Brooke Payson 10/27/13 Danforth Art Museum Photograph Essay For many‚ abandoned buildings hold keys to the past. They are places frozen in time- authentic‚ eerie‚ and intriguing all in the same. Photographer and mixed media artist Samuel Quinn is one willing to break laws and trespass property in order to explore and capture these deserted wonders. In 2008‚ while in the South Shore driving his friend home‚ Quinn passed an eye-catching abandoned white house that stood lifeless in between two
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creating the set he hired extras to play their parts. The photograph was then digitally manipulated and mounted upon a back-lit photo transparency. “While modern photography in the first half of the twentieth century may have been guided largely by the “decisive moment‚” after the 1960s‚ much of the photographic work circulating in the fine art realm could be characterized as highly premeditated‚ systematic‚ and staged: in other words‚ this work embodies an ethos of “think first‚ shoot later.” (MCA
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Increasingly in the world of modern art‚ and especially since the 1970’s‚ there has been a shift towards the aesthetic of slowness. This is particularly in response to the speeding up of the human experience ever since the introduction of modern machines‚ both industrial and digital‚ that cut production and response times in half. Prime examples of these genres of art include open-shutter photography‚ time-lapse photography and mixed media art works. Reigning as an anthology of these works is Lutz
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Thesis: Color tonality serves as one of the means of artist’s expression of feelings in the work of art presented via two exemplary paintings by P. Klee and G. Klimt. First of all‚ before I begin my analysis of the two paintings‚ Paul Klee’s New Harmony and Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I‚ I would like to quote W. Kandinsky for my introductory statement: Every work of art is the child of its time‚ often it is the mother of our emotions (Wassily Kandinsky 87). According to
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Museum Paper [pic] Statue of Kaipunesut. c.2528-2520 B.C. Egyptian. Accession Number: 26.2.7 The Statue of Kaipunesut dates back to the fourth dynasty in the Old Kingdom of Egypt. It was excavated at Saqqara‚ a vast burial ground. This specific piece was located at the mastaba of Kaemheset‚ which was Kaipunesut’s brother. It was carved out of acacia wood which is a native timber of Egypt. The native wood did not create the highest standard of sculpture because it was knotty and
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Can painting style: thick and messy‚ meant to look like it was applied slap-dash manner‚ jittery o Ash can artists started as illustrationalists o Borrowed from manet but were more interested in giving subjects agency • Called insufficiently modern • Whistler’s work is about distancing us‚ Bellows is about confronting the difficult world‚ the real world‚ gritty grimy The Stieglitz Circle & Transatlantic Modernism General: Cubism‚ Italian Futurists‚ Fauvism‚ abstraction‚ NY Dada • Six
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MODERN ART A brief overview of art styles from the 1900 through to the 1970’s IMPRESSIONISM •Impressionism began in 1874 in France. •It took it’s name from Claude Monet’s “Impression at Sunrise” (1872). •It was a reaction to the precision of images created by the newly invented camera (1853). • Therefore‚ the artists were concerned with capturing the effects of light as it changed through the course of the day. •They began painting outdoors – called plen-air‚ and depicted the weather
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Impressionism was developed in Paris during the 1860s by artists who rejected the official salons and were consequently shunned by the most powerful art institutions. By turning away from dated ideals‚ the Impressionists aimed to capture the sensory effects of the scene – the impression objects made in an instant. In the similar way the Impressionists did‚ my self-portrait demonstrates short‚ broken strokes that convey forms. In addition‚ there are few‚ pure colors used while emphasizing the effects
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Nostalgic Inspiration Being a lifetime art enthusiast‚ I spent the majority of my San Francisco trip visiting the best museums they had to offer. All of them inspired me in one way or another but only one of them in particular actually motivated me to continue to become a better artist. The Cartoon Art Museum‚ or CAM‚ brightly stood out among the rest because at this museum I was surrounded by the icons of my childhood that originally inspired me to pursue an art career. My passion for my work was rekindled
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Arts 1301: Introduction to the Visual Arts (Chelsey Moore‚ Instructor) Guided Worksheet for Visit to the Blanton Museum of Art Due September 18‚ 2013 In order to complete this worksheet‚ you will need to visit the Blanton Museum of Art‚ which is located on the UT campus at the intersection of Congress and MLK. You will probably need about two hours for your visit. The museum is free to everyone on Thursdays‚ always to UT students‚ and it is $5 for college students on any other days. Please
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