Art and Culture Essay

Intentions and Interpretations Cézanne’s painting of the bathers influenced the representation of the nude people during the Renaissance.The abstract nude females represent the Large Bathers, giving the painting tension and density. The scene shows figures of different shapes and sizes in a variety of forms. The triangle shape brings the viewers attention to focus on only the lake, trees and the small figures in the background. The use of blue and green tones in the background bring an overall…

Art is influenced by everything around it, it comes as a direct result of the cultural sphere it occurs within. The Italian group of painters known as the Macchiaioli are no different from this rule, during the nineteenth-century they took outside influences to create a new esthetic that reflected their personal ideals. Although how independently this new esthetic came about, and who influenced them directly can varied. Depending on the point of view of the author writing on the Macchiaioli,…

The Great Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, the Colosseum, Machu Picchu - human beings are responsible for some of the most extraordinary feats of engineering that we still see standing today. Architecture is an art form of a unique category due to the complexity, grandeur, and artistic elements incorporated into the structures. Completely describing the history of architecture would take many books, a couple of doctorate degrees, and a passion for all things related to architecture to encompass the…

seem like much, just a bunch of blobs of paint on a piece of paper; but to this child, this is his masterpiece. Fast forward a few years, and this child is now entering their drawing into an art contest at school, and being so proud of it too. To the teachers it may only…

performance arts has to the art of literature is an obvious one and just like with all other creative fields, they feed off of one another. What is not so often thought of, however, is the relationship of contemporary feminist art and more historical literature. Looking at texts like Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and even Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly’s Vindication for the Rights of Man, one is able to draw direct parallels between those subtly feminist works and the pieces of early feminist…

Music: The Benefits and Effects it has on our Emotions According to the dictionary, music is defined as “an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.” An art form of sound that no person can physically see, touch, or taste, though this art form affects the listener in the deepest ways. Human emotions are affected by all of our senses, though sound allows us to communicate and understand different parts of the world. From the moment we enter this world, our ears are…

painting is composed of oil on canvas, and was created in 1953. According to Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, “Hopper began Office in a Small City while he was staying in Truro in the summer of 1953, and he finished it in his New York studio in the fall” (2007). Most of his works are associated with the reflection on contemporary social reality. This piece is most likely an interpretation of post-war culture of the American lifestyle by performing a fundamental expression of loneliness and…

Write states there are three ways in which you can succeed as a digital artist, through “the art, the tools and technique” (Wright, 1). This can be applied to a varying range of visual narrative effects, one of them including matte painting. Matte painting, one of the longest standing forms of visual effects, is a traditionally 2D scene created to enhance or further extend a visual image or composite. The art form itself has been seen since the early 1800’s. Examples such as George Melies, “1898…

When I first saw The Artifact Piece by James Luna, I was confused where to start to look at the artwork. Performance art is the new way of performing art, in the way of using self-performance or physical representation to delivered the message or represent art. Through The Artifact Piece, James is lying down on the glass box which it has sand on it. He is shirtless but simply covered with a towel. I can see that through his denial of him, he is nicely dressed up and care about his daily living…

Columbus, Georgia. This young boy painted a portrait that caused uproar at his school. This very unique portrait was a painting of Christ; not the well-known picture of Christ but a black portrait of Christ. With his Talent, Strong belief in his culture and strong mindset, Crawford painted a masterpiece that was mind blowing to some and to one just “sacrilegious nonsense.” Aaron Crawford wasn’t…