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    significant part of understanding her art as it is a source of her drive to change modern…

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    The photographs on display at Ulrich Art Museum are both shocking, and enlightening. Gordon Parks was able to successfully display multiple issues affecting the World – not just the difficulties African Americans face in the United States. However, the photographs of the African American community are just that much more difficult to view – since they are so close to home. The photograph Rosie Fonetenelle Cleans the Bathtub and the photograph United were a couple of my favorite images that I…

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    his work. Trying to show how not only were African-American rights moving forward, but so was his socially conscious art.…

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    girl and making carvings out of the soap. Even though Ormes’s high school did not offer art classes she drew cartoons for the yearbook and later became the art editor. Ormes did not receive formal training as an artist, except in the early 1940’s she took a few drawing classes when she moved to Chicago at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jackie drew a comic parody of her experience telling the art professor, she has been told she is a natural. After looking about the class, the…

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    it heavily affects their mental health and generally causes stress for the person. A well known and relatively simple way to express oneself is to make art. Whether it be through painting, writing, music, singing and really anything one could imagine. Art therapy is also a common type of therapy. Expressive art therapy is the use of creative arts as a form of therapy and is a…

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    Expressionism is like nonrepresentational art in that did not portray a clear defined picture. This type of art was made popular by Jackson Pollock; One example of his art is, “number 1” made in 1949. This type of art used heavy brush strokes or a drip technique used by Jackson Pollock. This movement was a rebellion against cubism, nonrepresentational, surrealism, and dada. It started in New York in the early 1900’s after world war 2 as a new way to look art. Bauhaus was a…

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    Colorless Society

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    different nations, it has been decided that the lighter the color of your skin, the more refined you are and the more powerful you should be. The “color-line,” as African-American Author W. E. B. DuBois called it, cause many of the great injustices and near-genocides of history, the most well-known examples to Americans being the enslavement of Africans in Europe and the Americas and the destruction of the Native American population by Spanish and English conquistadors and colonists upon the…

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    Jean-Michel Basquiat During the 1980’s, the art movement “Neo-Expressionism” was taking the United States by storm and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat’s big break was just beginning. If you’re not too familiar with him or isn’t really educated on him, you may know or heard Jean-Michel Basquiat from listening to your favorite artist’s songs, because of his unique hairdo that inspired The Weeknd, or for his phenomenal art that convey deep messages. Jean-Michel Basquiat, a high school dropout,…

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    Carnegie Art Museum Essay

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    Carnegie Art Museum My family and I went to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh on November 25, 2017. We saw different art exhibits consisting of modern art pieces and traditional art pieces. The first art exhibit was called 20 20 and it focused on African American lives from different perspectives. The second art exhibit was more permanent and had a variety of art. This second exhibit was much bigger and didn’t focus on one particular idea. I found both interesting, but some pieces I wouldn’t…

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    Throughout history, art has supplied a way of addressing cultural criticism. Art initiated people to start thinking differently about themselves as well as the society around them. It has proved to be a very powerful and influential tool in driving people to challenge the status quo. I especially notice this prominent in the movie, Philadelphia, as well as in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both of these address major cultural issues in the world. The movie, Philadelphia, brings to life,…

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