How Would You Change Government Arts Funding? The arts are a vital to our society, it helps us understand the past and future, and constantly provides us with a reminder of what we can offer to this world. In an address about the arts for students and the spouses of international leaders, our first lady Michelle Obama stated, “It is through our music, our literature, our art, drama and dance that we tell the story of our past and we express our hopes for the future. Our artists challenge our assumptions
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For my art excursion, I visited Opus 40 in Saugerties New York. The exhibition is a large outdoor sculpture park. The sculpture park was created by Henry Fite who purchased the lot of land that is now Opus 40 in 1938. At that time the lot of land was an abandon sandstone quarry. Fite, an art professor at Bard college, set out to dedicate the next 40 years of his life to building a massive sculpture from the quarry. The stones in the sculpture were each hand laid by Fite himself. He used methods derived
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true art. Clement Greenberg who was notably one of the most influential art critics of the twentieth century and an avid supporter of the Abstract Expressionism movement was also a important supporter of Pollock’s work. 2. Using language and terms that are related to the critique of art, compare one of Pollock’s earlier works with his drip paintings. The ”She-Wolf “ was Pollock’s 1943 piece that was featured in one of his solo exhibitions and his first piece that was entered into a museum collection
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the School of Arts in Chicago, and then to Art Student League of New York City. She later attended the University of Virginia, and Teachers College of Columbia University.
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As soon as you enter the Pearl Fincher Museum is really hard not to see this beautiful painting by Rosella Namok who started panting on canvas in 1984 in her community of Lockhart River. All of her paintings are personal in nature they tell a story in her life, culture and country. Namok is widely known for her technique of layering thick paint onto the canvas and slowly stripping away the paint with her fingers and other implements to reveal what lies beneath. The painting of Namok is interesting
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The Present and Forward The Parthenon marbles are works of art taken from the Acropolis of Athens by Lord Elgin and brought to England while Greece was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.. Lord Elgin received permission from the Sultan to remove the statues at a price less than what it takes to transport them. Money was not the main motive for Elgin in acquiring them, there were wealthy bidders who attempted to buy them from him but he refused. Once in England many found a great interest
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Art with an intended reaction A German artist wants to install a terminally ill patient in a gallery as an exhibit. In Nicaragua last year, an artist displayed a starving dog, tethered just out of reach of food, as conceptual art. In New Haven, Conn., an artist claims to have made multiple attempts to impregnate herself and then induce miscarriages as a work of art. All these artists say their projects are intended to start conversations. But apart from all the shouting about indecency and insensitivity
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Patric Rooney Intro to Fine Arts Gary Towne The fine arts are comprised of multiple forms of arts, two of them being visual art and music. I decided to analyze one piece of visual art and one piece of music, based on several different elements of the respective categories. I chose to begin with the visual art piece, The Arnolfini Wedding, because of its many small and intricate details hidden in the artwork. Jan van Eyck (Flemish, before 1390-1441), The Arnolfini Wedding, 1434, oil on oak
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street. He received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Wisconsin in 1970, and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1973. From 1973 to 1977 he was Assistant Professor of Art at The University of Oklahoma in Tulsa. In 1979 he started working with his Museum of Modern Art installation Gathering Dust. Here he created thousands of tiny sculptures pinned to the walls. His work has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world. Donald Lipski is
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Art in ancient Greece during the classical period was identified by the more idealized and naturalistic bodies depicted in the sculptures, compared to the Archaic period that came before it. While vase paintings during the time weren’t nearly as naturalistic, they still displayed idealized figures that exemplified the period. Mythology was a common subject matter of both the sculptures and vase paintings. The object found at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The
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