Chezelle Coqueran Prof. Jennifer Swoboda ART 123 – Art Appreciation 24 August 2011 A World of Art The world is full of art. Some art is easily recognizable and pleasant to the viewer. Some art work is challenging and confusing to the viewer. And yet there is still art work that is non-appealing and even controversial, but is still worthy of conversation or debate. In this art assignment I selected five different pieces of art, by five different artists. The art work has appealed to me for different
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standing out in its kaleidoscopic mastery of aerosol art. The outdoor exhibit is an old warehouse that features the works of world famous graffiti artists and allows for quite the contrast to the museum that is located on the opposite side of the street: MoMA PS1. Founded in 1971 as an art and urban resource institute, PS1 serves as the leading contemporary art center in New York and since 2000, became an affiliation with the Museum of Modern Art. Sizeable alabaster walls and open space directed
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Mashell Chapeyama Topic: Art History Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Key Words: les demoiselles, Bonheur de vivre, Applied African Art Picasso and Cezanne Art evolved over many centuries to come to where it is today. Some artists copied or learned from others. That is what occurred about a century ago. Picasso and Matisse learnt a lot from Cezanne. Therefore there are similarities in the work of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. Matisse and Picasso took on cubists
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career and status and allowed him great success. Praised by Ludovico Carracci as “a prodigy of nature” was Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, who is better known as (Il) Guercino. Guercino’s Samson Captured by the Philistines, 1619, exemplifies the nature of art during the Baroque period because of its ability to engage the viewer both physically and emotionally. One of Italian art's great draftsmen, a largely self-taught artist, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was born in the town of Cento in Emilia-Romagna
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When looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 noticing the differences within each painting, in terms of their lines, is relatively easy. In the overall painting, the first difference noticed is the overall flow of the painting and the tone that it is set in. When it comes to The Starry Night you can see instantly that van Gogh idealized nature and its effect of the world. The lines throughout the painting are harsh and rough. The lines especially around
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Reading Art – Understanding Iconography The art work that I chose was Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The four roles that an artist take on is one to make us the public experience and see the world in new and innovative ways. I think that the second role that the artist takes is to make a visual record of places, places and events of their time. The third role that the artist takes on is to make functional things such as objects and structures more pleasurable and elevate these
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Pablo Picasso by Suzanne Blier Suzanne Preston Blier portrays Pablo Picasso’s work on African art and women as more than a simple interest, but a life goal and sort of obsession. It seems that to Picasso this scene of women and African art presented a mystery he sought to reveal. Through Picasso’s paintings of women, his interests in African masks and interaction with African art, Blier makes the point that Picasso’s engagement and interest in this field was led by the complexities it had to offer
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Golden Treasure I have visited the Metropolitan Museum many times and still seem to be amazed by the beauty that surrounds me. It is common to see paintings and sculptures, but not so ordinary to be able to view beautiful pieces of gold jewels. Gold jewelry is a symbol of power, royalty, high class and pure elegance and this room at the MET displaying different pieces is exactly that. I choose this piece because not only was I drawn to its beauty but it also reminded me of pieces my mother and
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures” - Henry Ward Beecher “I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the painting appears as in a dream” - Vincent van Gogh It is wide-spread knowledge that all ingenious people are a little strange, that their minds work in ways completely different to ours, that their perspective of reality is unlike that of common people
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Course: ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN A MULTICULTURAL AMERICA Multicultural Arts Website Evaluation and Annotated Bibliography The subject of the present website evaluation is Fauvism – a movement in art that was spread in the early twentieth century, known for its vivid colors and little attention to reality of the depicted subject matters. Even though the modernist movements in art are rather diverse, Fauvism is distinguished through a bright palette and bold brushstrokes. The websites selected for
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