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Vasarely Museum In Budapest
879 wordsStraight lines that appear curved, views that display two perspectives at once-these are the trademarks of op art, pioneered and pushed to new levels by Victor Vasarely. GAUZE bandage-for most, this cloth is simply an aid to healing. Victor Vasarely looked at the criss-cross threads, laid over a childhood cut, and it led him to become the "Father of Op Art". The young Vasarely noticed the threads forming grids on the bandage. These formations intrigued him, and, later in life, became the basis o...
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Community Through Fine Art Murals
1,667 wordsAn Inspiration Across Cultures Public art conquers so much more than the simple task of making the street a little easier to look at. It involves those who created it, those who supplied the means to create it, and those whose lives it continues to impact. Wall paintings in particular take an important role in working for a greater good. Judith F. Baca, a Hispanic-American woman and artist- activist has contributed an unaccountable amount to the mural movement in Los Angeles. She has accomplishe...
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Storrier's Artworks
1,094 words(1949-) Tim Storrier was born in Sydney Australia in 1949. He spent his early childhood on his family's sheep station at Umagarlee, near Wellington, NSW. His mother and grandmother were interested in art, and he would draw a lot. He drew military heroes and rural subjects such as wool sheds. At the age of ten he went to boarding school in Sydney, where he spent a lot of time in the art room, painting under the influence of his teacher Ross Doig. Storrier attended the National Art School from 196...
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Look At Art
2,036 wordsGoing Back to Archaic Greece The Amasis Painter seemed to lure me into his world while reading these works compiled by these very prolific writers. Or maybe it was the writers that brought me back to experience what they felt while studying these paintings and giving up their thoughts to question as they questioned others. In either case it has sparked my interest in this painter, and potter if you will. He combines a perfectionistic attitude with an imaginative flare that is subtle and refined,...
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Human Form And Its Relationship To Art
4,421 wordsThe multifaceted and complex intricacies that are woven throughout the centuries in art are unrealistic to attempt in this format. Therefore, because the focus for the majority of the focus throughout history has been on the humanistic form the concentration will be on that. Art was the first written language and to study the history of art is to study the history of civilizations and humankind. The Paleolithic cave paintings in France, when viewed in the modern western perspective can only be s...
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Iron Building
617 wordsWorld War I virtually severed artistic relations between America and Europe. Cultural interchange and patronage was interrupted by problems of social and political urgency, though most artists tended to be antiwar. Visual propaganda was left to the commercial designers and illustrators, while American painters continued in their efforts to consolidate the issues detonated by the Armory show. Dominant tendency in American painting after World War I towards cubism and abstraction was called 'Preci...
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Lawrence's Migration Series
1,838 wordsOne the most distinguished artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City and sent part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924, he went with his mother and siblings to New York, settling in Harlem. 'He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop, inside the New York Public Library's 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, Lawrence was also at an angle to them:...
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Art Show
326 wordsTechno to me is fast paced. It is wild and new age. Which is in most cases the theme of this art show. I was impressed that so many different types of mediums could come together so well. The theme was very good for what was being shown. As for the sublime part. I felt a little un easy in the show. So much going on and in so many different ways was a little overwhelming. It lacked direction and labels which in a way I can understand because of the artistic appeal and to let each person take thei...
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Madame Liang Lives
851 wordsMadame Liang essay In the book Three Daughters of Madame Liang there is a big emphasis on art. Art played a big role in the liver of the four main women in the novel. Joy, Madame Liang, Mercy, and Grace without art these four women's lives would have been drastically changed. You may believe that the Liang family is not perceived as an "artsy" or artistic family, but in fact they are really a very "artsy" or artistic family. They have Joy the painter, Madame Liang "the woman with style", Mercy t...
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Poster
522 wordsAlthough lithography was invented in 1798, it was at first too slow and expensive for poster production. Most posters were woodblocks or metal engravings with little color or design. This all changed with Cheret "three stone lithographic process", a breakthrough which allowed artists to achieve every color in the spectrum with as little as three stones - red, yellow and blue - printed in careful registration. Although the process was difficult, the result was a remarkable intensity of color and ...
