Art & Culture Essay HUM 205 February 2012 Culture is all the forms of activity in a specific group of people who share traditions. It is the basis of all life. Art is how a person expresses their creativity and can take many forms. The four forms of art are the visual arts‚ music‚ literature and architecture. A visual art is anything that you can see and make observations about. The main components used to make visual arts are lines‚ shapes‚ textures‚ mass‚ form‚ colors‚ value and composition
Premium Art Music Humanities
Arts should be important in the curriculum in all schools because it helps kids mentally‚ in and out of school. It makes kids want to be more involved and have a desire to go‚ on top of that give kids an outlet and get their emotions out. It also has been shown to help their creativity and innovation‚ finally it helps child development. The arts help kids mentally by giving them an outlet for their frustrations and keeps them from feeling lost and alone. An article written by Valeriya Metla on
Premium Music Arts Art
Urban Modernity in NY (1908) and Ash Can artists General: The thrills of technology‚ such as coney island‚ city of wonders‚ also had the nitty gritty‚ more poverty and realistic side of the city with the ash can artists • Song Slide: nickelodeon o Diversity‚ adults children white black o Let the audience feel as a presence w/in performance o Act of watching was also entertainment • Coney Island at Night- film frame o Electricity changing what nighttime meant in urban setting • Before
Premium Art Abstract expressionism History of painting
Women in the Art World Women have always been seen as an object to define the meaning of beauty. For centuries now women have been seen as the art piece and not the artist. There aren’t many women contributions to art from back then because women were seen as human beings just meant to cook‚ clean and be nice to gaze upon. Women weren’t recognized for their intelligence and if a woman was outspoken about it‚ she was either shot down or considered to be that of a manly nature. As Aristotle said
Premium Art Nudity Gender
‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity‚ its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio‚ art critic. How does this view challenge traditional ideas about art? Discuss particular works such as installations‚ happenings and site-specific works. Audiences make pretentious judgements on artworks due to their ambiguity and uncertainty. However‚ traditionally site-specific art was created to exist in a specific place‚ rather
Premium Art Psychology Aesthetics
Art censorship and obscenity People in the United States of America are allowed to express themselves in many ways. One of these ways of expressing yourself is through art. Although we have this freedom‚ it is not completely accepted or viewed as right. What makes the many different forms or art acceptable or unacceptable with censorship? Why should creativity and artistic abilities be censored from other people or artists? “According to Plato‚ ‘because art has the power
Premium Censorship Freedom of speech Obscenity
Women Artist BSA0706 - ART206: Art History August 1‚ 2011 The purpose of this research paper will be to briefly tell about some of the extraordinary women artist from the 1950’s to present. Team Louvre has chosen the following women artists: Audrey Flack‚ Helen Frankenthaler‚ Nancy Graves‚ and Alice Neel to share briefly their story as women artist. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 and is one of the founders of photorealism painting. During the Abstract Expressionist fifties‚ Audrey
Premium Abstract expressionism History of painting Art
Most forms of art-theater‚ film‚ dance‚ architecture‚ music-are inherently collaborative. With rare exceptions‚ all involve the participation of more than one individual. Only those forms of art-such as literature‚ painting‚ sculpture‚ and musical composition-that we think of when we speak of the author‚ artist‚ or composer are generally taken to be the work of one extraordinary human being. But in fact‚ this was not always so. The concept of the isolated genius emerged in the Renaissance along with
Premium Art
meaning any number of things‚ it is up to the reader to make sense of what he is trying to say‚ the same goes for art. Art is not made to be some commercial poster to be hung on a dorm room wall‚ art is far more than that‚ and it is the window into the imagination‚ the truth of an artist. My thoughts on Warhol’s quote is that he is trying to say that everyone has the ability to create art‚ art is the imagination creating things on paper‚ if you want a portrait of someone‚ take a photo‚ if you really want
Premium Art Arts
From realism‚ to abstraction and from sculptures to literature‚ it is all art. Some say that we have our various forms of art because our brains are large and need stimulation. Our curiosity and our constant communication need a release‚ and in many cases this release takes its form through the different mediums of art. Art allows us to demonstrate whatever it is we please‚ and to express what our heart desires. Unfortunately‚ we don’t have every artist’s interpretation of their work‚ our job
Premium Art Arts The arts