Maude Place Modernism 31C 4/12/13 Reading Response: Week 2 In Clement Greenberg’s essay‚ “Avant Guard and Kitsch‚” he divides art into two different categories: Kitsch and the Avant-Guard (genuine art or inauthentic works). He touches upon the marginalization of the Avant-Guard artists in the modern world because of the irresistible nature of Kitsch. Mass media being an art form developed from the industrial revolution is scrutinized within Greenberg’s essay for being of a lesser value
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LSD and other hallucinogens have flooded the drug market for the past forty years. Some of these drugs are natural while others are man-made‚ but almost all of them have the same effect on the people that take them. In its early years LSD‚ and LSD like drugs‚ were tested on all people in different walks of life including our military personnel. Of course the doctors did this not knowing the effects of the drug‚ long term or short term. With time knowledge grew‚ but sadly‚ so did the curiosity about
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The second direct competitor to Chanel is L’Oréal‚ the world’s largest manufacturer of high-quality cosmetics‚ perfumes‚ and hair and skin care products. Although L’Oreal the company doesn’t manufacture a perfume it owns the brand Lancôme that produces Tresor a perfume that rivals Chanel. In the chart below‚ it lists the US female fragrances brand share by value from the 2002 Tablebase data. The chart shows how the Lancôme perfume Tresor‚ Estee Lauder and Chanel are in relation to each other.
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Three Hundred Fifty Years of Blind Love: A Contraposition of Shakespeare and Robbins’ Romeo and Juliet Andy Warhol once said‚ "They say that time changes things‚ but actually you have to change them yourself." Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However‚ time did not change the message of the story‚ simply the creators’ unique visions evolved. Shakespeare’s delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love
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artists share the same vision‚ but they have fought their own personal battles to get their message out to the public. If Postmodernism raises low art to the level of high art‚ it also allows folks who control the media to cash in on subculture. Andy Warhol made a joke of it‚ but Keith Haring turned the tables. When this Graffiti artist lifted his brush to the walls of subways and plastered canvases with cartoon figures he made a point: art is for everyone. You can pay big bucks if it makes you feel
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Art Forgeries When one enters into an art museum‚ one would expect all of the pieces of art to be that of the original. However‚ when an art lover does not know the difference between an original from a forgery‚ then they may have been fooled by both the museum and by the forger. No one can really look at a painting and distinctly know whether it is a forged piece of work or an original piece of work. Art forgeries may seem like an artist copying a well-known artists work‚ but it depends on how
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Tomasz Pioszyk FA 2300 (06) WK 11 Out-line Art & Design Criticism The following is a quote from Barnett Newman‚ “I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it’s impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work‚ I feel I might as well talk about it.” An example of his work is “Onement.” There are six topics for art criticism. The first is verbal description‚ what does the viewer see? Second is formal analysis‚ what are the elements and principles of art and design
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actually be useful for something other than holding a liquid? Well recyclable items can be made into art too! Art is much more than Leonardo Da Vinci and Romero Brito. Art can be made from water bottles‚ milk jugs‚ toilet paper rolls‚ and even tissue boxes! A couple styles of art from the earth are street art or “rubbish” kind of art‚ earth art and making art from unconventional materials. Many different specific pieces could be sorted into these three categories. Anyway‚ Earth without art would be just
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years ago (1881) in Malaga‚ Spain. Picasso painted in many styles‚ including Cubism and Expressionism The Blue Period sad looking paintings using blue and blue-green colors. The Rose Period a more happy style with orange and pink colours. Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. When he graduated from school he went to New York City for a job. He got jobs doing magazine illustrations‚ decorating department store windows‚ greeting
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could be followed only by spreading the revolution beyond Cuba’s shores Villain … * If it were not for the Korda photograph hardly anyone would think about Che – after all‚ he was a flop as a revolutionary * The myth of Che – whether films‚ Andy Warhol artworks‚ or wall posters – mainly attracts style victims‚ not serious political activists * When he did‚ briefly‚
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