Katherine Dunham was influential because she chose to break away from what was traditional in America to explore and share the culture of other countries. She began doing so in college, when she was working on research as she was studying anthropology. Dunham always tried to find ways of connecting dance to what she was studying because dance was her passion. She traveled to third world countries such as Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Cuba, and she toured many other places as well with her dance company
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The film that I watched and chose to write about is Xapiri. This film was made by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima in 2012. The documentary takes place in Brazil and it consists of many different digital images, art, emotive photography, and much more to make this piece so fantastic. The movie was made to try and explain the Yanomami ideas and their connection to Shamans and the idea of Xapiri. The indigenous Yanomami people settled in the Amazonian rainforest mainly in Brazil and Argentina. Their culture
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Marilyn, painted in 1967. Breaking away from tradition, this was one of many portraits Andy painted in his artistic lifetime, and a prime example of the ever so popular movement called Pop Art. Not only did he start a movement, but as he became more and more well known, Warhol broke down boundaries, creating the art world we have today. Born in Pittsburgh in 1928, Andrew Warhola lived a simple life. Youngest
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven highlights the importance of art in a world that needs more than survival through connections of modern society and a fictional post-apocalyptic society. In addition, Mandel uses the post-apocalyptic genre convention of sadness to discuss how the characters in the novel utilize art to deal with hardships. With the publication of this novel being significantly recent, Mandel tries to appeal to an audience living in a time that is dominated by modern technology
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Although the integration of the arts is universally beneficial to all students, there are some convincing arguments to hold back on adding more arts programs into schools. The main argument, and most compelling, is the lack of funding for such programs. In recent years, there has simply been more importance placed upon math and science programs than the arts, with nearly $3 billion cut from arts funding in the last year (Wallace). However, this lack of state and federal funding does not definitively
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Walk On Water, by 30 Seconds To Mars, is a song that depicts America in every corner. They support showing America by using imagery in their video, and factual details on top of the imagery. The purpose of the piece is to educate and to persuade the audience so that they know more about America and to think differently about it. 30 Seconds To Mars uses a very electrifying tone for the population of America. The music video for Walk On Water, by 30 Seconds To Mars uses a bundle of imagery to depict
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meanings. We shouldn’t look at them as solely products of art of craftsmanship. Usually aesthetic appearance is not the real purpose of the object, the essential aim of the artifact might be related to ritual rites, statement of power, or to afterlife concepts. Thus being said, each object must be studied in the broader cultural context of that time. Clunas argues that terracotta army of the First Emperor of Qin, despite being the monumental piece of art, is the synthesis of politics, power, and ritual beliefs
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for his inventive, vibrant works examining contemporary black experience, which draw upon a wide array of historical and cultural sources. Born in Manchester, Ofili studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art from 1988 through 1991, and received a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in 1993. While he was a student he traveled to Zimbabwe for six weeks, an experience that significantly impacted his artistic production. One of the few YBAs of African descent, Ofili’s work was exhibited regularly
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oil on wood panel and can be found on page 562 in the textbook. I chose this piece because I feel that there are a lot of different details that are available to analyze and that this piece really represented many of the key aspects of 15th century art in Northern Europe. Van Eyck was extremely detailed and incorporated a lot of symbolism in the portrait that helps to be able to identify who the people in the painting are.
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main subject of the show was bike wheels; and the focus was in the repeated elements and how light and dark interact with the subject. The work was really interested in how the wheel and its spokes casts shadows and how to make a compelling piece of art out of this everyday object. The choice of ink lends itself really well to the subject, it is able to capture a broad range of value without changing the hue, so even though there is a variety of line weight and darkness and patterns it all feels
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