...elementary education course I've taken along the way in my college career has been the idea that teachers need to understand and be knowledgeable about each of their students as individuals. In the article I found that art is one-way teachers can learn valuable background information about a student's home life or experiences. I then thought back to times when I've seen kids draw their families, events, their own clothing designs, and much more. When a child presents a form of art there is sometimes a deeper meaning then what the view initially sees. I never wrapped my head truly around this concept until I begun to think about it. This is why like the article states psychologist can use a child's art to understand what's going on in their minds on occasion. Sometimes not all children are very good at expressing their feelings, but art has this crazy way of bringing those emotions out. Think about it honestly starting with something as simple as body language. A form of art in its own right. If your sad how do you sit? What about when you’re anxious? Excited? Mad? All of these emotions have a shape or form of body language that is a visual representation of art. My question is why do you think children can express their feelings easier through the use of art rather then through verbal communication? Does the lack of communication and increase in technology use amongst younger children have an effect on...
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...Anmol Kanotra Professor Fraley HUM 151-06 November 5th, 2015 Propaganda: Can it be Considered Art? Relinquishing its neutral position in the Great War, the US Congress declared war on Germany and joined the Allies in 1917 (Davies). With the declaration of war came a splurge of spending on training, weapons, and ammunitions. The young Federal Reserve was given the duty to finance the oncoming war (Davies). Because the high spending surpassed tax revenues, the Treasury began a series of government bond drives to fund the deficit (“Liberty Bond”). These “Liberty Bonds” introduced American citizens to investing in individual securities. However, the first issuance of the bonds had an embarrassingly low participation rate (“Liberty Bond”). In response, an extensive campaign was launched utilizing posters, celebrities, and other vehicles of persuasion to encourage Americans to buy Liberty Bonds (Davies). The poster, Clear-the-Way-!! Buy bonds--Fourth liberty loan, is one such example of urging the public to finance the war. Howard Christy created this propaganda poster with a heavy emphasis on the use of line and patriotic colors. Christy lures Americans in not only with the purposeful use of elements of art and principles of design, but also by choosing an intense setting; the depiction takes place on a ship in the middle of the sea in the midst of an action filled scene. The emerald green waves, the muscular sailors tending to the ship’s gun, and the beautiful blonde woman...
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...Art Analysis Paper The Joan Brown’s “Noel In The Kitchen” is a painting. The medium of this art work is oil on canvas. The technique she used appears to be heavy brush strokes. The size of the painting is very large, approximately 8x5 Ft. It is a representational work, which displays a small child, two dogs and some regular attributes of a household kitchen. The image can be broken down into the few blocks. On the front, there is a little child, assumingly named Noel, reaching the top of the kitchen cabinet. He is surrounded by two dogs, one of them seating and looking away from the boy. Another dog is positioned next to Noel, towering over the child. The second block includes the floor of the room and the kitchen cabinet with dishes on the top. Third part of the image is the wall behind the desk. It appears to be shaded and out of focus. The overall intensity of colors happens to be fading towards the right side of the paining. It gives balance to the image by counterweighing the representative images on the left. The large kitchen cabinet is painted brightly red, immediately focusing viewer’s attention on itself as a center of composition. All figures are placed on the various levels, which provide space effect in relationship to the floor and vertical axis. The floor is painted with clear lines distinction in yellow, black and blue colors. By looking at the painting from some distance, the relationship between shapes is very thin and objects are highly recognizable. However...
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...This specific piece of art looks weird and out of place in its setting. It has an unsettling contrast with the Milwaukee art museum which is a beautiful, sleek, and clean cut building. It is also in the middle of a bright green grassy field next to the beautiful lake. This sculpture is the opposite, and intentionally so. About 30 feet up in the air, there is a full-sized red car wrapped around a pole. The car is missing a rear view mirror, has a shattered windshield, dented in the hood, and bent at an impossible angle. It is almost folded completely in half. At first glance it gives the viewer the impression that it is two cars, not one, because we can see both the front and the back at the same time. When I saw it first, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was placed...
