...City of Art I have been living in the United States of America over four years. I am an international student. I lived in New Jersey, and Texas before, and been in many cities. .However none of them held me how New York City has held me before. The reason is the art of the buildings. My opinion of what art is, art is a perspective of a person that entertains him when he looks at this art one more time. New York is a great sample if this meaning. Whenever I walk in the city, the time just flies. That is because of there is always some building and architecture new to see in New York. When I look at the view of the Manhattan, I see an artwork that is made by a famous painter. Especially, at nights the lights of the skyscrapers look wonderful to me. There is nothing similar art as New York. If we look at the city as an art, the size of the work is not a compared size of a work. This art is not clay, stone, steel, paint, or technique but building. In New York City, every building has its own vertical, diagonal, horizontal, and planar its own. What makes it art is different characteristic of buildings was gathered together and made a both modern and old city together. For example, you can see an old skyscraper with an old design with a modern building with today’s design next to it. There is not a relationship between the buildings, but as I mentioned before when we look at the view of the Manhattan, everything look relevant to each other. The color of the city is grey, but there...
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...The Art of modern living (The Square, R. Östlund ) Swedish director Ruben Östlund after winning the jury's Un certainty for the Force Majeure (2014), returned this year to Cannes with his latest work The Square and this time he went back home with Palm d'Or. Östlund's The Square is a satirical guide through modern life, at the surface level, while in its metaphors lies the great director's philosophy of living. Bite of reality In the opening scene of the film, we meet Christian Nielsen (Claes Bang), curator of the fictional X Royal Museum of Modern Art in Stokholm, while giving a statement to journalist Anne (Elisabeth Moss) about the upcoming exibition "The Square". While Anne tries to penetrate Christian's "sublime artistic mind," asking...
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...The most widely renowned symbolic meanings for skulls are death and mortality. Skulls have appeared for thousands of years throughout history whether be it on gravestones in early New England or displayed in Middle Eastern homes as far back as 7200 B.C. Their earliest appearance in art history was the adornment of human and animal skulls with gems. The popularity of skull art has increased greatly over the past decade; they can be seen embellished on almost any item from fashion to furniture and tattoos. Damien Hirst is an English artist, he is said to be the most renowned member of the Young British Artists group and is Brittan’s richest living artist with a net worth of approx. $300 million dollars. The majority of Hirt’s works are paintings, conceptual art and installation art centralizing around the themes of faith, religion, wealth, aesthetics and most importantly mortality. His two most notable artworks are his 1991 conceptual piece ’The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ‘and his 2007 sculpture ‘For the love of god’. ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ is a piece created in 1991 using a 4 metre tiger shark, glass, painted steel, silicone, monofilament and formaldehyde solution. This work attempts to...
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...John Smith October 29, 2015 ART 1300-C Mrs. Issacson “The School Of Athens” As one of the renowned great master of the High Renaissance era, Raphael Sanzio da Urbino is best known for his work pertaining to the “School of Athens”. The Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance period, is highly respected for his work. His work was primarily admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplantonic ideal of human grandeur. Raphael was the youngest of the great artists, living from 1483-1520, as stated by “Rahpael’s School of Athens: A Theorem In A Painting?.” (Haas, 2012, pp. 4). Along side Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci; they compose the traditional trinity of great masters of the High Renaissance period. During this period, Living with Art said, “Pope Julius II asked Raphael Sanzio da Urbino to decorate the walls of several rooms in the Vatican palace” (Getlein, 2013, pp. 160). The School of Athens is “considered to be the summation of Renaissance Art by many” according to Living with Art (Getlein, 2013, pp. 160). Raphael composed this painting through the method of fresco for the end wall of the Stanze della Segnatura. This room was a room that may have been the Pope’s library. The School of Athens was started in 1510 and completed in 1511. The twenty-six foot by eighteen foot painting still resides in the Vatican of Rome, with in the Stanza della Segnatura (Getlein, 2013, pp.160). The School of Athens depicts several...
