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Photography As Art
5,207 wordsStatus of Photography Paul Weiss (1961), in his Book Nine Basic Arts, classifies the nine basic arts as architecture, sculpture, painting, music ry, story, poetry, music, theater, and dance. Photography is not highly regarded by Weiss. In the last chapter he says, "They (photographers) have little and sometimes even no appreciation of the aesthetic values of experience. And when they do have such appreciation it is rarely relevant to their purposes. One need not... be an artist to use a camera w...
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Play With Joyce And Carr
1,950 wordsThe play " Travesties" concerns the relationship between art and politics. The three major historical figures in the play - James Joyce, Lenin and Tristan Tzara - represent contrasting views on the issue, views that Stoppard juxtaposes with one another within the comic framework of the play. Henry Carr, a genuine historical figure, is somewhat overshadowed by the notoriety of the men around him and his opinions are often overlooked. Yet the debate occurs within Carr's memory, and the play makes ...
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Miriam Schapiro's Artistic Life
1,150 words"Sources of her art were inseparable from her history and from the historical times in which she lived. Hence the politics of biography One's art is, after all, oneself " This statement by Frida Kahlo is an accurate reflection of the artistic life, led by American artist Miriam Schapiro. Her work was based around her life, and the inspiration needed to source her production was extracted directly from the era in which she existed, and the effect it had upon her as a person and an artist. Living ...
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Jackson Pollock
454 wordsPollock also became very interested in nature. Jackson Pollock only studied under Thomas Hart Benton for about two year but they remained friends until Jackson's early death. The mid 1930's were a bit of a hard time for Pollock. He had a hard time finding a job because America was in the middle of the Great Depression. In 1935 Jackson Pollock joined the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. He, along with five thousand other artists were hired at one time or another by the pr...
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Team Of Media Innovators And Other Artists
858 wordsDivided We Speak The 'Divided We Speak' PHSCologram tryptich is a unique collaborative study in sculpture, photography, sound and poetry, based on an audience interactive media symphony in six movements, by Miroslaw Rogala. The work was commissioned and shown by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in the Fall of 1997. Divided We Speak has been designed to mimic life in the information age. The viewer activates or encounters seemingly random shards of information (sound, computer, and video i...
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Individual To Censor The Artist's Work
1,737 wordsCensorship is usually considered "official" censorship because it is action taken by governmental institutions such as government committees, or universities, to limit the view of a specific artwork or a group of works by the public. However, these concrete official actions taken to limit public view of specific artwork are only the results of the abstract "censoring attitudes" of individuals or groups of individuals, encouraging the actions. Censoring attitudes can arise from feelings of race o...
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Theory Of Tim Storriers Art
1,884 wordsEssay Question: Discuss how theories about art influence the practice of artists and / or art critics or historians Practice in art refers to the decisions and actions that affect choices, perceptions, ways of working and views of an artist or art historian. Tim Storrier sums up the practice of an artist by saying that A painting is really a graphic illustration of where a particular artist is at that point in his life and the art encompasses what the artist has gone through in their life. On ar...
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2 3 Artist Simon Dewey
1,601 wordsBESIDE STILL WATERS ART BY SIMON DEWEY ANALYSIS BY MICHAEL " HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES: HE LEADETHME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS. HE RESTORE TH MY SOUL: HE LEAD ETH ME IN THE PATHS OFRIGHTEUOSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE". PSALM 23: 2-3 Artist Simon Dewey is a British artist who specializes in painting pictures of Jesus. He was raised in a humble, suburban London home. Here, the experiences and upbringing that molded the young artist provided the talent, faith, and inspiration that are ...
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New York Life Including The Ashcan Artists
1,767 wordsASHCAN SCHOOL The Ashcan School was a movement which was integral and in a way 1 inevitable with the infancy of the twentieth century. This movement in art was brought about by a handful of artists who converged on New York City around the turn of the century. 2 The major Ashcan artists who will be discussed later are Robert Henry (1865-1929), George Luks (1866-1933), Everett Shinn (1876-1953), George Bellows (1882-1925), John Sloan (1871-1951), and William Glackens (1870-1938). 3 These were the...
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Painting Against The Rules Of Classical Art
1,942 wordsIssues of Mannerism The movement in painting that is now referred to as Mannerism began in Italy around 1520, influenced artists throughout Europe, and lasted until the end of the 16th century. The word Mannerism originates from the Italian word maniera which translates into the English word style. The basis of Mannerism then is style; its a period of art where the focus was on grace and beauty. While preceding trends of Renaissance art looked to nature to find their style, working to perfect it...
