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    Art Appropriation Essay

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    Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts . In the visual arts‚ to appropriate means to properly adopt‚ borrow‚ recycle or sample aspects of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows

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    method allowed art to be possible in the epistemologically unstable modern world. Indeed‚ with the development of modernism came dramatic shifts in the aesthetic paradigm for both visual and literary artists; similar to the new aesthetic schools of cubism‚ futurism‚ and surrealism inspired by redefinitions of time and space by scientists and philosophers of the twentieth-century‚ Eliot argued that the mythical method provided poets with a technique to reconcile present ideas with older linear conceptions

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    Whitetone Bridge Analysis

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    Crawford’s work mainly consisted of architectural and industrial aspects made of precise lines and shapes‚ which some would say caused this piece to be considered part of the Cubism‚ Crawford’s creativity that makes this piece part of the Surrealist movement. His creativity influenced his piece Whitestone Bridge because it allowed him to achieve a realistic looking bridge while still creating a piece that displays imagine through

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    Heart of Darkness: Modernism and Its Historians Author(s): Robert Wohl Reviewed work(s): Source: The Journal of Modern History‚ Vol. 74‚ No. 3 (September 2002)‚ pp. 573-621 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345112 . Accessed: 30/09/2012 11:34 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service

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    Romare Bearden Essay

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    He used different materials such as fabric‚ magazines and newspapers blended with paint to create semi-abstract collages. His style was inspired by Cubism. “Bearden arranged his collages on paper or board and then glued them down” (National Gallery of Art). Most of his work depicts a story about African-American life and/or culture. “His works’ complexity lies in their poetic abstraction‚ in which

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    Contemporary art is bound by the pre-eminent waves of modernity. This is to say that most all contemporary artists are to some degree in debt to their modern predecessors. Helen Marten’s sculptural installation Peanuts (2012) relies heavily upon the appropriation of past art movements; particularly the re-interpretation of the still life and Cezanne’s renowned The Basket of Apples (1895). Throughout Helen Marten’s installation there exists a return to materiality and form. Peanuts (2012) aims to

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    truths rather than Picasso trying to pass off his imagery as truth. Such the painting is painted in the essence of Forms to invoke the truth and does not depict the actual scene. The Art Story explains it with the following. “Picasso’s immersion in Cubism eventually led him to the invention of collage‚ in which he abandoned the idea of the picture as a window on objects in the world‚ and began to conceive of it merely as an arrangement of signs that used different‚ sometimes metaphorical means‚ to

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    Andrea Proimos ENG 220-003 Final Essay SVONKIN Gertrude Stein and Cubist Poetry In the essay‚ “Spreading the Difference: One Way to Read Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons” Pamela Hadas describes the meaning behind Gertrude Stein’s unusual work Tender Buttons. While Pamela Hadas sees a two dimensional meaning in Stein’s work I argue that there is a modernist style used in Gertrude Stein’s work that is inspired from the cubist movement in art and philosophy. Pamela Hadas does not find Gertrude

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    Representational Art

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    Representational Art The piece “Young Mulatto” was painted by Emily Guthrie Smith in 1942. This painting consists of warm colors like peach‚ gold and beige and was obliviously done in fluid media: oil on canvas. The painting shows a young black woman‚ dressed in white‚ sitting with a shawl around her. She seems to be tying the strings on top of her dress. We can see the different strokes she painted and this adds a unique touch. This helps create depth and details. The painting is portrait of the

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    Art Assessment – The many images of Christianity: Historical artwork: The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci Practice (5 marks). Background information‚ nationality‚ style of general artworks‚ influences‚ major concerns in art‚ techniques/ materials used: Describe the artwork‚ what does it say about Christianity (use of compositional‚ stylistic and symbolic devices to achieve this)‚ materials & techniques to communicate meanings of Christianity: The first notes on the design of the painting

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