Addiction of Celebrity-Watching “Everyone will have his fifteen minutes of fame‚” says Andy Warhol. As today‚ the definition of the word “celebrity” is no longer associates with the original meaning form the dictionary. Daniel Boors tin‚ the author of the “Or‚ What Happened to the American Dream‚” restates the definition of the “celebrity” in his book which is “celebrity is a person who is well known for his well-knowingness.” No a doubt‚ benefited by the modern high-tech media of the celebrities-watching
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Literature Review Fashion as art; is art Fashion? * Sanda Miller “Like art‚ clothes can provide the subject of historical research.” According to the reader by Miller‚ fashion‚ like architecture fulfills primarily a functional dimension. This is said with art being something of display‚ admiration and in some cases personal relation. Art being something decorative and less functional than clothing‚ because clothes can be worn‚ but avante garde fashion is where the differentiation between
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Chris Radley (458656) Superflat Graphic Design BA(Hons): Part Time CCS200 ● 1800 Word Essay January 2010 “Any engagement with Murakami’s catalogues more profound than a rapid skim is liable to leave the Western art consumer (at least one old enough to be unaffected by the current Western youth fad for all things otaku) floundering in a sea of unfamiliar signifiers‚ feeling hooked‚ intrigued yet vaguely ill-at-ease‚ not unlike Bill Murray’s character in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation
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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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