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Commedia Dell Arte Into Sienfeld
698 wordsDrama, Commedia dell Arte Assignment. Commedia dell Arte, the known name for a group of professional actors who would travel together around Europe. These professional actors helped nurture and grow some of the worlds most commonly used acting styles and ideas. They defined and set the standard of skills that an actor needs to develope and use in drama. They also created succesful character personality's, that are still used in the world of theatre in today's modern world. If it were not for the...
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Image Art
1,164 wordsPerspectives in the Arts The stories behind a piece of art are infinite. The reasons the artist produced the piece is only one explanation behind the work. Even so, who is to know the specific thoughts the artist was thinking at the time? As each art critic may conclude his own analysis of an artwork, who is right and who is wrong? Just as students challenge the information that is supposedly "deposited" in them by the teacher in the classroom setting, art challenges the belief- that information...
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Spiritual Using Zen
861 wordsThe book Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel, discusses the spirituality connected with the art form in the sport of archery. In this book, Herrigel describes many aspects of how archery is, in fact, not a sport, but an art form, and is very spiritual to those in the east. As an actor, this book helps you to use your spirituality in your acting. Archery, in this book, was the way that the author found his way into Zen Buddhism. He studied this art, which is referred to as the "artless ...
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Pollock's Paintings
771 wordsFor centuries artist along with society have placed an emphasis on meaning in a piece of art. Art has always consisted of subject matters, motifs and other pre- ideas or thoughts about what one should use as their focal point in a work of art. The very definition of art though, is an appealing or attractive object created through any of the fine arts. Nowhere does it say that a work of art must have a concentration point. Not until the advent of abstract expressionism was the idea of "painting f...
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Three Dimensional Design Class
400 wordsBeginning with the media of watercolor her senior year, Sara Dosenberry, realized her love for the world of art, creativity, and beauty. Jan Alfa no, the inspiring art teacher favored watercolor, which is how Sara developed much of her technique. With her love of the all art she has realized an influence from music coming into play in some of her more current works. Another more current influence and most prominent in her works has been her past three vacations in Hawaii. Displaying a very organ...
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Marginalization Of African American Art
1,277 wordsBlack Women in Art Historically and currently African American women use art as a way to express themselves, their emotions and as an act of resistance. In this paper, I will discuss the various ways two very influential artists, Laurie Cooper and Lorna Simpson, use imagery to uncover and forefront the various forms of oppression that affect their lives as African American women. Since the late 1970's, African American art, as a form of self expression, explores issues which concern African peop...
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Past Ideas To His Paintings
675 wordsDuring the Baroque period, new ideas and views of society and of religion spurred up. To express these new ideas many artists used the ideas of past artists to further expand their own motives". If I have seen further (than you and Descartes), it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants". Sir Isaac Newton, 1676 The artists of the baroque period were using past ideals as a ladder to the prevalent and the gallant. Four pieces of art that exceplified the usage of the great minds of the past were...
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Palette Of Narmer And Apollo Of Veii
815 wordsThe two works of art that have been chosen to compare and contrast are The Palette Of Narmer and Apollo of Veii. The Palette Of Narmer dates back to the Hierakonpolis Dynasty 1 in 3100 BCE. The Palette of Narmer is interesting because it is the oldest historic work of art that names a person, and is the earliest piece of art that uses hieroglyph. This artwork depicts the dawn of a new age of man and his use of writing and pictographs in art. The statue of Apollo, from Veii comes from the Etrusca...
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Survey The House Tree Person Technique
308 wordsThis is my research paper on Art Therapy for my freshman year. I am very interested in this topic and eager to learn more. If you are also interested in Art Therapy, or working is this field, or want to give your opinion on my paper, please don't hesitate to email me or sign my guestbook. Please take time to fill out a survey for my next research. Thank you! SURVEY The House-tree-Person technique is one of well-known psychoanalytic tasks, which is widely used as a psychoanalytic approach in art ...
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Arts Of China
1,121 wordsSharon Matute October 24, 1999 Art 100 007 Professor Sax Art can be used to study the progression of a civilization through time. Art is usually used to express ones beliefs religiously, politically, and sometimes as a source of communication, which is accomplished through imagery. Symbols in works of art can be related to nature and myths. 1 From the beginning of Chinese history, art and philosophy worked hand-in-hand with the creation of a work of art. Chinese art was used as evidence of a per...