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Woman Artist Of Color
1,345 wordsMany conditions of women's lives shape their voices and their artistic expression. The perception a woman artist has of who she is as an artist and what she intends her art to convey are affected by these conditions. Her race, presence of family in her life, and society's expectations all pose as obstacles she must deal with in order to fully understand her place as an artist. Family plays an important role in shaping a woman's voice. How she is treated for speaking out at an early age will affe...
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Europe Art And The Gothic Style
3,685 wordsAt the beginning of this era, a synthesis of local styles known as the International Style predominated Europe art and the Gothic style was dominant in architecture. This era also began in the shadow of the person sometimes seen as the precedent of the great Italian Renaissance masters. His frescoes, notably those in the Cappella dell Arena in Padua used the concepts of Byzantine art that governed ideas of foreshortening, shadow and texture to create the illusion of depth. Giottos mastery had re...
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Titians Style Of Work
1,175 wordsTitian No one knows exactly when the Italian artist, Tiziano Vecellio, was born. Over the centuries, there has been a great deal of confusion concerning the date, due to a misprint in his biography by sixteenth century art historian, Giorgio Vasari. Vasari recorded the date as 1480, but the progress of Tiziano Vecellio work, as well as other documented sources, announce his date of birth to be sometime between 1488 and 1490. (Magill 2310) The place of his birth was Piece de C adore, in the Alps ...
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Growing Popularity Of Pop Art
1,442 wordsHow did Pop Art challenge beliefs about consumerism Discuss with reference to two artists. Introduction: In order to discuss pop art I have chosen to examine the work and to some extent lives of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol who were two of the main forces behind the American movement. I intend to reflect the attitudes of the public and artists in America at this time, while examining the growing popularity of pop art from its rocky, abstract expressionist start in the 1950's through the heig...
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Leonardo And Chagall's Paintings The Time Period
503 words"You do as you experienced". Employing artistic and literary devices towards the equivalent goal to reproduce forms of imagination to which the mind will recur with pleasure, a binding link between art and literature is established. A proof to this link is that both art and literature reflect the social context in which they were produced. The social context in which an artist lives in heavily influences his or her painting. During the Renaissance, an age that spanned the fourteenth to sixteenth...
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People Look At A Graffiti Painting
837 wordsStruggling through poor articulation, here's an attempt to argue against the dominant view of society on the subject of street vandalism -- which I like to call habitat re-decoration -- expressed nicely by an anonymous conservative web-site: Graffiti is a crime. Graffiti is vandalism. Graffiti is not art. The same web-site went on to say that graffiti damages surfaces to the point of permanently changing the character of the surface and the character of the neighborhood. This restructuring of on...
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Their Values And Beliefs As Artists
1,705 wordsSince the late 1980's British artists Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst have been both admired and hated for their highly controversial work. This essay will focus on their values and beliefs as artists and how these messages are conveyed in their artwork. For the purpouse of this essay I have defined values as worth in usefulness, highly regarded and important to the posses or, and beliefs as the feeling of certainty that something exists or is true. It is the mental acceptance of and conviction in ...
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Diego Rivera
783 wordsDiego Rivera has to be one of the greatest artists of all of the early 1900's. I choose Diego Rivera because he is an old folk hero, and because his work has so much meaning behind it that normally you wouldn't know unless you understood the current events during that time. His wife who also is a painter, Frida Kahlo, also is remarkable as well. Rivera uses conventional painting methods with medium-oil based paints, and is most well known for his murals. Diego lived from 1886-1957; he led an ama...
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Contemporary Artist
810 wordsP 2 P (peer to peer) Sharing -Crime or Artistic Justice The mark of artistic talents has traditionally not been something quantifiable measured in dollars and cents. Shakespeare was all but a pauper, Michelangelo rather middle class while Pablo Picasso died broke. However with the advent of new information technology, the gross commercialization of art has come to be an externality borne by all members of society. One can hardly turn on a computer without being told what products to put on one's...
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Self Portrait Durer
1,132 wordsArtist and Humanist, Albrecht Durer is one of the most significant figures in the history f European art outside Italy during the Renaissance (Gowing 195). Portraying the questioning spirit of the Renaissance, Durer's conviction that he must examine and explore his own situation through capturing the very essence of his role as artist and creator, is reflected in the Self-portrait in a Fur Collared Robe (Strieder 10). With the portrait, Durer's highly self-conscious approach to his status as an ...
