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    ART/101 Art and Intention

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    Art and Intention ART/101 Shelly Scott-Harmon I was undoubtedly surprised at the difference and similarities between my first thoughts on the piece and my thoughts after reading about it. When I was first looked at Hung Liu’s Painting Three Fujins the figures looked very solemn‚ serious‚ and balanced. The piece seemed to have both a controlled and abstract feel about it. Most of the figures contain a lot of detail but with the drips going through them it

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    Art Theft

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    I feel that art is important‚ but its value is intangible. The more unique the art‚ the higher its value to our intellectual heritage. Art is unique and rare. It is a part of culture and history. There is only one original painting or sculpture. And if it is stolen‚ there won’t be a second one. Art is an important part of our lives… and I’m happy that I enjoy it. Moreover‚ I am glad I appreciate the act of conjuring artistic creations. There is no broad value to any specific piece of artwork in this

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    “Postmodern media blur the boundary between reality and representation.” Discuss this idea with reference to the area of the media you have studied. Reality will never be the same for two different people. Jean Baudrillard believed that there is a problem with contemporary reality‚ he believed that the distinction between what is real and what is imagined is continually blurred and eroded. His theories are overly concerned with the idea that simulations of reality end up becoming “more real than

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    these horror films is highly talked about‚ very little of these films succeed to have a great representations and ratings. However‚ The Exorcist (1973) is unlike other less

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    Giotto revolutionized painting techniques in many ways‚ though primarily through placing significant importance in the “realness” of art. He observed humans and their form closely and reproduced their gestures‚ movements‚ and expressions in his work. To achieve this realism‚ Giotto utilized a combination of techniques in his paintings‚ including lines‚ color‚ light‚ shading‚ and tight brush strokes. He made outstanding use of space‚ using horizontal‚ diagonal‚ and vertical lines‚ frequently in the

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    The Politics of Art

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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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    Art in the 1500

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    during that time period You are then going to write a paper analyzing the time period and whatever topic you have chosen trying to express the connection between time‚ place and societal happenings and an aspect of the Humanities.Ex. Talk about an art movement etc‚ that occurred during the time period you choose. You might want to go the route of picking out songs that were popular during the time and analyze how the lyrics reflect the sentiment of the time. You might want to pick a film like Easy

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    Kevin Foy Professor Marbach Art 101-001 February 22‚ 2010 Revision 1a.) Japan used blue because they are a country that has a wet climate and very green grass. California used yellow because their climate is very hot and sunny. It is always bright out there. According to the artists‚ the gates in central park are saffron which I believe are that color because it’s a major color you see everyday in the city.‚ Some examples were construction worker vests and the most important on was the color

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    Art in context

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    Art From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the general concept of art. For people named Art‚ see Arthur. For other uses‚ see Art (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Clockwise from upper left: a self-portrait from Vincent van Gogh‚ an African Chokwe statue‚ detail from the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli and a Japanese Shisa lion Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts‚ which

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    the representation of women in the media today. Film Snow White and Brave Conclusion At this point in time‚ there is an assumption of equality between men and women‚ but if you explore further into the media‚ a clear bias emerges. Women are very often objectified‚ misrepresented‚ exploited‚ distorted or even‚ absent. Women are represented in the media in many different ways‚ depending on which item of media you look at. Certainly‚ the representations of women

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