...What is art? Art is considered to be a graceful method in which a story can be told. Art can play a key role in how we perceive the world. We use art to express emotions and present important messages, like with childhood memory or world issues like global warming. To make their point they may use a different or unusual material such as Vik Muniz, who used trash from the landfills to show the hard life of the trash collectors. In doing so Muniz sold his art to pay the poor workers of Jardim Gramacho. On the other hand, Salvador Dali used normal items, but to express his surrealistic ideas. For instance, Dali created The Persistence of Memory where he used a desert scene and juxtaposed melting clocks to get a poetry a dream. As art has progressed,...
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...The Last Supper and The Book Of Genesis Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most prominent men in history and was the creator of many new ideas. He created many works of art and invented many new technologies that would be considered extreme for the time period. One of the biggest works of art he completed was “The Last Supper”. This painting, done in fresco, plays a significant role in Christianity and depicts Jesus with his disciples. Along with “The Last Supper”, The Book of Genesis was produced to influence belief on a group of individuals. These works of art are cemented in history and can be connected to each other by their significant individual affects on human existence. “The Last Supper” and the creation story in The Book of Genesis are connected to one another by theology and both share themes such as creationism and humanism. To understand how these individual pieces of work are connected to each other, one must first breakdown why these works of art were created. The Last Supper is one of the most thought-provoking and controversial works of Leonardo da Vinci. It is a mural painting, which means that it is directly painted on a wall, and is created by Leonardo in Milan from 1495 till 1498. Da Vinci painted it for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza who decided that he wanted this religious scene painted. The Last Supper measures 15 feet × 29 feet and covers the back wall of the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. Leonardo spent 3 years painting...
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...Inspiration Art has always been a medium of expression. Previous art styles like the classic Renaissance Art style of the Victorian era to the gruesome Dada Art Movement reflected the current society’s state of mind. The Renaissance Art style reflected the common enlightenment of society, the embracing of new ideas whereas the Dada Art Movement of the early twentieth century reflected the grotesque effects that World War I had on the general public. However, the Surrealist Art Movement, developed from the Dada Art Movement, didn’t reflect a society’s state of mind. The Surrealist Art Movement emphasized self-expression and the exploration of the mind. The one who revolutionized this change in the usage of art is none other than the most influential Surrealist artist, Salvador Dali. Dali developed a unique art technique that consisted of manipulating the subconscious mind, allowing viewers to uniquely perceive his art in various ways. With his unique technique, the paranoiac critical method, Salvador Dali changed how the world perceived Surrealism by creating a distinction between a branch of Dadaism, Surrealism, and the previously renowned Dada art style itself: the elaborate use of the subconscious mind. The Dada Art Movement was the first global art movement that revolutionized how art would be perceived. The Dada Art movement was “founded in 1916 in Zunich by artists who fled their homelands during the first World War”, a time where war plagued the entire world (Hapgood 64)...
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...Surrealism and Pop Art Jeremy Shipe Western Governors University Surrealism and Pop Art Dictionary.com defines Surrealism as a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc. Further, the origin of the word is from the French (from sur- "beyond" + réalisme "realism"). This art period began in the 1920s in Europe and really culminated as a continuation of the Dada movement. Both periods relied heavily on irrational imagery and pushed the boundaries of what was thought to be art. The Surrealism movement was officially launched in 1924, after André Breton wrote “Le Manifeste du Surréalisme” and inspired writers and artists to develop art from the unconscious mind or without thought. Coming out of World War I, many European artists were disgusted by the violent images of the war and seemed to find solace within the images of their dreams. Sigmund Freud’s “The Ego and The Id”, was first published in 1923 and the Surrealist latched on to the thought of a struggle between the conscious and the unconscious. Surrealists have a style that leads for interpretation of each work very much to the audience. With psychedelic images and many items that just don’t belong; the artists often gave no reason for why they created their works other than how they envisioned the piece. Surrealism’s influence...
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...9/28/2015 Art is the beautiful thing created by human whatever it is messy or beautiful. People express their creative skill and imagination, and try to bewitch other people to their works. It is art. I watched the documentary that there is a man, Mr. Philippe Petit, walked on the wire that connected between towers at height a hundred and ten stories. He created art through his skill, bewitched everybody who saw his walk. His imagination and passion is almost impossible for other people. Is it art? Yes, tightrope walk between the Twin Tower is very creative and significant art. To create art, of course, people need to take time to build their skill. It didn’t happen over a night. What do you think of Mr.Petit’s tightrope walking? His creative skill and imagination are amazing. Mr. Petit spent most of the time to build his skill. He failed several times, but he never gave up. He went back and forth from his country to New York to create his art. He devoted all his efforts into it for his whole life. He has a great passion, perseverance. We could see it. It is a lot more difficult to create his art than any other arts. His imagination is different from any others. He did something that might be a dream for others. His creation isn’t normal. He bet his life to create his art. It is a signification art. As an artist, his job is to immerse his viewers into a world that he has built. In the book, ‘let the great world spin’, by Colum McCann, he described that how people were...
