or else they have left strong emotions behind them (great jealousy‚ immense grief‚ desire for revenge‚ etc). Therefore‚ these spirits haunt our world‚ as long as the problem which is holding them back is not resolved. Ukiyo-e print of Yurei‚ by Hokusai I chose to talk about two supernatural beings most popular in this Japanese folklore. The Kappa is a Yokai described as a genius or an imp living in the water. It is known for attracting humans or horses in the water. The Kappas have the appearance
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FORMS OF ART FORMS OF ART + PROJECT BRIEF WHAT IS ART? I. What is Art? Its Purpose and Its Function II. Fundamentals of Interpretation: Formal and Contextual Analysis III. Principles of Design: Style What is Art? • Art (art)‚ n. 1. the quality‚ production‚ or expression of what is beautiful‚ appealing‚ or of more than ordinary significance • Work of art = visual expression of an idea • Medium = a particular material‚ along with its accompanying technique (plural = media) Traditional
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*What are the formal properties of art? Color lines contract texture composition Relief sculpture: a type of sculpture in which forms project from a background surface. Why Piet Mondrian take this seriously‚ Vandoesberg not? M is trying to represent the dynamic balance between a opposing natural forces by using horizontal and vertical lines. He is serious because Van has fundamentally different idea about representing his balance. Feature: balance of vertical and horizontal lines‚ structured‚ controlling
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Different views of art Scale and Proportion As we all know mountains are huge and in this image created by Katsushika Hokusai the mountain dosent seem to be that big. At this point we percieve that mountain is far off in the distance. This image is called Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji: The Surface of Lake Misaka in Kai Province and was made in the early 1830’s. As the arrows indicate the boat is the same size as the house ‚ but because we are closer to the boat than house we percieve its bigger
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criticize or even to document the industrial landscape‚ but rather to transform it: the smokestacks are veiled in atmospheric mist‚ and the adjacent slag heap (a well-known monument of industrial waste) evokes images of Mount Fuji by the Japanese artist Hokusai.” 5 The elements and composition is reminiscent of Ukiyo-e artist Torii Kiyonaga’s Twelve Months in the South‚ “The 4th Month” and “The 6th Month”‚ 1784 (Fig. 5) which Whistler referenced to create The
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Vincent Van Gogh: Woe is Me During the last twenty years of the nineteenth century a new form of artistic painting formed. Postimpressionism was a form of art where the artist was highly individual and expressive. Some of the most creative painters in history helped to make the style a success. Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne are two of the most creative and popular painters among the postimpressionists‚ but not the master. The master of the postimpressionist movement was Vincent Van Gogh
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reproduction of the series‚ as well as some similarities and differences between the comic and anime. Manga is the word that Japanese from nowadays call "comics" or "cartoon". In the eighteenth century drawings designated Japanese painter Hokusai‚ mixing images and text‚ then continued to use this word to other works‚ more or less fulfilling this requirement. However‚ the real start of the Manga as it is known today‚ came in 1947 with Osamu Tezuka‚ a broken doctor that copied the Disney style
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Art book evaluation (Year 10) This year we have been studying natural forms‚ this has involved using many new and different materials and techniques. Firstly we started by looking at art by Georgia O’keefe who mainly painted abstract flowers this was a new style for me as I have never tried drawing in abstract style before‚ after this we did two paintings in acrylics one of shells and one piece of corn and around the edge of the paintings I then collaged in the background. This was a new way
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MANGA: IT’S VARIATIONS A TERM PAPER Presented to Ms. Fideliza U. Cojuangco Instructor In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Course Eng 12: Writing in the Discipline by Edrian Carlos Yu Molina BSCE 1A MARCH 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researcher would like to express his sincere gratitude to all the persons who helped in making this research study a success. His earnest appreciation is especially given to: Ms. Fideliza U. Cojuangco‚ his
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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter‚ whose work represents the archetype of expressionism‚ the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. Van Gogh’s birth came one year to the day after his mother gave birth to a first‚ stillborn child; also named Vincent. There has been much speculation about Vincent van Gogh suffering later psychological trauma as a result of being a "replacement child" and
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