African art

On the third floor of the Harvard Art Museum, there hangs a self-portrait of Kerry James Marshall, depicting the African American artist with a large, colorful paint palette in his right hand. Across the room rests an old, wooden arm-chair in a glass display case, used by the President of Harvard on special occasions such as convocations and commencements. These two seemingly dissimilar objects echo each other in intricate ways, and they bring about a unique part of Harvard’s history to the…

When asked how he would define the art of poetry, Edgar Allan Poe said this: “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” Two women who constructed beautiful lyrical poetry are Emily Bronte and Maya Angelou. There are quite a few different forms of poetry, one of which is called lyric poetry: “Lyric poems are shorter poems written in the first person that express deep thoughts and emotions” (Mays A7). Bronte wrote a poem called “The Caged Bird” which…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…

Why is censorship so controversial? Censorship has been utilized in books, movies, music, and television shows. It has been an old-age controversial that still has not come to an end and the debate perpetuates on. Should any type of art be censored which can lose the free flow of ideas that the author is trying to endeavoring to perceive to the audience or use censorship when the material is insulting or offending. The debate surrounds the question of whether to censor or not to censor media or…

with a description of it underneath. Instead, there were rooms with paints all over the walls, along with iron work that correlated with the pieces. Our tour guide elaborated on how he did not wish for there to be a description under the pieces of art stating their background. So in replace of that, he had pamphlets in every room withe the description of the paints within the room in it. However, guest are not able to remove the pamphlet from the room. Everything was hung for reason. He took…

To begin with, my view of art has changed, for I now know that it may not only be a painting or sculpture, but also a building design or a cultural artifact. Objects such as masks, pieces of clothing, and blueprints allow the audience to admire and realize that art has many forms and shapes which represent their heritage and importance in their time. For instance, the outstanding way that Jeff Koons demonstrates the importance of art and its surroundings with his artwork Puppy, located in Spain.…

DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” (Steve Jobs, 2011). That was the late Steve Jobs giving his perspective about how the arts should be viewed in our society. Over the years the fine arts have been neglected in schools worldwide. There is not enough funding put aside in schools for the fine arts. Society does not believe it is needed in our children 's curriculum,…

When I first started the semester, the only real exposure I had to any of the arts was the music I listened to, two art museums and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance from India. Many events and readings later, I find myself with more insight in the arts. I have much more appreciation for all of the various arts, specifically ballet, opera, and the orchestra. Prior to this semester, I always held a biased disinterest in these types of performances due to the fact that I didn 't feel the need to…

Brazil with skepticism towards the academic formalist school of painting. Together with her friends Anita Malfatti and soon-to-be husband Oswald de Andrade, she joined the modernist “Group of Five” in São Paulo, widely considered the center of modern art in 1920s Brazil. However, since she could not stand to stay in one location for a prolonged period, Tarsila and de Andrade escaped to Paris, where he convinced her to incorporate a mixture of local and global cultures into her work and, in 1925,…

Art is a way people express how they feel about, what is going on in the world and how they show their emotion. Art can come in so many different type of ways. Seeing the Value in Art means so much more than looking at a painting or a sculpture. When a person looks at a painting they have to have an open mind and an open imagination. Having these things will get you to the purpose of what the artist is trying to say. Art is one power tool that everyone has, but we use are art in a different way…