Art world

While reading “The Art World Expands” I began noticing a trend of how the art that was being created reflected what was going on in real world or society. These pieces interpreted what was going on around the artist and how they responded to that certain situation or problem. This is mostly notable in recent decades, particularly the 80s where there numerous changes were starting to happen around the world. For instance, improvement in technology like; fax machine, laptop computers, and first…

The Meaning of Art In Dorothy Allison’s, This is Our World, she creates many arguments about art, artists, and the way art is viewed. There are many times throughout the essay where she claims the audience can interpret art differently. However, this is not always the case. The interpretation of art is not always up to the audience. The audience can view art differently, but it is not the choice of the audience, it 's the choice of the artist to allow them to perceive it differently. Allison…

Art is all around us, no matter where we go or what we do, there will always be a form of art that is nearby, and as a result of this, art has become one of the most significant aspects of a person’s daily life. In a sense, art is quite like water. It is something that is physical, but the changes that it can embody or bring forth are just like the formlessness of water. Art has become something more than just a work that should be admired, but rather, it has become a medium of speech for the…

essay, Worlds Pictured in Contemporary Art: Planes and Connectivities, author Terry Smith describes what makes contemporary art unique. According to Smith, “placemaking, world picturing and connectivity are the most common concerns of artists these days because they are the substance of contemporary being”. He argues that today’s society is more connected than ever before, and asserts that contemporary art is “ art for the world––for the world as it is now, and as it might be”, unlike any art in…

Graffiti: How Shepard Fairey changed the world of Street Art It's 11 o'clock on Gratz Street, North Philadelphia. A hooded figure darts across the street, and runs up to an abandoned row-home, pulling out a can of spray paint. He nervously looks both ways, eyes scanning the street corners, before spraying the paint across the barren concrete wall. His message: one of defiance, against the status quo, against everything he believes has held him back in life. Standing back, he enjoys a brief…

1) Mustapha Mond is saying that art can only exist if it has no meaning. Because of this, beautiful works of art have to be censored because people would not understand them. In other words, art has to be dumbed down for society. Mustapha is also trying to point out that the raw emotions expressed in art would lead to social instability, which goes against the World State’s motto of “Community, Identity, and Stability.” However, creating high art is not possible without adding elements of…

The Second World War also continued the First World War tradition of documenting the western theatres in landscapes. By the early 1920s, a new group of Canadian painters emerged with the aim to help establish a Canadian identity in art. These seven artists, known as the Group of Seven, traveled around central and northern Ontario to paint landscapes with broad sweeping brushstrokes, which ultimately become their signature style. From 1920 until 1931, their Canadian landscapes were held in eight…

Not only does there need to be censorship during wartime and in the art world, but there also needs to be censorship whenever it comes to religion. The U.S. gives us freedom of religion, but there are limits to what should be said about other religions to keep from offending anyone. Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star, says that the controversy over a Danish newspaper’s caricature of Prophet Muhammad is an example of the bad relations with Muslims (50). Muslims do not draw…

When I first got into art I was in 10th grade. There was an exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery featuring Brooklyn street artist work; KAWS and I wanted to check his work in person because I never got the chance to. The exhibition featured his famous statues, “ALONG THE WAY” and paintings he’s done. KAWS is known for his whimsical cartoonish style of art. KAW is also affiliated in the street wear world after he launched his clothing label, Original Fake. He recently had his “ALONG THE WAY”…

The World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) is a unique museum here in Miami because it is the only sex museum in the United States today that illustrates the history of erotic art from different cultures such as from the Greeks, the Chinese and the Hindus. Yet, not only does the museum illustrate the history of erotic art, but it also exhibits many other artifacts that are related to some of the topics that we have discussed in class since the beginning of the semester. For example, one of the first…