A number of people have asked about the value of addressing aesthetics‚ the philosophy of art‚ or the definition of art. The reasoning is that if it is so difficult to define‚ it must therefor be ultimately subjective‚ and each person should just determine for herself what it is. Perhaps we all do determine for ourselves the meaning of anything. Because‚ as in the "tree falling in the forest" example‚ the meaning does not exist if it does not exist for me personally. I am allowed to define "table"
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ART HISTORY LECTURE NOTES 1 AH1.1 (I) Early Civilizations: PRE-HISTORICAL ART -art before historical documentation 3 periods of Pre-Historical art (The Stone Ages/Megalithic) -Paleolithic (32000-15000BC) -Mesolithic (15000-8000BC) -Neolithic (8000-1500BC) Forms of art -cave wall painting -chattel art -mobilary: figurings Characteristics -crude and unrefined -organic and of earth pigments Contents -bisons‚ horses -hunting‚ tribal wars -funeral scenes Important sites
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Stella Aghakian Mrs. Thomas Art History 10 – 3 – 2013 Prehistoric Art 1. Prehistoric man faced many challenges. For example‚ they had no means of communication and yet they had to work together to find and kill their own food. When making art‚ prehistoric man had to make their own paint brushes and create their paint. This makes prehistoric art so impressive because their paintings very accurately capture the proportions and look of the animals they drew. Prehistoric paintings are found
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Art History 3.6: Examine the different values placed on art works Values in art: Making a judgement on whether art has value is entirely subjective and can only be determined on whether someone holds value to that piece‚ or acknowledging that someone holds certain values to that piece. Art is valuable in itself‚ and independent of what people enjoy‚ want‚ or what is good for them. This is important as there are a number of values that an art work can hold and that these values can appeal to a
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Sung84 Instructor derp Graffiti Art is Art Forms of graffiti art have been around for thousands of years. Graffiti comes from the Italian word graffito meaning “scratched”. Graffiti is art produced by scratching a design into a surface. Graffiti varies from lines‚ shapes‚ drawings‚ paintings‚ carvings‚ letters‚ and symbols. Starting from 30‚000 BC‚ graffiti has been carved with chalk‚ coal‚ and ivory tools such as an animal’s teeth or tusk on the walls of ancient ruins. Paintings and
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Art Essay The body has been used as a sign or symbol in art for centuries. The body was used to symbolize perfection in ancient Greece‚ and in Egypt‚ to give a precise image for the God of the After-life. Not to mention their colossal monuments which promote power and glory‚ and are used to intimidate. However contemporary artists use the body as a symbol which conveys a whole range of different kinds of layered meaning‚ although the simple symbol of power has not been lost over the centuries
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How ought one to go about evaluating a work of art? The first thing I learned as an art major at St. Johns was how to evaluate a work of art or one that was in progress‚ often times it was a piece we got to pick at the Met or the Momma. Sometimes it was our classmate’s work that we had to critique and evaluate. It was this process that drove me away from the Art department. There was too much nit picking and it got to be a pain in the ass to sit there and listen to some power hungry professor ripping
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Abdulahi Jama Art appreciation Lu mulder Fall 2012 Islamic calligraphy and arabesque. Islamic art is intellectual‚ refined and decorative; it contains no strong emotions and pathos but exhibits serene harmony. The term Islamic art covers a broad range of traditions‚ from metal work‚ carpet weaving‚ calligraphy and arabesque to architecture. It includes religious art as well as art made by and for Muslims and object made for Muslims by artists of other faiths. Islamic art can mean different
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Art is an expression of oneself. It’s not just the sculptures or paintings in museums. It can be anything anyone uses to express themselves. It can be writings‚ architecture‚ landscaping‚ and even cave drawings. Cave drawings may have started out as a way to communicate but have become what many consider art now. Though the definition of what constitutes art has been disputed for many years‚ one thing remains certain‚ each person has their own idea of what constitutes art and how it registers
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Poetry Analysis Research: Elizabeth Bishop “One Art” One Art by Elizabeth Bishop is a villanelle poem. A villanelle poem is a nineteen line poem that consists of five‚ three-line stanza followed by a quatrain. Bishop’s poem brings a fascinating irony between different levels of losses. Between each stanza‚ the development of trivial losses escalates into a bigger and traumatic loss that was unprepared for. An intense repetition of the phrase “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” suggests a few
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