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...Art Nouveau April 10, 2013 Response Paper 1. How does Arts and Crafts influence show in Art Nouveau? Arts and Crafts developed in England in the 1860s. Art Nouveau is a rejection of the European Academic Style. They are both decorative, influenced by medieval, pre-Raphaelite art movement and many other aspects. They can both be understood as reactions to the Industrial Revolution but more so the Arts and Crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts movement stressed the importance of beautiful, handmade crafts and Art nouveau eventually evolved from this, especially in architecture. These new age architects especially Gaudi saw the way architecture was being produced most notably that of the example district in Barcelona and was appalled by it. It was like the architecture of a systematic machine much like that of the industrial revolution and he did not agree with it. He saw architecture not only as a functional thing but also a breathing, living and beautiful thing much like that of the goods produced from the arts and crafts movement. 2. Which are the differences between A&C and Art Nouveau? Art Nouveau originates in France and is characterized by the floral, natural forms, whiplash curves and extravagant fluidity of line. It is mainly based on the principals of nature and the idea that buildings or architecture was more than a means of living but rather an interpretation of the living world. They sought to breathe beauty back into the world and to create a fluid...
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...Art 101 Mrs. 4-7-11 The effect of art in, on , and around houses related to sales. All around the world people are constantly buying new houses to live in. The choice isn’t always easy they don’t just go out for a joyful car ride and choose the first house they see. A lot of time and planning goes into buying a house. Some big factors of buying a house is cost, sq footage, land, and how it looks. Now days we have tv shows on how to improve the look on ones house to improve the resale value of the house. From here most of the features of the house are set in stone such as the square footage, and the main design of the house, as well as the land the house is on. So a decorator who has studied what the human eye catches and retains uses simple art take over to reconstruct the house to make it more appealing to a customer. First thing is to brighten up the house with a new color of paint which needs to be a wise choice to either match or make the furniture pop. Then some nice paintings will be hung on the wall with respect to the designers tastes. One thing that always is done would be the outside of the house in order to catch the eye of the customer. A small decorative garden is used and is put in patterns to express the emotion of the house to help the buyers eyes bounce around the bushes and flowers then back to the front door known as flowing rhythm, to make it feel of a more welcoming home. (aetv) Magazines fill the shelves with new ways to show off your living rooms...
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...Tyler Hunt Art Nouveau April 10, 2013 Response Paper 1. How does Arts and Crafts influence show in Art Nouveau? Arts and Crafts developed in England in the 1860s. Art Nouveau is a rejection of the European Academic Style. They are both decorative, influenced by medieval, pre-Raphaelite art movement and many other aspects. They can both be understood as reactions to the Industrial Revolution but more so the Arts and Crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts movement stressed the importance of beautiful, handmade crafts and Art nouveau eventually evolved from this, especially in architecture. These new age architects especially Gaudi saw the way architecture was being produced most notably that of the example district in Barcelona and was appalled by it. It was like the architecture of a systematic machine much like that of the industrial revolution and he did not agree with it. He saw architecture not only as a functional thing but also a breathing, living and beautiful thing much like that of the goods produced from the arts and crafts movement. 2. Which are the differences between A&C and Art Nouveau? Art Nouveau originates in France and is characterized by the floral, natural forms, whiplash curves and extravagant fluidity of line. It is mainly based on the principals of nature and the idea that buildings or architecture was more than a means of living but rather an interpretation of the living world. They sought to breathe beauty back into the world and...
