Louise Nevelson— Sky Cathedral Presence Survey of World Art By Vyacheslav Borts The sculptress Louise Nevelson was a towering figure of American modernism. Born in 1899‚ she came to prominence in the late ‘50s‚ gaining renown for monochromatic structures built out of discarded wood. Critic Arthur C. Danto wrote‚ “There could be no better word for how Nevelson composed her work than bricolage—a French term that means making do with what is at hand.” (Danto 2007) Her pieces evolved and expanded
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the most influential and referenced designer out of them all. With a career spanning more than three decades and several lines‚ Yamamoto has created a signature look with the use of black and conceptualist ideals. Much like contemporary artists Marcel Duchamp and Donald Judd‚ Yamamoto and his peers sought inspiration from the real world and represented this engagement with everyday life through their designs. Further‚ they advanced a movement in ready-to-wear that rejected the bizarreness and extravagance
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Introduction Difference between fine art and commercial art John Berger: limited commercial art Nudity‚ Publicity art Background Difference between fine art and commercial art Fine art: Beautiful‚ personal expression Commercial art : market‚ sales‚ specific audience Body paragraph 1 Nudity art give a different meaning on fine art and commercial art‚ From Greek and Roman art to Michelangelo and the Renaissance artists‚ nudity has been used to represent beauty‚ frailty‚ shame and power
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Joseph Cornell Artist This internationally renowned modern artist never had professional training. He was first and foremost a collector. He loved to scour old book shops and secondhand stores of new York looking for souvenirs‚ theatrical memorabilia‚ old prints and photographs‚ music scores‚ and French literature. Joseph Cornell was born on Christmas Eve 1903. He was the oldest of four children born to Helen and Joseph Cornell. He had two sisters‚ Betty and Helen‚ and a brother‚ Robert. Cornell
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etc. Fame soon spread to other countries and other dadaist movements evolved (Paris‚ Berlin...) - ambiguous relationship to machine; resistance & fascination; machine as counterforce to romantic tradition. Reaction to the destructiveness of WWI - Duchamp‚ Ernst‚ Picabia and Man Ray all flirted with the machine as subject matter - Films: Le retour à la raison (Man Ray 1921) Entr’Acte (Rene Clair‚ Picabia‚ 1924) BERLIN DADA
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Archaic Societies by MARCEL MAUSS Translated by IAN GUNNISON With an Introduction by . E. EVANS-PRITCHARD Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls COHEN & College‚ Oxford WEST LTD 68-74 Carter Lane‚ London‚ E.C.4 1966 Copyright PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOWE AND BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD‚ LONDON INTRODUCTION By E. E. Evans-Pritchard Fellow of All Souls College and Professor of Social Anthropology‚ University of Oxford MAUSS MARCEL nephew and most Durkheim’s
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Definition of Terms A. Art According to various authors 1. J.V Estolas - Art is derived from the Latin word “ars” which means ability or skill 2. A. Tan - Art is taken from the Italian word “artis”‚ which means craftsmanship‚ skill‚ mastery of form and ideas‚ between materials and techniques. 3. F. Zulueta - Art is a product of man’s needs to express himself. 4. C. Sanchez - Art is concerned itself with the communication of certain ideas and
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Modernism as a movement was a response to the horrors of World War-I and to the rising industrial societies and growth of cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged the harmony and the rationality of the Enlightenment and sought to reinvent art and literature of the age. To do so‚ it broke away from the works of the past and conventions that were earlier held at a pedestal. The conception that reality could be easily be comprehended was replaced by modernism with a more
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selected and designated as art. This style objective is to perceive art in any object we have. No matter is not creative‚ or have this are technique‚ just find an objet and give it a meaning or reason to be consider a piece of art. For example‚ Duchamp created the first ready-made‚ Bicycle Wheel (1913)‚ which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool‚ as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. This work was technically a “ready-made assisted‚” because the artist intervened
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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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