MUSEUMS AND THEIR VOICES A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF THE BENIN BRONZES WRITTEN BY Charlotta Dohlvik SUPERVISORS Staffan Lundén and Peter Davis Master’s Dissertation‚ May 2006 International Museum Studies‚ Museion‚ Göteborg University 1 ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................................................... 4 1. BACKGROUND ...........................................................................
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Graffiti and street art have been around as early as ancient Rome but has had a nasty reputation related to vandalism‚ which is a leading factor to why most people have a blind eye to seeing its real meaning. Banksy‚ a well-known street artist whose art work is symbolic‚ insightful‚ and meaningful is always being called out for vandalism instead of being praised for his work. Graffiti is most abundant in urban areas‚ but most of the graffiti in New York City isn’t symbolic or meaningful‚ it’s mostly
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By: Nistha Pithava Nistha Pithava Art History 1 December 12‚ 2012 Take Home Final: Part 1 Section I: Ancient Near East The works of the art that is related to the Near Eastern time period incorporates the arts of Mesopotamia‚ which is ancient Iran‚ Syria‚ and Turkey between the periods of 3500 through 399 B.C. The dates of begin in the Neolithic prehistoric times and end in the historic or dynastic periods‚ which for the most part is prior to the Christian era. Near East
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Leroy Burton Art Gallery Essay In completion of this assignment the art gallery that I chose to visit was Mark Gallery in Englewood New Jersey. When you walk up to the establishment there are floor to ceiling glass windows that allow you to see everything inside. Facing the gallery there were so many colors that enticed you to enter. The arrangements and art work was spaced out nicely not causing clutter. This allowed you to individually take in each piece on by itself. All of the pieces
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Sculpture in art refers to a branch of visual arts that involves the three dimensional depiction of art forms. According to Wikipedia‚ sculpture is one of the plastic arts‚ that is‚ arts which involve the physical manipulation of plastic mediums such as clay or plaster. Sculpture originally referred to the addition of material‚ that is modelling and the removal of material‚ that is carving‚ but the reduction in the distinction of the various art forms coupled with modernism has changed what might
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Course: Art Appreciation Instructor: Ms. A. Miller Date: 04/01/13 Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. The University Cheikh Anta Diop is where she was a student and she got her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in the year of 1997. Renegade Delirium‚ another famous artwork by Julie Mehretu displays the fact that she is an abstract artist. In 2004‚ Mehretu articulately created the painting that was named “Stadia II”. As soon as my eyes set upon her art‚ I
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rather then meticulous recreation was a radical change in terms of peoples approach to art‚ and was to influence many modern art movements that followed. One way people sometimes define impressionism is to say that it tries to capture the image of something as the viewer would see it if they only glimpsed at it‚ and impressionist paintings tend to be very bright and bold with little detail. Following this art movement was‚ as the name says‚ Post-Impressionism‚ but the artists in this category are
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Charles Wuorinen writes: "In any medium‚ entertainment is that which we can receive and enjoy passively‚ without effort‚ without our putting anything into the experience. Art is that which requires some initial effort from the receiver‚ after which the experience received may indeed be entertaining‚ but also transcending as well. Art is like nuclear fusion: you have to put something into it to get it started‚ but you get more out of it in the end than what you put in. Entertainment is its own reward
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Modern art-kind of art that does not resemble anything; abstract & distorted Modern- means something new One of the things that make modern painting & sculpture hard to grasp is its sheer variety of styles. Some emerge & flourish for a few years & then drop out of fashion‚ to be replaced by another mode. This includes: Realism Impressionism Post-impressionism Neo-impressionism Fauvism Cubism Expressionism Surrealism Futurism Minimalism May 1874‚ a group of young artists held their
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the intellect or moral sense. The manifestation of life in art is one of the most sublimely beautiful things that I have ever encountered. C.S. Lewis described art’s worth when he wrote‚ “Art has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.” I believe that is the real point behind art; to bring a kind of contentment that is logistically unnecessary‚ yet remarkably important. My favorite piece of art is The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Millions have witnessed
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