The Art of Music Katrina Dudley-Proby MUS-101 Music Appreciation Michael Rader 01/11/16 Introduction Music has so many components and elements to it, from pitch, sounds, dynamics even durations. It could be someone singing a solo a cappella or with musical instruments. Music is something that is utilized in most of our daily lives rather it be contemporary, rhythm and blues or classical. The mechanisms that are used to produce sounds has a broad range ad categories such as, string, percussion
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is just enough room for Arnolfini and his wife to stand close together holding hands. I think van Eyck did this so that viewers looking in this painting could focus solely on the important things, like Arnolfini, his wife, the mirror between them, etc. One can only see the edge of the bed and chair behind the couple, which allows the attention to be set on what is going on in the middle of the room. It also makes the setting seem that much more intimate and close, considering it’s been speculated
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Creativity, education, and play all have similar aspects when it comes to the world of the arts. Creativity is another another word for being different. Without taking a chance at something you cannot be creative. Playing and education both coincide with one another in great ways, but a lot of educators neglect this great act in trying to get children to learn. A few passages in the articles particularly resonated with me. One concept that interested me was an idea McCaslin suggested in his article
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Searching for a specific work of art through all of the marvelous pieces was a difficult task, but one seemed to stand out from the rest. The artwork that I chose to visually analyze is Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin painted by Jean-Marc Nattier in 1759. It is a wonderful oil on canvas piece with the main focus of the painting being a beautiful woman draped in a white gown with golden hues and a vivid blue shawl. Jean-Marc Nattier was a well-known portraitist while in the French court under
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Choose one of the pieces of art from the unit. Identify at least three elements or principles of art that are present. Discuss how these three elements or principles are used in the artwork. Why does the artist include them? “ The Last Supper” Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-1519. The artist used color intensity, color
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Like a lot of of people in the world, I used to ridicule and make fun of artists - all kinds of artists. Anyone in the arts and fine arts stream, though I just kept that to myself. But i recently hit another way of thinking. Something which made me respect them over most other jobs in the world. If you think about it, God made us all using a variety of combinations of things (which we identify as elements today). Humans are made out of carbon, just like diamonds. So technically, isn't that what
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certain aspect. However, relying on emotions too much could also cloud our judgment, for it is a very subjective way of knowing. This essay will discuss how reliable our emotion is in the pursuit of knowledge in two areas of knowledge; history and the arts. To start with, emotion plays a big part in judging historical figures and events that were immortalized through history books. The question is, would it be accurate enough to judge them solely based on our emotions? Take Richard III for example
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The Impact of Not Having The Arts in Elementary Schools A Review of the Literature Detra B. Bynum Capella University Author Note This paper was prepared for Education 5200, taught by Leonard Snyder Abstract My literature review will show a connection between cognition, social and emotional development and the arts. Some students in schools where the arts are an integral part of the academic program tend to do better in school than those students where that is not the case. It
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The purpose and Power of Art Art is a tool that has been used for many centuries, in different cultures over the world. Art can come in many different forms such as paintings, music, theatre etc. Art is a powerful tool that can be used to depict, to denounce or even simply to entertain. It has the ability to bring a weary soul to peace, to smooth a troubled spirit because of its beauty or to stir up a man’s heart because of its strong graphic visualization of the real world. In Allison Dorothy’s
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Both countries have historically shared the superstition of gods, spirits and other aspects of mythology. And, like Norse carvings, ancient Maori carving share a rare survival. Because the people would submerge works of carved art, including canoe prows in swamps during non-peaceful times, some very rare examples were inadvertently preserved. It is thought that the Maori people are descended from areas of eastern Polynesia as they share similar stylistic traits. Over time though
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