‘Art Deco’ was an art movement that flourished through the 1920’s and 1930’s. The decade opened up an extensive variety of original and distinctive styles and still remains to be the foundation of ‘an era so rich and so remote that at times it seems to belong to the unfathomable domain of dreams (Cocteau‚ n.d).’ Art Deco was a necessity at the time‚ due to the economic crisis and war. Society needed pop colour and creative‚ eccentric designs to brighten up the dull life they were living. People needed
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Art Nouveau Art nouveau‚ which simply means ‘New Art’‚ started around the 1890’s right till the First World War and was an artistic movement which started throughout most of Europe and eventually spread to the USA and the rest of the world. The name was taken from a shop in Paris called “la Maison de’l art nouveau”. It was an attempt to create a new style of art and to abandon the Victorian styles of the 19th century. This movement was said to be influenced by two very different styles of art
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Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British art critic/curator‚ Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media‚ although the term he uses is "popular mass culture" Nevertheless‚ Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth
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Degenerate Art: Art in Post WWI Germany Alex Shin College Writing Mrs. Shorter February 25‚ 2013 Word Count: 1316 Degenerate Art: Art in Post WWI Germany Paintings‚ photographs‚ music‚ movies‚ and writing: what unites these together? Not only do they each hold their own specific art category‚ but they are all various forms of communication. Although many of the items noted are not direct forms of an exchange like speech‚ they still have the ability to convey a powerful message with ease
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Art and Intention ART/101 Tyrancer Journet University of Phoenix Adolf Mizzell October 19‚ 2014 Art and Intention Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity
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The visual arts are those creations we can look at‚ such as a drawing or a painting. Here is a partial list: drawing painting sculpture architecture photography film printmaking And the decorative arts of ceramics furniture and interior design jewelry making metal crafting wood working Any one of these disciplines is a type of visual art. This is the simple explanation. You can stop reading right here‚ confident that you know what the visual arts are.
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A proliferation of varying styles characterized the world of American art and architecture in the period between 1880 and the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939. In spite of the fact that these various styles often had little in common with each other‚ they are traditionally clusted under the label of Modernism. It is thus rather difficult to give a precise definition of modernism‚ one that encompasses all the characteristics of the aritists and architects who are commonly grouped under this
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many traits that we share‚ we draw strength‚ hope or ambition. But in all these desirable traits‚ there are always elements of weakness. Weaknesses which may cost us a great deal or spare us from life’s many machinations and snares. Being in a liberal arts college like ashesi‚ I spend most of my time coming to terms with my strengths and weakneses: usually unknowingly and without any real effort. A real weakness I have identified is a lack of commitment: a lack of commitment to academia‚ community
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Taylor Olivier February 23‚ 2013 Irene Neuro ART106 “Pareidolia” Body- Art Critique I went to the art exhibit in the Gallery at Southeastern University on Thursday‚ February 21. I chose a work of art called “Pareidolia” Body to write my art critique about. This piece of art is called “Pareidolia” Body It was created by Maya Erdlyi‚ and is made from cut-paper collage and used for a Stop-motion film in 2012. This work is very unique because the artist used different paper materials to create
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Vini-Ann Alexander University of Phoenix ARTS/100 – Introduction to the Visual and Performing Arts December 5‚ 2012 Irene Albalat
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