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...of the walls are dark purple. As you walk in there are the children’s cubbies to the right at adult level. Each of the cubbies is labeled with the child’s name and picture in front of it. To the left was the telephone for the teachers and lower is a shelf with the sign in and out sheets for parents and teachers to sign. Over that shelf is the manipulative or table toys center there isn’t any carpeting on the floor. There are three shelves in the manipulative center all with different age appropriate manipulates. The shelves are labeled with pictures, and the name of the toys in Spanish and English. Next to that is the cozy center there is a long blue pillow on the floor in the middle of two shelves. One shelve has stuffed animals and the other ones has Shubert books. The center next to the cozy or safe center is the reading center. There are lots of colorful posters on the wall at child level. There are two shelves of books. The books seem to be in great condition and there are a variety of books to choose from. This center did have carpet on the floor. The carpet had floral designs. There is a blue leather child size couch that can fit two. There is also a miniature couch with no back that sort of looks like a small stool. Coming out of the reading Erica Alvarenga Edu 145 Child development II February 19, March 12, April 2 Center is two white trashcans. In front of the trashcans are two child size bathrooms. In the middle of the bathrooms is on child sized sink above the...
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...construct also is an ability that separates us from any other animal. Society and its concept is a creation of people. The idea of money and the financial world is all made by man. It is powerful and what makes our world move the way it does, but this does not mean a financial oriented world is the best way or ideal way to live. Living this way is not the right way. What this only brings is conformity and stress and creates a bleak and deadened world of a narrow spectrum of paths to take. Creativity is lost and however much money you have, money will not be anything without humanitarian world to support it. Money is not enjoyable without artistry and constructed beauty. It will value nothing, and values nothing compared to the vast imagination. The New York public schools system is planning to cut the humanities program from schools to bring up the deficiency in the more important fields such as “mathematics” and other core classes. While doing so may bring more knowledge in those fields, if one sees the bigger picture, it is only hurting our country. Not only is creative nature and culture curbed, our economy can be broken as well. The steady loss of knowledge in humanities can destroy America. Humanities creativity and it creates visionaries. By learning art culture and why or how people do certain things to obtain these aesthetics, people can then use it. First one must know about art. Then, they will understand the art and...
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...is a controversial British artist born in 1965. He is a painter and sculptor, among other things, and for the past decade has been one of the richest, most famous artists in the world. He is best known for the “Natural History” works, which are essentially dead animals floating in formaldehyde. Some of his other more notable styles of work include the so-called spin paintings (Beautiful Spill of Light in Destitute Blackness Painting, 2005), the spot paintings, and installations such as My Way, (1990-1991, bottles on a shelf) and a room-sized project called Pharmacy (1992). He has exhibited artwork made with butterflies, and is noted for shocking the public by using human skulls. Hirst also has been accused of plagiarizing other artists’ ideas. One of Hirst’s most famous works is called the Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a dead tiger shark floating in preserving fluid. It is part of the series known collectively as his “Natural History” works that includes fish, sheep, pigs, cows and calves suspended in formaldehyde. He has said of these works that he wanted “to make people think, not to totally shock the shit out of them for the sake of it” (Chaundy, “Damien Hirst: Shockaholic”). The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for three years. It looks like it would be more at home in the Smithsonian...
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...Art and Culture Tammy Enderle June 30, 2015 Instructor: Michael Giacchino Art and Culture Culture and art are two things that have always gone hand in hand. Although art was not always done and accepted by women or minorities there was always an impact on society and culture. It was not until the Civil Right movement and Women Right movement in the late 1960’s that all of this changed. At this point everyone was treated and recognized equally and everyone now had an impact on their cultures and society. Women and Minorities and Art Before the late 1960’s and early 1970’s women and cultural minorities were not recognized for the art that they were capable of producing. “In 1960, the world of American women was limited in almost every respect, from family life to the workplace. A woman was expected to follow one path: to marry in her early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her life to homemaking. As one woman at the time put it, "The female doesn't really expect a lot from life. She's here as someone's keeper — her husband's or her children's." ("E-Collaborative For Civic Education", 2015) Art galleries looked away and did not accept their art to be displayed in their studios. The women and minorities of cultures had to start protesting outside of art galleries to find their voices, and to be heard. In the late 1960’s women came together to open up their own art galleries, and were finally able to have their work on display for everyone to enjoy and see. By...
