...The four roles of an artist are as following: 1. Artists help us see the world in a new and innovative way, 2. Artists create a visual record of their time and place, 3. Artists make functional objects and structures more pleasurable by imbuing them with beauty and meaning, 4. Artists give form to the immaterial ideas and feelings. (Henry M. Sayre 2010) The cover illustration for Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is very fascinating to me. It seems to be another version of The Man of La Mancha, except the man is covered in a newspaper that is on fire. Because the book is about censorship, the choice of covering the man in newspapers that are burning makes a lot of sense to the story. Joseph Mugnaini fulfills role number one, helping the viewer see the world in new and innovative ways by taking the idea of a knight (The Man of La Mancha) and changing his armor to newspaper. This idea is like taking an old iconic character, a knight, and putting a new spin on how one should interpret his role. Perhaps the knight is on fire because he is losing his battle, just like the main character in Bradbury's novel. In 1937, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, oil on canvas. The Republican Spanish government commissioned the mural for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Guernica is a large mural, twenty-six feet wide and eleven feet tall, and was placed at the entrance to Spain’s pavilion. Picasso did not do any work after receiving the commission until reading of the bombing of the Basque village...
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...Jared Haley A-S 200 Lee Ann Paynter Sarah Wylie Van Meter Reaction Art has always been major part of the world, no matter the year. Art hasn’t always been the same though. It has changed in styles, mediums, and even with modern technology. As we advance as a species art advances with us. For example the cavemen drew on walls with things like sticks or rocks while Learndo Devanci used that of a paintbrush and a canvas. It is only appropriate that since the video has been invented it has become a way of art as well. A specific artist that uses digital motion pictures for art is Sarah Wylie a Van Meter. She came and visited us here at UK but I was unable to attend. So instead I went to the Art Museum where I had the opportunity to see some of her work. The piece displayed was titled Transferring the Red Madonna (2012). The piece was very peculiar, and I wasn’t sure where she was going with this. She had two motion pictures going at the same time side by side. One was of a simple country life including things like grass fields, animals, and other various items of nature. While the right side consisted of a snakelike creature slithering through water or something of the nature for the entire film. Separated from each other I could understand what was happening and could try to guess the underlying meaning. Once they were placed on the same screen I just couldn’t understand the meaning of the piece. So I had to start digging deeper. The shots she used in her cottage life film where...
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...Tiffany Tyler World Culture I Strayer University Assignment 3 December 08, 2011 The NC Art Museum The North Carolina Museum is very awesome I was very amazed by what I begin to see while entering in the museum. This museum has a lot of painting all from 1947 on up until now. It is not one painting that you can walk pass and keep walking by. You will have to stop and take a look and read up on what this painting is and how it got to this museum. The paintings are from all type of painters from every culture. Egyptian, Europe, Italian, and contemporary art is all over this museum. The Museum is actively building the collection with recent acquisitions, including a gift from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation of 30 works by Auguste Rodin, making the NCMA the leading repository of this artist’s work in the southeastern United States. A promised gift of mid- to late-20th-century art from the collection of Jim and Mary Patton includes works by Jackie Ferrara, Adolph Gottlieb, Ellsworth Kelly, Per Kirkeby, David Park, and Sean Scully. Other new works include pieces by artists El Anatsui, Roxy Paine, Jaume Plensa, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. The 164-acre Museum Park is home to more than a dozen monumental works of art, with artists actively involved in the restoration of the Park’s landscape and the integration of art into its natural systems. This is an African painting called the Night Flight Dread and Delight ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...Chezelle Coqueran Prof. Jennifer Swoboda ART 123 – Art Appreciation 24 August 2011 A World of Art The world is full of art. Some art is easily recognizable and pleasant to the viewer. Some art work is challenging and confusing to the viewer. And yet there is still art work that is non-appealing and even controversial, but is still worthy of conversation or debate. In this art assignment I selected five different pieces of art, by five different artists. The art work has appealed to me for different reasons, whether it was the color or controversial matter, I feel like with art, it’s not like picking out a hair style or an outfit to put on where everything needs to make sense or match, it just needs to appeal to the viewer, and depending on the viewer’s mood at the time, the art pieces can be very different. The first art piece I selected was from the Museum of Modern Art; The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 by Henri Rousseau. (Rousseau) I liked this oil on canvas painting for its simplicity and calmness. Henri Rousseau, a toll collector by trade, was a French Post-impressionist self-taught painter; even though he was never properly trained his natural born talent was admired by other artist including more famed avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso and Vasily Kandinsky. His type of art “derived from the style and subject matter of popular print culture”. (Rousseau) Rousseau described the painting of the gypsy as wandering Negress who played the mandolin. She was so tired that she...
