Visual Basic Essay

This paper will analyze and compare two works of art from Hampton University’s Museum. The first is John Biggers’ Baptism, and the second Lloyd Toone’s Natty Dred. This paper will specially analyze themes of culture and labor as they pertain to both works of art. John Biggers’ Baptsim is a colorful painting depicting quite surrealistically several aspects of African and African American life. It was created in 1989 and it’s medium is oil and acrylic on canvas. Firstly, while the painting is…

To be honest, my 2 art teachers think I have a lot of talent, and while they may or may not be right, I believe I am lacking in basic skill sets that every artist should have. The precollege summer program will be so extremely beneficial to me that it is almost hard to put into words. I am an extremely dedicated and hard worker, and my art means everything to me, but I lack time…

people, eye sight tends to get worse as they age and corrective lenses are needed. Contact lenses provide a comfortable way to allow someone to see things with a 20/20 vision. To understand how the contact lens works, we need to first understand the basic functions of the eye. Starting from the front of the eye going to the back, we have our cornea, pupil, iris, lens and retina. Light first passes through the cornea, and like a camera it refracts that light for it to be focused. The pupil…

The significant takeaway I garnered from the lecture on content, subject matter, and artistic intentions was the fact art relies entirely on the visual sense and oftentimes lacks any inherent, overt explanation. While this concept isn’t difficult to grasp or a necessarily mind-boggling revelation, the room allowed for the viewer’s interpretation is endless. I believe the content and interpretation one can gather from Egon Schiele’s painting “Edith Schiele Seated” expresses this sentiment…

The Singing Butler as Seen by a Novice Art is said to be in the eye of the beholder. That sentence forces the notion that anything can be considered art depending on the viewer’s belief as to what is artistic. However, the people who sit at the epicenter of the art world: would have the masses believe that only they can determine if something is truly art. With those conflicting notions it is left to every patron of the art world to determine the artistic worth of every individual piece as each…

Born in 1967, Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist whose works have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had…

situations. The student should be able to shift towards the professors teaching styles in addition to exceling in their learning environment. Now, I work the best with the aural, kinesthetic, and read/write learning styles, with the weakest like being the visual learning style. By taking the content learned to the next level by shifting it across learning styles, I would gain a greater understanding towards it. An aural learning style is the preference of learning through sounds and music. I…

The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded in 1913, and after many years of planning and construction the museum officially opened in 1916. Industrialists Hinman B. Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley bequeathed money for the construction and to sustain the art museum. The endowment left over one hundred years ago still continues to support the museum today. By examining the mission statement of the museum, we can better determine if the museum delivers on the mission’s promises . Mission…

Introduction Norman Rockwell was an American painter and an illustrator who is famously known for his contribution to the reflection of the past American culture. The painter was born on 1894, in New York City and died in the year 1978 ('Norman Rockwell: A Life'). Most of his popular artistic works were published in the Saturday Evening Post magazine for a period of more than fifty years. Norman’s early life indicated a desire in artwork, as he left high school at the age of fourteen to join the…

Have you ever wondered when there comes a point in time where one might be able to see tiny germs without the use of a microscope? Well the time has come, scientists have created a type of bionic lens that allow humans to zero in on the tiniest of objects without the assistance of a third item such as the microscope. For hundreds of years, scientists have been using the microscopes to make major discoveries such as proving the existence of minuscule living organisms that cannot be seen to the…