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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What is Art? One man’s trash may be another man’s treasure, but does this same rule apply to art? Among other things, art entices beauty through visual appeal, depth, technique and intent, and as no one person is guaranteed to see the same things as another, this can make it difficult to discern what is art, and what is not. Art is personal, but what separates the average man’s stick figure from world-renowned works comes from the artist’s intent and technique, ultimately leaving a lasting impression
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Jay Kempson Art 309 Professor Dietrich April 27, 2014 Prime Movers An artist is a person engaged in one or more spectrums of activities that give the viewer their interpretation of a creation. Creativity is of course the key to a successful artist and finding new ways to present a new concept or even an old one in a different way is a task in itself. The following artists; Tom Sachs, Andreas Slominski and Gabriel Orozco have captured my attention in their engineering of different
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Argumentative essay Music and art are how a culture expresses its creativity. Creativity is the base of learning. In the past years neuroscientists have explored the way our brains perceive, and react to music and art, including studies of the relationship between musical experience and emotion, and between our auditory and visual systems. Public schools should provide music and art education because their students gain great benefits from it. They prepare students for success in school
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though does not the extend the piece as a call for legal change. Therefore, "Old Man's Cloth" has an ambiguous effect of the legal system in context to the region in which the issue is present. Anatsui's work is placed in a the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, far distanced from Western Africa. Moreover, the artwork does not readily ellecit an emotional reaction in which demands the action of the viewer. By this, those effected by their viewing may feel sympathy for the individuals involved, or
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going to compare and contrast are both similar, but different at the same time. I chose the painting by Jacques Raymond Brascassat called “A Bull Fight” while at the museum. Then I went home to research other paintings on the museums website and chose “A Gust of Wind” by Gustave Courbet. In my essay I’ll discuss what makes them similar art pieces and how they compare different to each other. Plus, I will describe how each painting used the same visual elements, but also very different ones at the same
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The Powerful Portrait I first saw this remarkable piece of art when visiting a museum. It was a portrait of a woman of African descent. She wore a head covering called an Tignon. They were worn by women who derived from an African ancestry. In the 18th century women were mandated to wear it in the south of the United States under Spanish rule. The woman was painted with Acrylic and ink on linen. Her Tignon was painted in greyish neutral toned pattern, and her face and neck were covered with colors
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Tattoos: Why are they leaving their mark on Generation Y? The practice of tattooing has been one of civilization’s most enduring art forms, with references to it going back over 5000 years. The practice has been both revered and stigmatized. The Victorian gentry used tattoos as status symbols until the invention of the electric needle, which made the procedure more commonplace. With its rise in popularity and its association with the lower classes, sailors, and even criminals, the elite
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Zahra Jamal Art 101-1 Sarah Hanrahan Apple 12/14/2014 Theo Jansen Strandbeest Theo Jansen is a Dutch Artist born in the Netherlands, he studied physics and had a great skill for it and also for art. From his interest in both it seems as if he greatly enjoys projects. “Jansen’s artistic career began in 1980 with the creation and subsequent launch in Delft of a ‘UFO’ – a 4 meter-long artifact filled with helium and driven by lights and sounds”.(cityvision) “A few years later he developed the painting
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Formal Theme- The Circle The piece I chose to analyze for the formal theme was Circles in a Circle by Vassily Kandinsky. This painting on oil canvas created in 1924 and is currently located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In this work, a thick black circle surrounds twenty-six overlapping circles of varying sizes and colors, many of them intersected by straight black lines. Kandinsky began a thoughtful study of the circle as an artistic unit starting from this painting. It was one of his first
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