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...It’s no great epiphany that the progression of technology has a profound impact on the way a society operates. In our current point in time, we are experiencing a loss of the singular. We are a society of publication and reproduction on a massive scale. Nothing is its own entity anymore; rather our world functions as a series of networks that connect both people and things. Countless images are generated, shared, manipulated and forwarded in the blink of an eye. As a result, we must now face the question of what makes these images art, if we can still call them that. David Joselit discusses this stimulated era for the art world in his book “After Art”. He begins by explaining that with the rise of new technology and the increase in mass...
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...Log My Personal Interest Project topic was chosen with my micro world in mind, due to my interest in art as well as being a Visual Art student. Through studying gender roles during my Visual Art course and exploring social exclusion in Society and Culture, it compelled me to want to learn more about the representation of women within the art world. As a socially aware individual with an interest in art, I felt the need to explore these inequalities to see if they still exist and how this may impact on other young artists. The research methods that I chose were interview, statistical analysis and content analysis, which would provide me qualitative results, as well as quantitative by being able to collect data and statistics. Originally, I planned on conducting a focus group discussion, however as my project progressed, I decided on content analysis as it allowed me to observe a variety of sources and immerse myself in the art world. By choosing an interview I was able to gain insightful knowledge from four females who were either art curators or historians and one male who is an art historian. This gave me qualitative results as I was able to receive in-depth answers from numerous people and allowed and exploration of my cross-cultural by interviewing both genders and gaining their perspectives on this. However, there were some limitations such as by completing my interviews through e-mail, I was not able to ask any follow up questions for answers to be further elaborated...
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...across All Art Periods Final Project: Continuity and Transformation across All Art Periods Ansamma Paul Thomas Edison State College Grade 60% Question: Through the ages, artistic activity has often been focused in particular cities or groups of cities. Three of these concentrations stand out, each representative of a different time and era in the history of Western art: • The Rome-Florence-Venice triangle (Renaissance and High Renaissance) • Paris (Impressionism and Post-Impressionism) • New York (Abstract Expressionism). Consider all three locales and discuss artists, works of art, and historic periods associated with each locale. The evolution of art from the early Hellenistic to the later Roman period was made possible through the modification of features as the sculptors and artists saw fit. As such, the Romans "add[ed] to, subtract[ed] from... and innovate[d]" Hellenistic art (Soltes, L7, 3:18) upon taking over Greece. Roman works such as "The Laocoon" (Soltes, L7, 3:22) and "Soldier-Farmer" (Soltes, L7, 11:30) among many showed continuity and transformation. In the former work, the element of pathos is continuous from the Hellenistic while the addition of a son and an extended serpent shows transformation; in the latter work, the excessive wrinkles across the man's face serves to evoke pathos and a sense of respect through pietas (Soltes, L7, 12:10). From Roman art to Etruscan...
