Art for Arts’ Sake Dear Friends‚ When I was asked to write to you about my views of the role of the Arts in society‚ I did not hesitate to embrace the task. Over the past three years‚ I have been working on a PhD in Music Education. I have finished all of my coursework‚ and have "only" my dissertation remaining. In this program of study‚ I recall many discussions in our seminar classes that were seeking to answer this very question: What is the role of the Arts in our society? For purposes
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The Arts People’s life can’t be imagined without arts. They are not only entertainment for us‚ but also the way of expressing our thoughts and exchanging them through time and space. As the thoughts are often different‚ the art is so varied. So every nation has its own art with specific features. I wish to speak about British arts. In fact the position of the arts in Britain may be described as a mixture of public apathy and private enthusiasm. The reason of it is that government financial support
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In the Agamemnon‚ Clytemnestra makes a formal speech to the chorus describing her love and concern for her husband. Describe the elements of deceit in the speech. In Aeschylus’s Greek myth Oresteia‚ Clytemnestra makes a speech shortly before her husband‚ Agamemnon‚ is murdered. The speech is spoken right upon the return of Agamemnon from the war of troy. The speech she gives is deceitful and foreshadows many events to come in the myth. The speech is also full of double entendres and appearances
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Selma Hougeir Art History- Reflection paper #1 Learning about African arts was very interesting to me. I was born in North Africa and have seen a lot of North African arts‚ but never really knew much about the sub- Saharan African arts. The most interesting part of African history for me was the history of the Nigerian arts. I could not believe that the earliest known sculptures in Africa were from the 5th century. The remarkable Terra cotta pottery heads were made from fired clay. They came
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(Singapore) Art‚ culture‚ and society; these three elements are closely linked. These three elements affect one another in one way or another. There is often a conflict of interest between the artist‚ the audience‚ and the government body. The artist’s aim is to express art freely. The audience’s aim is to view art in forms that are not offensive to them. The government’s aim is to mitigate the conflict of interest between the two parties by implementing policies and restrictions to art pieces that
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Stacie Mueller Art 100 Professor Morris 24 February 2012 The Evolution of Art To even begin to define art‚ we must have a starting point in history where something was first perceived as art. The question begs‚ though‚ why do we perceive it as art? To look up the word in a dictionary‚ you will find the term aesthetics almost always applied to its definition; however‚ much of we call art today is not exactly pleasing to the eye. Our shifting social attitudes have affected how art has been presented
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Tommy Van Pham Grade 11 Art History Questions – The Renaissance to Impressionism 1) Gutenberg’s printing press facilitated the spread of ideas such as religious books‚ volumes of poetry and the mass production capability gave thousands of readers’ access to knowledge that had to be recopied before the perfection of the printing press. People of the renaissance time were now knowledgeable and educated about current events‚ literature‚ science etc. It changed the way they viewed life because of
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IS IT ART? What is art? Every person has an individual response to an artwork which is determined through the collaboration between an individual and a specific artwork. If it contributes to your experience‚ as a consequence being symbolic of something‚ then it is probably art for you. It is therefore very problematic in order to supply a definition that comprises the whole world’s thoughts and feelings. Some believe that anything and everything in the world is art‚ while others believe that it
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Classical World. Easton also states that‚ “Schliemann started a banking operation which he ran in California in 1851” (Easton 1998). He also lived in St. Petersburg during the 1850’s adds in David Turner‚ who wrote Heinrich Schliemann The Man Behind The Masks (Turner 1990). During this time‚ “Schliemann made connections with affluent merchants”‚ says Turner. During his time in the United States Schliemann was a dubious individual. Easton adds‚ “Schliemann lied to secure his United States Citizenship and
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Wear the Mask are very similar to one another‚ they both express the pain and sorrow that the author is trying to hide. Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African-American poets to be truly noticed; his parents were once slaves but escaped. Most of Paul Dunbar’s poems are known to be based off his parent’s experiences on plantations and other locations as slaves. We Wear the Mask is about how slavery can break you emotionally and physically‚ therefore the slaves are wearing a mask to cover
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