Art genres

Art seems to be broad and confusing due to the countless styles of it. Looking back at art’s history, people were exposed to unique styles of individuals, landscapes or mythical beauty in artwork. There were many different types of impressions on life events or even emotions of the artists. Expression through art has gone on for many centuries. The question is, when did art begin to develop more in abstract? Who decides what art is? In most art museums and art textbooks, there is a transition on…

If anyone asks me what have motivated my life, my answer would be this: “The two gears that have been driving my life are art and social engagement.” Since childhood, I have experienced various genres of art, covering classical music, traditional Korean painting, and creative writing. With all these experiences, I fell in love with art, more specifically with the delights generated from expressing my imaginations and communicating others with the language of beauty. In the mean time, I have…

Graffiti: To be Art, or not to be? Whenever you take a stroll through downtown, anywhere, old buildings and alleyways are stricken with spray painted works. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings”. The painted works draw your attention and can create feelings of peace, danger, wistfulness, merriment, sadness, or even anger. No matter what you may feel about the…

era had to originate from another era with some kind of revolution of the mind as well as draw from that of several influences to strengthen and allow the notions and characteristics of the era to grow. Some of these influences came from that of the art world, especially with playwrights such as Sarah Kane. Kane was born in Britain, 3 February 1971 and died on the 20th February 1999. She was known for her plays that were filled with violence, depression, death and sexual nature. There would…

Book Review 1: Seven Days In The Art World In the mysterious, capricious and status-obsessed art market, six distinct insiders—artists, dealers, curators, critics, collectors and auction-house experts—are keeping dynamic balance with each other and being a relatively excluded group that is fraught with unknown secrets. As a non-fiction book that to some extent, pry into the secrets in art market, Sarah Thornton’s Seven Days in the Art World offers up a tale of what happens at the height of a…

can have a stronger meaning, On the website wie geht kunst, they have posted an interview with Mladen Dolar. Mladen Dolar, a Slovenian philosopher was interviewed about what art means to him. In this article, he discussed his meaning of the importance and the standing out of artistic work. Mladen Dolar states, “I think to make art is to make a break. And to make a cut.” What Dolar is trying to say is, people choose the best out of the choices they have, and to be chosen means you have made it to…

One tends to feel that the expression of art in any form cannot be restricted to a predetermined structure of any sort. Art is diverse. Language through different mediums helps the authors, poets, painters alike to express their art. Language can maintain the uncertain and infinite possibilities of individual expressions. One can say literature represents one of the most persistent uses of language. Literary texts have the potential to motivate the reader in a very big way. Throughout the…

People have their own different interpretations of the word “Art”. More interpretations most likely cause increasing disagreements. Art is a way of expressing your creative ability and imagination commonly through emotions by showing the audience rather than telling them. Art is also a universal language that is used through many platforms and one that is globally understood (citation). However, people will interpret the meaning of art differently to the way others do. The same applies to…

hated. I can personally relate to some concepts within Stravinsky's performance as I am a dancer and have performed pieces by Breandán De Gallaí such as “The Rite of Spring”.De Gallaí is known as a choreographer who bends the norms and creates new genres within the dance community and he is seen as being at the forefront of contemporary Irish Dance. “The Rite of Spring” was the first of many new and innovative dance numbers De Gallaí choreographed and the response to it was similar to the…

the emergent and exploitation of the street art genre directed by the reclusive street-art graffiti legend, also known as Banksy. The film came about when the world famous graffiti artist was approached by an eccentric French shop keeper, Thierry Guetta, who records his entire life with a video camera in order to capture the memory out of apparent relevance to the impromptu death of his mother when he was a child. Guetta was gaining interest in street art and wanted to make a documentary about…