Art critic

While art in general or attending art museums doesn’t really interest me, especially having to attend on my much needed day of rest from work and school. For my creative personal response paper, I chose to attend the Dallas Museum of Art this past Sunday. I came across numerous works of art. From paintings to sculptures, and drawings. Most of everything I came across in my opinion, were meaningless. Mostly because I could not decipher what the artist is portraying or the message behind it, while…

and used her own body as a main focus of her art. Her first major performance piece was Hannah Wilke Super-t-Art in 1974, which also became one of her most iconic photographic works. Her use of her body in her art also took off in 1974 with her nude photographic collection S.O.S — Starification Object Series. This work introduced her signature use of chewing gum vulva mini-sculptures stuck to her body and reflects her frequent use of the self-portrait. Wilke coined the term “performalist…

Video games help children excel in today 's world. Children are introduced to technology at a young age; whether that technology is a full sized computer or Leapfrog, a child has interacted with it. Leapfrog is a great introduction for adolescents, it teaches kids the bare necessities that are needed when they start school (basic math and English). Technology is always changing, there is always something new out to help children progress further. Playing video games is a great way to improve an…

Art during the 1800s represented reality and detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s and 1870s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in…

The “Art" of Censorship Award winning film Escape from the "Liberty" Cinema directed by Polish director, Wojciech Marczewski in 1990. It opens the audience eyes to social concepts through the work of comical satire of the communist party. Directed just after the end of communism in Poland, the film itself encompasses humor and allusions that help illustrate the artistic restrains that took place during that time. Many might be familiar with the work of Woody Allen and see elements from his…

Is Banksy’s film “Exit Through the Gift Shop” considered a documentary or hoax? Many viewers have been contemplating this unfathomable conundrum ever since its release. I believe the film to be precise in its credence. According to movie critic Roger Ebert, “The widespread speculation that “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a hoax only adds to its fascination” (rogerebert.com). Ebert explains his point of view by stating how the film could be ideated as inconceivably true. IT IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT…

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 course. This could be attested to…

older, she trained at the University of Fine Arts Budapest from 1989 until 1992. After studied there, Rita then moved to New York City to study at The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. As an artist, she has had 24 sole exhibitions and has been in ___ exhibitions. Her artwork always has a deeper meaning behind the painting itself. She creates these paintings in a visually appealing way. Rita currently lives and works on her art in New York City where she finds…

in particular that has a hard time being customary is unfamiliar art forms, especially hip-hop and graffiti. Both these art form gained importance in the 1970s and 1980s and even though they were accepted by certain communities of people, they were still a controversial issue. The main reason being, some of the general public did not accept them as valuable art forms. Supporters argue hip-hop and graffiti is powerful, while critics argue they are unimportant. Both Michael Eric Dyson’s “What’s…

In order to answer this question, a background setting of the period of time in which Baudelaire lived must be acknowledged. Baudelaire critiqued art in the mid 19th century where two opposed ideological worlds and value systems of art and society were formed: The Bohemia and the Bourgeois. These two groups in society were present in a period known as modernity. Calinescu describes these two value systems in his book called ‘The five faces of modernity’. The Bourgeois view of modernity was…