Art and Culture Essay

My class room is a highly diverse environment, with many students from different cultures, and age ranges. This is an intro to art classroom, meaning we are learning about the basics, and fostering creativity that students may not know they had. All students are required to take a class like this one and many of the students tend to be freshman and sophomores, but on occasion we have juniors and seniors. The seating arraignments are set up in groups. This is not by my choice because I am using…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

through the doors of an art gallery, expecting to see something totally new, diverse and original, only to be disappointed by being surrounded with whiteness in every sense. This scenario speaks to the exclusionary nature that many people of color in the art world feel when they enter theses spaces. The notion of art has always been seen from the perspective of a certain particular group of individuals, who throughout centuries have sought to affirm whiteness in art and art history as the only…

and artistic realms of the nations surrounding it, their worldview was predominantly pagan as their main religion was polytheistic Hellenism[1]. Their beliefs were often very loosely-based on biblical truths, but more often religious lies bred by cultures that drifted further and further from God after the Flood. This perversion of truth caused the view of an artist to be distorted in the eyes of the viewer, but more importantly, it drew the viewer away from the truth that God…

Art History 1 Singh, Satendra Satyam Writing Assignment 1, Topic 1 Looking through the history of depiction of human figure yields several similarities and differences in the development of depicting the human form throughout the art represented from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Aegean, and Greek cultures. Humans throughout the ages have been depicted time and time again; these representations share several similarities and differences. The people of the Paleolithic Ages survived through a…

subjects in motion as concrete. Brodovitch was challenged with defining a new way of art influenced by surrealism and the combination of art and everyday life as one. Trager was influenced by the choice of either confronting life or separating from it. While Brodovitch accepted his world in flux as inspiration and Trager rejected the change and chose to portray something that ignored the surrounding global culture both pictures share a strong common thread of stillness in…

space between works are art, so the viewers are able to focus on the particular work of art. By spacing art on large blank walls, the museum guides the viewers to look at the significance of the artwork. According to Gilman, works of art, once they are put in museums, exist for one purpose only: to be looked at as things of beauty (Duncan, p.432). It allows visitors to look at a single image and contemplate the methods of creation, meaning, and message behind the work of art. The isolation of…

1) Greeks were the people who thought human body is one of the best art. They were the first who made image of man. They were so into human body that they studies human body so well and curved into marble. They curved truly realistic human body that we can image. Making a man body was completely new no one ever had done this before in history. After few time they stopped making this sculptures because they thought this was not very interested. They wanted to come up with something very…

African Art During 5th Century BC, African people started using Art for visual social for forms and practices. African artwork has influenced a variety of artworks towards the outside of Africa. They used a variety of media articles. African created new inventions, style, and entertainment. Africans use mainly wood to create sculptures and masks. In African Artwork, it all began when Africans started painting in the caves. As they began to try a new style of painting, they started…

message of the controversial issue of same-sex marriage. In the video, a gay couple is having their marriage in the church virtually, as the gay marriage is illegal in church. Besides, the structure of the song, I think this song belongs to the popular culture, because of the song is typically targeting a large amount of audience through the music industry. Also, this single is one of the songs of his debut album, which peaking in top ten over twenty countries. So, it is a mass production of his…