Art 1030: Art Appreciation Instructor: Steve Bishop Essay One Josalyn Cook 1/26/2011 What Makes Art Art? Art is an object or piece of work that brings one pleasure. Art is also something you see or feel and you cannot even begin to describe the ways you like it or how it makes you feel. Art is something that portrays beauty and happiness. Art lets you see the world through another person’s perspective. Most art seems to tell a story about where a person has been and the things
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The artifact that I picked from Metropolitan Museum of Art is called Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion’s Roar. It is a large wood statue of an Avalokiteshvara‚ the basic idol of Buddhism‚ completed around the 12th century in China during the Ming Dynasty. The Buddha Statue is a representation of the philosophical belief system of Buddhism. Different Buddha Statues have different meanings. Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara symbolizes "the compassion in the world and the willingness to bear the pain
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Fashion as Art: Is fashion today considered a high art form worthy of being exhibited in museums? What is fashion? Is it art? Is it high art? In the world of fashion and art today‚ this is a contested question. Many art critics do not see fashion as an equal to the fine arts such as painting and sculpture. Critics have made remarks that fashion design should be “under the heading of vanity for its intent is of no inner value” (Miller 25-40). Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant both
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comes from the latin humanus‚ which means human‚ cultured and refined. To be human is to be have or show qualities like rationality‚ kindness and tenderness. It has different connotations in different historical eras. Today‚ however‚ we know of humanities as a loosely defined group of cultural subject areas. Unlike other subjects‚ it is not a group of scientific or technical subjects. The Scope of Humanities The humanities is a many-faceted subject. It is consist of the visual arts‚ literature
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7-The Industrial Age from art theory for beginners Why did the Agricultural and Industrial it began with the huge changes in society Revolution begin? brought about by developments made in Agriculture‚ technology and industry. Where did the Agricultural and Industrial it began in Britain and spread to Europe Revolution begin? What was the end result in Europe? -it changed the way people lived -Europe moved from essentially an agrarian society to an industrial
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is Street Art? Street art is arguably classed as Urban Art and also known as Contemporary Art. This form of Art represents the voice of the lower class in debate with the political class‚ they express themselves with sprays on plaster and endure ’A life spent scribbling in books scrambling over walls and fences‚ scrawling on any available surface’. It is today accepted by designers and artists who also are influenced by these contemporary visualised forms‚ this form of contemporary art has changed
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com/2009/05/ o An explanation of the iconographic or symbolic significance of one work of art Two Venetian Ladies really does create a visual record of the artist’s time and place. In addition capturing two women who represented that time period through their clothing‚ he also uses several iconic images that suggest deeper meaning. The clothing of the two women in the painting is of fine quality‚ and suggests that they had money. Their bodies are posed in idle
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American Art and Architecture Two opposite forces have coexisted in American art since the establishment of the first colonies. On the one hand‚ American artists have been aware of their European cultural heritage and of continuing innovation in Europe; on the other hand‚ they have had to adapt European forms to the exigencies of their native situation. This interaction between rival forces is hardly unique to American art--all art grows within a tradition--but what distinguishes the American
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chapter 5 Space Fig. 90 Donald Sultan‚ 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
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Representational Art From Non representational Art Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_2141287_distinguish-representational-art-nonrepresentational-art.html#ixzz2Zg3V66LN All art was representational -- that is‚ it depicted recognizable objects -- throughout most of human history. The prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux depict horses‚ bison and bulls. Ancient Egyptian and Minoan art gave even gods recognizable faces and bodies. In the early 20th century‚ abstract art -- art that did not attempt
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