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the men had likely met her before. The painting depicts a nude white woman lying on a bed with a black cat at her feet. The background displays a black female servant bringing her flowers. This image struck the viewers as an insult to the academic art tradition when it was first displayed. The narrative suggests that the women's frontal…

from Letters To A Young Artist it shows how the author thinks and how they should use art to speak on how they think and their outside knowledge. The author continues explaining on writing and being an author, showing along the way how empathy and knowledge work into it. Empathy is needed in an artist because it helps them understand what they are trying to say in their painting and how it is important. Critics may say empathy is not needed because they don’t need to relate to what they’re…

identity. The arts are such a rooted part of the human identity that every society, culture, civilization, and group emulates some form of it, from pottery in Ancient Egypt to Shakespearean plays in 18th Century England. With this in mind, philosophers have attempted to answer throughout history the burning questions pertaining to this need and appreciation for the arts, to explain what stimulates…

Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry, assessed the situation with arts funding in broad terms. He claimed: "Traditionally, public funds have been a key issue, not just in broadening the public scope and range of access and participation (including the training of artists), but also a sector of sustainability, under the broad rubric of public good." Today, acquisition of public funding became one of the most problematic aspects of arts management. Governmental support for the arts is…

Perception in art represents the relation between the artwork and observing eye of the audience and how it affected his current state. It is the framework where we can link the art and the individual opinion about it. Perception depends mainly on the status if observation and evaluation of the art. There is not a universal perception that we could refer to, however, many variant parameters, including political, social, cultural, gender and racial. These parameters affect how we see art and what…

and its world. There does not seem to be one clear narrative within the installation, since the flowers and plants endlessly float within the piece in an endless loop. This a common theme with Steinkamp’s pieces (Exhibit-e.com). Throughout the art world, critics and admirers of her, claim she is “a sort of Creator with a capital ‘C.’ She Creates the flowers, plants, and environments in which they operate, and then sets them free to play out the trajectory of creation to destruction to creation…

freely express their inner self through their art making practises. Through the avant–garde movement during the 20th century, Matisse introduced personal expression within his art making practises through the creation of the new artist movement recognised as fauvism. By creating mood and abstraction within his artwork, Matisse successfully communicated his personal expression of the modern era and technological movement. Matisse states that “good art work should be like an armchair in which you…

1) Why do you think critics labeled Matisse and other artists who made paintings in a similar style as Wild Beasts? Do you agree or disagree? Why? What do you think these "Fauvist" artists were trying to express? The reason why critics labeled Matisse and other artists who made paintings in a similar style as Matisse is due to the fact they had an abstract or semi-abstract style as well as the use of strong or intense colors that were labeled as wild. It also is labeled as Wild Beasts because…

“The Painter” By John Ashbrey Introduction: The painter, by Ashbery sheds light on art in general and imitative art in particular, and touched some modern movements such as imagism, which depended on concrete images instead of poetic diction, so many critical views have been presented to interpret this piece of art. Ashbery endeavors to depict the beautiful vision of artist’s mind by focusing on the proclamation “as is painting, so is verse". Through verse he commends and praises the…

In examining political agendas and critiquing art institutions and the power of the government, The Art Workers’ Coalition undertook a collective range of protests and political actions against these higher societies (Martin, 2004). On January 3, 1969, artist Takis Vassilakis removed one of his works from the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) exhibition “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age” (1969). However, the board of directors refused this, even with the revolutionary proposition…