Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ I traveled through the different galleries and their various cultures; discovering all sorts of arts from Contemporary art‚ to American art‚ Japanese art‚ and even the Egyptian art where I could appreciate the complexity of mummies. Throughout all these diverse cultures of art‚ I was questioning myself and started to wonder how I could understand art beyond others’ opinion about them. Moreover‚ I realized that it was a question John Berger‚ critic of art and author of
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THE WHITE BIRD John Berger From time to time I have been invited by institutions--mostly American--to speak about aesthetics. On one occasion I considered accepting and I thought of taking with me a bird made of white wood. But I didn’t go. The problem is that you can’t talk about aesthetics without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil. During the long winters the peasants in certain parts of the Haute Savoie used to make wooden birds to hang in their kitchens and perhaps
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Women are represented in Japanese Pop Art as a reflection of how they are represented in other forms of media- sexual objects‚ hyper-feminine‚ and unthreatening. One contemporary pop artist‚ Takashi Murakami‚ represents women as sexual objects‚ often with a Western look. However‚ Yoshitomo Nara represents women differently in his works. They are represented as sometimes violent and full of defiant attitude; yet‚ often with a vacant stare that suggest they have no substance. In this paper I will
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Allen Jones and the Nude Pop Art is an art movement that started in the mid-1950s and presented a challenge to the traditional expectations of art. Artists who were involved focused on various themes such as mass production and sexuality in the hope of making references to contemporary society. In this essay I am going to discuss how sexuality and women are presented in Pop Art by analysing Allen Jones’ works in relation to John Berger’s argument on how women are depicted in western paintings.
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In John Berger’s essay titled “Ways of Seeing‚” he shines a light on the way we collectively and individually see the world. Mr. Berger has conjured the fact that everyone has experienced their own view of the world‚ throughout time. This has‚ in turn‚ revealed our history‚ through visual communication. Mr. Berger is sharing his view on how the reproductions of art‚ and through reproducing historical and contemporary art‚ that it is mystifying our direct correlation to the past. John Berger states
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their ways of looking at things‚ in particular women‚ have been depicted in artwork for centuries. In various forms of art throughout history‚ women are shown as sex symbols‚ weak‚ as servants to men and as housewives‚ men are depicted as being leaders‚ masculine‚ breadwinners‚ and decision-makers. Simple because society as a whole for the most part believed that way‚ doesn’t mean it was unheard of for women to seek their rights‚ however‚ in most cases‚ women continued to be seen in those ways in various
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Topic One: Women in Art The role of women in the Art is complex because artists were affected both by the art and stories of the past and the women that they saw around them every day. The influence of the various roles of woman produced some of the greatest art. Women had a different role in ancient Greek society than they do today. It also seems likely that the role of women changed radically from ancient‚ pre-classical times to the more familiar classical period. Classical Greeks were definitely
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ASSIGNMENT 1 Looking at Pictures [Berger] Original paintings are silent and still in a sense that information never is. Even a reproduction hung on the wall is not comparable in this respect for in the original the silence and stillness permeate the actual material‚ the paint‚ in which one follows the traces of the painter’s immediate gestures. This has the effect of closing the distance in time between the painting of the picture and one’s own act of looking at it. ... What we make of that painted
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Women in the Art World Women have always been seen as an object to define the meaning of beauty. For centuries now women have been seen as the art piece and not the artist. There aren’t many women contributions to art from back then because women were seen as human beings just meant to cook‚ clean and be nice to gaze upon. Women weren’t recognized for their intelligence and if a woman was outspoken about it‚ she was either shot down or considered to be that of a manly nature. As Aristotle said
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creation of Adam and Eve states that God made the first human in His image. Understading of humanity made in His image has been interpreating in many different ways by the historcial figures throughout church history. What does it mean? And how John Calvin interpreated the image of God?. John Clavin states importance of understanding of the image and likeness of God through his theology. Calvin believes that God created humans in His image in an act of divine love. This means that humans are part of His
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