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    Julie Hobbs-Marin Intercultural Communications September 5‚ 2012 Does Art Reflect Culture or Does Culture Reflect Art? As I first pondered this question the obvious answer seemed to be that art reflects culture. However‚ something didn’t sound quite right. Then I realized that although I feel that art does reflect culture it goes deeper than mere reflection. There is an old song from 1968‚ performed by the "Supremes" called Reflections and a part of the lyrics is a perfect example of what

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    Art and Culture Liliana Gonzalez ART/125 May 11‚ 2015 Joseph Blomer University of Phoenix Abstract Art has evolved in ways only one can imagine‚ however; their imagination does not have to go far because all one has to do is turn on the computer and connect to the World Wide Web to get information on everything. Architecture‚ sculpture‚ and painting has been around for ages‚ then photography made its way on to the art scene in the 1820’s and has taken leaps and bounds to establish itself

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    Asian Art

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    Asian art Asian art can refer to art amongst many cultures in Asia. Azerbaijani art Folk arts in Azerbaijan have a long and interesting history. Works of art made from metal extracted from Nakhichevan‚ Migachevir‚ Gadanay‚ Gandja and other places are approximately 5000 years old. Crockery‚ weapons and adornments found here are not historical facts alone‚ but valuable sources which testify the skills of the master. Different pictures‚ scraped on housing implements made from copper‚ bronze‚ gold

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    Evaluating Art

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    How ought one to go about evaluating a work of art? The first thing I learned as an art major at St. Johns was how to evaluate a work of art or one that was in progress‚ often times it was a piece we got to pick at the Met or the Momma. Sometimes it was our classmate’s work that we had to critique and evaluate. It was this process that drove me away from the Art department. There was too much nit picking and it got to be a pain in the ass to sit there and listen to some power hungry professor ripping

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    Art Deco

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    Art Deco’ was an art movement that flourished through the 1920’s and 1930’s. The decade opened up an extensive variety of original and distinctive styles and still remains to be the foundation of ‘an era so rich and so remote that at times it seems to belong to the unfathomable domain of dreams (Cocteau‚ n.d).’ Art Deco was a necessity at the time‚ due to the economic crisis and war. Society needed pop colour and creative‚ eccentric designs to brighten up the dull life they were living. People needed

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    Art noveau

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    Art Nouveau Art nouveau‚ which simply means ‘New Art’‚ started around the 1890’s right till the First World War and was an artistic movement which started throughout most of Europe and eventually spread to the USA and the rest of the world. The name was taken from a shop in Paris called “la Maison de’l art nouveau”. It was an attempt to create a new style of art and to abandon the Victorian styles of the 19th century. This movement was said to be influenced by two very different styles of art

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    Pop Art

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    Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British art critic/curator‚ Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media‚ although the term he uses is "popular mass culture" Nevertheless‚ Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth

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    Art And Intention

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    Art and Intention ART/101 Tyrancer Journet University of Phoenix Adolf Mizzell October 19‚ 2014 Art and Intention Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity

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    Visual Arts

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    The visual arts are those creations we can look at‚ such as a drawing or a painting. Here is a partial list:  drawing  painting  sculpture  architecture  photography  film  printmaking And the decorative arts of  ceramics  furniture and interior design  jewelry making  metal crafting  wood working Any one of these disciplines is a type of visual art. This is the simple explanation. You can stop reading right here‚ confident that you know what the visual arts are.

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    Modernism in Art

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    A proliferation of varying styles characterized the world of American art and architecture in the period between 1880 and the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. In spite of the fact that these various styles often had little in common with each other‚ they are traditionally clusted under the label of Modernism. It is thus rather difficult to give a precise definition of modernism‚ one that encompasses all the characteristics of the aritists and architects who are commonly grouped under this

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