...Creativity is the generating of ideas, the finding of alternatives to solve problems, the communicating with others and the entertaining of ourselves and others. As an active member of society one strives to be creative. Striving to be creative is striving to achieve innovative and complex stimulation and to communicate ideals and values with the public. Art is the most culturally universal and timeless form of creativity. Art has been the most prominent way of communicating emotion, ideals, values and entertainment for mankind over centuries. From intricate instructions on embalming to please the gods in Egypt, to Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup advertisement style pop-art, every piece of art has a history and a story to tell. This story begins with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who are credited with fore fronting the avant-garde Cubist revolution. Abandoning the socially correct representations of objects, which blatantly depicted the actual appearance of said objects, Cubism reduced natural inspirations to their geometric equivalents and used varying planes to depict differing points of view according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cubism is best described by Jacques Lipchitz, a Cubist sculpture, “Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view" (Cubism Movement, 2012). The key to truly understanding an art form is to know...
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...Beginning in 1907 the Cubism movement was set into motion by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; this would eventually become the most internationally influenced movement of the 20th Century. The movement has roots dating back to European traditions of the Renaissance, which can be seen it its illusionism and deconstruction of linear perspective. The Cubism movement can be broken down into two primary styles of Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, each equally influential in their own way. First up was Analytical Cubism; this references the artist objective of analyzing and breaking down of the form and space within the picture plane. Analytical Cubism was the period from 1907 to 1912; it was formed primarily at the hands of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne and George Seurat. Analytical Cubism was a period of exploration in separating the perceived reality of what we can view and the intellectual reality of what we know. These characteristics include flattening the pictorial surface and simplifying the picture plane to only a basic geometric fragmentation of the subject. Additionally, minimal color was used in order to further flatten the subject. Flatness was a key characteristic of Analytical Cubism; lack of warm and cool hues prevented the subject from becoming dimensional and eliminated any single focal point. With the goal of Analytical Cubism being to separate realities, artist used easily recognizable items or ordinary subjects. Things used were often just found around the artist...
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...1. Cassandra is an abstract painter with incredible talent but little fame. One of her paintings, entitled Blue Mistress 13, is a work of immense power and sensuality. Twelve months ago, she sold it to SingTel for display in the main public entrance of the company’s new headquarters. Several art critics attending the opening of the new building mistook the painting for a long-lost work of Pablo Picasso. They wrote about it in their newspaper columns as though they had made a great discovery. When people began flooding to the SingTel Building to see the painting, the directors of SingTel were delighted. They even put up a notice that said “This painting, entitled La Dama Azul, is thought to have been painted by Pablo Picasso during his blue period.” Cassandra is highly offended by this notice. Is there anything Cassandra can do about it? Explain. As a member state of the Berne Convention, moral rights of Artists are recognized in Singapore, where it consists of rights to “be recognized as the author/artist” and also “not to suffer derogatory treatment by any unauthorised addition, amendment, deletion or alteration. Therefore, it is obvious that Singtel has violated this basic right of Cassandra under moral rights when it did not acknowledge her as the artist but instead dishonestly put up a notice that the painting is thought to have been painted by Pablo Picasso despite knowing the truth about the artist. Cassandra can therefore bring Singtel to court, demanding them to...
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...Throughout history, art has been a tool for many to express themselves and the events surrounding them. The works of great artists are not only personal, but revolutionary. On occasion, paintings can influence the spectator, for better or worse. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and those who designed world war one propaganda, demonstrate their views and worldly perceptions to change others. Picasso’s Guernica shows the brutalities of war, as propaganda tried to hide it. Kahlo paints her life as a mexican women imposed with Western culture in Las Dos Fridas, while street art gives a loud and accessible message to those who come across it. All these examples exemplify real occurrences, that were published and used as a front for mainstream media. During the surrealist movement of the early 1900s, men were in the spotlight. Few modern movements had prominent figures that were women. While Kahlo faced a multitude of setbacks, her work served as a gateway for female artists, who had seldom been represented. The surrealist label had however, been denied by Frida. She professes that her art was not the bizarre, dream like alter reality of the surrealist movement, but her life. This is significant as the honesty of her work leaves little to the interpretation of the spectators. The work she displayed on canvas was, “the emotional nature of the female artist… by the conjoining of physical suffering with other forms of emotional excess” (Lent 70). Her work leaves a raw portrayal...
