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Motown Records was created by Berry Gordy on January 12, 1959. Motown made its impact on the music industry forever. Artists that we know as legends today such as Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and The Jackson 5 started in Motown. Together their music brought a community together. Motown started with just a man and 800 dollars loaned from his family. Berry Gordy was a dreamer, and also a teacher, producer, and entrepreneur.Gordy as an African American owner wanted to make a…

Graffiti establishes a stand point in artists to get themselves noticed within the art world, it is also a way of showing and expressing their own individual style that artists can procreate on walls, or throughout streets. Lastly, graffiti is a way to express and get artists and messages across to others in the art world. Individuals walking around in big cities and towns are often aware of the graffiti that is along the buildings, and alleyways. Generally, artists are trying to portray a…

Graffiti is an art in many ways, although, not every artist has the right idea by painting over personal property of others. When painting graffiti the artist should find a place where it is not a destruction to someone else's belongings. They could paint under a bridge, on decaying/abandoned buildings, etc. They should also use a chalk or other type of coloring more natural and less permanent than a can of paint. Something else the artist should be aware of is if the graffiti is appropriate to…

that big of a deal to illegally download music but Storrs uses statistics from the Recording Industry Association of America to show otherwise. The Recording Industry Association of America claims that when pirating music, this not only affects the artist but the individuals who work in the music industry as well with 70,000 music industry workers without a job and losing two billion dollars in compensation. The author uses…

trains or subways or not. A great number of people assume that graffiti is a type of crime because art belongs only on canvas. However, these people seem not to know what the definition of art is. What is more, they do not care about talented graffiti artists. For this reason, graffiti is definitely a type of art. So, graffiti ought to be agreed as a kind of art rather than vandalism on account of two crucial factors: graffiti is an artistic expression, and concurrently it has an aesthetic…

Mirror, Mirror exhibition is a great idea for artists to showcase their work to the great city of York. Laure Drogoul, a Baltimore artist, had an open call for artists to represent themselves to the viewers and illustrate how artists saw themselves. The Marketview Arts allows an opportunity by having different exhibits throughout the year, so that regional artists can have their work seen by the public. Works in the gallery were chosen from the Philadelphia Sculptors organization. Mirror, Mirror…

Nicknamed the father of wire, Alexander Calder, was a modernists, a realists, but overall, an artist. During the time, many artists made silhouette line drawings on paper, but Calder was the original artist to use wire to fashion three-D line "sketches" of people, animals, and objects. He then moved from metaphorical linear sculptures in wire to random forms in motion by creating the first mobiles. Composed of whirling sizes of wire offset with thin metallic plates, the presence of the whole…

success and it was well deserved. Jean-Michel Basquiat was a very hard worker who never stopped due to outside pressure and he seemed to know where he stood in the art world as well. In the Sirmans paper, Basquiat is represented as a well rounded artist who went forward with his career without fear and he embraced his race and showed it shamelessly through his artwork. Sirmans discusses Basquiat’s early career and how he was a pioneer just by combining different elements such as music,…

I feel like the illegally downloaded music has significantly impact on the artists and on the Record Labels. When I pirate music, although the artist is somewhat benefitting from the publicity and by their music being listening to, they are majorly being hard done by money wise and it is not just the Labels and the artists that are suffering. The effects of piracy shockwaves all the way down to the shops and online stores from which the music is sold…

Mexico has had various recognizable art and artists. Many of Mexico’s art has to do with religion and heritage. Artists and from Mexico, such as Diego’ Rivera’s artwork “Flower Festival” c.1920’s, have become world known and have heavy influences o the modern artists today. Many of the paintings made in Mexico talk about what is happening at that moment and their struggle. In the early 1920’s the Mexican Mural was painted. The Mexican Mural Was an artwork by Diego Rivera at the Ministry of…