf. For 16 years Eugene travelled throughout Australia and New Zealand before returning to Dusseldorf where Guérard died. When Eugene went to Dusseldorf he studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art one of the leading art schools in Europe. Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, a landscape artist, taught Guérard at the Academy. Schirmer encouraged his student’s to paint directly from nature; this is what sparked many of Eugene’s artworks. The Romantic movement arised during the 19th century, the emotions that overpowered order influences literature and art; including Guérard’s paintings. Eugene had a profound interest for the grandeur mystery of art and nature. Eugene...
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...Island City, I attempt to locate the site that would be the material for my next assignment. Easily enough I was able to come across what would lead me directly to it- 5 Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burnin’ standing out in its kaleidoscopic mastery of aerosol art. The outdoor exhibit is an old warehouse that features the works of world famous graffiti artists and allows for quite the contrast to the museum that is located on the opposite side of the street: MoMA PS1. Founded in 1971 as an art and urban resource institute, PS1 serves as the leading contemporary art center in New York and since 2000, became an affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art. Sizeable alabaster walls and open space directed attention to the fresh, contemporary artistry that hung on the walls of the former classrooms of PS1. With the echo of every creaky step, I slowly browsed the exhibition of Henry Taylor, open-mindedly losing myself in his alluring pieces and for the sake of this paper, desperately trying to grasp a sense of his style and meaning. Comprised mostly of portraits, his exhibition majorly demonstrates an influence by his immediate surroundings and according to his MoMA PS1 profile: Taylor presents himself to the world of art “offering a refreshing, idiosyncratic perspective on culture and politics using everyone and everything around him as source material”. His work could be described as more formal with a twist: his darker pallet and unique shapes come to life in the intriguing representations...
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...Mikhail Bulgakov One of the Greatest Writers of Magical Realism Jahvauntea Howard ITT Technical Institute Magical Realism Magical Realism is a is a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment. Although it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts. One example of magic realism (Fictional Fantasy) occurs when a character in the story continues to be alive beyond the normal length of life and this is subtly depicted by the character being present throughout many generations. On the surface the story has no clear magical attributes and everything is conveyed in a real setting, but such a character breaks the rules of our real world. History & Background of Magical Realism While the term magical realism in its modern sense first appeared in 1955, the German art critic Franz Roh first used the phrase in 1925, to refer to a painterly style also known as Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), an alternative championed by fellow German museum director Gustav Hartlaub. Roh believed magic realism is related to, but distinctive from, surrealism, due to magic realism's focus on the material object and the actual existence of things in the world, as opposed to the more cerebral, psychological and subconscious reality that the surrealists explored.[6] Magic realism was later used to describe the uncanny realism by American painters such as Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, George...
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...Art and entertainment The discussion what is art and what is entertainment has become quite common. Another relating topic is – do artists entertain, or do entertainers create art? The most common answer to these questions is, yes. Artists certainly create art, but art is also done for entertainment, and everything that was created by entertainers has a certain degree of artistic merit. If we go to a museum, we will see wonderful paintings and sculptures which are certainly more artistic than graffiti on the walls in the street. In a museum, we expect that we will be exposed to a certain level of art, and at the same tame, we will experience a certain level of entertainment. Whether something is artistic or not, simply depends on the opinion a person has, and this opinion is no less valuable than any other. Of course, there must be some objective attributes of art that make it art like using metaphors, symbolism, and plot devices, and similarly, entertainment has features that make it entertainment. Black Swan by Aronofsky is probably more artistic than, say, the Twilight vampire saga, but the latter one would be probably more entertaining for the common audience. Another question is, which one is better? That is again a matter of opinion. If we focus on literature, a classic novel by Hardy is generally considered more artistic than a romantic story by Danielle Steel. This comparison offers an idea that art is more superior to entertainment, but this is...
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...first began to live on my own, led to extreme difficulty in finding a place to rent, employment and acceptance in the urban culture in general. As a result, I often have had to live in “the hood,” where the sounds of a blaring siren become normal. As a writer, perhaps this was beneficial as I weaved my way through the pawn shops, the Main Street strip and its competing cousins in other cities, the hot-dog carts, the panhandlers, the cash-your-check joints and all of the other street signposts. I watched the first appearances of graffiti grow from artistic to social menace, and I was not surprised. The Aboriginal gang cultures also scratch for space in the urban landscape, as gangs from other segments of contemporary society surface. All of these violent, down-and-out ingredients formed my first impressions of this city environment. My reaction is perhaps best told in poetic form. The poem “Furby Shakespeare” (at right) grows from my reality of living next door to a crack house on Furby Street in Winnipeg. Furby Shakespeare Oh Romeo, Romeo, bum me a smoke pogey check, pogey check, where art thou? Traffic jams all stages of a life of the street of my mind star-crossed drugs love feed me feed me lethal feed me deep furby...
