What is art? Can we give a current definition of something so abstractive and unboundless like that? In our modern world‚ everything which is not understandable for the mass audience automatically receives the label "Art" from his creator. Maybe art is something which is not for everyone. You can find lots of popular definitions on the internet‚ on google.com and wikipedia.com‚ also lots of quotes of famous people of art. But what is art for the normal people? The people who don’t know what "linocut"
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Art Evaluation Looking around the hallways‚ I found many interesting paintings. But‚ I found that a particular painting was more interesting than the rest. The piece of art that I have chosen to talk about is an artwork that is hanging on the wall in the hallway of JJC. The artwork is painted by a girl named Nicole Marie Wilkin in 2007. She titled her work‚ “Endless Miles.” The materials that she chose to use were Oil on Canvas. After looking over the painting‚ I notice many formal elements.
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beautiful and mysterious pictographic language “Hieroglyphs” over 5000 years ago. They continued to use this language until about 400 A.D. It is also believe that the Egyptians invented paper‚ which they called “Papyrus” getting its name from the Cyperus Papyrus plant. The Egyptians made major contributions to the world of art‚ and the world in general. The Egyptians created vivid works of art that modeled their beliefs and their way of life and they built the pyramids as burial structures for
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The Art can be express through many ways. Artists use images‚ songs and words to explain how they see the world. Furthermore‚ art expressions could be against the government ideas‚ consequently artists could be restricted on show their thoughts. Firstly‚ obscene artist expressions in videos and pictures should be restricted by the government because it has to keep the order and the good customs in its country. Secondly‚ some art expressions like graffiti make the streets very ugly and dirty so
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art’s making and reception. Conceptual Art maybe defined as a concept or art movement that came about the 1960’s as a reaction towards formalism. Where in art theory‚ formalism is a concept where an artwork or piece’s entire artistic value is based purely on its form and visual aspects. For example‚ American essayist/art critic‚ Clement Greenberg suggested the notion that art should examine its own nature and was already a potent aspect of vision of Modern art during the 1950’s. However with the mergence
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Art Analysis The Merode Altarpiece‚ a piece by artist Robert Campin‚ is a representation of the Annunciation of Christ. The piece was originally painted in Flanders during the Early Renaissance period in 1425. It is a considerably small altarpiece‚ commissioned for a private residence‚ created with oil on wood panel. The piece is currently held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The scene depicted in this particular altarpiece is very popular among artists during the Renaissance and
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art. The discussion will include a formal analysis of each of the two artworks mentioned. The analysis will cover the materials and techniques used during this period of Greek art‚ the relation of certain styles to one another‚ the function of the artworks‚ its subject matter‚ and the social or religious meaning and context. As illustrated in the marble sculptures of the Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace and the Aphrodite‚ Pan and Eros‚ the Hellenistic era exposed such expansion with dramatic
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Society Society refers to a population of people that is organized in a cooperative manner to carry out the major functions of life‚ including reproduction‚ sustenance‚ shelter‚ and defense (Kornblum‚ 2000) and a population that occupies the same territory‚ is subject to the same political authority and participates in a common culture (Robertson‚ 1987). Under Society we have this Social Structure which refers to the recurring patterns of behaviour that people create through their interactions‚
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featured religious figures appearing in Catholic teachings. Due to the Church’s supervision of Filipino art and Spanish occupation of the Philippines‚ the purpose of most paintings from the 16th-19th century were to aid the Catholic Church.In the early 19th century‚ wealthier‚ educated Filipinos introduced more secular Filipino art‚ causing art in the Philippines to deviate from religious motifs. The use of watercolor paintings increased and the subject matter of paintings began to include landscapes‚
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The Art of Torture According to a 2006 survey conducted by BBC News‚ 58% of Americans say that any form of torture upon a fellow man for any reason is wrong (“One-third” 1)‚ which is ironic because horror films‚ such as Saw and Hostel‚ where victims are brutally murdered and ripped to shreds for the audience’s pure entertainment pleasure topped the box offices with their releases in 2004 and 2005. By looking at sociopolitical platforms and moral messages behind the ‘torture porn’ subgenre‚
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