Gloria Smithson DeVry University What elements are necessary for a valid contract to exist? Define what constitutes a "valid offer." Evaluate each proposal and discuss whether each of the offers constitutes a valid offer. Why or why not? A valid contract meets all the necessary fundamentals to establish a contract. A valid contract can be enforced by law. Below are the essential components: Agreement. All parties must agree on all major issues. This requires an offer by the offeror and an
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Robert Smithson Artist: Robert Smithson‚ born 2 January 1938‚ was an American artist. Unfortunately he passed away on the 20th July 1973‚ at the age of 35‚ in a plane crash. While Smithson was still at High School (in Clifton‚ New Jersey during the 1950s)‚ he attended art classes on the side. These art classes were at the Art Students League of New York in 1955 and 1956. Attending these classes allowed him to satisfy his creative passion for art. Another popular artist who attended the Art Students
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It is build up from the lake’s depths by relocating the local materials‚ such as black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site‚ and organizing them into shape. The location of the ‘Spiral Jetty’ attracted Smithson for its isolation from society and the reddish quality of the water in that section of the lake‚ which reminded him of blood. He designed Spiral Jetty so that the earthwork could be submerged according the lake’s water level. The relationship between
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and scale‚ and in some cases‚ the process.” (Abstract Art History‚ 2012‚ p. 2) New concepts and ideas in abstract art have been introduced and have developed over a period of time until they evolve into something else with the same baseline. Robert Smithson was one of the first artists to execute earthworks or land art and his art was not limited to any one particular style or form. To an extent “Spiral Jetty” fits into the notion of Representational Abstraction. As the title suggests‚ it depicts a
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of nineteen museums and over five research centers dedicated to exposing America’s prized history. James Smithson was an English scientist who was born in 1765. He was the illegitimate son of an English duke and a common English woman. His father refused him his last name and so he was born James-Louis Macie. It was not until he graduated from Pembroke that he changed his surname to Smithson. Early in his career‚ he established a title as a prominent amateur chemist and physician (“Smithsonian Institution”)
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Claude Monet started off as a realist and Robert Smithson started as a conceptual artist. Monet wanted to create an impression of what he saw and defied the norms of realistic‚ photographic paintings. The thickness and low consistency of his oil paints allowed him to dramatically express his impression of his subject matter. His paintings mainly consist of landscapes‚ water lilies in particular. Smithson also took the initiative to start something completely new. Smithson’s
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room. He says that on one side is the Earth Art of Robert Smithson and on the other is several examples of Minimalism art. You are still confused of why the two pieces are in the same room so you ask him to explain the relationship. He says that on the surface they might appear to have no similarities but they in fact have many. He directs you to an essay written by a Western Oregon University undergrad named Marcus Pearson. . .
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The quaint and obsolete buildings are the remains of some prototype air-raid warning structures built in 1920; by accompanying the images with ambient sound recorded in 1999‚ she doubles the act of preservation of those buildings‚ already saved from destruction in 1988. She was shortlisted for the 1998 Turner Prize. Tacita Dean’s newest series of blackboard drawings‚ ‘Fatigues’ (2012)‚ presents a discourse on the fragility of the human gesture. This vulnerability stands in the face of many things:
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Showalter‚ Elaine. “Quilt as Metaphor in ‘Everyday Use.’” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction‚ Poetry‚ Drama‚ and Writing. Eds. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 11th ed. New York: Pearson Longman. 2010. 469-470. Print. Alice Walker believes that quilting and piecing represents both the artistic heritage of Afro-American women and the model of a black feminist‚ writing about connection and understanding. “In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington‚ D.C.‚” Walker describes a quilt that illustrates
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Robert Smithson remains one of the most influential and original artists of modern times who has had a major impact on artists of his generation‚ and continues to do so today. Smithson’s provocative works‚ made in the mid-sixties to early seventies‚ redefined the language of sculpture. He was one of the founders of the art form known as earthworks or land art‚ and is most well known for the Spiral Jetty‚ 1970‚ located in the Great Salt Lake‚ Utah. This monumental earthwork was inspired in part
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