Fundamentals of Visual Art Essay

The one club that most students enjoy is art club. All of the 8th grade students at my school are in it. The reasons students enjoy art is because they get to paint, they learn to draw cool things and also there is no SOL test. Only 8th grade students are allowed to take art in my school so that makes it more cool. The first reason students enjoy art club is because, they get to work with paint. For example they get to work with so many different colors and how to mix them to make different…

museum. From time immemorial, humans have created visual images and these images carry meaning based on their context of creation. Art is appreciated from its shape and content base on the creator of the image, background and motive. The images at the museum have a complete new form of communicating on socio-political issues that have taken before and relate them to our current world. Drawing and paintings make another form of imagery. We use art as a form of communication between humans, as a…

Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She first became interested in art while attending Northwood High School where she wrote and played music. She then studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. After living on an Israeli kibbutz for a short period of time, Leibovitz returned to the United States and started working for Rolling Stone magazine. When she started working for Rolling Stone magazine, she worked as a staff photographer. At the age of 23,…

exhibitions. External Reflections- Internal Wars and True to Form: Works from Chicago Sculpture International will be displayed six days a week at the Brauer Museum of Art until December 11th. The reception was filled with elderly art lovers, art majors, and freshman looking to fill one of their seven required fifth hour credits. Being both an art major and a freshman seeking to fill her fifth hour requirements, I found the reception simultaneously mundane and intriguing at the same time.…

APA Format Constructivism in the Art Classroom In the article "Constructivism in the Art Classroom: Praxis and Policy" the author Christine Marme Thompson talks about constructivism most frequently practices in art training than it is explicitly invoked as an approach to curriculum or pedagogy. Arts education lends more towards constructivism, and constructivist learning it is described much like arts learning. Constructivism more frequently practices in art training than it is explicitly…

Describe the role the arts, crafts and material play in the Indian Summer, in Van der Nüll's essay and in the excerpt from The Stones of the Abby. The Stones of the Abbey: With its physicality expressed through clay, the site of the St. Clotilda monastery, reflects the inner anxiety and instability of the humans populating the abbey. The monk, and narrator, journaling the Stones of the Abbey, describes how the materials – their imperfection and irregularity – serve a challenge to be overcome,…

visited the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday October 29, 2016 I had the opportunity to visually see many different types of artworks. This was my first visit to an art museum. The museum collects and houses hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artist. There were many different types of artwork including painting, prints, sculptures and photography. The art museum was smaller than what I thought it would be and reminded me of an art exhibit but without…

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died on February 22 of 1987 at the age of 58. In his 58 years on this Earth, Warhol was recognized for his incredible artistic abilities. Although he is known as the godfather of Pop art, Warhol also dabbled in a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing. Warhol’s father noticed Warhol’s’ artistic talent at an early age, and paid for his college education at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Soon after…

While looking at a work of art it is common to feel a sort of energy in which encourages you to learn more about it. The energy that you feel is a connection or a bond that is being formed between you and the piece of art that you are viewing. This connection is called the “common language” which we all feel when viewing something if the field of The Arts. Throughout history we have found that The Arts are used to express different forms of communication in different ways. Without noticing…

Walking into the Murakami exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art was intimidating. As I know little about art, naturally I was slightly apprehensive to be in a building solely dedicated to something I hardly understand. As a whole, the art from the exhibit seemed to change drastically as we moved throughout the display. Some pieces seemed humorless while others were risible; some towered over everything, while others could easily be missed. One piece, however, seemed to catch my attention.…