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...Art Appreciation Art cannot be classified into one category, style, or period. Art is very diverse, ranging from the beginning of the human being to today. Through the years, art has evolved dramatically from stick figures and two dimensional animals to three dimensional sculptures and intricate paintings. The artwork featured at the Seattle Art Museum shows many different types of art and features several different periods in which these artworks were created. Two pieces of art that stuck out the most at the museum was Albert Bierstadt’s Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast and Robert Arneson’s Pool with Splash. Both of these pieces of art showed character and seemed to almost speak to the viewer. Although there are many different periods and types of artwork, Bierstadt’s and Arneson’s pieces were the most intriguing. Robert Arneson is an artist who was born and raised in California. Robert was “encouraged by his father to draw” (Sward), so he followed his father’s advice and began creating cartoons for a California newspaper. After attending California College of Arts and Crafts, he began teaching “for a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics” (Sward). Although Robert had an interest in ceramics, he soon showed that he wanted to break away from the rules and boundaries of sculpting. He was part of a group that created pop art with their talents. In 1977, Robert completed his work Pool with Splash, where he is able to demonstrate the pop art style. Pool with...
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...SURREALISM Appreciation of Art/Craft/Design 2011 Introduction Everybody has concept about Surrealism. But not everybody knows, how and why it has got art movement, when an artist is part of a movement like Surrealism, I ask a question for myself "Did Surrealism enter to our century?", if yes - "How?". In this essay I’ll discuss about social, economic and political influences of the time when movement born, what influenced this movement and what subsequent influence did this movement have on others? Also I discussion about of one artist who made major contribution to Surrealism - Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) and try discuss about his artwork "Metamorphosis of Narcissus". Social, economic and political influences of time "Surrealism, was officially born in 1924 in Paris and had virtually become a global phenomenon by the time of it demise in the later 1940s" (Hopkins, 2004, p.15). It was difficult time for all world. Two wars: World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), Europe, as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan, would experience the effects of the Great Depression. "The early 20th century was a period of tumultuous change. The First World War and the Russian Revolution profoundly altered people’s understanding of their worlds. The discoveries of Freud and Einstein, and the technological innovations of the Machine Age, radically transformed human awareness" (Hopkins, 2004, p.20). Art movement - Surrealism There is an opinion...
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...Whilst in practice of the method, he also continuously improved and updated it through inter-disciplinary studies. In 1910, Stanislavski travelled to Italy where he explored the performances of Eleanora Duse and Tomasso Salvini. He thought their style of performance was free and naturalistic and they greatly inspired him on his theories of acting. During Konstatin Stanislavski’s life, he was a serious theatrical practitioner, therefore he not only created performances, but also produced dramatic texts for theatrical shows. He later proceeded to write texts on the art of performance such as, My Life in Art, An Actor Prepares, Building a Character and Creating a role. Stanislavski’s approach to theatre was highly based around experimentation. He committed to realism in his work and also tried to stand out against the idea of naturalism. At some point, Konstatin Stanislavski also explored the idea of symbolism, whereby symbolic images or specific movements would be used to create theatre. Stanislavski once said “Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.”. This quote links to Stanislavski’s acting method as he is essentially saying that actors need to...
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...On Art Theory As Art Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or representation of life-or even the afterlife-has surfaced time and time again in the form of artwork. Sometimes it comes through genius and complexity, full of meaning and symbolism. Others, it is simple and void of any clear meaning at all other than that it is art. Soon, however, there became a point when the work of art was no longer something one could just look at and understand; the principle of the matter had changed. Art leapt from viewable understanding straight into the Modern movement where theory became art, and to understand it, one must know the theory it is based upon. Never was this more apparent than in the artwork of the abstract expressionist. Essentially, artwork is not art because of theory, and art based on theory cannot be creative or truly said to be art. To understand all of this, from the beginning, one must begin with the Word. That is to say, one must start with the understanding of the theory, what became known as the painted Word, behind Modern art between 1945 and 1975. Probably the clearest and easiest to understand explanation of these theories and how they progressed through Modern Art history has been written by Tom Wolfe...
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...Task 1 IWT1 22 December 2014 In 1874, a group known as the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers organized in Paris, that created the first impressionist exhibition (Samu, 2004). This group championed exhibitions throughout the 1880’s, and it created an awareness that was opposed by the conventional art community throughout France. Claude Monet was an impressionist artist, and he created a work of art known as Sunrise. Claude Monet gave the name impressionism to the art form because a critic of his stated his painting was a sketch or an “impression” (Samu, 2004). Most of the paintings during this era were panoramas or outdoor scenes. My Uncle John is an impressionist painter. He enjoyed this period of art, so he decided to model his style after the impressionist era. He was drawn to this because the artists seemed to create their techniques focusing on light and how it impacted images. The method for this type of painting consisted of short irregular broken strokes with vivacious light and colors, which added breadth to the paintings. The phenomenon of transistorizes was realized through impressionism. When an artist ventures out into the wilderness with his equipment and attempts to capture every detail visible to them they are in a heightened state of mind as compared to an artist who sits in their studio painting (Collins, 2012). There were many changes that took place in the political, economic and...