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...people can convene and meet. This is a match for the piece’s title as Adora is ancient Greek for a meeting place where political assemblies would convene and discuss ideas and the day’s events (dictionary.com n.d.). It is unsure as what the exact meaning of the piece is and public opinion has been mixed. The now former mayor Richard Daley called it “beautiful” and said it “captured the whole idea of immigrants to the city and what it is it is today” while Lorraine Schnitzer, a Chicago resident, described it as “depressing” and that she wasn’t impressed (Ahmed-Ullah 2006). Abakanowicz herself mentioned that it was influenced by her experiences in Poland during the Second World War and the Soviet occupation thereafter (City of Chicago Public Art Program n.d.). This does not mean that the other interpretations are wrong. Much like its namesake, the installation is a place where interpretations, ideas, and people can convene, converse, and meld with each other on fertile ground while the city watches overhead. ...
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...When examining Roman art, we see how idealized individuals were anatomically depicted. In the past, we have seen depictions that are not age accurate, but now we see a shift in the way people are shown due to their position in society. In the early 1st century people were determined to climb a career ladder, which determined their power in society. This explains the importance that old facial and anatomical representations have on the ability to categorize the power of the individual. For that reason, the realistic resemblance of the person’s age in their portrait is very critical in order to not only symbolize the work they had fulfilled, but accomplished. The portrait of this man is a revision in societal demonstrations, where important...
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...Curiosity about patterns and techniques led me to an unexpected love for art. In elementary school, I began my admiration for art's beauty and process of creation, thus I was selected to be a member of the Art Club. The club sponsor, Ms. Atkinson was an exceptional art teacher, she facilitated our development with a variety of styles and techniques, as well as encouraged the use of numerous materials and mediums. During our last year, we were replicating the legendary Masters, such as Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and "The Starry Night", and Monet's "The Water Lily Pond" employing oils, pastels and watercolors. Our club took part in the creation of the first ever student mural at the school depicting the diverse community and varied pursuits of...
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...If interactive art lets the audience to be build their own and close relationship, in participatory art, the participator will be able to create the situations and boundaries. In participatory art, the environment might be not the interactive ones, nevertheless, the participants are the subject of artwork and their participation is the objective of the artwork. As Bishop says, the Artistic practice can no longer revolve around the construction of objects to be consumed by a passive bystander. Instead, there must be an art of action, interfacing with reality, taking steps – however small – to repair the social bond. In participatory art, Social activism as an aim is reachable through the action, doing, and living of participants. Participatory...
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...is the Evolution of Art. I will be demonstrating how art has changed over time. From the Stone Age to modern day, art has had some dramatic changes b. Why did I choose it this theme? I chose this theme because I find it interesting how quickly and how drastically art has changed overtime. Starting from the Stone Age, it took man 25,000 years to develop art with language, but every since the 1950s it’s as if a new style of art develops every decade. This theme also gives the development of art some perspective. It also allows us to see how far art has come since cave drawings. c. Things to think about as you...
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...sculptures, and photos its silent. Each art piece was telling me their meaning, a story, or showing their beauty. There’s lines stretching as long as the building, people waiting to see the Mexico exhibit. Also, there’s a wall referred to Young Master or the AP Art student work, it’s amazing how someone so young can create something so brilliant. That’s what keeps repeating in my head throughout the museum, “Wow, someone made this with their hands?!”. This was my first time visiting an art museum, so I was in disbelief at how much I have been missing out; I left with a greater appreciation of art. Although many of the art works stood out, one really spoke to me, it was a photo of a man lying on the ground in a fetus position. The photographer uses the Visual Element of Color, while the man is lying on the ground, he is between...
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...Prior to looking at the label, I perceived this to be a cast bronze work. I was astounded to discover that it was not in fact bronze, but rather wood. The attention to detail combined with the luxurious, buttery smoothness achieved by the artist is like no other that I have seen in other culture’s wood works. Prior to reading the label, I suspected this sculpture to a part of Japan’s Buddhist history. The figure is decorated with typical Buddhist attributes, such as many arms, bracelets, the urna, and a mudra. The Bosatsu (also known as a Bodhisattva, or Buddha to be) sits upright in a meditative position of dhyanasana against an elaborate mandorla. The mandorla is made of three circles with cut-outs and decorative spikes that jut out in all directions. Underneath the Bosatsu is a giant stepped lotus flower base, which rests on a larger, more ambiguous base. Upon first look, this base may just be a glorified rock, but upon closer inspection from the side, there is what seems to be an entranceway, perhaps to a home, cave, or tomb. The layered petals are carved in a way that suggests that the flower will bloom at any moment. The Bosatsu is covered in very decorative garb. His legs are completely disguised by drapery, and the fabric is diagonally slung across his upper torso. His fabric is both colored and carved in a way that emphasises its three-dimensionality. Layers of fabric flow and drape over one another, and the areas in which the fabric would be more “stretched”...
