The Art of Music Katrina Dudley-Proby MUS-101 Music Appreciation Michael Rader 01/11/16 Introduction Music has so many components and elements to it, from pitch, sounds, dynamics even durations. It could be someone singing a solo a cappella or with musical instruments. Music is something that is utilized in most of our daily lives rather it be contemporary, rhythm and blues or classical. The mechanisms that are used to produce sounds has a broad range ad categories such as, string, percussion
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Retrospective Programme: Hal Hartley Introduction: Hal Hartley (1959-present) is an auterist filmmaker tht was at the core of the independent filmmaking industry during the 1980s and the 1990s. The introspective nature of Hartley’s films provided a sense of stoic humor, spatial orientation of dialogue, and a gateway for interpreting the mysteries of life. This form of self-authoring style of filmmaking that crosses many differing genres. Hartley’s films tend to include the crime genre, thriller/suspense
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The Digital Arts movement have transformed they way we think of an art today. Computers have set a new stage for the artists, as they are able to create artwork from their laptops using digital codes. One of the controversial artists of this century is Yasumasa Morimura, who shed light on issues of sexual and gender identities, as well as ethnic background in the late twentieth century art world. Portrait (Futago) created in 1988 is a color photograph by Morimura. At first glance we see a close
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Since almost the beginning of civilized time art has been a way to express emotions and some have even used art to let go of feelings. There are countless different types of art: music, sculpture, painting, ballet, literature, and others. Every person has a different, defined style of fine art. America has a very distinguished type of literature greatly influenced by the wars of America’s past from the very beginning as colonies to post Cold War United States. Nineteenth and twentieth century America
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perfect employee, a perfect soldier, among others. The art made of the human body is a representation of the thought at the time and the artist, which is something that will be analyzed with the Greeks, Medieval and Renaissance point of view toward the human body. For the Medieval view of the Christian body, we will use the Coffin Lid of Francisco De La Sarra. During the Medieval times, the lives of the Christians were ruled by the Pope and God. The art was meant to let all Christians understand that by
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and ever evolving. She strives to release fonts that haven’t been send before. She spends time studying vintage fonts, combining and adapting them for modern day use. Cindy studies at the Northern Institute of Technology and Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She spent a portion of her career working as an apparel graphic designer. Until 2012 when she started her type foundry Cultivated Mind in based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since its opening the foundry has released 20 fonts many
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1923 into an upper-middle class family. School is what got him interested in art, though he only saw it as a hobby at the time. He was a huge jazz fan, and often went to concerts and drew portraits of the musicians playing. He graduated high school in 1940, and then set off to Ohio State University to take studio courses. After being drafted in the army for 3 years, he returned, studied some more, and became an art instructor for the next ten years. He married his first wife in 1949, and in
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The artwork in which I have chosen to discuss this week from the book is Robert Longo’s piece entitled “Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence”. In reviewing this Cast Aluminum art there is numerous amounts of iconography with regard to symbolism and motif in regards to imagery. Starting in the upper left hand corner as it faces you we see a women being carried by a man with her arm over his shoulder as if she has lost the good fight and needs help removing herself from the situation. You see the man
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Tyler Davidson Fountain The work of art that I experienced was the Tyler Davidson Fountain, which is a piece of architecture. I viewed this work of art during my fall break week on Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm, while with my parents in Cincinnati, Ohio. This piece of art, also known as “The Genius of Water", sits in a public place in Cincinnati, Ohio, home of major league baseball team, The Cincinnati Reds. The first thing that I noticed about this art work was the water streaming from the
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McWillis 3/6/16 Understanding of Art History The styles of art has change over the last hundreds of years and with this paper I will be examining the different styles such as impressionism, cubism, Dada, and surrealism. Each has its own important place in art history and all has produces very important pieces of art. I will show how each style progress and the main focus of each style. I gain on learning more about each style and how both styles change the way art is looked at and is done. Each
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