is an unjust act of hate and prejudice towards another group of people, however art can be used as a means to fight against it, the movie The Interrupters shows how someone can break through the barriers of discrimination and bring light to a dark situation. Discrimination is a negative part of life everyone has experienced to different extremes, everyone has a different way to fight back, some people chose to use art. In the essay “ From the Souls of Black Folk: Of our Spiritual Strivings” by
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Art is known for being the product of its time (http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/historians-craft/katryna-santacruz/), meaning that art changes over the course of time depending on how the depiction of the world changes. With this being said, the depiction of women through visual history has also changed. Women are portrayed differently today in magazines, movies, and paintings than they were centuries before. The way that women were viewed in the world paved the way for how they were represented
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The Arts: Is it really OK to cut them out? The arts have always been a part of human history and human life itself; Paintings,dances,and songs are not even half of what the arts can truly accomplish as we can see in our society today, so imagining a life without them is very hard to picture. Unfortunately children across the nation have already been experiencing a life without the arts, and the problem is getting worse. In 2008, a majority of schools in the U.S. had major budget cuts, resulting
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First, I will need to say what Jacques-Louis David’s political messages that are encoded in his paintings that I can see. David’s messages were a crisis is coming, freedom and unity will happen, the cost will include blood and death and these messages can be seen in three painting. “Oath of the Horatii” shows three roman men in battle entire reaching for their blades that are being held by their father whom is holding them by the blades themselves with the wives behind the father sadden and hoping
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distinctive function that art performs in society. We must first decide what truly a work of art is. In my opinion, a work of art should be an artifact and the purpose of it should be to communicate and express thoughts and emotions. The history of art is vast as the earliest cave writings go back to approximately thirty thousand years. In class, we have discussed various functionalist theories of art and the question arose whether or not there is a distinctive function that art performs in society
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all art before the past two hundred years is not art. She says that everything, what was made in ancient times, is allocated by our culture and turned into art. I do not agree with her argument because there are many proofs that art in ancient times existed. Also, she says that art is what we can see in galleries, museums and exhibitions. People in ancient periods did not have many chances to present and demonstrate their works to general public therefore some artworks were found as an art only
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Roman art has entranced people for centuries and continues to do so even today. One notable piece of roman art is the Portrait Bust of a Flavian Woman. Her outrageous hairstyle and slender features offer a glimpse into the fashion and beauty of the ancient women of the Roman Empire. She is a statue bust that offers both mystery and knowledge. To begin with some background of the statue, the artist that created her is unknown. However, we do know that The Flavian Woman was created sometime during
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obstacle for those who take their photography careers seriously and are professionals. In the article, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin, he writes about a change in perspective in film and photography and discusses his argument towards the loss of the aura through the mechanical reproduction of art itself. He also touches upon how modern art has changed immensely since the beginning of its creation, and how it has lost a majority of its value. As social media
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two goals. The first goal he accomplished was to defend and elucidate why one should study history, and the second goal was to expound how one should study history. Though he wasn’t able to finish this book but we can say that this book was successful in creating an image of history by introducing it to a whole new height of prominence from the beginning phase. “Tell me, Daddy. What is the use of history?” His famous opening lines gave an expression of a meaningful occasion in Bloch’s, and all humankind’s
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the study of art from 1400-1600? Ideas of the Renaissance The hierarchical phenomenon operating between the years 1400-1600 shaped and organised Renaissance society, heavily defining codes of conduct and correct communal correlations. What’s more, it was a comprehensive and widespread concept that manifested from various angles in Italian Renaissance art. Hierarchical influence can be encountered when considering the contention between several aspects of Renaissance art, and the bearing
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