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...HR ineffeciency * PROBLEM AREAS IDENTIFIED 1.With the company’s growing size, the company became more process oriented and started leveraging its experience to perform repeatable projects, employees realized that they were being deprived of creative and technical ingenuity that had been inherent in their work during the initial years. Employees thought the organization was becoming more impersonal and that some of the perks of initial years were being repealed. 2.As the company started scaling up across multiple locations, Infosys articulated the core values it believed in and wanted every employees to adhere to through the acronym “C- LIFE”: customer delight, leadership by example ,integrity & transparency, fairness and pursuit of excellence. They wanted to stick to their core values even when the company was expanding to new territories. 3.The company also showed high employee turnover when it was expanding its operations, which was mainly due to lack of proper communication between the middle/higher level managers and the lower level employees. 4. The introduction of “variable pay” was a great step in the direction of improving performance but it was not properly supported or backed with a good means to support this change. Infosys did not properly communicate the concept to the employees that a section of the employees were sceptical about the company’s intentions. 5. The broad-banding policy that was a leap towards a role based organization...
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...Barbara Kruger : Old Is Original The concept of postmodernism is typified as a return to traditional materials and forms. Consequently, much of the art of this genre is filled with imagery and objects that pertain to previous original concepts. These modern artistic endeavors also include the creativity involved in postmodernism which comes from the new arrangement of said past concepts. The primary notion of postmodernism rejects the modernists preoccupation with aestheticism as well as the formal qualities tied to the movement. In effect, something new is created from something old. As postmodernism progressed, many artists and critics alike began to question the fundamental and intrinsic values and motivations behind the modernist movement. While postmodernists were beginning to explore their newly created movement, French philosophers Jean Baudrillard and Roland Barthes introduced new theories regarding the flourishing artistic practices of simulation and appropriation. In 1967 Roland Barthes wrote in his essay "The Death of the Author," stripped both dominion and creation from artists and writers, declaring, “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God), but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.” According to Barthes, no new creations were unique in any way. They were all merely reinterpretations of those ideas which came first. Consequently, many...
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...search bar at the top middle of Art21’s homepage. Watch how they work and what they say about their process. Briefly critique each artist using the Formal, Contextual OR Expressive theory. One critique per film. This cannot be an artist we have viewed previously this semester. Mark Bradford in “Paradox” Looking at his paintings, to me they would describe what mixed media is about. The technique, range, and composition is spontaneous and expressive. He is using the process of adding, subtracting, and viewing different concepts in his collages that is always changing. His background from working in his mother’s hair salon gave him vision of what he would see in his artwork from making uses of what he could find and imagine. He uses elements in his artwork from everyday uses – remnants of poster boards, caulking, carbon paper, polyester cords and other objects that would bring his artwork to life. He then used these advertisements to make collages about his interests in mapping communities and underground economies. I find his work very expressive and intriguing. Trenton Doyle Hancock was a very interesting fellow when describing his work and cultural history. He would make collaged felt paintings which tell a story of a fantastical nature. He uses an explosion of color in his artwork that would tell a contextual theory about his nature and culture. He would describe his family and faith into some of his drawings and the characters would formulate his imaginary world. He was very...
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... Page 1 of 2 ZOOM Comparando y contrastando las MeninasBoth Pablo Picasso’s and Diego Velázquez’s painting, Las Meninas, arewell known around the world. The artists had different portrayals of this painting and different reasons for making this painting. They also had different styles of painting and one is much more vibrant than the other. They also had some similarities in the paintings. Some of these similarities are the name and who the painting is about. Other similarities are about extra people in the paintings and dresses that the main person is wearing. Here are some ways that Pablo Picasso’s and Diego Velázquez’s painting “Las Meninas” are similar and different.There are many differences in these two paintings. First, Diego Velázquez seemed to be portraying Infanta Margarita observing Diego painting with a posse of maids and servants following her. On the other hand,Pablo Picasso seemed to be portraying Infanta Margarita being attended to by her maid. Second, Diego Velázquez reason for making this painting was most likely so that he could please the King and Queen with a painting of their daughter. While Diego Velázquez may have made the painting for his reasons, Pablo Picasso most likely made his paintings because he was angry at Spain and wanted to make there beloved paintings look unrealistic, which the Spanish hated. Another difference between this two paintings is, Pablo Picasso’s painting was a lot more colorful, while Diego Velázquez’s was moredull...
