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Should Fine Arts Courses be a Necessary Part of Student’s Education? (The Debate of Required Fine Arts Courses for a Student’s Proper Education) In America, it is debated that art, dance, and music should be a part of a student’s education. The people who argue that fine arts should be a part of a student’s education think that the student would benefit from it because these studies would improve the student’s creativity and thinking, which could make them better at their other core classes.…

Basquiat began street selling sweatshirts, and post cards with his art work on them. He exhibited all around the world becoming the youngest artist in Germany to ever showcase their work. His name being known everywhere Basquiat had become the popular subject around the world.…

As St. Thomas is one of the top shopping and culture destinations in the Caribbean, few travelers are surprised to find that the island is home to a vibrant art gallery scene devoted to the work of both local and international artists. However, few travelers are aware that one of the most influential painters of the last two centuries worked extensively in St. Thomas. Camille Pissarro, one of the driving forces of the Impressionism, was born in St. Thomas and spent much of his youth documenting…

amazing and incredible American Indian art work of Dennis R. Fox Jr. and the Buffalo Hide Painting. The artist Dennis R. Fox Jr is a member of three-affiliated tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation of North Dakota. Dennis R Fox Jr. has American Indian paintings and artwork prominently displayed at Lewis & Clark University and Montello – Peabody native Indian hall of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Dennis R. Fox Jr. great art work incorporates the proud…

The nineteenth century was a time of change in the artistic world. Artist started testing limits to see how they could introduce a whole new world of art. Some people considered the art to be a kind of culture shock and a scandalous way to express the artist talents. Scandalous is something that is considered improper, shocking, disgraceful, etc. (dictionary.com). There were three artist that really started this “scandalous” time period and they were Coubet, Daumier, and Manet. These three…

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Museum Visit Minneapolis Institute of Arts is a fine art museum that has at least 3 000 different works of art from different parts of the world. The museum started in 1883, initially; it was, identified as Minneapolis Institute of Arts before changing to its current name. MIA is, situated on an eight acres piece of land at Whitter in Minnesota on a campus. The museum is government funded institute and does not charge an entrance fee for patrons. Researchers and…

consisted of Diorite. Their physical dimensions are quite similar, and they also belong to the same timeline of 8000 – 2000 BC, but the chronology of Memi and Sabu is Egyptian while the chronology of Gudea is Mesopotamian (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d.). The medium that the statues were made of can be indicative of the abundance of the natural resource available to those regions during those time periods. Due to similar subsistence and agricultural lifestyles of both the ancient…

Feelings are part of a person and they are one of the most important components a person has. Arts have taken advantage of feeling and interpreted them into their art work to catch the viewers attention. Arts have made art pieces that create sadness, happiness, excitement, tension and many more. Cory Arcangel, a thirty-seven-year-old that brought nerd’s love of gaming into galleries. He is overthrowing traditional art work with pop-futuristic approach. He replaces oil paint with Photoshop,…

the pleasure to enjoy the wonderful Tampa Museum of Art was the enlightening of the week. I had the opportunity to join a tour, and get the information behind each artwork. By knowing that information it gave me understanding of most of the artwork. Each portrait I observed had many views of the art. Each artist and photographer gave a different concept, and meaning behind the picture. Through the tour I adored collectively all the visual art. There were many that caught my eye. From the…

Prompt #2 From Margins to Center The Structure of “Gaze” and Women in Art Throughout the recorded history, we have lived in patriarchal social systems. Male artists dominate the art world and art is made for male audiences. Not only are women represented in singular and passive ways, but also some works were transgressing against females. Men maintain a studio system, which has excluded women from training as artists, a gallery system that has kept them from exhibiting and selling their…