Artist

Who is More Creative? The most common question in art society is, who is more creative? Some people say adult and others say kids. But we all know it boils down to totes taking the lead in the creativity streak. In my opion the the meaning of creativity is to be able to make something out of nothing, and to think outside the box with pizzazz. The reason for this is kids are more creative than adults because they think of the impossible as possible. The points I will be discussing in the essay…

various quotes and examples of what it means and feels to be an artist. Jackman states that if you truly want to be an artist that you will do anything to try and create something. For example, Jackman uses a quote from Mary Frank, she sates “for me, the reason to do art is that it is compelling. Art is a drive, a very complex desire and need, urgency and pleasure” (196). He provides many quotes such as Mary Franks to show that “being an artist” is having the passion to create the art work. The…

It is often discussed if the artists are comprehended in their time or not. Although many artists get recognition when they are alive, a lot of them are misunderstood by most of society and it is not till many years after their death that they achieve being understood by society. This happens when the artist has advanced ideas for his/her time or when there is a group of artists who oppose to those ideas. It is well known that time is divided into periods, and each one of them has its own…

time when my cousin who is about 19, wanted to do the same thing but in his case he was pursing to become an artist at the time, compared to Cisneros becoming a writer. In any case a writer and an artist have much in common in how their work is being done. Some writers like writing in a busy day at Starbucks, others like writing in a room just to themselves. Well this also goes for an artist, some like to be surrounded by people, objects, colors, others not so much, they would prefer a quite…

Artists use their own personal context and connection to their society. Barbara Kruger does this through her work “Buy Me, I’ll Change Your Life” as she confronts consumer culture, economic and social issues. Another work by Kruger “We’ve received orders not to move” this work also reflecting her societal link. The Guerilla Girls are a group of anonymous feminists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. Two of their works include, “How many works by women artists were in the Andy Warhol…

his portrait of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce suggests that being an artist is difficult because one must rebel against societal standards, values and ideals. This includes the rejection of religion, politics, and sexual morality among many others. In To the Lighthouse, Woolf agrees with Joyce that there are certain values and morals that the artist figure must reject, however, Woolf shows that female artists have more obstacles to overcome, mainly gender…

modern things and people from that time period into pieces of art that were considered non-traditional. Many artists used household items and celebrities in an abstract way to draw attention to their work. Many believe that in doing so, Pop Art helped to introduce art back into everyday American life. There were several artists that became well known through their work as artists during that time. However, many usually do not think of Richard Hamilton. He is said to be the first…

self-portraits done by women in Europe during the 17th century (one from Northern Europe and the other from Italy), this paper will help discern what it took to become a successful woman artist during the Renaissance and what requirements a self-portrait done by a woman would need to fulfill. The two women artists and the works being looked at include, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory…

installation artist, a commercial illustrator, an artist’s book creator, a magazine editor and publisher, a businessman of sorts, a stand-up comedian of sorts, an exhibition curator, a collector and archivist, the creator of his own carefully honed celebrity image, and so on...Warhol, in short, was what we might loosely call a “Renaissance man,” albeit a Pop or perhaps post-modern Renaissance man.” (Israel, 2013). Andy Warhol was a very individualistic type of person. Around that time most…

mediums; Belerique and Huston-Herterich in instillation, Kang in sculpture, and repurposed the pavilion concept to reflect their own values related to form. While van Eyck’s pavilion was originally designed to host the sculpture work some thirty artists it was meant…