Art

The Power of Creativity: “Arts and The Mind” The two part documentary, “Arts and the Mind” (Eaton, 2012) exposes the powerful effects creativity has on the human brain. The documentary introduces numerous mediums in which the arts assist in fueling happiness, stimulating stress release, and helps promote levels of understanding. These concepts are explored and brought to the surface through the creative process. The creative process discussed in this paper will include music therapy and drama…

can drastically change the way you take in the artwork in many different ways. One good example is the Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear, which, in person, was vastly larger than I expected. When looking at an artwork in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, you get to observe details and witness different focal points that you would most likely miss looking at a computer. In Mart Puryear’s artwork, size, focal point, and surroundings can be wildly miscommunicated through a…

After this first room, there is a room featuring mostly cubist and futurist art, which is an interesting segue considering the female nude as used by cubists are seen by feminists as patriarchal forms because it shows women as passive and faceless and the superiority of the male gaze and sexuality (gouda). Next, there is a room featuring just the art of John Heartfield. After these rooms is the room on “Feminism and Media.” The main panel in this room is smaller than the ones previous, eleven,…

The painting that I found to be the most interesting was “Venus and Adonis”. This painting measures about 42 inches x 52 1/2 inches. The painting was created by oil paint, a medium composed of pigments and varying types of vegetable oils. The painting was done on stretched canvas, and therefore it gives the painting a slight textured quality. The painter, Titan, painted this picture giving soft appearances of the colors. The painting doesn’t have any harsh brush strokes, and the paint seems to…

For this assignment I visited the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts and chose a painting from the 2016 Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition. The oil on linen painting was titled Professor Quimby and was made in 2014 by Cyd Goodwin. Goodwin appears to be influenced by theatrical plays as most of her paintings revolve around the same subjects/people. In Professor Quimby, one can see a young woman in a greenish dress, standing, looking over her shoulder at the viewer. Diagonally from the woman…

lack of love throughout human history. Basquiat's art through it’s often jarring text and dismembered figures, display the hideous complexity of the human condition, ranging from themes of capitalism to systemic racism. Connections to christological themes or doctrines appear nonexistent throughout Basquiat’s profilo, yet through further inspection strong correlations become apparent. Themes such as mercilessness and dismemberment within Basquiat's art contribute to the core Christian…

The colours used by artists in these two eras differed greatly. Art nouveau artists tended to use earthy and natural colours such as mustard yellow, shades of green, orange and brown. Pop artists used much bolder colours, in particular bright yellows, blues and reds. Ben day dots were also popular in pop art. Ben day dots (named after the printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr) are a method of using dots to add colour or shade to a picture and was developed in 1879. These became a trademark of the…

The allegory of art by Vermeer, is a painting of a girl posed on a stool being painted by an artist. The painting is very picturesque it has the look and feel of a still photo. The color used in this painting is realistic and understated, it does not jump out at you but has a certain appeal to it. The line of the curtain being drawn seems to cover up part of the painting and almost makes you wonder what lies behind it. Between the contrast of the horizontal beams of the ceiling and the diagonal…

Humanity is most affected by matter and ideas, which are intricately entwined in each experience, relationship, and piece of art. Around the time of the 1800s, there was an existential conflict between artists on whether artwork should be more materialistic or more idealistic. The more idealistic Romantics focused on the sublimity of nature, nationalistic and individualistic heroes, and the corrupting of good humans by society. Because they are idealists, they believe that what humans perceive…

of different medias. I even went and learned to identify these techniques in other artist's work. While doing my transformation project, I realized that drawing and observing related. This eventually helped me very much in making my Transformation Art Project showed above. This gif is made out of a total of four drawn images. To make them, I observed my model very closely and took out as many details as I can from her face. For instance, the model has a very slim face. Her face is centered and…