...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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...Michelle Do Visual Art – Graphic Design Written Task (Tertiary) Teacher – Richard Baldwin Graphic Design Essay (T) Graphic Design during the 20th century has been influenced by four artistic, some also being cultural and philosophical, movements called Futurism, Dada, Surrealism and Modernism. These movements have played a large role in shaping the graphic design industry by bringing different meanings into the art as well as inspiring many artworks today. Out of the four movements, Futurism and Surrealism really stood out to me, and the two designers who were influenced by these movements are Fortunato Depero and A.M. Cassandre. Fortunato Depero (1892 – 1960) was an Italian graphic designer and he was inspired by the Futurism movement. Futurism was an artistic and social movement originated in Italy and it emphasized speed, technology and objects such as cars, planes and the industrial city. Since Fortunato was young, he was introduced and taught to develop different art techniques. He discovered a futurist paper called “Lacerba” in 1913 and was greatly inspired by it, this led to his approach to futurism. His career began as a fine artist, then developed into commercial art and later on in life he became the most successful graphic designer. His works include costume designs for stage productions, different advertising illustrations and as well as artworks he created to promote futurism and himself. He was also known for his cover designs for magazines such as...
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...river. Rene was able to find his happiness through movies and reading but most importantly though painting. In 1916 he left home for Brussels, where for the next two years he studied art at Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts. At his school where he was exposed to many different style of art. After that he was drafted into the war and did that for a year before he went back home. The type of style of painting that Rene painted would be surrealism. He is known for painting men in bowler hats perhaps autobiographical,but perhaps merely a prop for his visual game When he got home one of the first thing that he did do would be he got married. One of the first jobs when he just got back home would be a freelance poster and advertisement designer. One of the way that he was influenced to paint the surrealism style would be a painting by Giorgio de Chirico called the song of love. René created themes of mysteries and madness in his painting to challenge the assumption of human perception. Margitte had...
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...The Surrealism Art Movement Art Essay Surrealism is defined as a 20th century art movement which represented the subconscious mind of the artist. This style of painting involved creating fantastic imagery and ideas that seemed to contradict each other. In a surrealistic work of art, the world of dream and the world of fantasy are joined in the everyday. Surrealistic work can have a very rational, along with an irrational style. The surrealistic movement was first founded by Andre Breton in his painting titled Manifesto of Surrealism. Along with Breton, many other artists who have used surrealism in their paintings have previously belonged to the Dada movement. Surrealism was practiced with the use of various forms of expression. Salvador Dali, for example, used dreamlike perceptions of space as well as dream inspired images in order to create surrealistic images. Such artists have been labeled by the name of "verists" because their paintings were perceived as transformations of the real world. Salvador Dali's contribution to the surrealistic world was a "paranoiac-critical method." As it is stated by Aaron Ross; "The paranoiac critical method provides a window into that unknown world of unconscious, and yet does not present the danger of psychic inundation". This method was responsible for Dali's famous double images. It required the artist to perceive and paint different images within a single shape. "Dali was capable of examining his own 'paranoiac' perceptions and interpretations"...
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...politics. A film that exemplifies this relationship is “Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan” (Land Without Bread). This film is only 27-minutes and is directed by the infamous Luis Bunuel in 1933. Bunuel was a Spanish filmmaker of the 1920’s to the 1970’s. He is often attributed to being one of the major contributors to the surrealist movement of the 1920’s. “Ethnographic surrealism is a utopian construct, a statement at once about past and future possibilities for cultural analysis.”(Clifford, 119) ‘Land Without Bread’ has a clear connection between politics and aesthetics. It uses many techniques, specifically the narrator and soundtrack, in order to enhance the ostensible political meaning of the film as well as link it to the ethnographic surrealist movement. Many ethnographic surrealist artists turned their attention to the problem of representing otherness. “Bunuel identified what he saw as a Surrealist tendency to “use” bourgeois society’s ‘other’s’ to negate the cultural status quo while never giving these others their due”(Lastra, 55). Land Without Bread is considered one of the earliest forms of ethnographic surrealism. Fatimah Rony describes Ethnographic cinema as “above all a cinema of the body: the focus is on the anatomy and gestures of the indigenous person, and on the body of the land they inhabit”(Rony, 111). While many film scholars describe “Land Without Bread” as a documentary, Land Without Bread is in fact an early parody of the barely invented genre of documentary...