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...American Art before and after World War II Marty Rieth ARTS/125 June 27, 2016 Sarah Baer American Art before and after World War II The objective for the following paper is to discuss issues concerning American art before and after World War II. The discussion will include an examination of the artwork of three artists. Two artists will have worked during the Great Depression and one artist will have been an Abstract Expressionist. In discussing the artists’ work, a description of each work and its style will be included. An examination into the Great Depression and the purpose of artwork created during that time, whether they were tools for social reform, and other types of messaging that were present in the works will be discussed. Post-World War II Abstract Expressionism and how it differed from art work of the 1930’s will be discussed. Finally, an explanation into the style of the chosen Abstract Expressionists work and why they were interested in the style will be discussed (Was there a meaning to their work?). Artist Examinations Two artist that come to mind when speaking of The Great Depression are Maynard Dixon and Grant Wood. The artist Maynard Dixon showed his artistic abilities during The Great Depression by creating images in a style dubbed social realism. One of Dixon’s famous paintings was called Springtime on Bear Mountain. The illustration is of a plot of land from the mountainous western countryside. In the front is flat land where a...
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...Yoyo 1 Yonia Yoyo Professor Doyle Art 333 20 September 2015 Globalization and the Art Market The expression "globalization" is universal and loose. In any case, it is important to consider what it implies for the craftsmanship market and the most extensive circle of aesthetic creation. According to Manfred B. Steger’s book, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, the term globalization refers to the “expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space” (Steger). In other words, globalization applies to an arrangement of social procedures that seems to change our present social state of debilitating nationality into one of globalist. In the book of Globalization, Steger defines globalization as a “social process through the shifting of human interactions by reaching the goal of globality.” He then explained that by adding the suffix ‘-ization,’ the term globalization means that the process of globality is still under the development towards a new condition of postmodern globality; that globality has not yet been reached. Globalization equivalents to cross-outskirt trade of worth, including monetary action. Merchandise and administrations change hands crosswise over area and ocean and individuals profit. The relationships between the global and the local art market work closely together: examining at the art market in a local scale is the best way for one to look at the art market in a global context. For instance...
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...Lecture #2 How Art Made The World In this weeks lecture and video, you will discover the greatest mystery of human creativity. You will begin to see the correlation between what an artist sees and creates and how that correlates to the culture in which they live. Modern humans, Homosapiens, who had the same brain that we have no, date as far back as 150,000 years ago. Yet they lived for thousands of years without creating images until 35,000 ago. Archeologists call the point in history when our pre-historic ancestors suddenly began to create images of the world around them “The Creative Explosion”. In 1879 in Altamira Spain, the first discovery of pre historic cave paintings were discovered by amateur archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola and his eight-year-old daughter María . When the discovery was first made public in 1880, it led to a bitter public controversy between experts which continued into the early 20th century, since many did not believe prehistoric man had the intellectual capacity to produce any kind of artistic expression. The acknowledgment of the authenticity of the paintings, which finally came in 1902, changed the perception of prehistoric human beings. Paleolithic cave art that developed across Europe, from the Urals to the Iberian Peninusula, from 35,000 to 11,000 BC. Because of their deep galleries, isolated from external climatic influences, these caves are particularly well preserved. The caves are inscribed as masterpieces of creative...
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...One of the great things I appreciate about art is how it can profoundly have an effect on many people in different ways that are meaningful and influential. A piece of art can have breakthroughs in relevant revolutions where it can interpret the way a certain struggle can be justified. Most of the time, when something like this happens, we immediately realized how we are part of something bigger. Whether it’s because it was God’s intent to unite us or the revolutionary movement of humanity reflecting what Mother Nature has always shown us. The tough love that is needed to better evolve and how everything is connected in various manifestations when it comes to our ecosystems in different societies. Because of this complex environment, is the reason why we are egotistical creatures by always trying to make proof that our culture and where we come from is like no other and par to none. This observation was very evident when I visited the Saint Petersburg College’s art gallery located at the Clearwater, Florida campus. While I was glazing at the many wonderful art pieces our student body created I could foresee how advanced humanity has become as a whole. Then I see this astounding painting reaching for some type of swords that were more like levitating from a pair of hands pointing up and down from left to right and standing with one leg while the other was lifted and reaching across the other leg in a trance posture. As I got closer, I realized I was looking at Franklin...
