Culture and Arts What is culture? Culture is an inherited idea that distinguishes one group of people from another. Every society has different cultures that share languages‚ traditions and behaviors. Having a different culture gives people an identity that makes them unique and different from other citizens. What about the different components? Various languages are important part of culture. Religion and beliefs are also important part of what the people believe in. The value of
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Art History 2 6 May‚ 2012 Why Do Artists Use Greco-Roman Ideals in their Works of Art? The term “history repeats itself” usually implys a negative connotation‚ but that was not the case in European art during the Italian Renaissance and the French Revolution. These were times when Italy and France were attempting to reinvent themselves after numerous centuries of stagnant oppression. During the Renaissance‚ Italians strived to surpass the intellect of the Greek‚ while in the French Revolution
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Visual Art Appropriation in Art By Cassandra Pailles-Pattison Appropriation in the visual arts is when an artist takes possession of another’s work and re-uses it in a different context‚ most commonly in order to reveal issues surrounding originality or a meaning not apparent in the original work1. The types of appropriation used by artists include re-visioning‚ re-evaluation‚ variation‚ imitation‚ parody‚ homage‚ mimicry and allusion2. The practice of appropriation is a tradition that
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What is the relationship between technology‚ society‚ and modern art from 1850 to 1950? The events occurred in the period that goes from 1850 to 1950‚ are directly connected with what happened in Europe from the beginning of the 19th century. In particular‚ they were influenced by Romanticism‚ but Romanticism could not have existed without the radical changes that the Enlightenment spread one century before. The Enlightenment‚ was a complex cultural movement that developed around 1700 from England
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Visual Arts: Their Ability to Become a Universal Language Visual Arts: the channel of education‚ through which all men grow and advance in the world‚ no matter their provenance. Why hesitate to admit the true nature of what art really means? For many it means a life. It is important for everyone to recognize and realize that visual arts have‚ indeed‚ become an important part of everyone’s everyday lives‚ and are widely recognized to the extent that they have the ability to be understood as a universal
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significance does art acquire if we assume that our interpretation of it is correct? What is the relation between aesthetic response and all other forms of human behavior? How do we explain the role and importance of art in the general behavioral system of man? There are as many different answers to these questions as there are different ways of evaluating the importance of art. Some believe art is the supreme human activity while others consider it nothing but leisure and fun. The evaluation of art depends
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Art Censorship What is censorship? Many have asked this question and it seems to be a controlled idea or form of sorts of information within a society. Censorship has been a staple of many countries throughout history‚ especially United States. Through the inspection of art‚ books‚ films‚ radio‚ music and television programs and news reports for the purpose of suppressing or altering ideas found to be offensive or objectionable that is how censorship is controlled. Normally‚ art is just viewed as
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Discuss the evolution of the idea of beauty through the history of art. The idea of beauty‚ the perfect human body‚ is a result of culture: religious functions‚ advertisements‚ economy‚ and other factors. The definition of beauty is not an inherent concept‚ since every age‚ place and social class formed its own ideal of it. This evolution of beauty is shown explicitly through the history of art. Art‚ in different periods‚ was influenced mainly by history and religion. I will discuss this transition
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What is art one might ask? Art can be seen as expression‚ form and representation. Art as representation is related to mimetic theory (Stremmel 2006). Mimetic theory comes from the Greek word "mimesis‚" which means imitation and representation (Hall 1997).Representation of art began with early ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Plato viewed art as an ‘imitation of nature.’ Due to this‚ art had no knowledge and therefore had no intellectual value. According to Plato‚ art was a copy of a copy thus barely
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essay “Images of Women in European Art‚” John Berger compares the relationship between the surveyor and the surveyed in traditional nude European art. Typically in European art‚ the surveyor‚ usually a man‚ views and objectifies the nude women in the paintings. Furthermore‚ Berger places a large emphasis on the difference between nakedness and nudity‚ nakedness being the state of lacking clothes whereas nudity is the state where nakedness is objectified as an art form. Berger claims that the subject
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