Essay zu Walter Benjamin „Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit“ mit Bezügen zu Friedrich Kittler „Grammophon Film Typewriter“ Kunstwerke sind jeher reproduzierbar gewesen. Was jedoch erst mühevoll von geübter Hand geschaffen werden musste, dann durch Verfahren wie Druck- oder Gusstechniken erleichtert wurde, erledigen Maschinen schließlich mühelos. Doch die Reproduktion durch technische Hilfsmittel bleibt nicht die bloße Möglichkeit, Plagiate anzufertigen, die Techniken
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Artist Shawn Huckins is a hyper-realist and found object painter, exploring the relationship between what it means to live in the digital era, versus what it meant to live in the 18th and 19th century. His paintings are used as jumping-off points for conversations, in the hope that they will begin to talk about something that actually matters, escaping this form of “digital speak” that society is encapsulated in. This painting, Raftsmen Playing Cards, is currently displayed at Modernism in San Francisco
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Abstract Expressionism was a movement in painting and art history. The lecturer explains that the painter Jackson Bullock like other forms of art painters has self-expression serves qualities of art paints and he was one of greatest American artists. He used several painting methods. The first area of dispute is abstract expressionism valued the act of painting itself and called action painting because of accidents and discoveries that can occur during the process of painting. According to the professor
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life of Jackson Pollock and focusing on his piece of artwork called Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of 5 brothers and his oldest brother had a major art influence on him. His family moved around a couple times before ending up in California where Pollock was enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. During his time there, he was expelled two times before he ended up dropping out. Around age 18, he moved to New York
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Syllabus ARH 4470/5482 Contemporary Art Spring 2013 Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:15pm Chemistry and Physics, Room 197 Instructor: Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel Assistant Professor, Department of Art + Art History Director, Master of Fine Arts Program in Visual Arts Contact information for instructor: Department of Art + Art History MM Campus, VH 235 Preferred mode of contact: alpesh.patel@fiu.edu Office hours: By appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays (preferably after class).
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HUMA205-1203A-15 Art Appreciation Steven R Cross AIU Online 10 June, 2012 Abstract Art takes form in many different ways of expression. Some throughout history express a way of life and belief, while others many express an escape for what back then may be the normal thoughts and patterns. The viewer may take from the art, knowledge or feelings of life back then. As time went by people and lifestyles changed as well did art and expression. Art Appreciation Encyclopedia Britannica (Encyclopaedia
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Do you agree that Pop art is a critique of the values of post-War urban culture in the United States or is there some validity in the arguments that suggest that Pop art is another representation of profit-based propaganda? Select works from two or three artists to examine this question. Pop art was born out of the needs of Post-war America and its capitalist driven economy, where consumption was key and everything was a commodity that had to be readily available. The diversity within the movement
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Modern Art History Modern art represents the headiest period in all of art history--a span of no more than 110 years that saw an explosion of movements from Realism, to Impressionism, to Cubism, to Abstract Expressionism to Pop and Op, with dozens of others in between and around the world. Hard-Edge Painting: Art History Basics 101 Hard-Edge Painting emphasizes the flat surface of the canvas or paper with clean, clear abstract shapes and surrounding fields of colors. These shapes and fields
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THE ART OF PERFORMANCE A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY edited by GREGORY BATTCOCK AND ROBERT NICKAS /ubu editions 2010 The Art of Performance A Critical Anthology 1984 Edited By: Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas /ubueditions ubu.com/ubu This UbuWeb Edition edited by Lucia della Paolera 2010 2 The original edition was published by E.P. DUTTON, INC. NEW YORK For G. B. Copyright @ 1984 by the Estate of Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. No part
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TRACES OF MODERNISM IN ART The ancient parallel between literature and visual arts –i.e. painting, sculpture and architecture becomes newly relevant in the twentieth century. Painters were the first to explore the revolutionary possibilities of modernism, so that painting became the leading art form. Modernism refers to the style and ideology of art produced between the 1860s and the 1970s. As traditional art forms had become outdated due to industrialization, modernism emerged in Western Europe
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