Art

Congratulations! You finally explored the Virtual Arts Museum. This place is where unpredicted and astounding art is shown. I encountered something I have never experienced. That something was really examining and acknowledging work of art. I have been around fine art before and have taken a gander at ordinarily and I have delighted in it yet I have never truly sat down with workmanship to separate it and notification the little points of interest that make it so capable. Today I did visiting…

The painting I have chosen is on Display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is named Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, painted in 1859 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter of Germany. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Winterhalter was trained to paint in Germany, he went on to paint many European Aristocrats. He painted the 24 year old Countess, wife of Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff. In her lap is a book of poetry, which was inspired by Winterhalter to pain because…

Chapter 2 – The Arts and Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts Movement of the second half of the 19th century was an English aesthetic movement that started an appreciation of decorative arts throughout Europe. It is difficult to say what exactly can be described as ‘Arts and Crafts’ as the craftsmen and women associated with the movement were working within a spectrum of crafts; as architects, printers, painters, sculptors and jewellers. The revival of Arts and Crafts in the second half of the…

Art education has shaped the academic minds of students all over the United States and continues to develop students ' academic achievements and discoveries. Unfortunately, with the creation of the No Child Left Behind Act and the pressure on schools to deliver high test scores in core subject areas, support of art education has diminished. However, art education is essential to a student’s education as it has many benefits and can help students master other subjects more quickly and…

Some art goes slightly glanced at, seen at the surface level as just art rather than what it is and why it’s like that. Most art even finds itself largely taken for granted, being a large part of our lives. We live in a world made up of and by art, for instance, all around us we see paintings, architecture, sculpture, fashion, and even technology. However what is art really? How did it become such a big part of our lives? And what would our lives be without it? This research is to find out…

Fine arts...fine arts is “creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily are solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content(googles definition).” Fine arts are mainly introduced to kids in school. Some schools can afford to have fine art programs while others just can’t. In this essay I will be talking about the history of fine arts and how it effects out schools. With fine arts there are many things you need to understand. Fine arts isn’t…

The fine arts have been around for many years. The fine arts include Choir, Band, Drama, and many others. Over the years, students have thought that the fine arts were just classes that were easy A’s and that they could just get by in them. What the students did not know is that being involved in a fine arts class impacted them greatly. Many studies have been conducted throughout the years and they have found that the students were heavily impacted by the arts in school. In the early 2000’s,…

For centuries, there has been a huge controversy over what the public should be allowed to see when it comes to nudity in art. One of the most famous pieces of art that portrays nudity is Michelangelo’s statue of David. The statue of David was given to Queen Victoria as a gift from an Italian nobleman in 1857, without knowing that the statue showed a man’s genitals. Having been shocked, officials commissioned a sculptor to cover the man’s genitals with a fig leaf that could be taken on and off.…

Aunt Rose continued to be herself and express her art forms despite classist unrecognition. She taught piano, danced the debke, and permeated humor throughout her work. She expresses her culture and her personality through her art, despite the classist belief of the working-class having no culture or art. Before Kadi became aware of the social restrictions being placed on the working class, she couldn’t connect her aunt’s activities to art or culture because she had been indoctrinated with…

said, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” This quote is true, but it isn’t the whole story. A more appropriate description is: art gives the one looking at it an extraordinary feeling that is partially described by the quote above, but the only way to really know what that feeling is like is to experience it. In Mason City, we are very lucky to be able to have the chance to experience art in a variety of ways at our art museum, the Charles H. MacNider Art…