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...Brian Grazer’s Curiosity Conversations: A List Since the late 1970s, Brian Grazer has been meeting with people from diverse backgrounds to have open-ended conversations about their lives and work. Below, in alphabetical order, is a list of many of the people Brian has had curiosity conversations with. It is as comprehensive as memory and records permit; please forgive any omissions. Brian has spoken to so many people over thirty-five years and explored so many topics that it would be impossible to have included accounts of all of them. But each of the conversations provided the inspiration for the discussions of creativity and storytelling in this book, and in rian’s work. B 50 Cent: musician, actor, entrepreneur Joan Abrahamson: president of the research and education nonprofit Jefferson Institute, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Paul Neal “Red” Adair: oil-well firefighter, innovator in extinguishing oil-well blowouts in Kuwait 1 Roger Ailes: president of Fox News Channel Doug Aitken: multimedia artist Muhammad Ali: professional heavyweight boxer, three-time World Heavyweight Champion John Allman: neuroscientist, expert on human cognition Gloria Allred: civil rights attorney Brad Anderson: former CEO of Best Buy Chris Anderson: curator of TED conferences Philip Anschutz: entrepreneur, cofounder of Major League Soccer, investor in multiple professional sports teams David Ansen: former senior entertainment editor at Newsweek ...
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...Thalia Coleman Belanger M00349310 MKT3110 – Marketing Strategy and Planning Dr. Costos Priporas Individual Report - Phase 2 Tuesday March 25th 2014 Word Count: 2,738 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………4 I. Marketing Objectives …………………………………………………………………5 Supporting Objectives ……………………………………………………………………6 Summary of Approach ……………………………………………………………………6 II. Targeting and Positioning ………………………………………………………….7 Market Targets …………………………………………………………………………….7 Market Positioning ………………………………………………………………………..8 Market Attractiveness ……………………………………………………………9 Current Market Position ………………………………………………………..10 III. Competitive Advantage ……………………………………………………11 Differential Advantage …………………………………………………………………..12 SWOT Analysis: Matching & Converting ……………………………………………..13 Levels of Product Offering ……………………………………………………………...15 Sustainability ……………………………………………………………………………..15 IV. Growth Strategies …………………………………………………………………17 Marketing Warfare ………………………………………………………………………18 V. Marketing Mix Program …………………………………………………….18 Product ……………………………………………………………………………………19 Price ………………………………………………………………………………………19 Place ……………………………………………………………………………………...19 Promotion ………………………………………………………………………………...20 Communication Tools ………………………………………………………….20 Product Life Cycle Management ……………………………………………...21 Implementation & Control ………………………………………………………………22 VI. Conclusion …………………………………………………………………..24 VII. References ………………………………………………………………….25 Appendix A: Summarized Strategic Analysis:...
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...Japan took place in Aoyama, one of Tokyo’s fashionable districts. A unique vision of luxury took shape when Louis Vuitton opened yet another new store inside Comme des Garçons on September 4, 2008, in the heart of Japan’s capital. The pop-up store situated on the prestigious Omotesando Street was an illustration of Louis Vuitton’s attachment to the Japanese luxury market. Yves Carcelle, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, said, “This project not only brings a new meaning to luxury, but also speaks volumes about how the know-how and heritage of Louis Vuitton have always been perceived in Japan, including by its foremost designers. We are very proud to have been able to help Rei Kawakubo2 relive her memories in such an original and creative way.”3The Omotesando guerrilla marketing event reflected Louis Vuitton’s success in Japan. Louis Vuitton had been following an aggressive marketing strategy in the country, opening extravagant stores such as those in Ginza or Roppongi.Take a walk on Ginza’s main street, Chuo Dori, the centre of a paradise for shoppers, with longestablished department stores, such as Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya and Matsuzakaya. Continue through the high-end fashion street Namiki-dori. Stop. There it is. You have reached the massive flagship Louis Vuitton store. When Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury-goods firm, inaugurated its huge shop in 2002 in the district of Omotesando, Tokyo, hundreds of people were queued outside. During the first few days...
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...Proceeding for the School of Visual Arts Eighteenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists: Art and Story CONTENTS SECTION ONE: Marcel’s Studio Visit with Elstir……………………………………………………….. David Carrier SECTION TWO: Film and Video Narrative Brief Narrative on Film-The Case of John Updike……………………………………. Thomas P. Adler With a Pen of Light …………………………………………………………………… Michael Fink Media and the Message: Does Media Shape or Serve the Story: Visual Storytelling and New Media ……………………………………………………. June Bisantz Evans Visual Literacy: The Language of Cultural Signifiers…………………………………. Tammy Knipp SECTION THREE: Narrative and Fine Art Beyond Illustration: Visual Narrative Strategies in Picasso’s Celestina Prints………… Susan J. Baker and William Novak Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend: St. Mary of Egypt…… William B. Sieger A Narrative of Belonging: The Art of Beauford Delaney and Glenn Ligon…………… Catherine St. John Art and Narrative Under the Third Reich ……………………………………………… Ashley Labrie 28 15 1 22 25 27 36 43 51 Hopper Stories in an Imaginary Museum……………………………………………. Joseph Stanton SECTION FOUR: Photography and Narrative Black & White: Two Worlds/Two Distinct Stories……………………………………….. Elaine A. King Relinquishing His Own Story: Abandonment and Appropriation in the Edward Weston Narrative………………………………………………………………………….. David Peeler Narrative Stretegies in the Worlds of Jean Le Gac and Sophe Calle…………………….. Stefanie Rentsch...
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