Art

The Art Museum as Ritual is an article written by Carol Duncan that questions the role and function of public museums. In this article, Duncan shows his dissatisfaction with the way museums use objects of art to come up with particular political meanings aimed at achieving a certain purpose. According to her, some nations came up with western style museums to be perceived as having desirable diplomatic or political allies. This essay summarizes the main ideas in the article by Carol Duncan,…

We want to introduce Frida Kahlo’s artwork and we want you to understand about her artwork. This artwork is from Frida Kahlo who was a famous for self-portrait art pieces. We know about her artwork so we will like to share with you what we know about her artwork. We chose artwork called self-portrait with thorn Necklace and hummingbird and this is a self-portrait that has lot of meaning to it or symbolic meaning. The artwork is shown above. The necklace shows her neck is bleeding. There is a…

Reading Response to ‘Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art’ Nudity played a tremendously huge role in Greek culture in Classical times in various ways. Firstly, it was used to depict male beauty. The Greeks really admired the young, athletic bodies of men, as they came to represent strength and glory in a heroic and almost godlike manner. This admiration transitioned into the concept of athletic nudity; it became the “uniform” for the athlete. When athletic competitions such as the Olympic Games…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…

The Arts exist in every aspect of our daily lives and it is one of the most important component in aiding children’s early development. Children naturally love art and since they were born, they were being exposed to art through media, songs, paintings and more. In recent years, school curricular in Australia have slowly prioritize Arts education and Australian National Curriculum had listed the Arts as a compulsory subject area in Australian schooling. Integrating the Arts into Primary context…

What is the artwork worth: to the artist who made it? Or to the people who owned it? I believe that this art work was very valuable to the Oba because it provided a visual tradition to add to the audible tradition well established in Africa. Also, the Benin artists working in bronze were organized into a type of guild under royal decree and lived in a special…

there you would find them like fireflies in the trees. The horizon line for me is the table on which the rocks rest, the rocks are above the eye level of the viewer. 4. Content - What do you think the artist is trying to say? What Essential Elements of Art* are used to support what you think the artist is saying? Ms. Thi’ s earthwork expressed simplicity and strength. It seems like the artist in her would like to give the viewer the feelings of serenity and boldness at the same time. The…

attributes of socially engaged art using examples by Ai Weiwei, and how he incorporates history and memory in his installations. Grant (2011) explains that instead of artists working in their studios or in any private place, they can choose to work outside of that area within a community or a public space, this allows the public to take part in the art making process. It is considered to be a form of socially engaged art and contemporary art creation, which means a form of art that, is based on…

I attended the PLAKAT: Poster Art from Poland exhibition in the Martha Gault Art Gallery located on campus. The posters were loaned from the University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Poster art was developed internationally from the Polish Poster School after the late 1950’s. The posters were not abstract nor non-representational; each had recognizable images, such as people or objects found throughout the world. These posters were all created for the same purpose of representing…

Tattooing is an art that has always been under construction. Although it been a contributing part of counterculture, tattooing has also contributed to art history in more ways than one. Once seen as a permanent marking for bikers, criminals, and rejected groups of society has now become a form of expression for everyone ages 18 and above. In America, native american tribes used it as a representation of their cultures and later on sailors and soldiers used tattoos to show where they had been and…