background of this artist is essential. This artists’ indoctrination into the world of African masks, the Dan Tribe specifically, would revolutionize the art world at the time and has had an impact on artists and viewers to this day. The artist is Pablo Picasso. In June of 1907, Picasso visited the West African masks exhibition at the Trocadero Museum in Paris, France. As he viewed the African mask exhibition, he exclaimed: “The masks, they were not sculptures like the others. Not at all. They were
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1. FOUR FUNCTIONS OF ART A. CULTURAL FUNCTION- Through the printed matter, art transmits and preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another. It broader’s one’s cultural background and makes more civilize and his life more enduring and satisfying. B. PRACTICAL FUNCTION- C. AESTHETIC FUNCTION- Through art, man becomes conscious of the beauty of nature. He benefits from his own work and from those done by his fellowmen’s. He learns to use, love, and preserve them for his enjoyment
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is to provide an overview about my experience attending the Philadelphia Art Museum on March 15, 2013. The museum is Located in Philadelphia, PA and the exhibition that caught my attention was Journeys to New Worlds it explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. Philadelphia Art Museum). A journey to New Worlds originates The exhibition is magnificent and
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I choose to find the art work that best symbolizes symmetrical balance first because I know it would be the easiest to find. After flipping through the book I landed on Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, or Man in the Time Machine, 1934. Symmetrical balance is defined by taking a piece of art and cutting it in half and having both cut pieces be the same or near perfect. With this piece there are some differences with the objects on each side of the man but I believe if you cut it
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I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night, because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it, blended with his own stigmatic emotion, is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France in 1889; Starry Night is aesthetically, artistically, and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the
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to reveal the hidden, and to show the world in a new way. There was a time when much of the world was illiterate. So in order to keep a historical record of things, people painted objects , made sculptures, other crafts and also told stories. Some art shows emotions that aren’t exactly present to the outside world, so the painter gives form to the intangibles or feelings. In other paintings, the painter reveals the hidden things such as the suffering of the people from a war or massacre. Lastly some
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attention. This work is called “The Starry Night”, by Vincent Van Gogh. This painting was made in 1889. This is made of oil and canvas and the measures of the painting are 73.7 cm x 92.1 cm (29 in x 36 ¼ in). The artwork is currently located in Museum of modern art, in New York. The first time I saw it, it immediately cough my attention because of the uncommon way of painting that is used. The picture is basically the view of a village from a high point, from where it is possible to see the whole thing
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conception, and introduces genre motifs of a dog, sack and pitcher in the foreground, eliminated in subsequent versions. The present painting, probably also painted in Venice, is more easily composed. The third and largest painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York (possibly identical with the one in a Madrid collection at the time of Cossio's pioneer work on El Greco), with its comparative largeness of conception, belongs to his Roman period, after 1570. El Greco did not again take up the subject
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Formal Analysis of Art Vincent van Gogh’s art has a lot of expression that he puts into is paintings to give the viewer a feeling of awe when they look at the picture. His lines are loose and free to make you feel like they are out of control. But they really aren’t he does this to give the picture some expression and individuality. By making the lines loose and free it makes the world that we may see so much more different. With this picture this is how he saw this village while he was alive
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I went to norton simon museum for homework, it was my first time been in norton simon museum, and I really enjot it. At first I thought it will be a really small museum. But once I arrive that museum was bigger then I thought. At the fornt of the museum there are many beautiful sculpture on the side of the walk way. And In the norton simon museum thery divided the mesuem in to different section. And the paint was organize by the time of the painter. We saw a lot of amazing paint , and also a lot
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