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Olmec Culture
602 wordsThe Olmec were farmers, traders, artists... innovators. The Olmec culture first emerged in the Isthmus region of Tehuantepec. The site of San Lorenzo, which sits on the Coatzacoalcos River, sheds the most light on this mysterious culture. During this time period, The Ini tail Formative, food surplus sparked an increase in population and career specialization. With the increase of specialization and sedentism came the environment for complex culture. The Olmec people were farmers, "using ground-s...
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Francescas Resurrection And Rraps Christ
1,081 wordsResurrection & Christ. Extended Written Response. For many centuries, artists throughout the world have aimed to capture and portray a particular theme or subject in accordance to their religious beliefs, personal influences, and mood, or based entirely upon societal influences. The figure of Christ and the manner in which he has been depicted has varied immensely over the years, which is highly indicative of changing social attitudes. Piero della Francescas Resurrection of 1463, and Julie Rraps...
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Art And Craft Industries
1,674 wordsBecker in his essay The Arts and Crafts has attempted to resolve and discuss, in some respects, the contradictions that developed during the post war era. He tries to define or perhaps realign the contexts in which these ideas are used by analyzing the relationship between arts and crafts through the evolution or perhaps devolution of craft to art and vice-versa; relying particularly on the example of ceramics in the 1960's and 70's. In the chapter Arts and Crafts he discusses the relationship b...
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Use Of Animals As Human Races
1,087 wordsThe Maus series of books tell a very powerful story about one man's experience in the Holocaust. They do not tell the story in the conventional novel fashion. Instead, the books take on an approach that uses comic windows as a method of conveying the story. One of the most controversial aspects of this method was the use of animals to portray different races of people. The use of animals as human races shows the reader the ideas of the Holocaust a lot more forcefully than simply using humans as ...
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Art Of Judy Chicago And Annie Sprinkle
1,872 wordsFemininity, masculinity and, indeed, queer theory have, for years, been based on the essentialist binary opposites of male and female inherent in modernism. In today's 'Postmodernist' world these gender definitions are increasingly under attack by feminist theory, gay studies and queer theory. Women are confronting issues of gendered oppression, men are confronting issues of sexism and homophobia, everyone is searching for 'self'. It is my intention in this essay to concentrate on feminist art, ...
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Janet Laurence
365 wordsArtists construct a presentation, reflection or a critique of their world for the viewer. Two artists that are an example of this are Yun Suk-Nam and Janet Laurence. Janet Laurence strives to inform audiences with her views of art in society and art relating to history and the environment. She is interested in presenting art as something more than decorative or something personal. Her work is interactive and usually involves the audience's senses, for example she includes various different textu...
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Emin's Artworks Show The Viewer
614 words1. Art Express Exhibition The Artworks which interest me are: -"It's not Black and White" by Beth Josey The Artworks used 'printmaking' technique, "Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. Such fine prints are considered original works of art, even though they can exist in multiple copies. Major technique...
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Hamlets Dresser Hamlets Dresser By Bob Smith
1,167 wordsHamlets Dresser Hamlets Dresser, by Bob Smith, explores the theme of human loneliness with eloquence and offers a passionate appeal that the arts can be used as a healing tool to overcome the emotional ravages of loneliness. From reading Smiths book, one comes to understand that loneliness is many things, but learns that above all it is a feeling of despair that one is isolated and all alone in the world. This mistaken perspective is destructive, for it instills a profound sense of alienation an...
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William Wegman
448 wordsWilliam Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1943. Growing up as a boy he was always interested in cameras and the growing technology of photography. One year, William recieved a Polaroid camera for his birthday, which began his photography career. William Wegman attended the Massachusetts Collage of Fine Arts in Boston, and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting. In 1967 he attended the University of Illinois, and recieved his Masters of Fine Arts degree. William Wegman tau...
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Mother Of Albrecht D Rer
809 wordsAlbrecht D? rer was born on May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany. His father Albrecht D? rer the elder, a goldsmith of lower middle class income, sent him to attend Latin school at St. Lorenz. Later D? rer served as an apprentice to his father. Right before becoming an apprentice of the painter Michael Wolgemut, in 1484, he completed some of his earliest work at around the age of 13, which was one of his self -portrait series. In 1494 D? rer increased social standing as a result of his arranged ma...