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... In October there was an extra credit opportunity at the IMU called, “Chicana Canvas.” It really caught my attention and I decided to go because it sounded fun and interesting to me. I had the honor to meet Xuan Santos and was able to listen to his amazing presentation. Xuan Santos is from East Los Angeles and went to California State University-San Marcos (USCD). He is a very talented tattoo artist. He talked about how he got found interest in art and the idea of tattoos and how it is a permanent mark that creates your identity. He also talked about the chicana canvas and the importance of knowing who you are. Xuan Santos said when he was little he was quite different than the other kids he grew up with. One day the other kids played outside with their toys or playing tag he would leave them to go watch his uncle tattoo his clients. His uncle did tattoos at home and that is where he would watch him. He said ever since that day he was fascinated about the art on other bodies. He grew up watching his uncle and he would also practice drawing. He discovered a talent he never knew he had. He was telling us that people get tattoos to create their identity. Tattoos are not just art on people’s skin, to some people they are but most of the time it has a meaning behind them. That significance is what helps people find who they truly are and what they truly are passionate about. To some people it can be how they express emotions or show their love to loved ones, friends, culture, etc...
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...A still life is a work of art which depicts inanimate objects such as flowers, plants, plants, food, rocks shells; this also includes man made items such as bottles, glasses, books, jewellery, pipes, vases and so on. Origins within the middle ages and ancient Greek and Roman art, still life paintings gave the artists choices in the arrangements and design within a composition then paintings of a landscape or a portrait. Still life paintings before the 17th century mostly contained religious symbolism relating to the objects painted. Some modern still life breaks the 2 dimensional barriers which employ 3 dimensional mixed objects such as photography, computer graphics and video and sound. Various artists include the Dutch in the 17th Century, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Ricky Swallow and Sam Taylor Wood. The Dutch Golden Age The Dutch golden age of painting is a period Dutch history spanning the 17th century. During and after part of 80 years of war (1568-1648). This was the most prosperous nation in Europe and they led European trade, science and art. Dutch painting of the golden age known as the baroque painting, which often shows its characteristics but lacks the idealisation of love and splender which being typical of baroque work. Neighbouring flanders work for the period often reflects traditions of realism from Netherland-ish panting. Distinctive features for this period are genres of paintings with most artists producing the bulk of their work during the golden age. These...
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...The face of war, by Salvador Dali, "Femme en pleurs" by Pablo Picasso, are two depressing paintings. When most people view these two paintings in the first sight, they would think that they would be very different but they actually have a lot of things in common. The first painting would be seen as a disturbing, disgusting visual. The second painting would be seen as a cubical, interesting and a colourful painting. In these two paintings, there are many intentions and secret messages such as fear, ugly truth, and the lonely horror. The date of these two paintings only show 4 years difference. "Femme en pleurs" was completed in 1937, while "The face of war" was done by 1941. Surprisingly, they were both influenced by the Spanish civil war from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939. "The face of war" was finished after the Spanish civil war but also in the beginning of WWII. Perhaps, the reason why the title is called the "The face of war". In this painting, it shows a skeleton of a hand in the right bottom corner. The skeleton obviously represents what was left after the death. Weird thing about this hand, is that it is separated and not connected to the face but the direction of the dead hand is towards the face. In my opinion, the separated body parts shows an effort to live but fails to survive and scattered into different places on this desert. The character failed to survive the war and gained fear. On the other hand, "The weeping woman" secretly shows the skeletons in her face...
