Contemporary art breaks the rules of the past. With the invention of the camera and rapid exchange of ideas via the media‚ artist not longer need art to record and represent reality. This new sense of freedom opened the floodgates for art to be ‘anything an artist can imagine’ (Rubin‚ 2010.). Since 1945 and the end of World War II‚ contemporary art have especially broken away from traditions and rules of the past (Rubins‚ 2010)
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In each period of art history‚ there is a story. For Baroque art‚ the story is why the period has been classically misunderstood. In the early 1600s‚ artists and intellectuals worked in academies to explore humanism begun in the Renaissance‚ classical thought (i.e. Plato and Aristotle)‚ and new trends in human thought and expression. But why does the word “Baroque” have a negative history? The original translations of this word include Italian for “tortuous medieval pedantry” and Portuguese for “deformed
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A collage is a work of art‚ primarily in the visual art‚ made from an assemblage of different forms‚ thus creating a new whole. The process may include fabric‚ natural material‚ photographs‚ newspaper fragments and other found objects‚ glued to a piece of paper or canvas. It creates a low-relief assemblage. In the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of modern art‚ Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque used the collage technique in their art work. Following his colleagues
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Why is art education important in schools? Why are learning simple grammar‚ math‚ social studies and science techniques essential in elementary schools today? Arguments and controversies have been demonstrated for years‚ on which should remain in schools and which has to undergo the budget cut. North Carolina has been affected dramatically with the budget cuts in the school system. The North Carolina Arts Council at www.ncncarts.org has had a great amount of information for me to learn about my
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to work in the art field since I was a child‚ as I grow older I started to notice all the graphics I was surrounded by: books‚ posters‚ packaging‚ advertising; then I discovered there are professionals who work on these as a career. Everything suddenly came together for me‚ New York City is where I would go‚ where the best museums and design schools are located. I applied for the School of Visual Arts and have been living in this wonderful city since. In the School of Visual Arts I studied under
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Jemaine Era M. Feraren 2013-00395 Art Studies 1 THW-2 Professor Marilyn R. Canta‚ PhD 4 November 2014 Public Art: Advertisement and Graffiti Public space is a place for myriad “voices”. It is a person’s choice if he or she will give attention to a public art. It is based on her taste of perception. What is more eye-catching‚ receives more feedbacks and what is more controversial receives more criticisms. Two of the widest known public art is advertising and graffiti. It is known that the latter is
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Reviewing current art‚ both locally and globally‚ it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content. One reason for this focus is that technological advances encourage snatching digitized fragments from reality that document the persistent global nightmare of human inhumanity. This process thus duplicates in art the same nightmare we see every day on TV or the Internet. Very little of this work‚ whose apology is that it is “consciousness raising‚” amounts to more than superficial
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the traditional rules of Western art. Artists of this era overthrew long held conventions in a series of movements‚ all arising before 1920. For example Cubists created new styles of composition in painting as well as sculpture. Fauvists and Expressionists attacked traditional notions of pictorial representations through brushwork and bright colors. This is referred to as the style of abstraction. Abstract Expressionists attempted to reconstruct this style of art as a result of the major changes
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The arts have always been a staple of American education. High school plays‚ musicals‚ and art shows have been put on by generation after generation. These events‚ along with things like band and music classes are weaved into high school tradition‚ and are what make student’s experiences in school memorable and enjoyable. These arts programs can be life changing‚ and multiple studies have shown that participation in the arts improves students’ performance overall. So why‚ then‚ are arts programs
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HUNTER COLLEGE WRITING CENTER WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM Writing about Art Art is a provocative medium‚ and your challenge in writing about art may often be to define and evaluate the artist’s choices and techniques‚ which‚ according to your intellect and perception‚ arouse interest and convey meaning. In most cases‚ then‚ you will be translating the visual (what you see) into language (what you write). In order to do this‚ you will have to be extremely attentive to the characteristics
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