ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART Woodbury University Professor Kathleen Onofrio FN 205 Spring 2004 Office Hours: by appointment Required Text: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings‚ eds. Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz‚ University of California Press‚ 1996. General Information Attendance and participation is mandatory. Our lectures and discussions ARE the course. Assigned readings are not optional either‚ as they are the substance behind the
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determine when and where art is created by analyzing the uniqueness of an individual artist or a groups of artists within a certain time and place. Style can be categorized into different parts consisting of period style‚ regional style‚ representational style‚ and abstract style. Period style is the particular period in time in which the artwork was created. Regional style identifies where in the region the artwork was created. Representational style describes the appearance of art in ways that make
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ART DECO: Art deco is a type of art that grew in the 1920’s with a revival in the 1960’s. Art Deco was primarily an elegant design style dominant in decorative art‚ fashion‚ jewelry‚ textiles‚ furniture design‚ interior decoration‚ and architecture. It flourished in the united states and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. The origin of art deco began two decades earlier in Paris. The decorative arts society inspired the name art deco but the term did not become famous until the publication of art deco
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Corrections Purpose and History Introduction The history of punishment is a unique one‚ since the dawn of man human kind has punished one another. Man did not merely throw someone in a chamber and let them contemplate their crimes such as we do in today’s society; rather‚ during those early times‚ punishment was harsh and swift. Criminals were not drawn through the litigation processes; instead‚ they were found immediately guilty of a crime and brought forth to be punished in an open forum‚ serving
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Figure 1.1: The slope of a line (usually given the symbol m) is the ratio of the change in the y value‚ ∆y to the change in the x value‚ ∆x. We define the slope of a straight line as follows: Slope = ∆y ∆x v.2005.1 - September 4‚ 2009 1 Math 102 Notes Chapter 1 where ∆y means “change in the y value” and ∆x means “change in the x value” between two points. See Figure 1.1 for what this notation represents. Equation of a straight line Using this basic geometric property‚ we can find the equation
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these are things are found and are to be viewed as art because of how they are paired. Cardboard burnt and disheveled. Demonstrating a store front‚ view from street. No single focus. Similar to happening dada preformances. Probably still using “good” poetry Everything is an artistic experience‚ no single focus. Wht is he trying to communicate. Its not anti-culutral like dada‚ instead its just right off the streets. ~~The bridging of art and life. Big problem with happenings- People
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Art Hist. Review Ancient Greek Art and Arch. (600 BCE-30 BCE) The Early Classical Period 480-450 BCE 5.23 KRITIOS BOY Acropolis‚ Athens 480 BCE -Marble -He is self confident and serious looking -He is a sculpture in the round -The artist is believed to be KRITIOS -The statue has an S-curve to him and is in the contrapposto pose‚ which is when artists use tension and relaxation around the central axis of the body to increase to muscular tension and enhance the musculature of a body. It is
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Out of all the paintings we could choose from‚ I have decided to write about Michelangelo Bounarroti’s Guidizio Universale. It caught my eye because I have read a lot about The Last Judgment and how it would look like when it happens. Another part of the painting that caught my eye is how the people and other objects are falling and are afloat in mid sky blue air. The painting is representational for the fact that it is representing the human kind from the dammed and the saved. In the center of the
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When involved with life’s daily routines it seems as if time on earth will go on without end. Priorities become distorted‚ but vanitas paintings remind us that life’s journey has an end‚ and the things we concern ourselves with aren’t all that important when looking at the big picture of life and death. Although the mortality theme is in each vanitas‚ the artists express their meaning individually with use of color‚ iconography‚ and other artistic techniques. Two vanitas that are worth comparing
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What is air pollution? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ pollution is defined as " the action of the process of making land‚ water‚ air‚ etc. dirty and not safe or suitable to use." Meaning air pollution can be defined as the means of introducing hazardous materials such as carbon dioxide into the air. Society as a whole should educate themselves about three major causes of air pollution‚ car pollution‚ industrial pollution and pollution from natural causes such as forest fires and volcanic
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