Samantha Fitzgerald HIST 110 Winter 2018 How Did Art Reflect the Byzantine Era? INTRO: Art reflects life. Art reflects society. Art reflects emotions. Whether a painting portrays a king, or a building reflects advancements within a society, all art communicates ideas and feelings. While looking at a piece of art, you look into the mind of the artist at that exact period in time. The artist has been influenced by a variety of beliefs, perceptions, and community, all leading up to the final product
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historic and social point of view, it should be mentioned that this period was also marked by the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church, along with many religious movements aimed at reaffirming Christian beliefs. From the point of view of culture, art and literature were leading the years of the Golden Age; as a result, the Hispanic letters, along with other writings published during this period have to endure contributions to the Universal Literature. The blooming of the Golden Age brought the glory
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Industry Art It was a time of assembly lines and factories, booming population and industrialism, it was the 20th century and it was building speed. As the suburban American family turned the doorknob to their brand new, mass-produced, Levittown house they were clueless to the impact that their Model- T Ford would summon on the new modern art era. Hundreds of artists filled the modern era, but Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Banksy were among the few who were influenced by the new industrial world
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“Is photography art?” may appear to be a seemingly irrelevant question today. In our culture we are not only surrounded by media and marketing images for consumers. Camera images also function as decoration, provide spiritual enrichment, and give us insight into the past and present. In the years following the discovery of photography, however, this medium was criticized and critiqued while trying to be recognized as a form of artistic expression in a period dominated by painting. Similar to painters
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Arts and Culture Josh Whatcott Arts/125 December 08, 2014 Kristin Hunt Arts and Culture Culture and Art are valued terms which should not be separated as they are deeply intertwined with one another. Art is creation, quality, realm, and appearance based on aesthetics of beauty, or out of the ordinary. Art comes in a wide variety of facets such as painting, theatre, music, dance, and other visual abstract art. With developing technology, values are changing and thus creating an increase in
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Tyler Davidson Fountain The work of art that I experienced was the Tyler Davidson Fountain, which is a piece of architecture. I viewed this work of art during my fall break week on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm, while with my parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. This piece of art, also known as “The Genius of Water", sits in a public place in Cincinnati, Ohio, home of major league baseball team, The Cincinnati Reds. The first thing that I noticed about this art work was the water streaming from the
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The greatness and the beauty of art need not be vindicated by a mass fan base for it.Most of the critically acclaimed piece of art aren't like by the masses. As Oscar Wilde said,"Everything popular is wrong".Though I do not resonate with that quote entirely,I surely believe that you need not have a mass appeal to be classified as an artistic beauty. .For example,the critically acclaimed film,'Memento' did not rope in good box office collection .But once critics and patrons of artistic cinema profoundly
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The greatness and the beauty of art need not be vindicated by a mass fan base for it.Most of the critically acclaimed piece of art aren't like by the masses. . As Oscar Wilde said,"Everything popular is wrong".Though I do not resonate with that quote entirely,I surely believe that you need not have a mass appeal to be classified as an artistic beauty. .For example,the critically acclaimed film,'Memento' did not rope in good box office collection .But once critics and patrons of artistic cinema
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This specific piece of art looks weird and out of place in its setting. It has an unsettling contrast with the Milwaukee art museum which is a beautiful, sleek, and clean cut building. It is also in the middle of a bright green grassy field next to the beautiful lake. This sculpture is the opposite, and intentionally so. About 30 feet up in the air, there is a full-sized red car wrapped around a pole. The car is missing a rear view mirror, has a shattered windshield, dented in the hood, and
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"For the first time I know what love is; what friends are; and what art should be. Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love, more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of things like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art is both love and friendship and understanding: the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of things
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