us to see the world in new and innovative ways • An example would be Marcel Duchamp’s artwork, “Nude Descending a Staircase”. People undervalued and ridiculed this particular painting due to its name. Duchamp’s intention was to create motion picture for his painting, a type of “advanced art” that people could not see at the time. 3) They make functional objects and structures more pleasurable
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Let’s imagine a world that has been rid of art. Everything would be bland, color and pattern seemingly stripped from our daily lives. Music and dance would not exist, there would be no museums. Advertising would be plain and boring, television would be strictly reality shows, and movies would only be documentaries because the field of theatre wouldn’t exist. Who would want to live in world like that? Art is beautiful and expressive. Every piece of art from paintings to movies each have meaning behind
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(Walm)Art Imagine a world without art, a bleak and endless expanse of emotionless sorrow with no color nor feelings. War is always on the horizon, while death is an even more common occurrence than birth, A place where art is not as common an occurrence as breath filling the lungs of the oppressed. What was just explained was a form of art an image was painted in your imagination. The Parameters and standards for what we, as a society, consider art are constantly shifting and expanding. Trying
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of the more beautiful architecture of its time; its vast buildings and sculptures drew greatly from Greek and other classical styles of Arts. The images that was communicated by the present of the 1883 Chicago World Fair was a tribute to the dedication of America culture and the advancement they have progressed over the last few years. There was two intentions on the communication on the fair one was the White City in which held numerous amount of artistic and industrial exhibits, while the other
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main subject of the show was bike wheels; and the focus was in the repeated elements and how light and dark interact with the subject. The work was really interested in how the wheel and its spokes casts shadows and how to make a compelling piece of art out of this everyday object. The choice of ink lends itself really well to the subject, it is able to capture a broad range of value without changing the hue, so even though there is a variety of line weight and darkness and patterns it all feels
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Contemporary art- art that is relative to our current society. Art of the present. Artist is usually alive and making art right now. Being a flux: constantly changing. There is no unified, crystallized interpretation or theory of it. Diverse nature of issues, styles, and forms. Part of our culture and visual culture. * see a lot of mediums and diverse. * no dominate style or medium * what is considered painting is becoming blurred * New art forms appear besides traditionally recognized art forms
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Art and Intention A Nude Descending a Staircase was such controversial among the public, many critics responded with such negative behavior because he added nude to the title. I guess when you add nude to the title people just suspect that you are talking about a nude body. I think people felt intimidated by his paintings, and felt he was making a mockery of the audience because no one was able to find any nude bodies in the painting, because Marcel Duchamp I feel had nothing to do with any
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extent that it becomes something else.’, this statement certainly voices out our reactions towards his piece, we focus more towards the fact that the skull has been encrusted with diamonds more than the concept it is trying to serve. But are his intentions really just to achieve the idea of accepting death? Isn’t he just showing off his excessive use of spending? Was it really necessary for him to do such a thing? What does this say about his character? Death is viewed differently by different
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childhood. Her father was an engineer and her mother a reading teacher, but although her parents shared a general disinterest in the arts, Cindy chose to study art in college, and afterwards, and studied at Buffalo, at the State University of New York, in the early 1970s. In this period, from 1972 to 1976, in Buffalo, she began as a painter in a super- realist art style. The 1970s was an eclectic era for painters working in the aftermath of Minimalism, and feeling as though ‘’there was nothing else
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Censorship of the fine arts is not allowing or not permitting an artist to speak their mind and show the world how they are feeling and convey your message to the world or preventing the audience from seeing the artist’s work. Art is defined as the expression of somebody’s creativity or imagination through visual art, writing, poetry, singing, dancing, photography, digital art and film making. Censorship of art is blocking off an artist’s way of expressing themselves as well as breaking the first
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