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...How can art create different meanings, in society? An art not only enhances understanding of the world around us, but it also broadens our perspective on traditional values that we hold today in modern society. Arts give us the creativity to express ourselves and in result creating meaning and value through master pieces of art work in all shapes and sizes. All this while challenging our intellect The type of style van Gogh would like to work was as a post-impressionist painter and the reason towards this style of work was due to wanting to create art works which held noble beauty, emotional honestly and bold colour all in one. Van Gogh learned his skills and developed his ideas in his early years by looking and copying paintings which he was most interested in and reading 19th century drawing booklets. In addition he felt to be an amazing painter an artist most first master the art of pencil drawing therefore he felt it was very important to master black and white before even thinking about adding and using colour and in such when he was happy with his drawing then he would add colour. Drawing in a whole allowed van Gogh to take in light and pictures much faster than painting and this lead to van Gogh firstly drawing out his paintings instead of actually just painting them right away. One of van Gogh’s famous art works was “The starry night” and it was produced 1869. In this art work I can see a small hidden town hidden behind a large mountain in a distorted form...
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...view manifested itself, which, though it may not excuse the disturbing nature of the work nor the exclusionary nature of the movement; it does provide a reason why. Though a number of factors are responsible for the overtly misogynistic characteristics of Surrealist art, how did the symbolism of the mantis facilitate the views of the artists in a visual form? Origins of Mantis Symbolism Biologically, the associations of the “mandit” originated from the violent mating ritual in which the female will cannibalize her partner during or after intercourse. The female has even been known to decapitate the male at the start of intercourse, which surprisingly does not impede fertilization, as the male body performs the sex act automatically. (Markus) With the preexisting idea of the “femme fatale” and other concepts themed around sexuality and seductive women being linked to death, the symbol of the mantis easily attracted the Surrealists, whose movement already drew strong connections between death and eroticism. Along with those associations, the mandit symbolism also became closely tied to the folktale “vagina dentata” which literally translates to “toothed vagina” and already existed as a main theme in surrealist art (Markus). To the Surrealists, the idea was the reality of their sexual insecurities, for it implied that sexual intercourse would result in emasculation, castration, or even death (Markus). Though many argue the superstition was spread as a cautionary tale in order to...
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...AN ASSIGNMENT IN CREATIVE THINKING Illustrate a quote, saying, phrase, or rhyme which everyone is familiar with. Show many methods (15) to communicate the message. After exploring the different methods, make a final design that is creative, unusual, and unique. WHAT EXACTLY IS CREATIVE THINKING? Creative thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of a problem (your problem is to illustrate a quote). Unlike analytical (logical) thinking, creative thinking is a process based around the “building up” of ideas. Creative thinking requires the ability to combine understanding, creativity and reasonableness. FOLLOW THIS set OF procedures USED BY Creative thinkers: DEFINE: Decide what problem you are trying to solve. Decide on who the audience is. Establish a glossary of terms. RESEARCH: Collect examples of other attempts do the same job. IDEATE: Generate as many ideas as possible. Do not judge or debate ideas. PROTOTYPE: Begin production of the project. Combine, expand, and refine ideas. Create multiple drafts. CHOOSE: Choose the most powerful ideas. Review the objective. What is the difference between make and design? What is the difference between make and design? Make is the process of creating something and making it into your own, or putting something together to make it a whole. Design is the act of creating or designing something to show the look or function of a building, garment or other object before it is built or made. Make...
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...position • Address aspects of the content area in relation to the question. For example if the question relates to an artist practice, provide information about the artists world and experiences that may have contributed to their artmaking practice. The main body of your essay: • Elaborate and develop your position. • Present a well-reasoned and informed point of view. • Refer to artists, craftspeople, designers, architects, art historians or art critics that support your position. • Refer to significant artworks that support the focus requirements of the question • Use quotes to emphasise an important point you are making to support your position. Depending on the requirements of the question, you may include: • How the artworks evolved from the artists conceptual and material practice. • How audiences interact with the artworks. For the conclusion: Depending on the question requirements, summarise or critically evaluate the position you have taken in addressing the question. Remember: Every subject has its own vocabulary. The Visual Arts has a long tradition of specific terms to describe processes, periods, styles, meanings...
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...SOX Act makes it mandatory for the accuracy of reported financial statements to be certified by senior management. In addition, section 404 of the Act influences the quality of the financial statements by specifying that the management should establish internal controls (Hart, 2009). However, in spite of the emphasis of the SOX Act, accountants continue to practice unethical behavior in accounting. In his article, “What Are the Causes of Ethical Lapses in Accounting?†Jagg Xaxx outlines four situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. Xaxx has been a writer since 1983, focusing mostly on environmental issues, Buddhist iconography, and surrealism. For more than 12 years, Xaxx worked as a cabinetmaker and in house building and renovations. Xaxx holds a PhD in art history and has in depth knowledge in different fields. In this article, Xaxx identifies four reasons why accountants engage in unethical behavior. The first reason is greed for money. The fact that accountants deal with huge sums of money may easily tempt people of a greedy nature. Accounting crimes do not involve guns and breaking into houses, and greedy people may consider it a friendly form of theft. Money is the only item that does not experience diminishing marginal utility; those who have money want and yearn for more....
