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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In the heart of Durham, you will discover a developing, innovative community centered around the iconic Parrish Street. Along Parrish Street is a series of six monuments. Each monument highlights Parrish Street and its history in some way, whether it be for the achievements of the black entrepreneurs, the significance of the investors or the institutions that made everything possible. There is also a window display in one of the former black owned businesses next door to the former Mechanics & Farmers
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For the vast majority of human history, the arts have played an important role in society. With the recent developments of technology, more specifically, mobile phones and television, art appears to be fading as most people spend their time watching television, playing video games, and texting. Despite this, the great works of literature of the past and present will last forever, never disappearing due to technology. Personal technology never lasts more than a few years, but the greatest pieces of
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Music is Beautiful Art Art can be categorized as many different things, whether that’s movie productions, paintings/drawings, music productions, theatre performances, etc. “Tolstoy does not define art in terms of its ability to express form and beauty, but instead defines art in terms of its ability to communicate concepts of morality. For Tolstoy, aesthetic values are defined by moral values” (Tolstoy, Para. 1). Popular things that are considered to be art are usually paintings, moldings, etc.
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Noticeable from the distance is the installation called For Lots of Lost Windows by Akiko Utsumi. It is conceptual art combining nature and man-made materials that invites its viewers to look beyond what is present in time and grasp the spiritual connection that the evolving nature presents. The scale of the installation is evidently intended to be large and visible from distance that it is too large compared to the common windows in our houses. The composition is divided from the foreground, the
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Reflection on the Indiana Historical Society The first thing that caught my attention at the Indiana Historical Society was how relatively new the building itself was. While IHS started in 1830, it didn’t move to its current location until 1999 and received a major renovation in 2009 to be reopened in 2010. You can tell that a great amount of time, money, and thought was put in to the Indiana Historical Society. It didn’t really give me the traditional museum feel that I was expecting. The majority
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Dance historians and theorists have often examined the question of “why dance?” in musical theatre. The purely danced constructs of dream ballets can be used to examine this question very specifically. Dream ballets came along with the creation of the book musical, which helped create musical theatre form we know today. Thus, dream ballets played a significant role in shaping the function of dance on the musical stage. In their original iteration, dream ballets served to expose the internal lives
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Text 1: “Art; Is It Art? Is It Good? And Who Says So?” by Amei Wallach “It seems pretty clear by now that more or less anything can be designated as art.” This is true, whether or not I think something looks beautiful, or a song sounds melodic it can still be considered art. Sculptures made of trash can be considered art, where I just see someone's leftovers gone rotten. Just like a pile of trash has the possibility of turning into a million dollar sculpture, all art has the possibility
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Is Charlie Russell’s paintings a positive or negative influence on American Indian culture? I believe that Charlie Russell had a positive influence on the American Indian Culture in his paintings. I also think that in most of his painting he was there and he saw all the things that he painted and I also think that he a had experience with the American Indiana’s and he might of stayed with them throughout the years. I also think that he learned about the American Indian culture and how they did
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Throughout the history of art, individuals have more than likely held certain beliefs about how or for what purpose a particular piece of art, which encompasses paintings, architecture, and everything in between, was created. In some rare cases, the identity of the builders or artists of a particular work has been called into question due to the fact that interpreters can not fathom how a certain piece of art could have been created by humans. One such piece of art, or more aptly a piece of architecture
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