Art and Culture Essay

into intuitive, intellectual, contemporary artists that are fully prepared to transfer into a four-year program. I am searching for such a teaching opportunity—where I can engage students in art making as both a tool for personal expression and a means for career development. With roots in the liberal arts, I approach teaching…

The Rococo and Neoclassical visual arts have come to define the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each resulted from popular culture, influence, and reform, yet had an impact on one another. The Rococo painter exhibited whimsical scenes, sometimes scandalous, bathed in softer color shades while the neoclassical painter sought to give emphasis to tradition and nationalism. To elucidate these variances, this author will use famed “The Swing” by Jena-Honore Fragonard to contrast against the…

Whenever anything is out in the open, removed from the private into the larger social culture it will inevitably be interpreted by people who view it. They may take this information and further encode the what they see appropriating it with its own new interpretation to be decoded. In Jeff Koons life sized porcelain sculpture titled Michael Jackson and Bubbles he uses appropriation techniques to create a dialogue between the encoded and decoded messages the piece could create as well as the…

Construction Also known as the Verul Leni, The Ellora caves located about 29 kilometres northwest from the city of Aurangabad. These caves were carved out of the vertical face of the Charanandri hills during the period of 6th and 10th centuries, the same times the Ajanta caves were abandoned. Reminiscent of the Ajanta caves, the Ellora caves are also world famous for their spectacular paintings and sculpture. Even after extensive research, the experts are still unable to tell how these…

Dance is a common theme in every culture. It doesn’t require a specific language in order to be understood and can be interpreted in many different ways. However, this subjective point of view can also make it being difficult to convey a specific theme. By combining aspects of music and visual art I can more easily define what emotions and theme I conveying during my performance. Physics must also be taken into account when choreographing. A beautiful movement that contributes to the theme and…

1900’s with modernistic art movements, “Futurism” redefined a well social-political agenda. This inauguration was named by the “charismatic Italian poet as well playwriter Filippo Tommaso Marinetti” (1876-1944). 1909 was the creation “Futurism” movement, but soon encompassed the visual arts and cinemas, music and architecture. “Futurists” were exponents of war to remove the stagnated past with aflame in the destruction of museums and similar repositories were accumulative culture “mausoleums”.…

learned from this class, was context. Context is a set of conditions or facts that surround a particular event or situation. It also includes when the work of art was made, where it was made, how it was made, and for what purpose was it made for. When looking at an art work the context of it is looked at very carefully to determine the arts excellence. You can use this word when you are examining a sculpture or a painting. So for example you are looking at the David sculpture which was made in…

the Fine Arts The educating of the arts programs has always been a crucial aspect of children 's development. The individuals, who have examined learning courses of action through all ages, have made clear how critical the fine arts are in the instruction process. The teaching of the fine arts alludes to instruction in the areas of music, dancing, theater, and expressive visual arts. Wholly, fine arts are what make us more human, and fulfill us as individuals. Expression of fine arts can 't…

The nineteenth century was a time of change in the artistic world. Artist started testing limits to see how they could introduce a whole new world of art. Some people considered the art to be a kind of culture shock and a scandalous way to express the artist talents. Scandalous is something that is considered improper, shocking, disgraceful, etc. (dictionary.com). There were three artist that really started this “scandalous” time period and they were Coubet, Daumier, and Manet. These three…

The ancient greeks became known for their perfection in art During the classical era they developed their own style that historians would later call the Severe Style The greeks from the Archaic Period made sculptures of men called Kouroi and women called Korai These statues had similar features and stood stiffly with their arms at their sides During the classical period, greek artist began to sculpt people in more relaxed postures and even in action scenes The most famous works from this era…