Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum 1. For this assignment I choose to visit the Art Institute of Chicago. I choose to journey down town to see the so much talked about Vincent Van Gogh exhibit. As a waited in line I meet a student of Colombia College he told me that you do not have to pay to get in donations are welcome. I was confused and unsure what he meant. He explained to me that College students could offer a donation of one dollar or fifty cents as admission to the museum. So from the start
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important element of Southwest Indian art is the exchange in culture and materials. The Southwest Indians lived in a time of great trade ranging from the east to west coasts‚ fewer but larger villages dotted present day Arizona‚ Colorado‚ New Mexico‚ and Nevada. Southwest artists are known for their pottery‚ textiles‚ and sand paintings. The Late Classic Navajo Chiefs Blanket from 1885 shows the cross cultural impacts that serve as a large theme in Southwest Indian art. The Navajo learned many practices
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particular art aesthetics with the development of a specif ic Western economic system in his text‚ Postmodernism‚ or‚ the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1990). With latecapitalism as the current economic environment‚ Jameson demonstrates how these economic conditions bear on cultural and artistic production. According to Jameson‚ cultural production in late-capitalism is identif iable through a use of pastiche or copying. Jameson describes this as random cannibalization (17-18). In postmodern art‚ history
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Early Christian art spans from the first to fifth centuries followed by the vast era of Byzantine art from the fifth century to the 16th century in Eastern Europe. Much of the art during this period had a religious context or enacted a religious purpose. The paintings and mosaics were meant to remind worshippers of their God‚ and the architecture was meant to serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. When Constantine I issued the Edict of Milan in 313 and moved the center of the Roman’s empire
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collection of outsider art which he termed Art Brut is probably even more important in the influence it has had than his own work. Art Brut‚ which translates as raw art‚ was a collection of work by non-traditional‚ naive artists who were usually self-taught and made art which was not a response or reaction to historic art movements. The movement itself was directly inspired by the seminal work Artistry of the Mentally Ill by Dr. Hans Prinzhorn who was not alone in his interest in the art of the mentally
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Deborah Tatko Art 131 Maggie Whitley November 15‚ 2012 Portraits Throughout History Portraits and self portraits throughout history have been crucial to the development in the artistic world‚ be it due to self development in the artist own personal gain of self understanding or if it is an economical gain of not having to pay a model to sit for the artist while he/she works. Without all of the amazing portraits society has gained over the years‚ especially in the 16th century. Take The Mona
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Dan Bussiculo November 19‚ 2005 Ancient Civilizations Museum Project For this project I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ on at least four different occasions‚ September 20th being the first visit‚ the subsequent three I didn’t write down. I chose to examine the Ancient Egypt civilization‚ which is extremely rich in everything from hieroglyphics and statues to jewelry and tombs. The first item I examined was the royal acquaintance Memi and Sabu‚ from Dynasty 4 2575-2464 BCE. It
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Seventh‚ 2012 at 1:39 PM I went to Naan Stop to continue my observations from before. I went in and it was the same employee who has been working there all eight times I’ve gone in. As usual I was the only person there‚ the radio was playing a popular pop song by the band One Direction. The owner of the store was in the back and popped out to say hello to me and ask how I was doing. I got my usual‚ a small mocha Boba and I waited as the employee‚ a young Mexican probably in his 20’s made the Boba with
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famous pop artist known to man. He is best known for his work “100 Cans” which shows numerous Campbell’s Soup cans‚ which leads to the question‚ how can something so simple be so captivating? This is a perfect example of what pop art was and still is today. Warhol took something so simple that people see every day and turned it into the most famous art piece of the era. This style is what Andy Warhol was known for‚ turning simple everyday items into powerful and mesmerizing pieces of art. Warhol
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Impressionism In the 19th-century we saw an art movement that would come to be known as Impressionism. The Impressionism term was coined in 1874 after a hostile critic‚ Louis Leroy‚ had seen a picture entitled _Impression: Sunrise_ by Claude Monet (Janson 721) and gave the art work a sarcastic review. Impressionism came into prominence between the 1870 and the 1880 (Janson 721). As with each new art movement‚ they are a response to the previous period and Impressionism is no different. It was a
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