the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, home of The Westervelt Collection. Mr. Hawkins graduated from Huntington College in Montgomery, AL with a degree in History. After college, he began working in the restaurant industry and continued for 15 years. While working in Tuscaloosa, he began volunteering with the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, and shortly after, he was hired as a member of the staff and worked his way up to becoming the Museum Coordinator. The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art houses The Westervelt Collection
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explore my opinions of Pop Culture and the Arts. Art to me is anything that can be pleasing to the eye and something that I can enjoy in my own way. Culture refers to how I was brought up. As with any expressions art can be a picture, painting, photograph, music, or a sculpture. Anything that one’s mind can create that they appreciate can be considered art. Looking at art one can see it in books, magazines, museums, on walls of buildings, or on someone’s lawn. Art is defined as the quality, production
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This Poem Reed protests against cultural dominance. Culture is a part of people, and language and art are parts of culture. And in this poem Reed talks about how people are made by cultures and lost to other cultures. However, Reed’s rightness of cultural protest is not of concern here, rather, the symbolic presentation of the mirror is under scrutiny here; and it can be said that the mirror represents art, literature and strikingly the poem itself. The poem starts with how an old woman becomes obsessed
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Midterm Paper A Short Paper Presented to Professor Spencer For: Art 315-01 By Brandi Robinson October 17, 2014 Hampton University Hampton, Virginia [pic][pic] Born in Oakland, CA, Humphrey received a BFA in printmaking and painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and an MFA in printmaking from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Humphrey is highly regarded as an artist and master printmaker. She created The Last Bar-B-Que after three years of
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I visited one of the student art gallery’s on APU’s campus; I went to the Duke Art Gallery. This gallery had maybe 10 pieces in it, but there was a mixture of different types of artwork. I felt like I could not relate to all of the pieces in the hallway, some of the pieces were hard to understand the meaning behind them. For example there was one painting of a man holding a deflated balloon and in the shadows there is an outline of a full, floating balloon. The picture is kind of dark and it
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Defending the Arts Tiffany O’Connell ARTS/100 Defending the Arts Art refers to the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination typically in a visual form such as painting and producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. They are various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance. The elements of the composition of the art are used to arrange or organize the components
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1. The portrait of Three Girls is a very fashionable piece of art. The portrait is painted by William Larkin who is an English artist basically from Great Britain. Larkin is often referred as the Curtain Master, because he quite interesting includes characteristic curtains to frame most of his figures in his portraits. The portrait is very bright and flashy with strong lightning, the colors used for the flesh in the portrait are very polished and all very close attention has been given to the rich
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Maria Helena Braga e Vaz da Costa’s, “Seeing, Filming, and Imagining Space: Images of (Post)Modern Cityscapes in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema” is a scholarly article discussing the use of urban and architectural cityscape within Brazilian cinema. In films, the city can be used for multiple purposes and makes up the ‘cinematic city plot’, comprised of the city’s buildings, streets, cars, and the actions of the people within the city using these structures for travel, self-reflection, and escape
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Fine arts and music education should continue in public schools. Anyone exposed to the arts and/or music benefits from life-long advantages. Education in these areas is associated with improvement in mathematics, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skills. These are very important aspects in life, all of them necessary in order to make a mark on society. Studies also show that involvement in the arts increases motivation, boosts confidence, and also improves concentration and
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Emily Morris March 9, 2015 RTF 305 Reflection 1 Best Post This article discusses the many different ways the different types of media influence youth and children. It identifies that different media have different ways of influencing children in the areas of: learning, violence, nutrition, sexuality, alcohol and smoking, and advertising. Children are so much more easily influenced by media because of their developing minds and the fact that they are still learning about social norms
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