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    Appiled Arts

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    wood‚ fiber‚ and metal-it was once common to think of crafts in terms of function‚ which led to their being known as the "applied arts." Approaching crafts from the point of view of function‚ we can divide them into simple categories: containers‚ shelters and supports. There is no way around the fact that containers‚ shelters‚ and supports must be functional. The applied arts are thus bound by the laws of physics‚ which pertain to both the materials used in their making and the substances and things

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    The Art of Sculpture

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    The Art of Sculpture Long before man could record history‚ people were sculpting free standing figures out of bones rocks and other objects. It is said that sculpting is the art of the people‚ and it is a more powerful art than literature and painting because it can be touched and felt. When a sculpture is in a gallery our attention is sustained by an intensified visual engagement. This is what makes its fixed shape come alive in the viewer’s eyes. Before the 20th century‚ sculpture was considered

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    Guide :: Art 1010 Art Appreciation :: Fall 2011 :: Professor Anderson Chapter 1 The methods of prehistoric painters The most important meaning of an artwork (according to Getlein) The relationship between perception and art The reasons why art is made‚ and the tasks art accomplishes Familiarize yourself with the following images from the text: Vanitas‚ tim Hawkinson’s “Emoter‚” Stonehenge‚ Chapter 2 How to determine the following aspects of a work of art: form‚ subject

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    French art

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    1800s to 1907 The were many art movements within this time period. I am going to show you some of well known one and unknown artist. Impressionism In 1874‚ a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters‚ Sculptors‚ Printmakers‚ etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet‚ Edgar Degas‚ and Camille Pissarro‚ among others. Impressionism was a movement that occurred in both art and poetry. It was a time

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    History of Art

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    Discuss the evolution of the idea of beauty through the history of art. The idea of beauty‚ the perfect human body‚ is a result of culture: religious functions‚ advertisements‚ economy‚ and other factors. The definition of beauty is not an inherent concept‚ since every age‚ place and social class formed its own ideal of it. This evolution of beauty is shown explicitly through the history of art. Art‚ in different periods‚ was influenced mainly by history and religion. I will discuss this transition

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    The Politics of Art

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    Reviewing current art‚ both locally and globally‚ it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content. One reason for this focus is that technological advances encourage snatching digitized fragments from reality that document the persistent global nightmare of human inhumanity. This process thus duplicates in art the same nightmare we see every day on TV or the Internet. Very little of this work‚ whose apology is that it is “consciousness raising‚” amounts to more than superficial

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    Art Work

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    Lemons‚ May 16‚ 1984‚ 1984. Latex‚ tar on vinyl tile over wood‚ 97 in. 971/2 in. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts‚ Richmond. Gift of the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation. Photo: Katherine Wetzel. © 1996 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. W ISBN 0-558-55180-7 e live in a physical world whose properties are familiar‚ and‚ together with line‚ space is one of the most familiar. It is all around us‚ all the time. We talk about “outer” space (the space outside our world) and “inner” space (the space inside

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    Art And Humanity

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    Art and Humanity Assessing the portrayal of the human form throughout the history of art is interesting to see the evolution. Eras and locations take a major part in the style of the human from the Ancient Greece to Gothic Europe. The Spear Bearer from 450 BCE‚ Head of Old Man from mid 1st c. BCE‚ and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Sicily‚ Italy from12th c.e. Are all great examples to see the different styles of humans being portrayed in a specific era. Each piece of work is a product

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    Expressions of Arts

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    The Art can be express through many ways. Artists use images‚ songs and words to explain how they see the world. Furthermore‚ art expressions could be against the government ideas‚ consequently artists could be restricted on show their thoughts. Firstly‚ obscene artist expressions in videos and pictures should be restricted by the government because it has to keep the order and the good customs in its country. Secondly‚ some art expressions like graffiti make the streets very ugly and dirty so

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    Art and Medicine

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    Every day thousands of people are diagnosed with life threatening diseases and every day thousands of people are being cured. Whether or not art was instrumental is unclear; I would like to think it was in many cases‚ but I cannot say this with certainty. One thing I do know is that for more than twenty years‚ the University of Florida has been using art to help people through rough times in their lives. The documentary we watched in class mainly showed the writing portion of the program‚ but there

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