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...Hockney was inspired by some of the most famous artists including Pablo Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg, as well experimental artists including Jacob Kramer, Alan Davie and R.B Kitaj. Even though Hockney was influenced by others, he developed the ability to take ordinary landscapes and develop them through his unique colours and photographs. This resulted in his work being extremely pleasing to view. This talent led to Hockney earning a place amongst other contemporary artists of the 20th century. Though Hockney is not considered a master yet unlike Picasso, his work clearly shows the evidence that he is a great influential artist. He was greatly influenced by Robert Rauschenberg, an American artist. Rauschenberg’s composition inspired Hockney...
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...The beginning of chapter three in Puzzles About Art, examines Picasso’s questionable approach toward a portrait of Françoise Gilot. The portrait depicts Gilot as a flower, rather than a human. Picasso took such an approach to this portrait, because he thought the abstract painting would represent Gilot more accurately. Though the reading gives examples of specific changes to Gilot’s figure and Picasso’s reasoning behind the changes. It seems that Picasso observed features of Gilot that would be difficult to express through a regular portrait. It is possible Picasso determined that Gilot’s personality would easily be unnoticed in a normal portrait. A flower is a small, delicate, and beautiful object. By painting Gilot as a flower, it is possible to assume that, in real life, she was a nice, charming. and pretty lady. The decision to draw her as a flower was to make it easily relatable to the viewer of the painting. Of course, there is much more to learn about Gilot through the painting. But overall, portraying Gilot as a flower with an abnormal color palette allows the viewer to be able to interpret more about Gilot than from a regular portrait. A portrait typically captures a person’s physical appearance in a certain setting. Picasso wanted to portray more than that such as personality, beauty, interests, or figure. Characteristics that would be difficult to convey through a regular portrait. However, changing aspects to lead to a certain interpretation can also lead to misinterpretation...
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...SO - Biography Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on the 25th of October, 1881 and died on the 8th of April, 1973 (91 years old). He was born in Spain, and he was known as a painter and sculptor. Picasso has created 20,000 amazing artworks. He is best known as the co-founder of Cubism. Pablo breaks up objects and re-assembles them in an abstract and geometric form. Picasso had four children with three different women. In 1972, a number of his artworks were shown in an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris. When Pablo was 8 years old he created his first oil painting called “The Picador”. Artworks Guernica - 1937 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 349.3cm x 776.6cm (dimensions) Les Demoiselles d’Avignon - 1907 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 243.9cm x 233.7cm (dimensions) The Old Guitarist - 1903-04 (year), Oil on panel (medium), 122.9cm x 82.6cm (dimensions) Jacqueline with Flowers - 1954 (year), Oil on canvas (medium), 116cm x 88.5cm (dimensions) Materials Used: Picasso used many different mediums, such as oil and he usually painted on panels and canvas. Concepts for: Guernica – It is named after a small country town in Spain that was the target of a terror bombing exercise during the Spanish Civil War. In the painting there is a bull which is an iconic symbol for Spain. And there is a woman on the left side weeping over the death of her child, which was caused by the Civil War. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – This artwork is a painting of five naked women. These women were...
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...Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – The Painting That Changed It All Being a volunteer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City allows me to meet many interesting people with many different views. Today I had a group who had the pleasure of viewing Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon for the first time. They had the same reaction I did originally! It was hideous! It was not until I had done further research on the painting that I was able to see its beauty. Today was the day I took the extra time to explain the importance of this painting to our visitors, instead of listening on in silence. The following is a reflection of the conversation I had with the guests. When I first laid eyes on Les Demoiselles, I also thought it was a poorly thrown together piece of work. It was ugly and almost an insult to the term “art”. There was no significance in the piece that I was able to identify with. That’s when I decided to do some research on the painting. It would not be in this museum if it were not of some significance, right? This painting was done by Picasso back in 1907. This was the very first painting of its kind. The painting itself had taken a stand on how we view paintings today and, what they mean to us. Before the Les Demoiselles, paintings were basically of things you could see. Visually, with your eyes. The Les Demoiselles was more about what you envisioned. How you saw things and interpreted those things. This painting was more of how Picasso...
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