Art school

‘Masks Confronting Death’, there is a faint image of a face that has been painted over: a feature that I had not noticed the first time I saw the painting. However, as I was living in Connecticut I had the opportunity to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City multiple times, and each time I was able to examine this piece in further detail. I had a similar experience when observing Claude Monet’s ‘Poplars’ in the Fitzwilliam Museum. In the central third of the oil painting is a brush…

“The storyteller” is an article by Sandra Cisneros about her life journey beginning from post graduate school to a school teacher. In between she writes about her life in the point of views of a dependent, a growing writer, and a teacher, with short descriptions that gives the reader a glimpse of her mentality on each stage. All that is mixed up into the life of an average Hispanic woman from Chicago. Halfway through her article, during her “growing writer” stage, Cisneros writes a paragraph…

attending a big new school. Ultimately, my entire world was crushed, until the moment I entered the art room at my new school. When I walked in the smell of used oil pastels and freshly sharpened pencils was safe to me. The scents comforted me right away. The facilitator was free as a bird in her surroundings. I felt a place of belonging during a time of absolute confusion, everything made sense. I saw community within the art room, and desired to be a part of it. From that point on, art changed…

Is Arts Education Important It’s sixth grade art class and the smells of Elmer’s Glue and Middle School flutter through the air. Concentration distorts a child's face as he admires his attempted masterpiece. Will his mother find it pleasing enough to earn it a place on the fridge? He put his everything into this piece and no matter the original distaste, he will be proud of what he’s done. Some parents know this reality while others have never been blessed with the handmade artwork of their…

Needless to say, propaganda in art history has often steered towards its negative functions. Mcdonald’s article pointed out that museums may not…

child he attended a Jewish elementary school, he studied Hebrew and the bible there, later on he ended up attending a Russian public school. “He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work” (biography.com, publish date not available.) t age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education…

oldest and most elegant of the Japanese visual arts, embracing many varieties of genres and styles. The long history of Japanese painting expresses synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the adaptation of imported ideas. From a decorative view, Japanese paintings are full of mesmerizing Asian charm. Although, this can also be a confusing subject for novices that want to learn more about it. Different painting styles and schools, a variety of media, the deep roots in…

artist, often titled among the most influential figures of the 20th century art, was born in 1958 in Reading (Pennsylvania) and died in 1990 in New York. Haring started his art education at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, later continued at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1978). There it became possible to young Haring to irreversibly transform visual arts and erase the borders between fine and street art. The artist was leaving his trails all over the world, beginning…

When Jeanette was only three years old, Rose Mary applauded her for cooking hot dogs. Jeanette and her siblings had to find food on their own when their mom and dad were out of town. When there was not food during the school year, Jeanette had to pick up untouched food from the trash cans just to eat. These types of examples show what Jeanette and her other siblings had to go through at a young age on their own just to survive. Taking the example of Jeanette cooking at…

Monica Bonvicini, born in 1965 in Venice, a sculptor, video and installation artist, is arguably one of the leading Italian artists today. Bonvicini, educated at the University of Arts in Berlin (1986-93) and the California Institute of Arts in Valencia (1991-2), became seriously recognized by the international art scene in the late-90s. In her vast artistic repertoire, Bonvicini work through a wide range of media and thematics, primarily maintaining the critical, post-conceptual attitude. In…