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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University> <Date of submission Art and culture are two terms which can never be separated and are deeply interlinked. Art refers to the quality‚ creation‚ appearance‚ or realm‚ based on aesthetics of what is beautiful‚ appealing‚ or is completely out of the ordinary. Art has many facets like theatre‚ paintings‚ music and other kinds of visual and abstract art. It has been seen that different cultures have different kinds of art because art of a country always reflects its culture‚ traditions
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Professor: Kim de Beaumont 11/30/12 I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and after seeing all the paintings‚ sculptures‚ and art works‚ I chose Kouros‚ for my final paper‚ because it shows Greek’s first nude youth male during Archaic period on ca. 600 BCE. My piece of art is Marble statue of Kouros (male youth) which is characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble
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What is art one might ask? Art can be seen as expression‚ form and representation. Art as representation is related to mimetic theory (Stremmel 2006). Mimetic theory comes from the Greek word "mimesis‚" which means imitation and representation (Hall 1997).Representation of art began with early ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Plato viewed art as an ‘imitation of nature.’ Due to this‚ art had no knowledge and therefore had no intellectual value. According to Plato‚ art was a copy of a copy thus barely
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The human figure‚ especially unclothed‚ has fascinated artists since times of antiquity. The western tradition of “The nude” began with Archaic Greek sculptures of standing male nudes known as kouros. Nude was synonymous with freedom and integrity. Legendary heroes‚ ideal figures‚ mythological personalities‚ and triumphant warriors were characterized as being “in the nude” and were regarded for their masculinity and strength. The kouros had a female equivalent known as the kore‚ and were always
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Krasninkeviciute Portrayal of the effects drug abuse has on people in artwork How does artwork portray the destruction of human body‚ mind and relationships due to drug abuse? Introduction I have chosen ‘Effects of drug abuse’ as my theme as I was interested in the changes a human body and mind overtake when influenced by drugs; also the effects it has on a person’s life and their relationships overall. I am mostly interested how artists portray the mental state of a person when under the influence
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The Connection of Art and Survival Man has studied survival as far back as humans can be recorded‚ although some not left by records‚ we can go back thousands of years with survival represented through art pieces of art all over the world. Paleolithic and Neolithic man showed their means of survival through their art as their way of recording things‚ whether or not they left it purposely for people to discover and excavate to learn this is questionable. It may have just been a meer coincidence
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The idea of kinetic art is getting a bit of a workout at the moment. MIT Museum recently hosted “year of kinetic art‚ including “5000 Moving Parts‚” a kinetic art exhibiton featuring large-scale works by Arthur Ganson‚ Anne Lilly‚ Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and John Douglas Powers. Plus the Kinetic Art Organization has published a digital “International Collection of Essays About Kinetic Art—2013—volume 1.” The two don’t overlap: The MIT show highlights a somewhat different segment of artists working
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Stella Aghakian Mrs. Thomas Art History 10 – 3 – 2013 Prehistoric Art 1. Prehistoric man faced many challenges. For example‚ they had no means of communication and yet they had to work together to find and kill their own food. When making art‚ prehistoric man had to make their own paint brushes and create their paint. This makes prehistoric art so impressive because their paintings very accurately capture the proportions and look of the animals they drew. Prehistoric paintings are found
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Elizabeth Bishop is a very influential poet of our time. Her poem‚ ‘One Art‚’ is a good model for chapter five’s topics. It contains excellent examples of sound units‚ words‚ ordering of language‚ and implication. Bishop based this poem off villanelle written in iambic pentameter‚ which has an ABA rhyme scheme that forms a couplet rhyme in the end quatrain. This poem is exemplary for expressing the sound units of words‚ and sentences. The sound units of the words are phonetically connected
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