Course: Art Appreciation Instructor: Ms. A. Miller Date: 04/01/13 Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. The University Cheikh Anta Diop is where she was a student and she got her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in the year of 1997. Renegade Delirium‚ another famous artwork by Julie Mehretu displays the fact that she is an abstract artist. In 2004‚ Mehretu articulately created the painting that was named “Stadia II”. As soon as my eyes set upon her art‚ I
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rather then meticulous recreation was a radical change in terms of peoples approach to art‚ and was to influence many modern art movements that followed. One way people sometimes define impressionism is to say that it tries to capture the image of something as the viewer would see it if they only glimpsed at it‚ and impressionist paintings tend to be very bright and bold with little detail. Following this art movement was‚ as the name says‚ Post-Impressionism‚ but the artists in this category are
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Charles Wuorinen writes: "In any medium‚ entertainment is that which we can receive and enjoy passively‚ without effort‚ without our putting anything into the experience. Art is that which requires some initial effort from the receiver‚ after which the experience received may indeed be entertaining‚ but also transcending as well. Art is like nuclear fusion: you have to put something into it to get it started‚ but you get more out of it in the end than what you put in. Entertainment is its own reward
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Modern art-kind of art that does not resemble anything; abstract & distorted Modern- means something new One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion‚ to be replaced by another mode. This includes: Realism Impressionism Post-impressionism Neo-impressionism Fauvism Cubism Expressionism Surrealism Futurism Minimalism May 1874‚ a group of young artists held their
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Perception in the Arts The subjectivity of perception makes art what it is. Art is all about perception and individuality‚ since everyone has a different background‚ experience‚ taste‚ and opinion about any artwork. To determine the extent to which perception plays a role in the development‚ and the existence‚ of the arts‚ it is essential to identify the knowledge issues of perception in regards to the area of knowledge. First‚ is perception consistent and definite? Does previous knowledge (prejudice)
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT: Art is that three-letter word which encompasses literally everything around us. The world we live in and everything in it that spells beauty‚ creativity and innovation‚ is a piece of art. The world itself is God’s creation‚ a piece of His art. We human beings‚ and everything ’living’ are God’s masterpieces‚ His works of art. And then there are miracles man created... his works of art. Forms of art are many...music‚ dance‚ drama‚ painting‚ pottery... and the list just goes
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August 2‚ 2012 Museum Report The Ancient Near Eastern gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York contained a widespread of art pieces that regurgitated reminiscence of materials learned in the early weeks of World Art I. The first art form that I became engrossed by was a stone relief titled Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer. This relief was said to be accredited to the Hittites culture during the Neo-Hittites Period‚ and dating 19th century. Its precise geographic origin is Syria
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In ancient times‚ different cultures used art as a form of power. Sculptures‚ symbols‚ etc. were leaders to send their desired message to citizens. These images would reflect either aspects of the leader or even reassure/remind citizens of past or future events taking place in their history. Here we will review examples of how different leaders used art. One reason for using art was to show off status. In 2002‚ the grave of the Amesbury Archer was discovered. This grave was much older than a Roman
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in the arts Main article: Realism (arts) Realism in theatre denotes any movement towards greater fidelity to real life‚ as in Kitchen sink realism‚ an English cultural movement in the 1950s and 1960s that concentrated on contemporary social realism‚ or Poetic realism‚ a film movement in France in the 1930s that used heightened aestheticism. In the visual arts the term denotes any approach that depicts what the eye can see‚ such as in American realism‚ a turn of the 20th century idea in arts‚ Classical
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Contemplation Over the weekend I went to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana‚ they had interesting exhibits on The Art of Van Cleef & Arpels and Revolution to Romanticism. As I walked through the exhibit of Van Cleef‚ the jewelry they had was exquisite and each piece had its own form of history to it. They had jewelry that Grace Kelly wore on her wedding day‚ which were a set of pearls that had a diamond in the middle of them they were so beautiful to look at. After finishing this exhibit‚ the next
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