Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an award winning proposal by Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceived with the intent of addressing the “potentially purifying effects upon morals through the restoration of the arts and sciences.” [p. 1] Rousseau examines the concept of measuring our own self worth with the ability to perform in a manner deemed worthy of the rest of societies approbation. This is explored as Rousseau describes the consequences of “perceiving the principal advantage of an intercourse
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Religious Art Egyptian Art vs. Renaissance Art The ancient Egyptians have had a huge impact on the world today. From Cleopatra‚ to The Mummy movies‚ the theme that is Egyptian is something that is very easily recognized. Egyptian art is very flat with exaggerated body parts. These figures have very long arms and legs with pointy eyes. Pointy eyes are a vanity thing that is still sought after and many women achieve this look with liquid eyeliner. Another factor that makes Egyptian art special is
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Iconoclasm‚ Incarnation‚ and Art During the time of the Byzantine period‚ the utilization of religious images was a controversial subject. This controversy consisted of three parties; the Carolingians‚ iconoclasts‚ and iconodules and each party had their own interpretation on how and where these religious images could be used. Although each party had a different view‚ there was something in common amongst the three of them‚ they all agreed that God is the only thing that someone may worship. The
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censored and supported works of art. The United States government hesitantly created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1965 to provide material support for deserving artists. Initially the government did not want to support individuals or groups of individuals because it feared that the works of art they created might end up being construed as national art and it only allowed NEA to be formed after being pressured by activists. The need to cease underwriting vulgar art became apparent in 1988
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the work of a documentary photographer‚ such as Dorothea Lange‚ is the different intentions of each photographer. 9. A daguerreotype was an early photographic method created using a copper plate covered with silver iodine 10. Early examples of art photography often imitatedthe narrative form of painting 11. Dada collage artist Hannah Höch used “found” photographs to express artistic composition. the overwhelming experience of the mechanized city. disgust with a civilization that allowed
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Visual Art Appropriation in Art By Cassandra Pailles-Pattison Appropriation in the visual arts is when an artist takes possession of another’s work and re-uses it in a different context‚ most commonly in order to reveal issues surrounding originality or a meaning not apparent in the original work1. The types of appropriation used by artists include re-visioning‚ re-evaluation‚ variation‚ imitation‚ parody‚ homage‚ mimicry and allusion2. The practice of appropriation is a tradition that
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definition of art. Although commonly used to describe something of beauty‚ or a skill which produces an aesthetic result‚ there is no clear line in principle between (say) a unique piece of handmade sculpture‚ and a mass-produced but visually attractive item. We might say that art requires thought - some kind of creative impulse - but this raises more questions: for example‚ how much thought is required? If someone flings paint at a canvas‚ hoping by this action to create a work of art‚ does the result
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appearing mostly on church walls‚ featured religious figures appearing in Catholic teachings. Due to the Church’s supervision of Filipino art and Spanish occupation of the Philippines‚ the purpose of most paintings from the 16th-19th century were to aid the Catholic Church.In the early 19th century‚ wealthier‚ educated Filipinos introduced more secular Filipino art‚ causing art in the Philippines to deviate from religious motifs. The use of watercolor paintings increased and the subject matter of paintings
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The graphic novel Maus is a novel because it deals with human experiences‚ it is narrated in great detail‚ and it is a connected sequence of events. According to Webster’s New Explorer Dictionary‚ a novel is “a long invented prose narrative dealing with human experience through a connected sequence of events.” A narrative is also defined as “something that is narrated”‚ by the same source. The plot of Maus highlights the story of Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor
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Reviewing current art‚ both locally and globally‚ it appears that much of it has or purports to have a political content. One reason for this focus is that technological advances encourage snatching digitized fragments from reality that document the persistent global nightmare of human inhumanity. This process thus duplicates in art the same nightmare we see every day on TV or the Internet. Very little of this work‚ whose apology is that it is “consciousness raising‚” amounts to more than superficial
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