ART SUMMARY TERM 2 FRAMES Cultural This view is concerned with understanding how an artwork is influenced by the values of the society it is produced in‚ and‚ in turn‚ how the artwork influences the values of the society. This includes examining the historical and cultural context in which the work was made‚ and religious and/or philosophical beliefs‚ which may have influenced the work. Subjective This view is concerned with examining an artwork from a personal perspective. This might
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The Art of Sculpture Long before man could record history‚ people were sculpting free standing figures out of bones rocks and other objects. It is said that sculpting is the art of the people‚ and it is a more powerful art than literature and painting because it can be touched and felt. When a sculpture is in a gallery our attention is sustained by an intensified visual engagement. This is what makes its fixed shape come alive in the viewer’s eyes. Before the 20th century‚ sculpture was considered
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essay “Images of Women in European Art‚” John Berger compares the relationship between the surveyor and the surveyed in traditional nude European art. Typically in European art‚ the surveyor‚ usually a man‚ views and objectifies the nude women in the paintings. Furthermore‚ Berger places a large emphasis on the difference between nakedness and nudity‚ nakedness being the state of lacking clothes whereas nudity is the state where nakedness is objectified as an art form. Berger claims that the subject
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Traditional art VS Digital art Fri‚ May 15‚ 2009 News Because we live in a century dominated by technology innovation‚ art itself has been offered new creative horizons. But these new advantages have not been considered so beneficial for the art by some conservative art lovers‚ who believe that if the art is not created using traditional tools (pen‚ oils‚ watercolor‚ etc.) that art cannot be considered true art (true in the meaning of recognizing it’s real values). Even if the painting‚ the
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American Art and Architecture Two opposite forces have coexisted in American art since the establishment of the first colonies. On the one hand‚ American artists have been aware of their European cultural heritage and of continuing innovation in Europe; on the other hand‚ they have had to adapt European forms to the exigencies of their native situation. This interaction between rival forces is hardly unique to American art--all art grows within a tradition--but what distinguishes the American
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Pros and Cons of Public Art Assignment 2 Winn‚ Laura 4/24/2014 In July of 2009 the Introduction of public art came to light when the Yakima city approved the installation of Convolution‚ a modern sculpture created by Bremerton artist Will Robinson. The attention gained by the debates of the Convolutions placement has brought public art in Yakima‚ and polices of the Yakima Arts Commission to a high in the community. An adverse reaction was given when the placement of the Transcendence
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According to the dictionary the word mural means a painting or other work of art that is directly executed on to a wall. The mural started out as what is known as graffiti‚ which comes from the Latin word graffio‚ meaning scratching or scribbling. Murals are in existence in almost every city across the world. More specifically‚ I want to zero in on cities such as Philadelphia‚ Los Angeles‚ and Belfast and Derry Ireland. An individual may believe that murals are there to beautify the city‚ however
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FINAL 1) The principle message of Egyptian art is continuity—A seamless span of time reaching back infinitely in the history and forward into the future. 2) Babylonians developed a true arch before the Romans. 3) A kouors dating from the early Archaic period. 4) This work was done in BLANK period of the fifth century bc. Here we find the BLANK of a figure in motion. 5) For many travelers‚ this is the very symbol of Rome. The Collosseum rises on three
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As time and centuries pass simultaneously art evolves too. During the Greek – Roman period in history art was a powerful medium and was used as a research instrument for studying the human body. The Greeks loved perfection‚ religion‚ and their government. These values were transferred to the Romans who adapted the Greek culture together with their swag. Later on by doing so‚ the mixture of both cultures came to be known as the “classical civilization” (The Greek Spirit pg. 99). The Greco-Roman style
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Looking Assignment One The Renaissance period in art manifested itself differently in the various Italian city-states as the artists in those cities expressed the ideals in their own way. As the style shifted into the High Renaissance‚ the concepts of ordered space and mathematical precision came to the forefront of artistic thought‚ especially among the Italian artists. This focus on an intellectual approach to art came as the result of a perceived lack of such intellectualism during the medieval
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