...Many types of people have had an effect on the world such as government officials, activists and scientists. One the most interesting types of people that can also have an effect on the world around them are the artists using their medium of choice, such as the visual artist creating a new style never seen before or reviving an old style for future generations. This can also be seen in the musical artist who can bring people together after a tragic event or rally people together to share a message of change. It can also be seen in more so than most with the writer who writes about the ills of a society to bring it to the forefront of the people’s mind. It is in these ways and others that the three artists that we will be looking at have had an effect on the world around them, but before we look at that we should look at the people themselves. The first person we will be examining is the visual artist Chuck Close who was born in 1940 and is part of the Photorealism...
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...This landmark exhibition has exhibited some of the most compelling works by many a local artist. An important milestone was created when this very same event was replicated beyond the shores of the country, bringing Malaysian Art to Karachi, Pakistan. A show that demarcates the objectives of Wei-Ling Gallery to promote contemporary Malaysian Art, previous instalments provided a platform to two dimensional art works that vetted specific matters. The artists strived to create dialectic works with characteristic impulses. In concurrence with the 5th instalment of the 18@8 exhibition, the gallery posed a new challenge to the participating artists and itself. A turning point for Wei-Ling Gallery is its initiative to orchestrate and curate shows based on its own direction, heartening the artists to widen their tangential perspectives with conceptualized shows. As the gallery is taking the road less travelled in more experimental and cutting edge shows, so do the artists. This vehicle (18@8) presents the artists with an avenue to work beyond the boundaries of individualistic concerns, transgressing beyond the norm of what we expect. With an exploratory ardour, Wei-Ling Gallery conceptualized and challenged the artists to partake in thematic investigations that result in art works that move beyond the constraints of the canvas. The encouragement to deviate from the propensity of the artists in conventional formats ostensibly creates invigorating impulses to re-think and re-shape...
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...themes. This landmark exhibition has exhibited some of the most compelling works by many a local artist. An important milestone was created when this very same event was replicated beyond the shores of the country, bringing Malaysian Art to Karachi, Pakistan. A show that demarcates the objectives of Wei-Ling Gallery to promote contemporary Malaysian Art, previous instalments provided a platform to two dimensional art works that vetted specific matters. The artists strived to create dialectic works with characteristic impulses. In concurrence with the 5th instalment of the 18@8 exhibition, the gallery posed a new challenge to the participating artists and itself. A turning point for Wei-Ling Gallery is its initiative to orchestrate and curate shows based on its own direction, heartening the artists to widen their tangential perspectives with conceptualized shows. As the gallery is taking the road less travelled in more experimental and cutting edge shows, so do the artists. This vehicle (18@8) presents the artists with an avenue to work beyond the boundaries of individualistic concerns, transgressing beyond the norm of what we expect. With an exploratory ardour, Wei-Ling Gallery conceptualized and challenged the artists to partake in thematic investigations that result in art works that move beyond the constraints of the canvas. The encouragement to deviate from the propensity of the artists in conventional formats ostensibly creates invigorating impulses to re-think and re-shape their...
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...Art and Culture The relationship between the artist and the audience is a crucial element to the success of the artwork in its historical era. Titian’s traditional Renaissance symbolism and style of painting made his work a masterpiece of his time. According to art critic Brand Hamlee Titian’s work met the “demands of an admiring public. As he was particularly famous for his portraits and mythological works” this created a positive relationship between “Venus of Urbino” and the intended Renaissance audience. The relationship between the artwork and the audience is also evident through the Renaissance symbolism throughout his artwork, Venus seductive glaze captured Renaissance viewers and the high quality of Venetian light and tone to perfection was a vital characteristic to the success of the artwork to its intended audience. In addition, using symbolism, which had significance to the Renaissance mythological style also strengthened the relationship between the artist and the artwork. The Spaniel represents a symbol of fidelity a strong theme in Renaissance art as well as the use of roses, myrtle tree and the Spaniel were traditionally associated with the goddess Venus. The Brush strokes and pale rosy and ochre colours luxuriously applied created the central tones of the Venus body is an essential symbol of Renaissance sensuality, beauty and desire that was praised by all audiences. Although the intended Renaissance audience understood the key symbolism, the relationship...
