One of the most famous and most frequently quoted statements about the moral responsibility of artists can be found in Oscar Wilde ’s preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,” writes Wilde, “Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” His claim is that works of art are legitimate objects of aesthetic judgement, but not of moraljudgement. Wilde added this preface when the novel was reprinted a year after its initial publication
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contemporary art? Women have always been a common subject of art not only created by male artists, but female artists as well. In the late 1960s, the feminist art movement emerged following the women’s suffrage movement. The art during this era included works that obviously dealt with the female body even if the artists did not fully establish themselves as feminists. On the other hand, there were artists, like Paul Gauguin, who represented women in a different way. He spent some time in Tahiti
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Conrad aiken tragedy, Aiken was taken to Massachusetts to live with relatives. He graduated from the Middlesex School and Harvard, where his classmates included T.S. Eliot, with whom he established a lifelong friendship. He lived in England for several years, but his main home for most of his life was Massachusetts. During his last 12 years, however, his home was the brickfront rowhouse in Savannah next to the one in which his parents died. Aiken wrote or edited more than 50 books, the first of
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dramatic artist during the beginning of the 20th century. His art referenced cubism, with the assistance of Georges Braque, collages and was influential with his contributions to symbolism and surrealism as well. Picasso viewed himself as a painter first, and then all other areas of interest just seemed to follow in suit, which were sculpture, ceramics, and print-making. The Spanish painter, sculptor, and graphic artist; Pablo Picasso was one of the most productive and revolutionary artists in the
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in art and understanding of the human physical features and natural sciences as depicted in his art. Leonardo da Vinci was also an accomplished musician and scientist. No other artist of his generation had such exceptional ability and left behind such a wealth of graphic work. He was somehow controversial and as a young man he was accused of being a homosexual (Frank Zöllner 2002 p.7). However even though most of his works were of exceptional quality he had a tendency of not finishing his works and
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voice among several different groups of artists from across Europe and in New York. Today, Dada is understood as an art movement, chronologically somewhere in between Futurism and Surrealism. Yet, Dada cannot be understood simply as a visual art movement, but instead as a literary movement. Rather than through painting or sculpture, Dada is best understood through the text, manifestos, poetry, and magazines produced by the Dadaists. Dada visual art by artists like Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, or
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Tattoos Trend or Taboo Com 150 February 6, 2010 Tattoos Trend or Taboo While in the past only bikers, hoodlums, and trashy, ladies had tattoos, more people are acquiring tattoos. Tattoos; one either has them or does not; one either likes them or do not. I myself have 15; I am not a biker, a hoodlum nor a “trashy lady.” After my first tattoo, a simple heart on my shoulder I was addicted at this moment have 15 tattoos. Most have meaning, like the
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One art example is the Dipylon krater, Athens, ca 740 BCE. During the Archaic Art, 600-480 BCE the earliest real-life stone statues appeared in Greece. The first Greek kouroi copied the frontal poses of early Egyptian statues, however designed the young men nude the same way that the men competed in the Ancient Olympics. In the beginning of the early 6th century BCE, Greek sculptors recreated the magnitude of the shapes and included “Archaic smiles” to their faces to make them more human-like. An
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Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1843, which revolutionized Victorian art and literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood"). However, it wasn’t until 1853, after the Brotherhood fell apart that Rossetti truly found his calling as an artist. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, originally named Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, was born on May 12, 1828 in London, England. His father was an Italian expatriate and Dante scholar who was exiled because he wrote poetry in support of the Neapolitan Constitution
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century Delft, Chevalier’s novel explores the deep but forbidden love between a young maid and her master. The author’s clever combination of an intriguing story, remarkable characters and descriptive language allowed her to explore the themes of forbidden love, predators and sexual desires. For hundreds of years people have wondered who is the girl in the portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted by a Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in the 17th century and what is the connection between them. This
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