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Picasso For Richardson
1,060 wordsPrivates on parade Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters John Richardson Cape 20, pp 378 It was Jean Cocteau who first defined celebrities as sacred monsters. Despite its irony, the phrase was reverential: the playboys, harlots, tycoons, dope fiends and slumming artists whose misbehavior Cocteau chronicled were, in his view, our contemporary version of the Olympian deities - not better than the rest of us (as the Christian God and his immediate family claim to be) but merely richer, more concupiscent,...
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Twelve Years Morse And His Telegraph
846 wordsEarly Life Samuel Morse: a man, an artist, and an inventor. He knew as a childhood love, he was an artist. But the thing he did not know was that out of his love of art and curiosity would come an invention. His invention, now obsolete, was a great weapon of war and means of communication for everyone. Born April 27, 1791, in Charleston, Mass. Morse was the oldest son of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. From early on in his childhood he had a talent in his art. At the age of eight M...
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Group Known As The Pre Raphaelites
639 wordsIn order to better understand the works of any kind of artist, one can usually look to that artist's past and discover inspirations or influences that may play a role in the shaping of their later work. The famous author and poet Rudyard Kipling had a rather tumultuous past, so it is only natural that one seek clarification of his works in it. Upon some inspection, one may find that in his earlier years, Kipling was influenced by a group known as the Pre-Raphaelites, not only because they were a...
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Lawrence's Panels
1,555 wordsJacob Lawrence has painted figurative and narrative pictures of the black community and black history for more than 60 years in a consistent modernist style, using expressive, strong design and flat areas of color. Jacob Lawrence was a great artist. During Harlem Renaissance, he helped establish African American artists. He gave lectures at Washington University, and he enjoyed working with students of all ages. Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City on September 7, 1917. His parents Jacob Arm...
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Holy Virgin Mary By Chris Ofili
2,351 wordsWhat a sensation was made about the Sensation exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The focus of Mayor Giuliani's outcry was the piece "The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili. Funny, he didn't give attention to some of the other outrageous works including the pubescent female mannequins studded with erect penises, vaginas, and anuses, fused together in various postures of sexual coupling, or the portrait of a child molester and murder made from what appears like child hand prints or bisected a...
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Early Egyptian And Sumerian Societies
1,137 wordsAs long as man has inhabited earth he has strive d to express himself for any number of reasons. Yet over thousands of years the enduring theme of these expressions has been the desire to explain our own existence. This is especially evident when considering the early Egyptian and Sumerian societies. Beginning with cave paintings in France around 15,000 BC and leading up to the grandeur of the great pyramids the cultures of antiquity demonstrate belief in a connection in the material and spiritu...
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Andy Back To School
3,938 words'I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about... I just do it because I like it. (Beckris 110) I just do it because I like it is Andy's philosophy on life. Andy might just be the most interesting and and at the same time the most confusing individual you will ever read about. Andy's work is like none others. His art brought common day people together and showed the impact of contemporary society and the idea of mass media on values. Andy's f...
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Fetishes Of Duchamp
898 wordsMany questions remain open, not the least of which is why the bride has so many inseminator's rather than a single husband. Duchamp shows his preference to occasional sexual liaisons while cowardly hiding it in his ready-made's. The constant sexual dissatisfaction and complex of small penis has been reflected in the abnormally large phallic symbols in any of his ready-made's. The passage of time is also unclear, now after the shots that have pierced the bride's realm have rung out. Although the ...
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Pair Of Performance Artists
1,074 wordsSome can at present enjoy Tracy Emin's performance on the Tate gallery after dinner circle jerk. Despite ones satisfaction at Roger Scruton's inability to disguise his misogynist contempt for the worthless piece of seaside flotsam, he took Tracy Emin to be, it was impossible to suppress the fetish thought that she had been set up. Sure it was enjoyable to see the tedium of televisions professionalism ripped apart, rammed ass of David Sylvester, but once Tracy Emin had staggered off, some cant he...
