The Menil Collection This last week I visited the Menil Collection. I arrived at the Menil Collection around 1:00 pm and stayed there about two hours for visiting the many collections. Before I went there, I had thought that I was going to go there to look at a bunch of boring artwork. However, as I am walking on the sidewalk looking at this calm and peaceful neighborhood, I am falling in love with all the beautiful trees and the environment. It is a simple building, but it has a treasure inside
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The Swordsman of Harlem Walking through the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts you are able to see hundreds of pieces of art although, one stands out significantly. Kehinde Wiley's rendition of Willem Van Heythuysen instantly captivates everyone who sees it through its images, colors, and layout. Wiley, a New York based portrait painter casts all of his models on the streets on New York. He asks everyday people if they are interested in being a muse for his paintings. If they agree then they go to
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U. Art is an integral part of my life and I worked hard and dedicated all of my time to being accepted as a student at OCAD. In terms of my specific program, Illustration can be hard to define to people who are not very familiar with the field. I always simply define it as taking a problem and solving it with visual imagery. Something I believe that is essential to many everyday tasks and possibly at YMCA Day Camp. In terms of interests and hobbies, besides the obvious passion for visual arts, I
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for artist to speak and become popular. Art in the 1970s included Feminist, Performance, and Graffiti art. Along with art in the 70s, other events were also taking place at this time. The opening of Disney world in Orlando, the banning of cigarette advertisements, and the Feminist art movement. The 70s were a time full of drastic measures, and bold movements. In the 1970s, America was getting bold and creative this led to multiple things . The Feminist art movement started in the late 60s, and continued
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Modern cinema described both Staley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock as the pioneers of their genres and professions. Social culture on the other hand named Kubrick an undeniable genius, free-spirit and in a biography of Stanley Kubrick, a “talented shit” (Baxter) and Hitchcock “The Master of Suspense” and what I gather to be mainly just a sick, obsessive pervert. That all being said, these men faced the new world that was emerging in film. It was the early 1960’s and the Hollywood Studio System collapsed
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I picked the picture on page 513 by Barbara Kruger called We Don’t Need Another Hero. Kruger was a very talented photographer known for graphic design She was born in 1945 in New Jersey. She began college in 1964 at Syracuse University in New York to study graphic design. She later quit taking her own photos and began taking existing images and putting her own words on top of them. A typical picture of Krugers would be a black and white image, with white text in a red box so it grabs your attention
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The German cinema of the 1920s is generally pigeon-holed as part of the culture of the Weimar Republic (1919-33). And because Weimar culture -- described variously as 'radical', 'lively', and 'decadent' -- is seen, along with the republic's unstable political institutions, as paving the way for the Nazism which followed, it is not surprising that the German silent cinema has been saddled with a dubious reputation. Two famous books, Lotte Eisner's _The Haunted Screen_ and Siegfried Kracauer's _From
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piece is still art even though it is a protest to the other side.
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themes, but if we study them closely we can find the unique differences. My idea about an artist’s voice is that they express themselves by their beliefs, life experiences, and their personality. Communication with God has been a main subject for art in many cultures. For instances, I have heard that conceptual artist link their work to traditions. Some artist drew icons, which were believed to be able to talk to God. The Orthodox Church is an example, it came to maturity
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both of its arms, one of its eyes, and has deteriorated significantly around the "knees" and arm stubs but is otherwise in fairly stable condition. The Bouray God is an excellent example of some of the motifs and features of this period of Celtic art. The piece was made out of two bronze casts that were molded together and shaped by hammering to smooth out the surface.
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