Art history

Art is the universal language that creates the same visual to anyone, which is the product of nature, the hands of an artist, or science; but these visuals are going to create different interpretation for anyone who is part of the same audience created by art. Analyzing the quote by June McFee written in the article Why Do We Teach Art in Public Schools “A visual symbolic message is not a direct transfer of one person's experience” (June-McFee, 1968, p.1) describes that a visual or a piece of…

"Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it . . . Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist; it is the soul of the individual that counts." (Collections). Emily Carr was a famous painter and writer, she was the only one original female painter of the first half twentieth century. Most canadians galleries have Emily Carr’s works, which are from her famous tour called “Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon” (The Canadian Encyclopedia). Emily…

Valerie Steele’s essay, A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes Bag, points out that the research which is based on objects would provide a unique view about the development of fashion (1998, p327). And according to Prown, object analysis follows three stages. The analysis starts with a comprehensive description, recording the outer qualities of the object. The second stage is the deduction, interacting a more open reflection between the object and the perceiver. Finally, the analysis causes…

Why do you need arts in your life? Art is developed in order to show the thought of the the people and express their feelings. Actually, high schools have the same images: a lot of students who want to become a doctor, engineers or lawyers. Those professions are very traditional and people earn a lot of money; however, high schools should require arts education because it can give some good benefits. The benefits of arts education are: it can help students to socialize, people can express better…

The Character of Aaron Crawford in “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” “The teacher always pronounced his name with profound gusto as she pointed him out as an ideal student”, as stated in the short story, “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” by John Henrik Clarke. Aaron Crawford, Aaron Crawford was the smartest in the Muskogee County School in Columbus, Georgia. This young boy painted a portrait that caused uproar at his school. This very unique portrait was a painting of Christ; not the…

Visual research” When we worked on photography history Garry Winogrand was one of the photographers that inspired me with my “Street People” assignment. My work is nothing like his but the free expression that I found in his work even though underneath some of his work you can see the different expressins in people this made me relise that you can express anything within a photo. Simon Garnier said: “I was too timid to get close to strangers to get intimate with them and tell their…

Few artists have had a greater influence upon the course of portraiture and history painting than the French Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David. His canvasses evoked heavy emotion simply not found in the preceding frivolous Rococo era, a severity the artist gravitated to as various governments traded off. First, the conflicting grandeur and inequity of Louis XVI’s Ancien Régime, then the tumultuous French Revolution, and finally the magnificently short lived rule of Napoleon. Ultimately,…

the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece of artwork is part of a gallery on display titled The New Contemporary. It features an extraordinary amount of art works ranging from the years of 1945 to today. Fahlstrom’s piece features ink and tempera on wood along with twenty cutouts on vinyl. In the early 1960’s he began to make what he called “variable” paintings, in which a figure’s limbs or other discrete objects were segmented and jointed. This made them into art that could be…

Throughout history, art has been used in a variety of different ways to express feelings about a variety of matters, one of them being government. One of the more modern forms of art used in today’s world is film. Two very well-known films that deal with politics are “All the King’s Men” and “Mr. Smith goes to Washington.” These movies are culturally significant because they portray American politics in a negative light. They consist of storylines that illustrate the unfavorable side of the…

Art is a projection of the artist’s experiences and memories depicted through the use of different shapes and lines. An artist’s artwork is based on how he or she perceives the world. Each minute detail must be reflected in the painting. In order to achieve this, artists strive to account for every bump, crease and shadow. Thus, observation is a key component in art. Whether by choice or unconsciously, artists depict appearances and shapes that reflect the health of the subjects being drawn.…