photos its silent. Each art piece was telling me their meaning, a story, or showing their beauty. There’s lines stretching as long as the building, people waiting to see the Mexico exhibit. Also, there’s a wall referred to Young Master or the AP Art student work, it’s amazing how someone so young can create something so brilliant. That’s what keeps repeating in my head throughout the museum, “Wow, someone made this with their hands?!”. This was my first time visiting an art museum, so I was in disbelief
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Samantha Fitzgerald HIST 110 Winter 2018 How Did Art Reflect the Byzantine Era? INTRO: Art reflects life. Art reflects society. Art reflects emotions. Whether a painting portrays a king, or a building reflects advancements within a society, all art communicates ideas and feelings. While looking at a piece of art, you look into the mind of the artist at that exact period in time. The artist has been influenced by a variety of beliefs, perceptions, and community, all leading up to the final product
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Aesthetics (also spelled æsthetics or esthetics) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.[1] It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste.[2] More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature."[3][4] Subject matter, in general, is anything which can be content for some theory
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"For the first time I know what love is; what friends are; and what art should be. Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love, more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art is both love and friendship and understanding: the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of things
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Art is an almost limitless vehicle for expression. It takes a wide variety of forms and is always evolving into new avenues of expression over the centuries. People have used art since the beginning. In prehistoric times cave art was used as a form of storytelling using pictograms. For example, cave people used charcoal to draw onto the roofs of caves. To this day, these drawings depict the hunting of animals and record part of the lives of people long ago. This is an example of one of the
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Marcel Duchamp’s painting the Nude Descending a Staircase, and Michelangelo’s David were pieces of art that were met with heavy criticism in different ways. Duchamp, more so for his painting was deemed unrealistic and when initially viewed the audience found it insulting. Michelangelo’s statue David on the other hand received criticism due to political views and societal views about nudity. The objections seen and posed by audiences in the Duchamp painting was in that it didn’t make sense, there
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Art and culture is a unique element that is present in every society and nation. It expresses the ideas, feelings and values of a society. It can justifiably be said that the richness of a society is determined by its art and culture. According to Theodor Adorno, culture is described as “that which goes beyond the system of self-preservation of the species,” which seems to contradict its essentiality to society. Even with rapid changes in the world through wars and civilization, arts and culture
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During late morning of the 27 of October, 2016, I attended Radiant Messenger, Drawings by China Mark, at the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne, Florida. I am made aware of the event through my Art Appreciation class, and attended the exhibition with my classmates and teacher. This was my first time ever attending the Foosaner Art Museum, and was delighted at its elegant interior and cordial staff. My fellow classmates and I were dressed casually, while the staff at the museum was more professional
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fall, she'll bid farewell to this world and her dream to carry on her life as an artist even at that hard time.The time is harsher than real life as the period,here,is no Renaissance period and the patronizing spirit of the patron and appreciation of good and true art is not the religion of the age;the artists of the period have to live in exchange of writing signborads and working for advertisments.Our Sue and Jhonsy are not the exceptions.Where the commerce is too strict by the wish of the artist's
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with the nature of beauty, art, and the creation and appreciation of beauty. Francisco de Goya’s art work of “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” is an example of aesthetics. Dreams are defined as a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntary in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Frequently dreams are said to portray events and images that are highly unlikely to occur in physical reality. In Francisco de Goya's portrayal in his art “The Sleep (or dream) of
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