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...Art History I December 17, 2012 The Influence of Different Religions into the Development of Art The development of the relation of religion to life has been parallel to the development of art. Art always and everywhere has been a medium through which people have sought to express their religious beliefs, or a vehicle through which societies have sought to have their religion represented. Most part of the artworks produced in the past thousand years and more have had a massive religious content, whether, celebrating or representing Biblical narratives or seeking to express a human sense of the divine (Pateman, 1991). Much of it is the work of artists laboring to church commissions - artists who themselves may have had no particular religion and who would execute a religious commission in no different a spirit than a secular one. In the same way, religious art continues to interest and move people who think of themselves as non-believers in the existence of God or the immortality of the soul (Pateman, 1991). Several religious were/are practiced around the globe and the fundaments of these religious can be find and traced through significant artworks of the past that has been exclusively (religiously) committed to pass their beliefs to the next generation trough paintings, sculptures , architecture and etc. Unlike art in modern cultures, most ancient art was not created out of an impulse for self-expression of the artist or as a vehicle for casual entertainment. Instead...
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...Answers to Questions 1 and 2. Most of you did well on questions 3 and 4, so here I post only sample answers to questions 1(a) & (b) and 2: 1(a) & 1(b): Question on whether moving production to China is ethical; Question on the economic and social costs and benefits of such a move. Sample Answer (A) Note: this student earned high grades for looking at the issue from multiple perspectives, for looking at the benefits and costs to all major stakeholders, and for acknowledging that moving productions overseas is a controversial topic. Excellent use of facts to support his/her claim. 1. Whether or not Ohio Art Company’s decision to shift production offshore was ethically wrong is a controversial topic. In strictly business terms, Ohio Art Company (OAC) did not break any laws or perform an illicit act; OAC’s decision to offshore was one that had few other options – if the company did not find ways to lower production costs, the company would have eventually gone bankrupt. If production had not been moved, OAC would have been unable to lower production costs, and would therefore be unable to generate enough profits to continue business. Either way, OAC employees would have suffered job losses. Furthermore, OAC’s decision benefited shareholders, which is one element of judging an ethical decision; there are no standards that prohibit off shoring. However, OAC’s obligations to its employees are something that must be considered as well. The company, which is perceived...
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...Student: Name of Professor: Course Code: Date: Contemporary Art Thesis statement An analysis of contemporary artwork reveals that there is a strong relationship between contemporary art and everyday life as artists can use them for environmental and political activities. Introduction One question that most people usually ask themselves when asked about the history of arts is whether art can have a history. Yes, art has a long history, older than most if not all individuals currently living on earth. Most people think of it as being timeless because art has remained beautiful and attractive since the Old Stone Age. Individuals enjoy looking at arts for its own sake not knowing that they may have a significant meaning and the knowledge of its context inasmuch as viewers from different generations and cultures may see same artworks and interpret them differently from the previous generations. Most of the art works we see around originate from things of the past. Rarely does an artist come up with an imaginary art from vacuum (Art History, par 1). Most of them usually refer their arts by critiquing the outmoded models, borrowing some traditional techniques and methods, researching the old and forgotten stories as well as building on some timeless themes to enable them obtain new ideas (Par 3). It is very important for us to understand the historical precedent as it guides artists in obtaining context since art began from the caves by the Old Stone Age Homo sapiens. Below is...
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...Whatsoever is the origin of the world the Mexican American’s have used the word Chicano to define the individual from the Mexican region who are living in the United States since the beginning of the 19th century. These Mexican Americans are considered as a lower grade population of the society. However, the things that split up the Chicano art from the mainstream art of that time is the color of the artist made in the white art world for example Bryn Kim or Lupe Vélez (Goodwins) is that the artist from Chicano were not willing to be a part of this mainstream art of the world. Giving a look on the history we can say that this art form was based on the form of protest that was highly linked with social politics. Basically, Chicano art was something...
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