#1 What Makes Art Art? When thinking about the question of this essay it makes you think what does make art art. Art is defined as works produced with both skill and imagination to create a painting or sculpture. With that said‚ I consider art to be in many forms It can be made out of food‚ chalk‚ paint money and many others. Many famous pieces are made from these items your child’s mother’s day card or Jillian Beever famous for his 3-D pieces made out of chalk. So you see art can be made out
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When most Americans think about South Koreans and work culture‚ we typically initially think of “hard working” and “competitive.” According to Aaron‚ these stereotypes are actually true for the most part. He stated that Koreans are more competitive in the workforce compared to Americans‚ and it is much harder for Koreans to find a job after graduation compared to the success rate of finding jobs in America after we graduate from college with a two or four year degree. Aaron’s determination to finish
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2011 Assignment #2 Walter Benjamin’s‚ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin is an internationally renowned philosopher and a critical theorist from the early 20th century. He has written many diverse and intellectual pieces that were strongly influenced by the social‚ political and economic movement at the time. Benjamin’s thoughts and research is still fresh and recently obtained its due. The essay‚ “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction‚” is a
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where I am going to discuss the similaritys and differences between two poems. "Woman Work" written by Maya Angelou‚ which is about a woman who works all the time and just wants to rest. The second poem is called "overheard in County Sigo" written by Gillian Clarke which is about a married woman having a conversation with her friend about her life and looking back at what her ambitions were. <br> <br>"Woman Work" is a regular 5 stanza‚ rhyming poem‚ It is set in southern USA. We know this because
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all seem like everyday objects but should we be calling them art? When we were growing up we were taught that art was a beautiful painting - like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers‚ or a perfect sculpture of a human - like Michelangelo’s David‚ but we were never really taught that conceptual and contemporary art were ’proper’ forms of art‚ even though it was established in the sixties. It made us think and challenge our own assumptions of what art should really look like. People didn’t understand the idea of
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Meeting at evening art classes in 1890 at The Glasgow School of Art‚ Charles Rennie Mackintosh‚ his wife Margaret MacDonald‚ her sister Frances MacDonald and fellow student Herbert MacNair made up the ‘The Glasgow Four’. Their style earned them the nickname ‘Spook School’ because of their work‚ particularly in England as it was treated with suspicion because of its luxurious feel influenced by the Art Nouveau movement. In this essay I am going to discuss and explore if The Four are still influential
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Since renaissance was born in Italy‚ Italian renaissance followed narrowly classical art and had inspiration all over. Northern Europe lacked such inspiration; therefore‚ they had to borrow the style and modify it for it local specifics. There were also differences between renaissance art‚ depending on the origin‚ such as Holland‚ German‚ Poland‚ Hungary‚ and so on. Southern Renaissance peaked at the beginning of the 16th century‚ but subsequent decline of Italy caused many artists to seek employment
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DuBois said: "In art and literature we should try to loose the tremendous emotional wealth of the Negro and the dramatic strength of his problems through writing ... and other forms of art. We should resurrect forgotten ancient Negro art and history‚ and we should set the black man before the world as both a creative artist and a strong subject for artistic treatment." DuBois stated what were to be recurrent themes of the decade of the twenties: the Negro as a producer and a subject of art‚ and the Negro’s
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Annotated Works Consulted: Fine Arts Budget Cuts "Arts Cuts at Colleges." New York Times 17 Aug. 2009: 1. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 May 2011. All schools are experiencing piercing budget cuts around the nation. Schools are being forced to “nip here‚ adjust there.” All though the article refers to the cuts as just a nip and adjust‚ a person would feel like the budget cuts of today’s economy is more like a slash here‚ burn there. Theses budget cost will force students and teachers to attend
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Art and Humanity Assessing the portrayal of the human form throughout the history of art is interesting to see the evolution. Eras and locations take a major part in the style of the human from the Ancient Greece to Gothic Europe. The Spear Bearer from 450 BCE‚ Head of Old Man from mid 1st c. BCE‚ and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova in Sicily‚ Italy from12th c.e. Are all great examples to see the different styles of humans being portrayed in a specific era. Each piece of work is a product
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