Anti-clericalism

The central message of Lawrence Lessig's video "Do copyright Laws Stiffle Creativity" describes how copyright infringement is impeding the centuries old practice of people coming together, and dancing and singing to the popular music of the day. Illustrating his point, Lawrence shows scenes from YouTube videos, created by average people, showing themselves or people they know, emulating the dance moves of recording artists while that recording artist's copyright song is playing. In some…

In Professor Bethke’s presentation she brought up how surrealism is all about what lies underneath, unseen, but influences us. This unconscious self, with all of its desires, is what unsettles us because it is the “real” us, or what we really want. Surrealism, which came about in 1924, is an interesting response to the oppressive, restrictive conscious self. Fascism from what I have seen, appeals to very basic ideals. It appeals to identity, to violence, to emotion, and to what looks good. These…

The Protocols of Zion The Protocols of Zion is a document that is referred to by anti-Semitists who believe in the making of a Jewish plan to dominate worldwide. This is claimed to be the minutes gathered during the discussion by someone attending the secret meetings they would hold. It’s said that the meetings Jewish elders held were taken place at a cemetery in Prague, in this meeting they constructed a plan to obtain world domination. Jews were depicted as a stable race who mainly intended to…

Can a person who never went to school be smart? Or are books the key to education? The misconceptions of society sees being smart is a person who went to school to learn a subject, or got a degree in a specific field. Others see book smarts as knowing your way through life. Gerald Graff argues in his essay, “Hidden Intellectualism,” that being street smart is better than being book smart. I agree and disagree with this because, being smart depends on where you grew up or your culture. I disagree…

Copyright has many rules when it comes to the music industry. If producers aren’t careful then they may just end up with copyright penalties ranging from $200 to $150,000 for each stolen piece, court costs, the song can be taken down and the person that illegally used someone’s original work can go to jail. Music sampling can easily violate copyright terms if producers don’t get the correct permission. Music Sampling is when a music producer takes a few notes or maybe even a whole course from an…

Iteration on Stanley Street 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010 A relatively small gallery in the middle of Stanley Street brings together three artist displaying their artworks that vary in scale, medium, and character. The gallery standings in the heart of Sydney’s Darlinghurst art precinct, the exciting energetic gallery displays works of mostly Australian Artists. Showcases the works of established and emerging artists. The space is a multi-disciplinary…

During the movement there was many pieces created that could be considered the embodiment of the entire movement. But, the ready-mades and pieces created by Marcel Duchamp brought Dada into the spotlight and eventual acceptance into the contemporary art community. One famous piece created by Marcel Duchamp that shocked the world was the ready-made urinal titled, “The Fountain.” The piece was extremely sarcastic in nature and mocked previous sculptors (“Dada Movement, Artist...” 1). The…

Marcel Duchamp a pioneer of Dada, a movement that questioned expectations about what art should look like or made. Duchamp found success in Paris as a painter but he was interested other ideas. Looking for a difference to represent objects, Duchamp began presenting objects as art. Duchamp selected mass produce that were commercially available, mostly utilitarian objects and he label them as art. Duchamp claim to have chosen everyday objects based of visual indifference by doing so, Duchamp build…

Marcel Duchamp is a French surrealist artist, and widely known as a sculptor and a painter who has been involved in the Dada movement. He strongly sought to decipher the world in new ways by appropriating the normalities of life as to form various perspective on this one object, which challenges the fixed ideals of the artworld as well as questioning the definition of art. His artmaking process involve readymades where ordinary manufactured objects that the artist select and modify, as an…

Surrealism “The Surrealist artists like bravery and strength, but both without pathos; love, preferably in the most earthly meaning of the word; intelligence without slickness, strict rebelliousness, despising all social prosperity and security for themselves. They believe that no new life can come about without violence” (Jacob Bendien). Surrealism, one the most distinctive movements was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1971. Brenton defined Surrealism as “Psychic automatism, in its pure…