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...Since my childhood, art has been my direction and an essential part of my life, from designing and making the sets and costumes for plays to making my own jewelries. When I walk down the path of art until now, I still find myself willing to discover new things, and getting excited and inspired by the simplest thing around us. I wish to study the Art and Design program at the University of Ryerson because I want to devote my passion to art and design under an insightful guidance, broaden my understanding of the art world and strengthen my painting and creating skills. Last year, I took an Art and Design course to build up a solid foundation for painting and designing skills as preparation for my first year at university. In the course, I was captured by mixing and testing with colors, discovering diverse concepts and using several types of mediums to illustrate my idea. Additionally, in a group project under a topic of “Life and Sky”, I contributed to design and make a pen with my team members, which had the shape as a scaling airplane with two wings at both sides. It can be used by pushing two wings with springs back into the pen and this pen was acknowledged as an excellent sample for my juniors with a mark of 96%. Afterwards, I realized that art is closely linked with our daily life. This course has strengthened my ability to be creative and unremitting as well as provided me with eyes of discovering the beauty in our daily life. As I knew that the Art and Design program...
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...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 on through the 70s. “Feminist artists sought to change the world around them through their art, focusing on intervening in the established art world, the art historical canon, as well as everyday social interactions (Ditolla).” In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed a contract banning the advertisement of cigarettes on TV and radio. “Studies as early as 1939 linked cigarette smoking to higher incidences of cancer and heart disease and, by the end of the 1950s, all states had laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors ( Nixon signs Legislation).” Disney World, ‘Where there's always a great big beautiful tomorrow,’ opened on...
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...Jessica Shelton American Intercontinental University Baroque HUMA205– Art Appreciation May 24, 2013 Introduction The baroque period for art was a very important time. The period contributed a lot to art as we know it now, and it introduced both new techniques as well as new artists. The period lasted roughly from the 16th century, and in some places lasted until the 1750’s. Three important pieces of art from that time are Descent from the cross painted by Rembrandt, Conversion of Saint Paul by Caravaggio and Raising of the cross by Peter Paul Rubens. The three artworks will be described, along with a summary of the artist’s personal views of art. The personal views of the artists are often times influenced by the trends and schools of thought during the time period. Along with being described, the pieces will be analyzed, and how they fit into the time period with be explained. The three paintings will also be compared and contrasted, explaining their similarities and their differences. Description of Works The first painting is Rembrandt’s, The Descent from the Cross. This along with all the other paintings featured is a very moving piece. For religious people, this was a very moving and emotional scene. The painting features Jesus, whom had previously been hanging on the cross. Jesus is being removed from the cross by his followers, the main focus point being Jesus himself and the man who is holding his body while others climb the cross to continue trying to...
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...JONES AS AN ARTIST Name Institutional affiliation Background and history Benjamin Jones’ pieces of art have a special way of uniting any disconnected items, be they spiritually apart or politically different. A keen look at his work displays a connection in many aspects of life that always seem to be worlds apart. It is through art that one can tell what goes on in the mind of an artist and what entails their perception of the world(). Art is a means of communication that is used by most artists to communicate. Benjamin Jones’ art mainly revolves around the theme of spirituality. His excellent piece of work made him one of the most important artist of his generation. Benjamin .F. Jones was born in the year 1941 in the state of New Jersey, United States of America. He acquired several degrees in his education that includes a master of fine arts degree from Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York, as well as a master of art degree from New York University. Benjamin also had an undergraduate degree, Bachelor of Fine Arts that he got from Paterson University located at Wayne, in New Jersey. The strong foundation in education, his resilience and hard work puts Benjamin Jones on the list of influential artists of his time (Brownlee & Cassel,2008, p. 213). His motivation and determination have kept him going for more than four decades. The medium used in Jone’s pieces of art vary from time to time. Most of his artwork is mainly done using paint. It is his paintings that have...
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