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...The Renaissance Artists: Self-Portraits Alvis Williams Professor Michael Briere HUM 111 12/02/12 Within the report of The Renaissance Artist I will explore the life of many artists who doing that period was known very well. I will attempt to convey the style of each artist as if I was the artist themselves by giving a first person view by depicting a self-portrait that will inform the readers of the composition that consist of color scheme, space , shapes and dimension of the piece. I will define in essence the self-portraits and what it means to me as an individual. So therefore from this point I am Don Julio and my style of painting is very similar to that of the renaissance era. Born in 1494 a young German artist living in Germany, I was trained originally by my father I was a natural born goldsmith after some years I migrated to Venice Where I improve my skills as a painter. My father while in Venice stayed eighteen months to enjoy the artistic delights of the city. He was impressed above all by the aged Bellini. A young man by the name of Albrecht Dürer, who later on became one of the most outstanding figures in Renaissance Germany during my time. However my achievements enhanced among the city and its originality in many differing fields of art. I very early in my artistic career was introduced to his extraordinary self-portrait at the age of twenty-two, in Louvre. So I begin to work on one of myself, as young man with dishevel blond hair...
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...Of course, it will be nice to be like Arcade Fire or Nirvana, having a debut album that blows the market away. But despite the fact that only a few musicians have the potential and ability for such success, the prime goal of an entertainment company is to monetize art, not like the purpose of the artist, which is self satisfaction by making great art - but how could companies monetize that? It is crucial to find the tricky balance between art and commerce, and mediating the inevitable conflict between artistic passion and corporate profit artistic passion in order to let the company survive. Let's start with artists. Artists are often egocentric, sensitive, emotional creatures that are strange in different ways, but one thing they got in common is that they don't like anyone or anything to interfere with the creation process. It's understandable - every creation is like a artist's child to them, and as mothers and fathers, you would not like to be told what your child should look like. Shareholders on the other hand, do not think the same way as artists do. They became shareholders to make money, and it is, the profit margins that they care about. If the artist's creation is not well responded by the market, the shareholders will not gain profit, so they will take any action they could - sometimes interfering the company's business structure, and offending the art creation process as well. In the Sony case, George Clooney argues that people who understand that the business...
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...The last leaf - Art for Human Life (Literary criticism essay) After reading the story, perhapsmany readers can say that American artists’ life is so poor. It seems be totally true. Nothing their property is. Their residences are bad too, “north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents”. Sue and Johnsy are those kind of artist. However, Old Buhrman is the best exemplary one. So is it true that “The last leaf” was written in order toaccuse the misery of American artists? It must be NO. The profound meaning of the story, as the main sound of a song, is the deep-felt love between poor artists. That love wins poverty, disease. That love is more valuable than art. It makes art become alive. The time when that love is revealed is “a cold, unseen stranger” appears and touches his cold fingers on little Johnsy whose blood is going dry by wind from the west. Sue, herfriend, does everything for her with a big heart. Sue draws many more illustrated paintings to earn money to buy soup, wine. She invites doctor to come to see her friend. Shecooks, comforts Johnsy to eat and drink medicine. With Sue, the biggest hope of her is to see Johnsy become happy with her desperation, drawing the Naples guff.So noble that love is. But it is not strong enough to drown Johnsy’s desperation. Reading these pages, readers seem to be nearly strangled by her bigger and bigger desperation: “I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to...