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...This art was completed by a German artist named Hannah Höch during the year of 1919. Höch was born in and sadly died at the age of 88 in 1978. During her years, she was best known as one of the originators for photomontage. Photomontage is an art that involves a collage of multiple photographs that is cut out from printed text or media. She studied at School of Applied Arts in Berlin where she studied under the supervision of Harold Bergen. At School of Applied Arts, she chose to major in graphic arts, not for her enjoyment but to please her father’s desire. However, at the beginning of the first war in 1914, she like many women dropped college to help support the soldiers going to the war by working at the Red Cross. A year later after working with the Red Cross, Höch returned to school to finish her program; it was during those years that she met Raoul Hausmann. Raoul Hausmann was a member of the Berlin Dada movement and it was through him that Höch joined the movement in 1917. Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany is photomontage completed in 1919 by Hannah Höch during her involvement with the Berlin Dada movement. This artwork involves a collage of cut out press...
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...American Art before and after World War II Marty Rieth ARTS/125 June 27, 2016 Sarah Baer American Art before and after World War II The objective for the following paper is to discuss issues concerning American art before and after World War II. The discussion will include an examination of the artwork of three artists. Two artists will have worked during the Great Depression and one artist will have been an Abstract Expressionist. In discussing the artists’ work, a description of each work and its style will be included. An examination into the Great Depression and the purpose of artwork created during that time, whether they were tools for social reform, and other types of messaging that were present in the works will be discussed. Post-World War II Abstract Expressionism and how it differed from art work of the 1930’s will be discussed. Finally, an explanation into the style of the chosen Abstract Expressionists work and why they were interested in the style will be discussed (Was there a meaning to their work?). Artist Examinations Two artist that come to mind when speaking of The Great Depression are Maynard Dixon and Grant Wood. The artist Maynard Dixon showed his artistic abilities during The Great Depression by creating images in a style dubbed social realism. One of Dixon’s famous paintings was called Springtime on Bear Mountain. The illustration is of a plot of land from the mountainous western countryside. In the front is flat land where a...
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...Student Name: samantha heilman Student Email: samanthaheilman@yahoo.com Site Title: MyArtsLab for A World of Art, 6e Book's Title: A World of Art Book's Author: Sayre Location on Site: Resources > Simulations > ELEMENTS OF FORM: LINE 83% Correct of 6 Scored items: 5 correct: 83% 1 incorrect: 17% Submitted on August 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM (UTC/GMT) Time Spent:: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 1 Because line is an element that describes __________, it can be used in many ways to show shape and mass. Correct: one dimension ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 2 The outlines or edges of a figure are shown with: Correct: contour drawing ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 3 Lines that are created by the relationships in a picture but do not actually appear in it are called: Correct: implied ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 4 In Birth of Venus, the lines are: Correct: curved and flowing, expressing softness and peace ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 5 Line that is used to create a sense of movement or feeling is called: Incorrect: impressive ------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 6 The...
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...but nonetheless they have created many things like art, major cities, smelting iron, Arabic, etc. Despite the fact that Western art historians consider African art primitive because it is made by Africans, Pacific Islanders and Native Americans, it is not true that their art is primitive. This is just a nasty, rude and racist way of labeling people that have their own beliefs and traditions, and even though they are different to the European culture, they should not be considered as inferior, but equal. However, African art is not even considered as art by its creators because it has more of a utilitarian and magical use. Some objects are worn, used for dancing or some ritual is performed to activate the object and make magic happen. Thus, Africans draw no difference between craft like making a bowl and art like painting, they use it as an object that just needs to work to the advantage of that person. Through the discussion of these works, Hip Mask Representing...
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...Isamu Noguchi was born in 1904. His father a Japanese poet and his mother, an American writer, met when his mother helped his father with his English. Soon after he was born, Noguchi moved to Japan with his mother to live with his father; however, at age 13 Noguchi’s father married a Japanese woman, which led to Noguchi distancing himself from his father. Similarly in the book, “A Tale for the Time Being”, the main character moved back to Japan due to her father being laid off from work. In the early life of Noguchi, he was criticized for being talentless by Rushmore sculptor, which led him to take a different course; however, after his mother’s encouragement to pursue art, he left his pre-med courses and joined Leonard da Vinci School to study sculpting. At early in his life, Noguchi was using his mother last name (Gilmour), but after he left Columbia in pursuit of his dream, he changed his last name to that of his father (Noguchi). Living in Japan influenced a lot of Noguchi’s artwork. After the Pearl Harbor attack, Noguchi furthered his political actions by forming Nisei Writings and Artists Mobilization for Democracy in 1942, which was a group dedicated to raising awareness of the patriotism of...
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