In Victor Lombardi’s essay “Music And Censorship” he states his study that “using the value of art and the artist as a starting point, Lombardi shows how censorship is an attack against our right to pleasure-it is even an attack against truth: “a censored opinion, whether true or false, sidesteps conflicts and secures our distance in the truth” (201) My position is does the censorship to affect the art of musical artist and does it make it better than the mainstream music that isn’t? And what makes
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With every generation comes a new genre or change of genre. And with those changes come harsh criticism. New artists have been called everything from insane to just plain wrong. This harsh criticism isn't something new either, in fact is it has existed since even the classical music era with composers as famous as Beethoven. But throughout history, Why is there a repeating trend of artist who do “out there” things? Artists today are doing things that, to the normal person, just seem to be strange
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Fine Arts and Art itself has always been around, and there’s constantly been speculation about whether or not makes kids smarter/ gives them a head in school. Now, due to recent studies, it’s been proven that Fine Arts due in fact help kids in school, there is Evidence of its effectiveness in reducing student dropout, raising student attendance, developing better team players, fostering a love for learning, improving greater student dignity, enhancing student creativity, and producing a more prepared
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For thousands of years, artists have incorporated personal experience and understanding into their art to display their meaning of ‘our world.’ With such a broad topic, many artists choose to create their art around personal meaning or connection to an issue in today’s society. American novelist and painter, Henry Miller stated, “The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe
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The Timken Museum in Balboa Park exhibits European and American art in open, spacious galleries. The rooms are airy and bare except for the paintings or tapestries featured on each wall, and one sculpture in the center room. The lighting is mostly provided naturally through large windows and skylights, and the walls are rose-colored with a textured, triangular pattern embossed. The Dutch Room gallery features portraits and landscape paintings of, among others, the accomplished Flemish artist and
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Art is thought to have become an important part of Australia’s society, letting the populace of Australia express opinions of the urban to rural landscapes. But as Howard Arkley has expressed that the rural landscape is over- saturated. “Australian art has been dominated by the rural landscape – it’s romanticised -Most of the population live in an urban environment…” (Howard Arkley, 1997) Howard Arkley was a contemporary Australian artist, who was active in the 1970’s to the 1990’s. Arkley’s point
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certain images depicted on Moche ceramics. She argues that, “the archaeology is beginning to explain the ceramic iconography” (147). This is being done by archaeological findings providing factual evidence of the images which appear on ceramics and art. For example, Benson mentions that “...information on the subject of human sacrifice in the Moche culture came from the study of its iconography” (157). Archaeology is beginning to explain this depiction of human sacrifice as Bourget has
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relationships were formed during the Victorian Era. People moved from the country to the city thus causing a new social culture called the middle class. Women in the art world were not allowed to attend or be a part of the professional school of art during this time. Women did challenge this unfairness though and formed their own art organizations. They were known to play the role of a homemaker and this was expected of them. In G. B. O’Neill‘s painting, “Public Opinion” The people appear middle
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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Art is very unique in every aspect of its presentation. In my case, I chose to work on a black box with some items whose color relates to that of the box too. When I looked at this box, I came up with many questions like to who does this box belong to and why is it black. I had a deep feeling that the owner of this box was a simple man who was neatly organized as per his items inside the box. The color black
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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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