HUNTER COLLEGE WRITING CENTER WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM Writing about Art Art is a provocative medium‚ and your challenge in writing about art may often be to define and evaluate the artist’s choices and techniques‚ which‚ according to your intellect and perception‚ arouse interest and convey meaning. In most cases‚ then‚ you will be translating the visual (what you see) into language (what you write). In order to do this‚ you will have to be extremely attentive to the characteristics
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Physical Environment- Art Essay Artists are influenced by a variety of factors that show reflection in the works they create. They express their emotions and feelings in a visual way because they are appreciative of what they see; hence the environment they see every day -whether being natural or manmade- can be a major influence for many artists. Eugene von Guerard (traditionalist)‚ Howard Arkley (modernist) and Andy Goldsworthy (post-modernist) are three examples of artists from three different
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The Art of Publicity In the book Ways of Seeing‚ the author‚ John Berger creates the deeper understanding of the look on art‚ along with the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. The book not only explores how visual culture came to dominate society but also how ideologies are created and transmitted via images. There are things people cannot describe in words but that images can illustrate. Images have the power to mystify the viewers‚ which means
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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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are developing the strategic skill set to master doing business across cultures. Cross-cultural core competence is at the crux of today’s sustainable competitive advantage. If one day you’re asked to manage a supply chain in Malaysia‚ the next day you’re managing your virtual team in China‚ and the next you’re optimizing your company’s call center in India‚ you know that it’s just not possible to be an expert in every culture or geography in which you do business. What is possible is developing the
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Experiences of Their Eyes Art involving Deaf Visual and Image Art is known as De’VIA. De’VIA was an art movement inspired by deaf artists to “come out of the closet” during the early 1980s and late 1990s (Miller 303). To come out of the closet is to show pride in being deaf‚ instead of hiding their deafness or trying to imitate the hearing. Deaf people have a history comprise of discrimination‚ being ignored and oppressed by the hearing world. Thus‚ through their art they are able to represent
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significance does art acquire if we assume that our interpretation of it is correct? What is the relation between aesthetic response and all other forms of human behavior? How do we explain the role and importance of art in the general behavioral system of man? There are as many different answers to these questions as there are different ways of evaluating the importance of art. Some believe art is the supreme human activity while others consider it nothing but leisure and fun. The evaluation of art depends
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The Art of Loving “The art of loving”‚ written by an American psychologist Erich Fromm in 1957‚ mainly discusses about three aspects: the reasons of love being an art‚ the theory of love‚ and the practice of love. He thoughtfully explains that an art of loving requires many effort and knowledge‚ comprehensively analyzes the theory of love‚ and specifically introduces the ways of practice the art of loving. Even if the work is done for about fifty years ago‚ there still have many remarkable
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Fashion as Art: Is fashion today considered a high art form worthy of being exhibited in museums? What is fashion? Is it art? Is it high art? In the world of fashion and art today‚ this is a contested question. Many art critics do not see fashion as an equal to the fine arts such as painting and sculpture. Critics have made remarks that fashion design should be “under the heading of vanity for its intent is of no inner value” (Miller 25-40). Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant both
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Culture Made Me Do It! Since the beginning of popular culture‚ people are following the trends. Popular culture comes to us in many ways. Some of the branches are music‚ and the film industry. Since the beginning of popular culture‚ the music and the film industries are changing in incredible speed. Throughout the decades‚ pop culture has become an important part of our lives. The more we try to hide from it‚ the more close it comes. In our society today we especially see its effects on the
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