“I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life”- Dennis Hopper. On May 17th 1936, on a farm in Dodge City, Kansas the all American director/actor by the name of Dennis Lee Hopper was born. Dennis Lee Hopper was always involved in art throughout his life, with being a painter, photographer, and artist. With an
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Beyond the three image functions, the colors and shapes also play crucial roles in creating meanings as hermeneutic images. These two elements that are labeled as ‘cognitivist-oriented’ that predominantly rely upon the contemporary social ideology and cultural influences (Forceville, 90). With reference to Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Blending Theory, they indicated that the distinctive semantic inputs embody certain interpretations of metaphors in mind based upon memories
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floor on 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028 is the MET (Metropolitan Museum of Art). I was here because of my New York spring break trip with my orchestra group. As we passed splashed paint sculptures, vibrant black & white drawings, and tiny photos within a picture. I stopped and and found my painting that I was drawn towards to. Why was I drawn toward this? Because on an orchestra trip I was looking for a remarkable art painting that represented any type of musical aspect. I found out that Daughters
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beginning of the 19th century, Neoclassicism was the dominant art form of Europe. Neoclassical artists studied nature and the art and literature of Ancient Civilizations to extract basic truths about beauty and honor. By utilizing themes and styles from the ancient Greece and Roman Empires, Neoclassicism emerged in the later 18th century as part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures. The Neoclassicism movement in art encompassed painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was particularly
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Is she a real new “Princess”? Media has grown into the ultimate medium of mass communication, a popular agent used to illustrate a “reflection” of the societies throughout the ages. In general, media has overcome multiple issues of representation of different genders, sexuality, classes, ethnic and racial groups (Hoynes and Crouteau). Nevertheless, these matters are not completely evolved yet. Media producers substitute the blunt way of displaying their demeaning opinions, into a subtler version
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Describe how lines are used for visual effect in artwork. All lines mark a visual path between two points, leading the eye around a composition and serving as the base that constructs a work of art. However, artistic lines differ in an infinite variety of ways, not just varying in width, length, or direction, but also in shape, pattern, outline, depth and texture. They can convey an enormous range of emotions - everything from delicate, tentative elegance to brutal, forceful power. Additionally
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derived from Roman art, which in the hands of northern craftsmen assured strange shapes, and gradually, through copying, lost their identity” (Curle, 241). The Vikings were able to take some geometric form and ornamental detail from Romans. Both were known as barbaric fighters showing that art in the zoomorphic style stands as a rich resource for the study of evolution within art and culture. Figure II: Oval Brooch, Copper-alloy. Viking, 900-1000. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Importance of Perspective As I sat in class and watched Stranger with a Camera I didn’t get how the class could draw any meaning from this film. It almost felt like we were watching something just for the sake of using up class time. I didn’t have a clue as to how this related to this class at all. It was only when I watched it for the second time, still skeptical, that I had a true flash of brilliance. It was all there in front of me; I realized that this film has a deeper meaning than most
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Art can definitely be communicated in many ways through our modern society. Some of these art forms include paintings, march posters, and sculptures. These all have the opportunity to portray an artist's feelings. Paintings are able to communicate through techniques such as color, composition, and contrast. A painting that I found to be strongly communicative would be "Mother Nature's Hope (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site." by a deaf artist, Jiaya Zhou. Zhou is showing her
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of Republican portrait style and I would like to upgrade it by giving it a more modern Augustan appearance. The sculptures in their current state possess many of the qualities that were common in the Republican era of portrait art. A major indication that this work of art is of the Republican style is the sign of age in the face of the man of the left of the sculptures. An aged face was very common during the time period and many portraits from this time period possess this quality of age. It was
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