Over Thanksgiving break I went with my family to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art which is located at Johnson County Community College. The Nerman Museum has a variety of pieces created from different mediums including: clay, painting, photography, sculpture and drawing to name a few. I spent most of my time looking at an exhibit the museum has through March of 2017, called “Domestic Seen.” While many of the pieces included in this exhibit are very simple, they are meant convey perceptions…
Introduction - 500 w The main idea of this paper is to demonstrate that with the arrival of screen-based technologies, time has been an impactful theme to explore in contemporary art practices. Today, artist not only care about how time can be represented in a creative work, but also, on how it can embodied in the artwork. Also, the purpose is to investigate the impact time has on the audience and how the value of the piece becomes affected. Middle - 1500 w With the arrival of…
people walk into the San Jose Museum of Art, they immediately receive a warm welcomed by a lovely receptionist. After showing them a form of identification, such as a SJSU student ID card, and paying a 6 dollar entry fee, they provide a copy of the museum's layout in case people get lost in their spacious building. If people ask nicely, the receptionist is willing to enlighten them about the museum's exhibits. Among the various exhibits in the San Jose Museum of Art, the exhibit Covert…
Select ONE work of art that has not appeared in the course lectures or tutorials, and discuss it from THREE different methodological perspectives. Different methodological perspectives enable further examination of David with the head of Goliath (1573-1610), painting made by Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). David with the head of Goliath can be evaluated using biographically-based art history on the life and work of Caravaggio, providing a detailed exposition of…
Contemporary artist, Tania Bruguera exemplifies what it means to use her social role to its full extent to bring awareness to issues in society. Bruguera is a “politically motivated performance artists” that analyzes society and its effects on political and economic power (Art21, 2017). In her well-known staged and participatory event called, Tatlin’s Whisper #5, Bruguera demonstrates authority and its repression throughout the performance (Figure 4). The performance included two policemen on…
filming street art. Thierry began filming the street artists because he found the art fascinating. Eventually, Thierry decided to take up the art himself. Thierry began using his skills like most street artists do; on the side of public buildings. Theirry (with the help of some friends) decided to showcase an art show. He had items such as a giant spraycanned Campbells chicken noodle soup, as well as many other contemporary art pieces. Over 3,000 people showed up to Thierry’s few week long art…
Is Art the Ultimate Luxury? The British art market is one of the most powerful and influential in the world. It has gone global thanks to its collectors and dealers who have encouraged a steady supply of art into the capital. Nevertheless artists and collectors stand in a nervous balance between commercialism and creation. The rich have had a monopoly on art since the dark ages and without these rich patrons names like Turner and Holbein would be unknown. However some believe these patrons…
simply with shapes, abstract shapes and/or gestural brushstrokes , to me of-course. However there’s some of his painting that may had a contemporary event with death or life, abuse , persecution. Other than that, I do not see the creativity in the art he created. I see most abstract art seems to had a greater need of algorithms than emotions. Some Abstract Art have a understanding purpose that relies om the…
The exhibition Over the Fence, currently on display at the UQ Art Museum features a selection of photographic works from eighteen contemporary Indigenous artists. The selected artworks have been drawn from the private collection of art enthusiast, collector and philanthropist Patrick Corrigan. The exhibition, curated by Gordon Craig and titled after an artwork by Destiny Deacon, features artists including Richard Bell, Bindi Cole, Fiona Foley, Nici Cumpston, Christian Thompson, Vernon Ah Kee,…
the relationship between Architecture as an art to be interpreted in the written word. What is this 'mythology '? If it is to be understood in the contemporary sense, then this mythology can be read as a collection of symbols and stories through which contemporary culture gives meaning to itself. This creates the idea of Architectural Spaces as witnesses to this…