Academic art

Music is found in every culture, past and present; some music is used for ceremonies and others are used for enjoyment. Music is used to bring together families, friends, and strangers. Without music, understanding one another is difficult, especially understanding another culture. The history of music dates back to approximately 55,000 years around the continent of Africa. From prehistoric music to modern music, the idea of music is still used today to express feelings and used in ceremonies.…

I have always loved and appreciated art, but I never considered myself being an artist or even capable of being an artist. I am a writer, photographer, and videographer, and while I experience those mediums as expressive and personal, I have made excuses as to why my products are not art: “even creative writing is formulaic and academic, therefore it is not art; my photography relies more on technical skill and internal math, therefore it is not art; my videography captures a subject but is not…

1891 to seek more training. Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts were famous art schools that “taught according to the academic method.” Matisse was taught by all the well known famous artists from these schools. These kinds of schools worked a lot with live models and practicing works of “Old Masters”, for Matisse those would be the works of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne as he was already introduced to their forms of art in Paris. While in Paris in the mid 1890s Matisse began to…

How does performing arts affect your mental state? Imagine if you had something to look forward to after school or work, a place where you can meet people and bond with them? Performing arts can affect you in many different ways. According to Juilette Siverstine, there are 5 different ways performing arts can benefit your child. In the article she talks about how performing arts can help your child to earn higher academic achievement, confidence and self representation skills, a medium for self…

Music, Drama and Art in the Hallways (An Argument Concerning the Validity of Arts in Schools) School is supposed to be a place of learning and enrichment, but it doesn’t take long for the students to become uninterested with the same boring lessons that are pulled out of dusty textbooks. From calculus quizzes to English exams, the material learned isn’t always the most interesting, to say the least. There is a way to make learning a bit more bearable and school a pinch more pleasant. For…

there’s no carolers or Boston Pops. That’s what a world would be like without visual or performing arts and our future world is very vulnerable to this catastrophic possibility because schools continue to cut the arts programs from their schools and their curriculums. To avoid this cultural loss as well as to preserve a curriculum that produces well-rounded and fully educated students, visual and performing arts must continue to be supported and provided in schools. One of the major questions…

Nymphs and Satyr (1873). Oil on canvas Adolpe William Bouguereau born in November 1825, La Rochelle, France, and he died in August 1905. Adolphe Bouguereau considers one of famous French academic painters of the great classical period. Later he won the prix de Rome; He was able to studying the art in Italy. May be for that reason he was masterful command of the human form, delicate colors and enchanted light brought the souls and spirits of his subjects to life with captivating…

In order to answer this question, a background setting of the period of time in which Baudelaire lived must be acknowledged. Baudelaire critiqued art in the mid 19th century where two opposed ideological worlds and value systems of art and society were formed: The Bohemia and the Bourgeois. These two groups in society were present in a period known as modernity. Calinescu describes these two value systems in his book called ‘The five faces of modernity’. The Bourgeois view of modernity was…

Introduction:More and more digital and interactive art installations have been accommodated by various museums and venues recently. In the past, people usually appreciated static public installations and architecture, but now they have more opportunities to experience and even create public art works through computer based technology. As the development and application of technology, more artists engage in making interactive art works and also more interactive installations gradually…

for every person is it must challenge us. Currently there is a debate of whether schools should choose art electives over technology classes. The Argument for Arts over technology is that the students already learn all of it on their own so there is absolutely no need to teach it. The Argument for Technology is that it is much more relevant for functioning in todays world. The necessity for both Arts and Technology holds true, so instead of posing the dilemma forcing one off the list of options,…