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Bourgeois World Courbet
842 wordsThere have been and continue to be many artists who have influenced the art world in any number of ways. While some - Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso - are household names, countless other lesser known artists have made significant contributions as well. Often it is the revolutionary ideas of lesser known that pave the way for future generations of artists. Some of them were simply ahead of their time in the ideas and methods they chose to explore; others expressed their life experiences in such...
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Facets Of African Sculpture And Art
2,381 wordsTHE ART OF INFLUENCE; Africa And Its' Influence On Western Art Between The Mid-Nineteenth Century and The First World War During the mid 19th century up until the Great War of 1914, European countries began to heavily colonize and come into contact with African nations. This was called "new imperialism". During this contact, European culture was influenced by Africa. The influence of the African people can be seen in the European society of the time. In the 19th and 20th centuries, modern artist...
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Early Years Of Kandinsky's Life
1,472 wordsThe Early Years Of Kandinsky's Life Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow. His father was a successful tea merchant named Vasily Silestrovich, and his mother was a teacher named Lydia Kandinskaia. From early on in his life, Kandinsky acquired a love for travel. His parents to Florence in 1869 where the young Kandinsky attended Nursery School. When his father's health began deteriorating in 1871, Wassily and his parents moved back to Russia, this time to the smaller town of Ode...
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Edgar Degas
557 wordsEdgar Degas was a French artist, some people would refer to him as the expert of drawing the human figure in motion. He was known as an Impressionists, and was different from all the other artist of his type. Edgar Degas was a person who, at certain times, brashly defied propriety and common social practice. Although he could be the nicest person, at times he would go into rages during social gatherings, becoming hostile with the people who disagreed with his ways and opinions. Edgar Degas was b...
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Romantic Aristocrat From Indonesia Raden Saleh
446 wordsArt: Raden Saleh: the romantic aristocrat from Indonesia Raden Saleh, born into a noble Javanese family in 1807, became a pioneer of modern Indonesian art. Although he was the first Indonesian artist to paint in the Western style, the fact that he expressed individuality and creativity in his work (as opposed to the traditional approach which stressed the reproduction of established forms and styles) showed the way for future Indonesian artists to express their own ideas more freely. The young R...
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Calder's Work
577 wordsAlexander Stirling "Sandy" Calder was one of the most innovative and original American artists of the twentieth century. Calder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Nanette Lederer, was a painter and his father, Alexander "Stirling" Calder, and grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, were noted sculptors. Young Alexander seemed to break the family tradition of studying art by enrolling at the Stephens Institute of Technology in New Jersey to major in engineering. But after graduating...
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Charles Wilson Peale
317 wordsIn the 1700's some areas of the American colonies provided young boys with public schooling, which taught them math, literature, and arts; these courses were early foundations for great American artists such as Charles Wilson Peale. In a young age, Peale quickly became a success in the saddle-making business. During one of his many trips to Norfolk Peale came across a painter. Even Washington thought his work is the very best. Peale painted fourteen portraits of Washington during his lifetime. A...
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Matta's Work And The Surrealist Movement
1,119 wordsRoberto Matta an American Painter Roberto Matta was born on November 11, 1911 in Santiago, Chile. Matta was educated as an architect and as an interior designer at the Sacre Coeur Jesuit College and at the Catholic University of Santiago, from 1929-31. From 1933-34 he worked in Paris as a drafter for a famous architect named Le Corbusier. At the end of 1934 Matta visited Spain, where he met Federico Garcia Lorca, a poet / playwright, who through a letter, introduced Matta to Salvador Dali (surre...
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Possible For Artists From Diverse Cultures
1,652 wordsToday, artists from diverse cultures communicate their artistic ideas in a global context, while still retaining links to the artistic traditions of their own culture. This multicultural development is due to the rapid advances in technology, communication, and travel, making possible the shared interest from different cultures in multicultural works of art. Artists such as Alan Tucker, who draws from the traditional aboriginal style of art, and Masami Teraoka, who paints in the traditional Japa...
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Courbet's Studio
628 wordsGustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France and died on December 31, 1877. He once said, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one", therefore, Courbet was a realist. In 1839, he entered the studio of Charles Steuben, where his artistic skills would be polished. Courbet met Virginia Binet and had a son by her in 1847. Two years later, in 1849, Gustave returned to Ornans from Holland where his father had prepared a studio for him. In 1850, Binet left Gustave and took ...
