IS IT ART? What is art? Every person has an individual response to an artwork which is determined through the collaboration between an individual and a specific artwork. If it contributes to your experience‚ as a consequence being symbolic of something‚ then it is probably art for you. It is therefore very problematic in order to supply a definition that comprises the whole world’s thoughts and feelings. Some believe that anything and everything in the world is art‚ while others believe that it
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Art is any form of self-expression. Art is something that is created that entertains‚ inspires‚ educates or makes a person feel something good‚ bad or unexplainable. Art is whatever the artist does or makes in which they deem to be art whether it is of value or not. There is a wide variety of art‚ some that people wouldn’t imagine as art‚ but a true artist sees art in every creation. Art is everywhere and in everything I see. Art is not just a painting‚ poem‚ drawing or a ballet. When I think
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“The oldest and most often invoked argument is that art‚ whatever its form‚ is a public good” (Ginsburgh‚ 2001‚ p. 759). Why? Because as the author referred‚ it can benefit not only those who attend or see it‚ and who pay for it‚ but also all other consumers‚ who do not necessarily wish to contribute voluntarily to its production or to its preservation‚ in the case of museums‚ so they are free riders. We can easily understand that artistic activities also produce externalities to all civilization
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The elephant in the Art room The mother the other Addressing the elephant in the Art room Linda Nochlin posed the question in her 1971 article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Arguing it was necessary to question “the unstated domination of white male subjectivity” that shaped the art historical canon; the article explored the reasons for the severe asymmetry of female to male artists throughout the course of art history. When examining western art as viewed through the canon one must
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Abstract Expressionism Art Movement History By: Sharmé Jackson Abstract Expressionism started in America as a post-World War II art movement. It was the first avant-garde art movement that arose from America. Never before in the history of art‚ the personality of an artist took such central stage and became both an inspiration and the subject of his/her own art. It is challenging to narrow down such multifaceted phenomenon as Abstract Expressionism‚ to distil the core of this intricate style
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In Carolyn Dean’s “The Trouble with (the Term) Art” (2006)‚ the author explores the significance of the word art itself and dives into the deeper meaning of not only what art is‚ but when a piece can be labeled as art. Carolyn Dean successfully accomplishes her goal of providing readers with knowledge about the consequences of identifying art‚ where such a notion did or did not occur. Although Dean is pretty opinionated throughout the article‚ she backs up all of her thoughts by providing ample amounts
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Orientalism: Edward W. Said‚ post-collonail studies / Odalisque: exotic‚ erotic subjects like the harem girl(turkish word); redining or recumbent‚female nude; recurrent figure throuhout Western Art/ Die Bruke-The Bridge: 1905-ernst cuding kirchner (dissolved in 1913); earlliest German group to seize the avant-garde spirit; means “bridge”-members believed their work would be a bridge to the future; artists lived and worked communally producing intense‚ anguished pictures with harshly distorted forms
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Creative art and Fine art . By a broad definition of art‚[9] artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind: from early pre-historic art to contemporary art; however‚ some theories restrict the concept to modern Western societies.[10] The first and broadest sense of art is the one that has remained closest to the older Latin meaning‚ which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft." A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact‚ artificial‚ artifice‚ medical arts‚ and military arts
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Art and Intention When it came to the understanding of the art works both Marcel Duchamp’s and Michelangelo’s the reactions came for a lack of knowing what they were looking at and a lack of understanding. For Duchamp’s art piece had nothing to do with nudist or anything of the sort it was simply the act of motion. The name it was offended people the most about the “Nude Descending a Staircase” painting done by Duchamp. Now on the other hand I can believe the public had a hard time with Michelangelo’s
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impulse to create art is a defining sign of humanity‚ the body may well have been the first canvas. Alongside paintings on cave walls visited by early people over 30‚000 years ago‚ we find handprints‚ ochre deposits‚ and ornaments. And because the dead were often buried with valuable possessions and provisions for the afterlife‚ ancient burials reveal that people have been tattooing‚ piercing‚ painting‚ and shaping their bodies for millennia. All of the major forms of body art known today appear
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