have chosen to explore is ‘Turquoise Marilyn’‚ which is Acrylic and Silkscreen on Linen created by Andy Warhol‚ 1964. The second artefact is ‘For the Love of God’‚ which is platinum cast of a human skull‚ studded with over 8500 diamonds‚ created by Damien Hirst‚ 2007. While I think these two artifacts offer multiple topics of interesting similarities I want to focus on the impact that society‚ technological developments‚ economic factors and formal innovations had on the artists. The main question
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Damien Cervantes Kim Wombles English 1301 October 19‚ 2012 Abortion: Right or Wrong? In the extremely sensitive topic of whether or not abortion is something that should be morally accepted or cast out of thought‚ there will always be opposing sides to the argument. Many people argue that variables such as rape‚ infection‚ and possible death of the mother should be considered for a fair and accurate argument but it all leads to the same question: is abortion right? Harriet McBryde Johnson was
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A similar migrant experience is demonstrated within Elliot’s film Harvie Krumpet. The director illustrates Harvie’s isolation through the juxtaposition of the portholes‚ as Harvie is on the migrant ship to Australia‚ to the windows of the cottages in the suburb “Spotswood.” The use of a long shot of Harvie’s and other migrants’ faces framed by the portholes suggests there is a lack of belonging within this group of migrants due to their lack of an understanding of each other. Furthermore‚ the dark
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COMM200-U4 06/02/13 Nicole Prince The article “On Sale at Old Navy: Cool Clothes for Identical Zombies!” written by Damien Cave explains how as a society we are swayed by the flash of big corporations and in turn are loosing what real culture we have left. Damien Cave starts the article off with a scenario showing a man named “Thomas Frank”. As Frank walks by a heavily decorated Old Navy he shows his disgust saying ”Oh God‚ this is disgusting”. Thomas Frank is a pioneering social
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influences how the message is perceived to the audience. This phrase can be communicated through Damien Hirst and Stelarc artwork. Damien Hirst works are very conceptual and dramatic which leaves the audience looking for a message. For example he’s artwork “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone living” which consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. Damien Hirst is aiming to fry the mind by influencing how the message is perceived to the audience but
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Wanted Dead Part One Andy Warhol‚ was the creative mind that created pop art. Andy Warhol is a Polish American artist that lived during the twentieth century. Mr. Warhol’s paintings focused on the mass production of commercial goods‚ as well as under minded the supposed value of art based on the uniqueness of the work. The thing that I enjoy the most about his works is the way that he incorporates silkscreen in order to produce multiples of a single image yet still manages to make each one different
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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 cows cut in half (Damien Hirst)‚ wire mesh lockers (Mona Hatoum)‚ rubble (Richard Long) or rubbish (Tomoko Takahashi) being called art unless you could frame it nicely on your living room wall. The fact that this type of art didn’t fit neatly into people’s ideas of what art
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’’The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!!! ...’’ Father Merrin&Father Damien Karras from the movie -The Exorcist- This quote had been said like 10 times in quick succession in the movie ’’The Exorcist’’ and may have the right to be the most influental and memorable quote of the movie. Of course in order to underline the variety of ’’exorcism’’‚ the director of the film William Friedkin had to feature this quote out‚ which is actually
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Patrick Jannings Yr 12 KEYS HOUSE English assignment 3A Q.4 Visual texts are always intertextual. Discuss this notion referring to your viewing experiences this year. Texts are never viewed in isolation as we always view it through the prism of our previous encounters. Producers of visual texts rely on the viewers experiences to consume themselves in the text. The famous writer Michel Foucault once said that “a text is caught up in a system of references to other books‚ other texts‚ other
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Damien Hirst is a 52-year-old British artist who is best known for his conceptual artworks in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some of Hirst’s best-known artworks are “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” (1991)‚ “For the Love of God” (2007)‚ and “A Thousand Years” (1990). Regarding death‚ Hirst stated‚ “Every artwork that has ever interested me is about death” (#11). Throughout history‚ death has been a central theme in art. This is because it is an experience common
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