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Czanne's Art
1,043 wordsCandy Elliott-Ries Art 101 ET Mr. Tim Hahn Final Paper Paul Czanne Czanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on January 19, 1839. Czanne developed artistic interests at an early age. His father was a common laborer then became a hatter and, eventually, a successful wealthy banker. He had high expectations for Paul and would never fully accept the notion of his son becoming an artist. Sadly, his father died before realizing the extraordinary accomplishments his son had achieved. H...
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Lautrec's Painting
2,249 wordsThroughout the period that covered the last half of the nineteenth century, Western Europe enjoyed the gatherings of a great wealth that was accumulated by the industrial-colonial economy. The revolutionary changes in the stratification of the society and the functioning of the production system brought new perspectives to view the individual and the world that surrounded him. The bourgeoisie reached the summit of its rise since the French Revolution, and industrial European cities became the ce...
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Emergence Of Artistic Individuality
2,143 wordsJacob Burckhardts Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy second section is devoted to the development of the individual and claims to have found a great change in human perception during the Renaissance: In the Middle Ages both sides of the human consciousness lay dreaming or half-awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion and childish prepossession, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as a member of a ra...
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Documentation Of The Dada Movement
4,669 wordsIn the second and third decades of this century, a new kind of artistic movement swept Europe and America. Its very name, "Dada"-two identical syllables without the obligatory "-ism"-distinguished it from the long line of avant-gardes which have determined the history of the arts in the last 200 years. Its proponents came from all parts of Europe and the United States at a time when their native countries were battling one another in the deadliest war ever known. They did not restrict themselves...
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Works Of Dali And Escher
589 wordsThe artists that I am comparing in my paper come from two different backgrounds, yet in some ways, the deep psychological and philosophical message that their works reflect, together with their shared fascination with the insect-world, bring them together. Salvador Dali, a poor farmers son (1904-1989) was born in Spain, and throughout his childhood, according to him, he was treated like royalty by his parents because they thought he was the incarnation of his dead brother, who died nine months b...
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Wood Strips And Plant Into The Canvas
491 wordsOut of Africa, the theme surrounding the art sculptures and masks at the American River College Art Gallery, can be viewed from February 21st through March 16th from 11 am 5 pm. The exhibit contains a collection of artifacts, mainly masks, owned by private collectors in the Sacramento area. Since the artwork is privately owned, information on the artifacts and the artist is somewhat limited. In rare occasions do the owners of these artifacts know anything about the artwork in which they could co...
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Kokoschka And Alma Mahler
1,067 wordsOskar Kokoschka Kokoschka was born in P-chl arn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrad (1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York City), August Forel (1910, Mannheim Art Gallery, Germany), and Self-Portrait (1913,...
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Edge Art The Crafts Practice
1,936 wordsAre we regressing? We as humans in a society consumed by bigger, better, faster, stronger more powerful things have finally realised we are losing what has made us human in the first place- what makes us, us and the personalised human touch. Craft is emerging no longer with the stigma of just being something bored, uneducated housewives just sat around doing in quilting bees, knitting circles and craft corners while their husbands in the role of the breadwinner brought home the bacon. But at wha...
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Boy's Head
947 wordsArtists have always been inspired by myths and legends, and have the exceptional ability to transform them into visual form. Sometimes the art is the only surviving record that shows that a culture or civilization actually existed. Joseph Campbell considers artist's mythmaker's because they translate the true hidden meaning of the work into something that is believable and meaningful. He states that with the help of metaphors, a piece of art or literature can be "elevated from a mythical experie...
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Display As Part Of The Work
1,922 wordsHere is Stedelijk conservator Kees Herman Aben's description of what the Amsterdam museum must contend with each time it wants to exhibit the Mario Merz igloo Dal Miele Alle Ceneri (From Honey to Ashes, 1984) that is in its permanent collection: Dal Miele Alle Ceneri comes unassembled with a tubular aluminium frame and supporting iron bars, forty-seven tablets or panels of beeswax on gauze, six steel sheets, two fir-cones covered in wax, machine parts and the head of an antelope... It takes at l...
