What is art? Art is considered to be a graceful method in which a story can be told. Art can play a key role in how we perceive the world. We use art to express emotions and present important messages, like with childhood memory or world issues like global warming. To make their point they may use a different or unusual material such as Vik Muniz, who used trash from the landfills to show the hard life of the trash collectors. In doing so Muniz sold his art to pay the poor workers of Jardim Gramacho
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Water-Young-Il Ahn On the day of Friday April 10, 2015, I Angie Ramirez visited the Long Beach Museum of Art and came across a painting that I found breathtaking. The painting happened to be by 80-year-old painter, Young-Il Ahn. Water ALB14, is a painting inspired by the ocean. It is a large piece of art; one that is even taller than me; keeping in mind I am five feet two inches and this painting measures at exactly 72 x 60 inches. It is oil on a canvas and is part of Ahn’s A Memoir of Water Works
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only parrot diminishes its reality.” Pablo Picasso was one of the fascinating people in our time. His work encourages others who want to be artists. If you are interested in life and work, then read. Pablo Picasso had a fascinating childhood, amazing art work, and a credible adult life. Pablo Picasso, was his life interesting when he was a child? This amazing was born in October 25, 1881.When Mr. Picasso was delivered, he wasn’t breathing, the nurse who delivered him put him aside. When the nurse came
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Searching for a specific work of art through all of the marvelous pieces was a difficult task, but one seemed to stand out from the rest. The artwork that I chose to visually analyze is Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin painted by Jean-Marc Nattier in 1759. It is a wonderful oil on canvas piece with the main focus of the painting being a beautiful woman draped in a white gown with golden hues and a vivid blue shawl. Jean-Marc Nattier was a well-known portraitist while in the French court under
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| Humanities Today | | | | 6/25/2012 | HUM102 | | Humanities could be described as the blend of history, culture, mythology, literature and art in some cases. It establishes the past, the present, and the future, life, and destiny of society. With humanities, we are able to discover how life and all humanity became of existence and evolve over time. Humanities can assist people in different cultures and ethnic backgrounds to recognize, understand, and establish the meaningful
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deserves to be referenced as Queer art and or Feminist art? This ignites so many questions, that revolve around who that consumer may be. For each of us being consider Queer or Feminist may require a changed definition. For myself, Queer/Feminist arts boldly holds a variety of meaning. It is a way of life, a practice of immunity of limitation towards a performance of foreign approach without any structure of policing. The simplistic nature of Queer and or Feminist art can be easily over processed or
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years he lived with his father, Anchor Kulunba, at Mumeka outstation. Njiminjuma said that his father and his uncle Peter Marralwanga showed him how to paint. In the 1980s Njiminjuma took on the role of teaching his younger brother John Mawurndjul the art of bark painting. Njiminjuma was adept at painting a number of subjects, and one of his recurring themes is the yawkyawk. These figures are understood to be a kind of female water sprite, and the Kuninjku often paint them with
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After the Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the late 17th century which promotes focus on reason and individualism, political and social reexamination become more and more present in the art. The new paradigm occurs in The Raft of the Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse) by Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault, an oil painting created in 1818 and 1819. Although the formal differences between Romantic and Modern artworks, Yellow Harbor (Gelben Hafen) by Paul Klee, a watercolor and transferred
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Interesting ideas of Art Art can be a lot of different things to many people. How everyone sees a piece of art and interprets the work is usually an extremely personal matter. Each person needs to ask themselves a few questions when examining the work. How does the artist feel about their work? Why did they choose that particular array of colors, and in the amount of balance with the color? I often wonder about my personal reaction to a piece of art work. I have chosen to discuss the work of
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the original skull. For Hirst, famous pickled of sharks and bovine bisector, all his art is about death. This piece, which was cast from an 18th-century skull he bought in London. Entitled “For the Love of God”, apparently in response to a question posed by Hirst’s mother (“For the love of God, what are you going to do next?”) Inspired by Aztec turquoise mosaic skulls held in the collection of the British Museum, Hirst thought it would be great to create a diamond version, but was originally deterred
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