Compare and Contrast Works of Art Bright colors jumping at you asking for attention‚ images so real viewers can not tell the difference. These are the thoughts that came to my head as I gazed at two works of art by two Mexican artists at MoLAA museum of art . I visited two museums‚ Bowers Museum of cultural Art in the heart of Southern California and the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach for my report unfortunately I only liked the works in MoLAA and will talk about it through out my
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Pop Culture Speech Most of us have heard of the concept “imperialism‚” defined as the practice of one country extending its powers over the territory‚ political system or economic life of another country. Yet‚ we would never imagine that imperialism could affect us in this lucky country‚ especially in the form of popular culture. Never would we even conjecture the overall harmful motives of the dominating superpower‚ after all it assumedly is the ‘protector of democracy and human rights.’ But
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wouldn’t be depicted nude until much later in ancient Greece. Early Christian emphasis on chastity and celibacy discounted images of nakedness. Nudes became symbols of shame and sin‚ weakness and defenselessness until the rediscovery of classical culture in the Renaissance. The first and possibly one of the most famous female nude sculptures is Praxiteles’ The Venus de Milo. It was likely created between 130 and 100 BC‚ although the exact date of origin is a source of some controversy. Discovered
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the intellect or moral sense. The manifestation of life in art is one of the most sublimely beautiful things that I have ever encountered. C.S. Lewis described art’s worth when he wrote‚ “Art has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.” I believe that is the real point behind art; to bring a kind of contentment that is logistically unnecessary‚ yet remarkably important. My favorite piece of art is The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Millions have witnessed
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Art of cooking I have a passion for culinary art. My double culture‚ and family background was behind this love .I always thought that being half French ‚ half Moroccan is a great mixture ‚ but starting to cook approved it to me . I remember when I used to sneak in my mom’s kitchen‚ and play with the ingredients. It was a great time where I learned how to mix‚ and make new dishes by improvising new combinations. For example‚ I mixed flavors and textures that were usually never combined. Or
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Renaissance Art During a time when all life in Europe was affected by the collapse of the Roman Empire and invasion of barbarian people‚ the Catholic Church managed to keep fine arts alive in the holiest of cities (Netzley). Before the time of the Renaissance‚ the Church focused their efforts on creating an unnatural essence that was Medieval art. This type of art appears abnormal to modern people‚ mostly because they had very little knowledge about human anatomy and mathematics (Brown). The figures
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Egyptian art depicts people in a rigid‚ blocky‚ stiff manner and the people portrayed were generally religious or political figures often sculpted or painted in profile. For example‚ the "Palette of King Narmer" located in Hierakonpolis‚ Egypt is a blah-colored "stone slab with a circular depression" (Kleiner 57). This palette depicts the king on both sides in human form escorted by his "sandal-bearer." Please note that this is an example of Egyptian art where profiles are indeed‚ demonstrated. This
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throughout pre-Columbian civilizations can be credited to the time when the Olmec and Chavin peoples lived whom marked the beginning of artistic production in Mesoamerican and Andean artistic styles. These art styles were reproduced in settings that were clearly important in each of their cultures and are consistently seen in a variety of media and contexts where nature and religion served as the backbone of their cultural and artistic expression. Particularly looking at the content and form of the
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FUNCTIONS OF ART Functions of Art 1. Art for decoration and ornamentation. A decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornament does not include human figures‚ and if present they are small compared to the overall scale 2. Art for adornment to indicate social rank. These include cosmetics‚ jewelers‚ clothing accessories‚ facial hair‚ fingernail
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Art is a powerful medium of communication with the world at large‚ artists hold the power to influence the way people think and live. Art defines our consciousness; therefore‚ it can impart and instruct as well as entertain at the same time. -artists serve the function of being role models in society because of their far reaching influence so it is obligatory on their part that they seek to establish a correlation between a proper ethical conduct and their artistic expression How best to define
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