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...names in art and music of their time, people still had a passion for the arts and had opportunities to experience them at smaller, less known, places. As society has progressed over the years, art slowly has become more and more accessible to the people- as it should be. In fact, I believe that without an audience, art cannot be truly considered art. “Art is a social label, a negotiation between the artist, object (or performance), and the viewer” (Best). Art should be made for the people and not be limited to certain audiences. An artist should create with the goal of connecting to as many people as possible through their work. As stated earlier, historically, art has been seen as something only the privileged could truly appreciate. This could not be farther from the truth! Art is something that everyone can enjoy, experience, and strive to understand. Art should not discriminate or exclude a certain audience, it should bring together all people to evoke a response, send a message, or to maybe just enjoy looking at. During class, we were given a presentation that featured an artist name Cindy Sherman. Sherman had a quote that exemplifies what and who art should really be made for. “When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first. So that anybody off the street could appreciate...
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...The Digital Arts movement have transformed they way we think of an art today. Computers have set a new stage for the artists, as they are able to create artwork from their laptops using digital codes. One of the controversial artists of this century is Yasumasa Morimura, who shed light on issues of sexual and gender identities, as well as ethnic background in the late twentieth century art world. Portrait (Futago) created in 1988 is a color photograph by Morimura. At first glance we see a close resemblance to a famous and traditional painting by Edouard Manet, Olympia (1863). In the original painting Manet portrayed a nude French prostitute with a black servant standing next to her. Over a century later, Morimura takes the setting of this painting and changes a few details. First, he replaces the French woman with a picture of himself. It is obvious that the nude body is of a...
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...- On Ethics, Is Art Market Worse Than Stock Market? The debate ensues as to whether the art market is more unethical than the stock market. Those that have the opinion that the art market is indeed less ethical believe it is caused by the lack of regulation, the lack of transparency and the lack of barriers to enter. They feel that the art market is a financial market and believe this because galleries and dealers advertise it. Therefore, it is a business. Artists enter the market for different reasons than dealers do. Its uniqueness makes it difficult to regulate. They also point out that “rings” are created to promote an artist with the intent to drive up the price for a particular artists’ work. Those with the opposite opinion believe that art market is not a business; it is the making of art. The value and reward is much more than monetary. The value is emotional and intellectual as well. They believe that an artist is not in it for monetary reward. They also point out that art is not a peer commodity. Each side expressed their claim and stance on the issue. I do not feel that one side was more convincing than the other was. I am a numbers person and may have been persuaded if either side had presented more statistical evidence. Managers can use argumentation strategy on a daily basis in order to persuade a co-worker, direct report, or boss to his point of...
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...The last leaf - Art for Human Life (Literary criticism essay) 08/06/2009 08:17 | 1,819 lượt xem After reading the story, perhapsmany readers can say that American artists’ life is so poor. It seems be totally true. Nothing their property is. Their residences are bad too, “north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents”. Sue and Johnsy are those kind of artist. However, Old Buhrman is the best exemplary one. So is it true that “The last leaf” was written in order toaccuse the misery of American artists? It must be NO. The profound meaning of the story, as the main sound of a song, is the deep-felt love between poor artists. That love wins poverty, disease. That love is more valuable than art. It makes art become alive. The time when that love is revealed is “a cold, unseen stranger” appears and touches his cold fingers on little Johnsy whose blood is going dry by wind from the west. Sue, herfriend, does everything for her with a big heart. Sue draws many more illustrated paintings to earn money to buy soup, wine. She invites doctor to come to see her friend. Shecooks, comforts Johnsy to eat and drink medicine. With Sue, the biggest hope of her is to see Johnsy become happy with her desperation, drawing the Naples guff.So noble that love is. But it is not strong enough to drown Johnsy’s desperation. Reading these pages, readers seem to be nearly strangled by her bigger and bigger desperation: “I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting...
