Art critic

Richard Notkin’s “All Nations Have Their Moments of Foolishness” Artist Statement. In Richard Notkin’s “ Artist Statement” about the piece “All Nations Have Their Moments of Foolishness”, Notkins chooses to embrace the role of an artist as a social critic. His work, alike Picasso’s greatest piece Guernica, protest against war. The artist’s ceramic sculptures and sculptural teapots, explore the complex environmental, political and economic impacts of the contemporary human civilization. Notkin…

it is positive or negative, whether it affects the world or an individual -- who could even be the artist himself -- in the end, something has changed in the universe. This is why art that changes nothing could be considered useless. If a painting on a wall is never noticed, it is invisible. The change induced by art could be internal or external. Often, it is a strong internal change that leads to the external, which is why the former could be the most powerful. Internal change is produced…

What is Art History? According to many dictionaries, Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style. This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects. Art history is a big book that is hard to talk about in single pages. Here is a research paper comparing between the White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk and…

In Phillip Prager's article titled, “Making an Art of Creativity: The Cognitive Science of Duchamp and Dada”1, Prager specifically wants to assure people that Duchamp's piece Fountain should in fact be considered art. He states that, “Dada's redefinition of art in terms of creativity is perhaps most poignant in Duchamp's readymades found objects that he allegedly transformed into works of art merely by signing and placing them within an art context”(4). He goes on to say that any of the…

Is art really global? The art world often prides itself with its “globalism”, but how global is it? Chin-Tao Wu who is an assistant research fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan raises these questions in her journal”Biennials without borders?” .Wu raises two important questions. Where were the artists born? And, where are they currently living? The relation between the two tell us where the flow is. Wu constructed her data on the Kassel documenta exhibitions that were held between 1968 and…

For my visit to the St. Louis Art Museum, I chose to view one of my favorite paintings that I have been admiring for years. Currently on view in Gallery 215, hangs the oil on canvas by Marc Chagall titled Temptation (The piece is also known as Adam and Eve). This painting is significant to the Surrealist movement, Jewish Artists, and to the popularity of Marc Chagall. Once you understand some of the details of the history of this work and its creator, that might not sound like such a grand…

The Layers of “Goblin Market” Does great art make you feel or make you think? John Ruskin and Walter Pater have different approaches when it comes to art appreciation. The argument by Ruskin is that great art is “received by a higher faculty of the mind” and Pater is convinced that art “is the aim of the true student of aesthetics”. Not only are both schools of thought are correct but must work together to create a great piece of art. Christina Rossetti’s poem “Goblin Market” accomplishes…

him. The episode, The Power of Art, illustrates examples of his sculptures and his work as an architect. Bernini was able to carve so much depth and so much emotion out of a single piece of marble. The world had never seen such movement and play out from a sculptures and Bernini had revolutionized a new way in the world of sculpting. The accounts of Bernini’s life are based from a biography written by Filippo Baldinucci, who was also a painter and an art critic . Baldinucci tells stories…

I. Essential Question For my quality project, I examined the essential question of “why some movies are timeless?”. I’ve always loved watching older movies, so I decided that I would like to base my project on analyzing them. In my experience movies bring people together, a group of people experiencing the same thing at the same time. Because of this, I knew that I would like to incorporate watching my selection of movies with other people into my project. I never really understood why people…

With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump. For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But…