Academic art

Every year, more than 460,000 student-athletes compete in 23 sports under the National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA (NCAA.org). Each and every one of these young, talented, and dedicated high school seniors are required to select an academic major that is, more often than not, not relevant or consistent with their true intentions of attending the college they choose. Improving athletic skills is why significant numbers of NCAA Division I student-athletes are at their respective…

few fundamental parts of learning that seems to be missing. Many people believe that these missing pieces are art, dance, drama, and music. When applied right many experts believe that these artistic subjects will enhance what is learned in the core subjects. For this reason it seems that they should be applied, but in many schools they still are not being incorporated in the curriculum. Art, dance, drama, and music are implemented as important parts of a student’s education because they…

A new artistic movement that materialized in the late 19th century was given the name impressionism. One of the founders of the French impressionist movement was Claude Monet. Impressionists depict in their art what they see and feel at that very moment. It is a painting style that concentrates on the general impression made by a scene or an object. The main reason Monet’s The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1881 attracted my attention is because I have a great fondness for flowers and gardens. The…

Volunteering for the Creative Time Summit allowed me to participate in the production of a large scale, multi-day conference that connects the arts with social justice. Attendee’s included Innovative artists, activists, writers, and curators. As the Junior Producer and Gallery Coordinator at the creative communication agency Exposure, I was responsible for all the in-house exhibition logistics…

12 pm MWF Writing assignment 11/17/12017 The difference between male and female nude art: Birth of Venus & David Paintings and sculptures with no clothes are strangely common in the art in the Western part of the world. Nude is may seem completely natural when one considers how common the state of being nude is in every human life, from the day you are born to the bath, and even to the bedroom. In art, however, nude figures obviously relate very little to these modest conditions and instead…

Sheriff explains that when the paintings are paired together it highlights the gendered precedents enforced by society. She argues that in The Drawing Lesson, the young man’s work converges on several academic strategies of art and science in order to situate him as a productive and active member of society. The little girl’s education involving reading and memorization of biblical text highlights the repetitive indoctrination of morals and virtues to assimilate the idea of female perfection.…

Art can be interpreted and demonstrated in a different variety of ways. Whether it is through dance, theater, music, or visual art individuals who incorporate art in their lives express their own feelings, ideas, and creativity. Being able to explore the four different stages of art was a great and remembering experience because one was able to see and explore the creative expression of the individuals who were part of the performance. In general, the Day of the dead visual art altars engaged…

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,…

financially. The first to go are the fine art programs, this is because they are seen as less important and a waste of money. Many schools are more invested in their sports programs because they can bring in more revenue for school districts. Art programs do not have weekly games that profit the school. For that fact schools are starting to pull the art programs, giving them more revenue to use on other programs such as sports. The only revenue that the fine art programs receive is from either…

John Berger in his nonfictional work, “Ways of Seeing” (1972), argues that the perception of historically significant art, moreover perception generally, is fundamentally altered by and bounded within the subject of perception’s accoutrements and that perception can be and moreover is controlled, modified and gerrymandered by the powers that be, to alter or suppress perception in their interests. The Matrix (1999) tells the story of Thomas Anderson, a miscreant cyber-criminal under alias ‘Neo’…