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...application of the word. Self –taken pictures were specifically common on MySpace before Facebook became popular online social network in the beginning of the year 2000. Nevertheless, writer Kate Losse depicts that between 2006 and 2009 (when Facebook became well-known than MySpace) the “MySpace pic” (mainly “an incompetent, flash-blinded self-portrait, regularly taken in front of a bathroom mirror”) became a hint of a bad taste for users of the newer Instagram and Facebook social network. A “self-portrait” is a description of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Even though self-portraits have been built by artists since the earliest times, it is not before the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century that artists can be commonly recognized representing themselves as either the primary subject or as important characters in their work with greater and cheaper mirrors and the approach of panel portrait, many painters, sculptors, and printmakers attempt some form of self-portraiture. The earliest known panel self-portrait was the “Portrait of a Man in a Turban” by Jan Van Eych of 1433. He painted a separate portrait of his wife,...
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...Rama, Jefferson AB-PHOTO Are Artist made or born? Explain. I believe everyone has at least one talent – something they are really good at. Some people are especially gifted at fixing things, while others can pick up a musical instrument and learn very easily. Even creativity can be learned. Those who have no natural inclination toward creativity may develop it through experiences, travels, reading and learning. I know of artists who never had any urge to create in their life until they went through certain experiences. These experiences inspired them to pick up a brush and learn to paint, something they did not ever think of doing before. Every artist has their own journey and reasons for becoming an artist. Art isn’t something I grew up with or was tutored in, so when I stumbled upon it on my own, something clicked. The natural ability to draw and paint is ingrained in some people, too. But not all of us are gifted with an innate artistic sense, and I don’t think talent cancels out the equally important willingness and desire to steep yourself in and truly perfect your craft. Artists are born and made at the same time people have their own choices in life whether to develop the skills or talent that they possesses or leave it there. Some people think that they can’t develop it becoming an artist requires a lot more than talent. It requires learning, looking at art from other artists, and continually creating and exploring. Artists create art because they love doing...
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...“Recast” Curated by: Lisa Myers Artists: Bev Koski and Christian Chapman Stepping into the “Recast” exhibition invites the audience into a state of awe as they first follow the trail of Bev Koski’s 20 large photographs of these beaded cloaked palm sized figurines. Each pieces evokes a sense of sympathy as each photograph reveals only the eyes of the characters, as if she was showing how powerless they were. At the end of the trail, it leads to a small room with three lone chairs playing Christian Chapman’s black and white film collaboration with several artists through out 6 years period. An eerie background plays as a peculiar man who journeys into the depth of a forest, showing a peek of his everyday life. Chapman’s video was filmed with combinations of rapid shakiness and renders whereas Koski’s photographs were vibrant with the small details of contour of the beaded wrap. With the collaboration of these two artists, the audience wouldn’t grasp the relation of their two projects as they contrast in form and colour but the underlying theme of redesign from originality reveals itself as one continues to wonder through the exhibit. Explained by curator Lisa Myers, the word of “recast” defines as “reassigning an already established role” (Myers). Koski is an Anishnabekwe artist who graduated from York University with BFA and an active teacher in many Native related centers (RECAST). Her gigantic photo gallery entails the sad reality of mass produced figurines,...
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...Nudity and art: what's our problem? We snigger when artists like Marina Abramović expose themselves in performance. But shouldn't we be cheering their bravery instead? Bare necessities ... a visitor to the Marina Abramović retrospective passes between two naked actors. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP "So what kind of art is that?" asked a Radio 5 Live presenter on Friday evening, with a giggle. He was responding to the news that some members of the audience had been ejected from the Marina Abramović retrospective, The Artist Is Present, at New York's Moma for touching the naked performers. The piece in question is a recreation of Abramović's 1977 piece Imponderabilla, created with her then-partner, the German artist Ulay, in which the pair stood nude and very close together in a doorway, so that those passing through had to directly confront the artists' gaze and, of course, their nakedness. Even before the incident at Moma, the nature of Abramović's practice, which stretches back 40 years to the 1970s, and which has frequently involved her body (a 1974 performance asked audiences to select one of 72 objects, including a gun, and use them on her body in whatever way they wanted), has been the subject of casual derision in some quarters; and of course the latest story has caused plenty of sniggering. When will we stop laughing and start cheering the bravery of these artists? As Abramović herself observed when security concerns were first raised about the amount of naked flesh...
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