Art Deco

The painting imitates Soviet propaganda of the 1920s. This is depicting the Bolsheviks (Red Hand) rising up against the Bourgeoisie (Black hand). Its symbolic meaning is the will of the people stopping the greedy bourgeoisie from stealing capital from the masses. This was typical Communist propaganda of the time always showing the might of the people versus the greed of the rich, whether its this painting, a poster, or a film. In all propaganda, it will always make one side favored over its…

In the Change to the Big Screen “Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.” These words were taken from the award-winning filmmaker and author Wim Wenders, someone who appreciates how movies have a profound impact on all different types of people. Perhaps this is why the most powerful books are so often transferred to the screen, as is so with In the Heat of the…

the Kabuki theater. The two pieces of art both share the same coloring. The emotions in the theater are also represented in the ukiyo-r print. Both forms of art show what life was like during that time period. The ukiyo-r print and the performance style of the Kabuki theater are very similar forms of art that have the same colors, emotions, and story. The colors in the ukiyo-r print and the performance style of the Kabuki theater are very similar. In both art form’s they use a lot of different…

social justice, is just based on a taboo subject that most people choose to ignore and forget about, or, if it’s abstract art, is created with the intent of inflicting certain thoughts and emotions from a viewer, which is just code for made up of the artist’s lack of creativity and great skill of throwing paint willy nilly onto a canvas. Whatever the topic of the piece is, art can bring forth thousands of ideas and, yes, a thousand words. Full of nature and emotion, “Spirit of the Lake” by the…

The art of lithography and chromolithography is one that has particularly strong roots in America. Originally used to illustrate news articles and books, the lithograph eventually covered and grew to symbolize many areas of growing American consumerism: from business and commercial prints and trade cards to domestic art portraying the nineteenth-century American domestic ideal; as well as popular romantic images of the time. Lithographs were present in nineteenth-century America in many forms,…

Artists thrive by experimenting and I will do the same from the beginning of the design experiment. It is important to first identify the type of pencil or crayon I would like to lead with. Drawings will appear more elegant with soft and exploratory lines. Using a variety of hard and soft lines is necessary in order to provide suitable detail, foreground and shadows among other essential aspects. A multi-layered approach requires me to layer colors in order to produce greater depth of color and…

I visited the Museum of Modern Art on October 9th. It was a very rainy day, but the museum was very crowded. I had never been to a museum of this type before; I have never been really interested in “art”. While at the museum I was amazed to see how intricate the works of art were, even though I didn’t always understand what the work was meant to be or meant to explain I admired the work put into them. After walking around confused trying to decide which piece I would like to analyze, I found…

The work of art I decided to write about is Tree by Evan Lindquist, at the Sara Howell Studio and Gallery. Lindquist is an expert artist-printmaker who specializes in intaglio – the art of printmaking. Lindquist is a Jonesboro resident and a former Professor of Art, teaching printmaking and drawing, at Arkansas State University for forty years, 1963-2003. In 2003 he retired from the university to focus solely on his art. Almost all of Lindquist’s works on display, including Tree, follow the…

to art when he was a child. After studying drawing at school as a child, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg, studying painting at the “Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts”. It was at this time where Chagall released one of his earliest works “A Dead man” (1908) – depicting a geometric, expressive representation of mourning. Chagall’s Jewish identity was important to him and therefore influenced much of his artwork, having them depict religious traditions with styles of modernist art.…

to make a huge impact on the art world as well as to the people who are able to view his work. He works undercover, and is rarely seen. He is under the impression that the less that people know about him, the more they will concentrate on his art and what it is really trying to say to us as his viewers. He does not make art to make others happy, he makes art to make a statement to others. Banksy has had his images on the Louvre as well as the Metropolian Museum of Art, but not on the inside as…