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...the SOX Act makes it mandatory for the accuracy of reported financial statements to be certified by senior management. In addition, section 404 of the Act influences the quality of the financial statements by specifying that the management should establish internal controls (Hart, 2009). However, in spite of the emphasis of the SOX Act, accountants continue to practice unethical behavior in accounting. In his article, “What Are the Causes of Ethical Lapses in Accounting?” Jagg Xaxx outlines four situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting. Xaxx has been a writer since 1983, focusing mostly on environmental issues, Buddhist iconography, and surrealism. For more than 12 years, Xaxx worked as a cabinetmaker and in house building and renovations. Xaxx holds a PhD in art history and has in depth knowledge in different fields. In this article, Xaxx identifies four reasons why accountants engage in unethical behavior. The first reason is greed for money. The fact that accountants deal with huge sums of money may easily tempt people of a greedy nature. Accounting crimes do not involve guns and breaking into houses, and greedy people may consider it a friendly form of theft. Money is the only item that does not experience diminishing marginal utility; those who have money want and yearn for more. Accountants...
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...Modernism & Art Deco Report Paper History of Graphic Design Razan El Hout & Sherine Karout What is Modernism? Modernism is a up-to-date philosophical movement, founded in the Western Society, specifically Latin America; Mexico, Scandinavia and other places, during the early 19th till the early 20th centuries that sought towards innovative and upgraded ways to change their atmospheres. What helped modernism to develop was the fact that it happened during the industrial revolution. The movement prohibited enlightenment thinking as well as religious beliefs. All fields relating to activities and designs were developing in a new modern way. Domains such as: architecture, literature, religion and faith. Poet Ezra Pound, was a touch stone towards what it saw as the new obsolete culture of the past. By 1930, popular culture entered along with the stream of Modernism. Defining popular culture as the wholeness of ideas, viewpoints, outlooks, memes, images and other phenomena that are within the majority of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th C. This term traditionally has denoted the education and the general culture of the lower classes, meaning everything was mass-produced. An important alteration happened during this period was the collaboration of modern production/technology into our daily lives. Examples such as, electricity, the telephone, the automobile and the need to do other fixes and changes with them. They felt...
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...Essays for A Level Art, Photography, Graphic Communication objectives • To help you to discover and focus in depth upon an aspect of art and design that fascinates you. • To develop your understanding of art and design history and to see how artists exist and work within artistic and social contexts that help shape their work. • To develop your academic research, writing and referencing skills, in preparation for university and work. • To inspire you and allow you to then make better, more well-informed, practical work, that discusses complex issues and sophisticated concepts. Format • A written and illustrated final outcome of 3000 words with 10% tolerance. • No shorter than 2700 and no longer than 3300. • Fully illustrated by you. • Presented visually. • Related to your practical work • Includes evidence of contextual research; critical analysis; critical interpretation; personal response and engagement; and critical evaluations and judgements • It is an essential component of your A2 year but it is NOT worth more marks than the practical element. Title • Design an essay title that will allow you to make a critical and evaluative conclusion. • Consider the following examples. Which ones will result in the better A level essays? Why do you think this is? Title examples • Lucian Freud: A Study of His Life and Works • Justify the following statement: All photographs are fake • To what extent is PhotoShop the cause of mistrust in...
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.... Discuss the relationship between colour and space in the writings and paintings of Rothko. “The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their colour relationships then you miss the point.” – Mark Rothko There is no quote but the one I have mentioned above that really and truly culminates the message that Rothko (figure 1) wanted to communicate. Rothko forms part of the movement today coined the Abstract Expressionism, or which also became known as the New York School. This is a period in American art when the debt to European art is overcome and this new vivacious spirit takes over, emerging from Paris and New York. This movement took place after World War II. When studying the works and writings of an artist, one must keep into consideration the political background of the artist where there is a sense of tragedy, the writings which were taking place at that period of time and also in Rothko’s case as in his contemporaries like Newman and Reinhardt the religious background. Judaism will play a big part in Rothko’s works, which are ultimately there to bring out emotion. This school focused on two separate directions: one being that of gesture, which was brought out by artists such as Jackson Pollock (famous for his drip paintings) in his work...
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... |SYLLABUS | | |College of Humanities | | |ARTS/125 Version 2 | | |Pop Culture and the Arts | Copyright © 2010, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the interactions between the arts, advertising, media, and lifestyle and cultural trends in contemporary American society. Familiarity will be gained with the various art forms and their relationship to mass media, personal and professional life, and in particular to how they contribute to the current conception of fine art and popular culture. Students are asked to examine current trends and cultural changes, assessing both the role the arts have played in creating them and the influence these cultural trends have on art itself. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted...
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