attending Indiana State University‚ one of the first sculptures I took an interest in was the Via Solaris. “Via Solaris‚” Latin for the way or road of the sun. The sculpture is about 20-feet tall and made of bronze and steel. Via Solaris was created by John Van Alstine (b. 1952)‚ an American sculptor living and working in New York State best known for stone and metal abstract sculptures exhibiting exceptional balance and poise. The sculpture is located on the north side of Stalker Hall on the campus
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novel‚ Being and Time‚ his work in Basic Writings cannot be oversold. While much of Heidegger’s work focuses on the presence and existence of being‚ “The Origin of the Work of Art” manipulates how the being affects society. This particular essay of Heidegger’s examines not just how the work of art came to be‚ but the existence of truth along with things and artwork‚ which is different than simply art. Throughout this essay‚ I will examine the multi-faceted idea of a work of art as presented by Heidegger
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A Critical Visual Analysis of a Work of Art The piece of art that I chose to do my critical visual analysis on will be the Birds of Paradise‚ painted by Frits van Eeden‚ in 1997. (Birds of Paradise) Eeden was born in Tilburg‚ Holland‚ in March 1944 and grew up in The Hague. (Frits Van Eeden) For the Birds of Paradise he used acrylic paint on canvas. This piece of art is located in the Evans Library‚ at Florida Tech‚ in Melbourne‚ FL. When I look at the picture I see birds helping each other‚ they
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Visual Art Home Work Essay Artist has a variety of tools and equipment in order for them to make their art works‚ this can affect their practice and what makes them different to the other entire artist in the world. Many don’t have to use any tool at all and use what is seen and what is given; they use the environment to manipulate the surrounding. Such as the Artist by the name of Andy Goldsworthy‚ he is a British sculptor‚ photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture
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Grace Caroline Williams Mrs. Lloyd Art Appreciation 9 March 2017 Miriam Schapiro What makes Miriam Schapiro unique from most other artist in her time period? Her most known contribution to the world of art is for pioneering feminist art work. Schapiro was a leader of the feminist art movement and in many of her painting she would put “girly”‚ pink‚ or craft elements to represent not women in general‚ but the femininity represented by these additions. For example‚ in the 1970’s she painted a hand
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Steve Aishman is an American artist and also a photographer. He was born in Michigan in 1975 and now working in SCAD-Atlanta as a professor of Photography. His interest is to work with a new philosophy that let viewers to see and feel with new eyes. This artwork - Super Flowers‚ is one of his famous art works‚ it is a series of 12 photographs that was created in 2008(the one which showed in SCAD-HK is 4 of them only). He grafted a variety species of flowers onto one root stock and took pictures of
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book The Art of Happiness at Work the author points out the fact the Dalai Lama has said before “that the purpose of life is happiness” (16). Growing up I was always taught by my mother that you have a choice to be happy or sad and that you can make this choice with your attitude towards any situation. My mother also taught me that if I felt as though there was a wrong in the world that I should fit for what I believe is right. I found at the beginning of The Art of Happiness at Work that the
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What uniqueness Roy Lichtenstein presented is the content of his Pop Art works‚ Jasper John presented in his choice of materials and medium. Jasper Johns grew up in Georgia‚ in a place where he claims he was never exposed to art as a child and so he had no foundational idea of what art is or should be. This undoubtedly led to the choices that would make Jasper Johns a visionary of the Pop Art scene. After having a dream of the American flag‚ Johns began incorporating the image of the flag into his
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Scott Eaton The artist of this paper ’s five pieces of work are created and conceptualized by Scott Eaton. He is an artist and designer from the UK and uses traditional art techniques with digital tools. What makes his work so fascinating is his knowledge of anatomy and clean use and mastery of the media. This piece is gorgeous and for it being a digital sculpt‚ you could hardly tell. The texturing is almost like real clay mimicking skin! It is to be acknowledged that this piece was created
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was being able to print recognisable icons that were known to everyone in that specific time. I think Warhol chose this as although the soup can is quite a simple object‚ it is eye-catching and a well-known brand. It represents the principles of Pop Art. Warhol conveys a cartoon-like effect in this print. There’s a young and naive feel to it with the simple shape and bold print on the can. The overall print of the soup can seems to be quite thick blocks of colour and text wise‚ bold font. The replica
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