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...The hall was deep and wide with pictures filling the left and right side with pictures of lions, tigers, and bears. The exhibit was called “Lions & Tigers & Bears: Through the Lens with Nation Geographic”. “Lions & Tigers & Bears” is touring around the country and will be at the Mayborn Museum Complex from April 18 through April 29th. The exhibit combined different photographs from Michael “Nick” Nichols, Steve Winter, and Paul Nicklen. Nick Nichols specializes in African wildlife but has a special interest in lions. Figure 1 shows the majestic presence his photos possess (see fig. 1). Nichols has a gift for taking pictures that are so organic it makes the audience feel like he/she is looking through a picture frame into the wild Savanna's of Africa. Steve Winter is a wildlife photojournalist that spends most of his time photographing big cats. The tiger’s portion of the exhibit were taken by Winter. Each tiger that was photographed captured its unique features and left the audience wanting to see more. The last artist was Paul Nicklen. Nicklen is not only a photographer but a biologist and conservationist. Nicklen’s photographs animals that live in some of the coldest and harshest weather conditions. Figure 2 photographed by Nicklen captures a bear covered in a coat of ice hunting for its next meal (see fig. 2). All three of theses artists show the importance of conservation and appreciation that is vital for the survival of these animals. National Geographic released...
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...piece of artwork represent Leopoldo Flores better than all of the others because when I look at the piece I see several things that remind me of Flores original works. The first thing that popped to me was the textural elements of their art work, the fact that Leopoldo Flores used was glass in his artwork is tremendous and to give a similar feeling as the glass the group chose to use cardboard pieces this to me represent texture of the art work and the way they came up with card board to display the texture to me is very impressive. They also displayed lots of value in their artwork and they display it in a similar format that...
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...Text 1: “Art; Is It Art? Is It Good? And Who Says So?” by Amei Wallach “It seems pretty clear by now that more or less anything can be designated as art.” This is true, whether or not I think something looks beautiful, or a song sounds melodic it can still be considered art. Sculptures made of trash can be considered art, where I just see someone's leftovers gone rotten. Just like a pile of trash has the possibility of turning into a million dollar sculpture, all art has the possibility of turning into great art. Art isn't great because it looks beautiful to everyone: it's great because it inflicts emotion in the viewer. I look at garbage and see garbage, someone else looks at garbage and sees the struggle of the forgotten few. Wallach quotes artist Richard Prince, who says that there will not be “a consensus” in a room of people. For Prince, his art is good because he feels good when he makes it. It's the fact that his art causes him to feel that makes it great....
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...Formal Analysis of Art Vincent van Gogh’s art has a lot of expression that he puts into is paintings to give the viewer a feeling of awe when they look at the picture. His lines are loose and free to make you feel like they are out of control. But they really aren’t he does this to give the picture some expression and individuality. By making the lines loose and free it makes the world that we may see so much more different. With this picture this is how he saw this village while he was alive and painted it. Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing No. 681 his lines are a bit more in control unlike van Gogh’s lines. LeWitt’s lines seem to be well placed like he mathematically decided how he wanted to place the lines on his drawing. They are precise and controlled unlike van Gogh’s, the lines set these two art pieces apart not just by who the artist is but how the artist decided to use the lines to express what he was trying to get across to the viewer. LeWitt’s art seems more thought out and planned with how the lines were going to be placed. Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez is a drawing of the royal family that he must have been close to or close enough to be able to capture some great details of the family that many others may have not seen before. In this work of art you can tell that he is putting the majority of his focus on the little one in the middle that everyone seems to be tending to. Also the artist depicts the parents I believe in the portrait that is in the background. There...
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