...Art Appreciation Unit 3 Discussion Board American Intercontinental University HUMA205 June 24, 2013 Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci were considered masters of the arts. Both men communicated their visions through their works or masterpieces. I will attempt to compare and contrast two works of art, one by Michelangelo and the other by Leonardo. The masterpiece I chose from Michelangelo Buonarroti is The Last Judgment. This work was painted on the alter wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Michelangelo started this work in 1508 and finished in 1512. (Art and the Bible, nd) It represents the second coming of Christ and the final judgment of God. The picture presents Christ as judge and condemns everyone on his left to eternal fire, as he raises those on his right to heaven to be with the saints and angels. The picture radiates out from the center figure of Christ. Originally all the people were painted naked, but after quite a bit of controversy they were painted over with veils and loincloths. The Last Judgment is monochromatic and flesh tones and sky colors dominate the work. Yellow, orange, green and blue are scattered throughout the painting. Michelangelo focuses on the action of human creatures quite different than Leonardo’s emphasis on perspective such as birds in flight. His art enhances the naturalism and he had a great skill at portraying profound emotions that make this painting striking. The painting is sort of obscure...
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... |Course Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |ARTS/125 Version 2 | | |Pop Culture and the Arts | Copyright © 2010, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the interactions between the arts, advertising, media, and lifestyle and cultural trends in contemporary American society. Familiarity will be gained with the various art forms and their relationship to mass media, personal and professional life, and in particular to how they contribute to the current conception of fine art and popular culture. Students are asked to examine current trends and cultural changes, assessing both the role the arts have played in creating them and the influence these cultural trends have on art itself. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted...
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...Emily Morris March 9, 2015 RTF 305 Reflection 1 Best Post This article discusses the many different ways the different types of media influence youth and children. It identifies that different media have different ways of influencing children in the areas of: learning, violence, nutrition, sexuality, alcohol and smoking, and advertising. Children are so much more easily influenced by media because of their developing minds and the fact that they are still learning about social norms of the world. Things portrayed to children in the media are thus perceived as social norms even though they are often the most extreme behaviors our society exhibits. It is important for parents and guardians to monitor their children's exposure to media or at least guide them in their understanding of what they are seeing/hearing/reading/etc. As our world is becoming more and more technology based and more and more heavily influenced by media, cutting out media exposure is not practical or realistic. Media does not only influence children in negative ways, however. Media can also have positive influences on children's developing minds. Because of this, well-monitored media exposure can be beneficial for a child's development when used in moderation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792691/ (Links to an external site.) Best Post Analysis This post was one of my best posts because I in depth discussed the affects of media on the development of children. In addition...
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...Introduction This week’s discussion forum topic is to identify a favorite work of art. While I’m not sure I have one absolute favorite, I can easily identify one of my favorites and will be happy to introduce you to this piece. Of course, if you are already familiar with the artist then I hope you enjoy refreshing your memory. Discussion Several years ago, at an estate sale in a neighboring town, I found a large wooden art piece that had always been one of my favorites. While it isn’t an original by any stretch of the imagination, it is something that brings me joy. After happily exchanging some cash for it, I rushed home and hung it prominently over our piano. The artist is Alphonse Mucha and he lived 1860–1939. He became very well known...
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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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...and dramatists like Dryden felt a need to play the public role of arbiters of literary taste. Dryden was actively engaged in contemporary debates which sought to lay down standards of what was considered high and low art. He published his “Essay of Dramatic Poesie” in 1667 and “Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry” in 1692. Both of these served as prescriptive texts for what passed muster as “good” art. In an age of a revived interest in the classics, many of the instructions on good satirical writing are based on the works of Horace, Persius and Juvenal. While he did not think highly of Horatian verse which used word-play like anagrams and “ackrosticks” and was favoured by Francophiles poets, he admired Juvenal and Persius for their unity of plot and their use of Wit, which he saw as a more masculine device than lampooning or raillery. In MacFlecknoe, Dryden’s definition of good art also comes to be strongly associated with class. When he says that bad poetry laden with “Pure Clinches” or puns is inspired by the “suburban Muse”, his implication is that it is only the genteel circles of London that produce and read good poetry – thus, Bun-hill and Watling Street are down-market parts of London which by virtue of their economic demography can only produce low art. The world that MacFlecknoe reigns over is the world of artistic production which thrives in burroughs of London which weren’t seen as respectable – and it is this underbelly of the city: brothels “of lewd loves, and...
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...Manager needs to carry out, if given an opportunity to work with National Art Council (Singapore). This report will spread light on the challenges that the organization is facing and what steps needs to be taken by the Human Resource Manager to solve those issues will be discussed. Introduction If the people of your company are happy then they will take care of the customers and if the customers are happy then the profit of the organization is taken care. People and their happiness in an organization lies in the hands of Human Resource Management. An individual working under the National Art Council as a Human Resource Manger need to be very enthusiastic and passionate enough to provide guidance and assistance to the people. National Art Council (NAC) consists of multiple departments (performing arts, visual arts, human resource, and corporate communication) which all together works towards a common goal which is about unveiling fine arts in different fields and bringing out ones talent. (Renaissance city plan, 2008). The individual who will be handling the post of Human resource manager in National Art Council needs to focus on the key issue within the organization and needs to overcome challenges which will help the organization to run its function in a better and smother way. Training and development and Utilization of time and resources are the two main things that a manager of National Art Council needs to take care. Training improves the quality of work and utilization...
