African art

Hello, and welcome to the St. Edward’s University Art Gallery. Today is an exhibition that reflects artwork that demonstrates the progressiveness of artist after moving past the more traditional and classical artwork. This audio guide will have you following along the paintings on the wall, and lastly the sculptures and models in the middle of the gallery. Watch your step and enjoy! Entering the gallery from the left door, looking to your right on the wall you will find Edvard Munch’s” Night in…

Musicians ' Village is an example of how community can be in the favor art and also how art can be in the favor community. The initial sense of community was established after the devastations of Hurricane Katrina and because of its effects on people; however, art was a catalyzer for creating this sense. As a form of art, architecture had a significant role in making Musicians village what it is today. Rebuilding the houses was a project that was done purely based on people’s willingness to help…

The talents of Maya Lin in the field of visual arts and the built environment know no boundaries. Early on in her career, she was already able to break down the stereotypes of how architectural public spaces should be. To date, Maya Lin continues to explore different aspects of visual representation through design, architecture, sculpture, crafts and design philosophy. Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio to Chinese migrant parents. Artistry, creative and deep thinking runs in…

extraordinary collaboration of the two (120). O’Keeffe is known for her symmetrically balanced work of art, Deer’s Skull with Pedernal (121). The deer skull is flawlessly symmetrical. The skull has a forceful presence because of the central placement with a relaxed background (121). Henry Tanner was taught by the very well-known and distinguished teacher, Thomas Eakins. Tanner is named one of the first important African American…

Tom McKinney is an African-American painter, he studied art at the John Hussan School of Art and the Philadelphia College of Art. McKinney uses his paintings to assert human emotion and uses human subjects to represent a story. In the painting, Tom McKinney uses expression, culture and composition to communicate his interpretation of love. Tom McKinney uses expression to portray his interpretation of love through the use of realistic details. In the painting the father is smiling and looks…

looked to the Japanese as inspiration for their own art. Artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso have utilized the Japanese style, known as Japonisme to give their art a fresh look, or just to experiment with new things. A very accomplished artist, James Tissot, used this Japanese style in his earlier works. Tissot began his art career in the mid 1850’s while studying in college. It was in the 1860’s when he began to experiment with the eastern art style that many of his successors would…

stopped due to outside pressure and he seemed to know where he stood in the art world as well. In the Sirmans paper, Basquiat is represented as a well rounded artist who went forward with his career without fear and he embraced his race and showed it shamelessly through his artwork. Sirmans discusses Basquiat’s early career and how he was a pioneer just by combining different elements such as music, performance and visual art together. Basquiat was also faced with many doubts from critics of…

running from a forest fire. As I thought deeper I saw was a man who was african american who escaped the plantation running through a nearby forest. All of a sudden it hit me like a bat hit a baseball, of how powerful this painting is. “Eden is the tract home suburban life, indicated by the repetitive birdhouses, white picket fence, and the painting’s title, which references the national real estate agency.”…

professor of fine arts at the time. Pablo Picasso was taught fine arts by his father for a year before he proceeded to an Art Academy for another year. He later moved to Paris in 1901 as a preferred destination to practice and learn new styles and art forms. During his stay in Paris he started to work on cubism and surrealism; he was the founder of these art styles. He perfected the art styles and began creating plenty of distinct pieces that were as a result of the influence of his art forms…

Evaluate the claim that what constitutes ‘art’ is highly dependant on social and cultural context. In a world where one can roll out of bed leaving a disarray of sheets and strewn tissues and call it art (Emin 1998), we could be forgiven for believing that the former famous greats of the art world such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci might well be turning in their graves at the preposterous levels at which art can be declared within our contemporary society. This begs the debate of what is it that we…