Henley Ridore English 1102 Art That Influenced Me Growing up I’ve always had an interest in art. Out of the six children my mother had I was the only one that had a serious interest in art of all nature. Growing up‚ I wasn’t as social as the rest of my brothers and sisters‚ I was able to express my emotions through painting. Throughout my years in school I always made sure I was in some sort of art class for every grade level. I high school I was recognized as being the most unique in my grade
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“The best teaching aid is a piece of chalk” When I first went to school‚ the dominant teaching aid was blackboard and chalk. That is almost half a century ago. Back then‚ the statement “The best teaching aid is a piece of chalk” is likely to cause bafflement to teachers. “What else?” would be their common response. Today‚ however‚ teaching aids abound. From a simple letter set painstakingly cut out by a devoted teacher‚ through electronic projection equipment‚ DVD sound systems‚ televisions and computers
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Baroque Art It’s hard to make a distinction in which the beginning of the Baroque period is clearly distinguished from that of the late Renaissance. Nonetheless‚ Baroque art is emotional‚ decorative and a direct result of the Counter-Reformation movement in Europe. During the Baroque period‚ there was a dramatic religious split in the Church with the formation of Protestantism. Catholics reacted with the Counter-Reformation to revitalize Catholicism. They needed to attract viewers with religious
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creative task in which we were asked to create an original work of religious art for one the major world religious traditions‚ I decided to choose Christianity because it appealed more to me than the other religions stated. As my main theme in my artwork I chose Good and Evil‚ which turned out to be quite a good key religious theme in my artwork. My artwork is in the form of a drawing. The biggest inspiration for my art piece comes from Gustave Doré’s interpretation of “The Temptation of Jesus”. Doré’s
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Through the ages‚ art has played a fundamental role in life. We experience Art on a daily basis because it’s universal and therefore everywhere. Art plays a huge part in making our lives considerably rich. Imagine‚ just for a second‚ a world with no art. You may probably think "So what?" but just consider the impact that lack of graphics would have on your favorite video game‚ on Internet. Art gives people a way to be imaginative and express themselves. For some people‚ art is one of the reasons
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DADA “Before Dada art was in form‚ after Dada art is an attitude” Dada was a radical art movement started in 1914 and ended in the mid 1920’s mainly in the North Atlantic. It was created as a form of protest against World War 1 by immigrants who wanted to express a new kind of mentality in the world of art and politics at the time. Dada was the reaction and rejection of traditional society and the atrocities of World War 1 by artist of that era. It reflected their desire to oppose convention
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Every day thousands of people are diagnosed with life threatening diseases and every day thousands of people are being cured. Whether or not art was instrumental is unclear; I would like to think it was in many cases‚ but I cannot say this with certainty. One thing I do know is that for more than twenty years‚ the University of Florida has been using art to help people through rough times in their lives. The documentary we watched in class mainly showed the writing portion of the program‚ but there
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Art is an expression of oneself. It’s not just the sculptures or paintings in museums. It can be anything anyone uses to express themselves. It can be writings‚ architecture‚ landscaping‚ and even cave drawings. Cave drawings may have started out as a way to communicate but have become what many consider art now. Though the definition of what constitutes art has been disputed for many years‚ one thing remains certain‚ each person has their own idea of what constitutes art and how it registers
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values have changed with modern and postmodern thought‚ artists have set to create more shocking and confronting work to distinguish themselves from the rest. Marcel Duchamp was perhaps the first to push the boundaries with his Fountain‚ a urinal in an art gallery‚ which was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th Century by 500 artists and forced his audience to think for themselves. Many artists have followed Duchamp‚ but have had to go to more and more extreme measures to get noticed‚ hence
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Feminism and Art ‚ 2 ‚ 2 Feminist activity had been a rising concern in the late 1900’s which is based merely off of the emotional significance of personal and psychological reasoning. Rather than reacting on this issue based on historical evidence‚ the issue is based on immediate needs on the feminist attack. Linda Nochlin‚ and other important scholars and philosophers explain the psychology‚ philosophy‚ sociology‚ and history of art and the feminist movement pertaining to art. Linda
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