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... |SYLLABUS | | |College of Humanities | | |ARTS/125 Version 2 | | |Pop Culture and the Arts | Copyright © 2010, 2007 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores the interactions between the arts, advertising, media, and lifestyle and cultural trends in contemporary American society. Familiarity will be gained with the various art forms and their relationship to mass media, personal and professional life, and in particular to how they contribute to the current conception of fine art and popular culture. Students are asked to examine current trends and cultural changes, assessing both the role the arts have played in creating them and the influence these cultural trends have on art itself. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted...
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...Erika Velez Georgina Ruff IDS 121.32 Research Paper Habermas defined the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community that does not exist in any particular space, it is made up of individual people gathered together as a public and expressing their thoughts. Through the discussion, the public sphere produces opinions and attitudes that are made to agree or disagree with a particular piece[1]. Tree Huts (2008) and Under the Water (2011) by Tadashi Kawamata are works of site-specific “public sphere” art that promote the reuse of supplies to help conserve the environment which would facilitate a thriving discussion in future classes, and therefore be included in future curriculum. Tadashi Kawamata constructs architecture in urban spaces with recycled materials such as timber, cardboard boxes, old newspapers and vegetable crates. Born in 1953 and a graduate from the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Tadashi has had many experiences throughout his life working with various venues of art, but making works that intend to link the exterior and interior architectural aspects of the urban work places has always been something that interested Tadashi Kawamata[2]. In 2011, Tadashi Kawamata produced his work Under the Water, which was made out of old doors and reclaimed wood bits and parts. The inspiration behind this work was the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011[3]. Placed throughout a gallery and also through the outside corridors...
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...Devry HUM 303 Entire Course (All Discussions+Assignments +Project+Final Exam) IF You Want To Purchase A+ Work then Click The Link Below For Instant Down Load http://www.hwspeed.com/Devry-HUM-303-Entire-Course-82382322147.htm?categoryId=-1 IF You Face Any Problem Then E Mail Us At JOHNMATE1122@GMAIL.COM QuestionCourse project This course will take you through huge chunks of human history from the Paleolithic era through the Vietnam War and into our postmodern world. Your course project will culminate in a nine-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Scrupulous documentation plus high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas are highly prized. Mere reporting, describing, and finding others’ ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure. Your paper is to be 70–80% original and 20–30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com). Details and milestones follow. Your final grade includes points accumulated for your discussions; proposal; a two-part annotated bibliography; a draft; and a final paper. The following are guidelines to assist you in completing the course successfully. Guidelines for the Proposal (100 points): A proposal offers a detailed and full description of your project (as best you know it at the time of writing) in no more than 2 pages. To succeed, students...
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...that I saw prevail across most if not all of the given primary resources was a discussion about whether or not art was beneficial, powerful, and useful to America from Colonial Era to Antebellum Era. While situations and circumstances vary between era, and each time period seems to create and express themselves in new ways, the one commonality that strikes me from many different sources is the discussion of art’s influence and power onto society. With focus on documents that argue art progresses society and even more so has the power to influence viewers, can be seen in Charles Peale’s address to the citizens of the United States of America in February, 1790. Peale’s statement is in reference to the opening of his museum which would stress , ‘…the importance that such a collection and arrangement would be to society…” and that, “…for the emolument of mankind - a fabric, which with due attention, must be continually improving to the end of time.” (p148) In context of Peale’s advertisement of his museum, Peale believes that the objects in his museum which include a multitude of works from portraits to taxidermy give the public an important value....
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...Q2) identify and discuss the art issue that you have studied and how it’s related to the artworks. Clearly specify the artworks that you have studied, in relation to the art issue, including artist, title and date. “What right do artists have in using animals in their artworks” “killing animals” As seen through Damien Hirst’s ‘The physical Impossibility of death in the mind of something living, 1991’. A tiger shark has been placed within the glass cabinet, which was previously killed by someone that Hirst hired. In defence of this, Hirst himself was responsible for hiring Australian Fisherman, meaning that the Australian wasn’t entirely liable. Therefore the blame lies on the client. In relation to the issue, artists do not have the right to kill animals for the sole purpose of “art”. If the animal is already dead or suffering and has to be put down, then that again is an entirely different circumstance, and could even be justified or deemed as more acceptable in certain instances. In comparison to Nathalia Edenmont’s work ‘Bride Red, 2003’ who used a rabbit within her artwork, and beautified the rabbit by adding features to it, such as lace collars, posed in a glass vase, this also doesn’t seem very humane, but since rabbits are vermin its seen as more “acceptable”. Due to the lack of humanity, it’s suggested that the artworks themselves are controversial. Q3) ‘Art creates & debates’ Respond to this statement with reference to an issue that you have explored this year...
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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 stand in the way of arts integration in schools. For instance, multiple schools can collaborate on the costs of adding arts classes, such as having each school create one extra art class, and allowing students from neighboring schools to attend...
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...Public art is a topic that is widely debated and somewhat controversial. Since individual opinions on art in general can be very nuanced and subjective, it is a common problem that some part of a population has an issue with a particular piece of public art. So what happens when the disagreement is directly between the public who is observing the piece and those who put it in place? It’s never really clear-cut who is right or wrong. One might say that it should be up to the observer, but maybe the observer doesn’t put full effort into understanding the art or simply can’t understand it. Should public art reflect public opinion or should it serve to shape the public’s perception of art? These are complex questions on a topic that is very...
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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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