People have different interpretations of everything. One painting can have completely opposite meanings to two different people. That’s the fascinating thing about the connection between art and the human mind. The painting “The Surrender” by Joseph Griffith portrays the difference between American culture and the culture or beliefs of our enemies. When I looked at this piece of artwork the first thing that caught my eye was the different flag each side was displaying. The American side‚ that is
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Art does not have a clear definition which means that anything someone creates can be considered art .The art styles in the wire drawing by Richard Tuttle and the idyllic painting by Thomas Kinkaid are both true forms of art. The wire drawing by Richard Tuttle is abstract and does not depict anything in particular. It is simply a few squiggly lines with shadows. I am unsure what message Tuttle was trying communicate in his art piece. This begs the question‚ does art need to have a message or a purpose
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What makes a hero? is a hero someone who runs into a burning structure to save someone or is a hero someone who simply commits an act of kindness? Is a hero someone who travels across the globe to defend our freedom?. A hero cannot be defined or narrowed down to one single person.On September‚11th‚2001 FDNY Ladder Company 3 responded to the world trade center no one knew they would never be seen again. Actor Tom hanks defines a hero by “someone who voluntarily walks into the unknown”. In my life
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chapter 3 Seeing the Value in Art Fig. 44 Sylvie Fleury‚ Serie ELA 75/K (Plumpity . . . Plump)‚ 2000. Gold-plated shopping cart‚ plexiglas handle with vinyl text‚ rotating pedestal (mirror‚ aluminum‚ motor). 32 3/4 37 3/4 215/8 in. Pedestal 121/4 393/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber‚ Zürich‚ Switzerland. A 40 t the end of Chapter 2‚ we briefly mentioned the explosive career of JeanMichel Basquiat after a number of his graffiti-like paintings were exhibited
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The Starchitect of Post-Modern Architecture Architecture was the first style to push beyond modernist values and shift to post-modern values. Modern architecture followed a uniform style that appears in the de Stijl movement; which preferred order‚ horizontal/vertical lines‚ simplicity‚ sameness‚ universal form‚ and purism; meanwhile‚ the Bauhaus movement used industrial materials and simple geometric forms. The international style or what can be termed as present-day architecture followed the modernist
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An “Association Loi 1901” is the term used in France for a non-profit-making organisation of two or more people. This is the legal structure of most youth orchestras and other cultural democratisation projects in France. The name comes for the convention having entered into French law on 1 July 1901. The association must be declared if a bank account is required‚ if it collects membership fees or organises fundraising‚ or if the members undertake any legal action or buy or sell on its behalf. 3
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Cultural studies are widely recognized for its diverse perspective it contributes to analyzing our world‚ but more specifically‚ it bestows insight onto the literature we consume. The term was coined by Raymond Williams‚ who used it to describe a theoretical blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist analysis (Prendergast 1995). Nevertheless‚ it is most commonly known for the great strides Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield made in 1985 (Barry 2009). It is through cultural studies‚ also known
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Yossi Lemel is an Israel-born poster designer who has achieved a lot of honors for his works. The fact that Lemel was born in 1957 at Jerusalem‚ Israel with both parents is survivor of Holocaust‚ gives him a great influence for political posters that he made. He had studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem‚ Israel‚ and later became a lecturer there. Besides‚ he is a partner and working as creative director in Lemel Cohen Advertising Agency Tel Aviv since 2001. (http://www.posterposter.org/master-featured/yossi-lemel/)
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It seems that ideas about "regionalism" have emerged at the beginning of swing architecture pendulum‚ where the anti-establishment institution took over. In 1940‚ as modernity (or international style) began to take up the dominant rhetoric in architecture‚ Mumford published a widely shared view of the region in the 1980s‚ when the anti-establishment institution (postmodernism) began to take over the new institution: Regional through Lefaivre & Tzonis as well as Frampton. The "transformation" of the
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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was possibly the most prominent and influential art critic of the twenty-first century. Greenberg’s intensely influential focus was on the notion of “formal purity” and how that affected the work itself in a painting just being a painting and “orientating itself to flatness” as modernist paintings had. Additionally‚ Clement Greenberg found interest in Abstract Expressionism and how Greenberg’s strictly outlined theories on art would inspire artists of the Minimalist
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