Artistic merit

Artists, even if seen in a different light from other forms of celebrity, are still prominent figures in culture. Each of their histories creates their individual artistic personality. Van Gough’s art for instance is most likely seen through the framework of his sufferings. How does knowing that Van Gough killed himself change his works? This is truly a question that can only be answered in the mind of each individual viewer. The list of instances and examples of illicit artists is long and…

The question on nudity ultimately leads to the Big Question: What Is Art? Bruni's photograph became a rage not based on the merits of the photograph. She was just an ex-model with a fairly successful singing. Then she married Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France. As a result, the value seems based on who she has become, a personage rather than just a person. Here's what…

makers to the characters within he film. Each film features and is created by white men, while women are shown as problematic and secondary. Although some scholars have claimed the integration of film and other art forms can raise the level of artistic merit, within these two films to medium chosen to focus upon was picked because of popularity, hoping to intrigue…

In February of 2002, at the Winter Olympics taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, two Canadian figure skaters were trapped during what was the most high-profile judging scandal of all time. At no fault of their own, the pair consisting of Jamie Salé and David Pelletier lost their chance at the gold medal when a French judge voted in favour of the Russian pair. Thus, the Russians claimed the gold medal and the Canadians settled for silver. When confronted, the French judge admitted to being…

This is where the problem arises for the Minnesota Statute does not account for any artistic considerations, but the precedent of the court does. The exhibit in question has the intended purpose of being art. It is being featured in an upstanding museum and the parts that are being censored are just two sections of an entire display. Today…

Staircase No. 2 is made objective rather than objectified. These themes of liberation in Duchamp’s painting inadvertently advocates for the first wave of feminism, the suffrage movement that began in the 1920s for the right to vote. Through brave artistic experimentation, Duchamp has taken the nude outside of the perspective of a heterosexual male and towards a rational exploration of the human body’s capacity to interact with its surrounding…

text . This created much larger virtual communities than the previous group of purely intellectuals and clerics . 
Photographers started a social revolution by beginning to document the poverty of the lower classes, which were rarely the subject of artistic representations. Photojournalism employed images in order to tell new stories of far-away places, including the horrors of war far from the home front. This allowed for ‘virtual witnessing’ of views people had previously never seen before .…

in his article, “Legal Venues Celebrate Graffiti as an Art Form,” from the New York Times, “from the perspective of a graffiti writer, the debate about whether graffiti is art or crime is pointless because, ideally, it is both.” Although it’s artistic merits can't be denied, graffiti is still in fact a form of vandalism. Graffiti is not a crime - trespass and damage to property are, says Felisbert. Artists will tag the property of the public and private, which in turn becomes costly for…

Finding a way to judge the respective merits of their truth claims is, therefore, extremely difficult." (An Introduction to Humanities, Block 4 p52) So even for the spiritual enquirer of religion, the task of understanding religion is far from easy. There is further clouding of the issue for students when one needs to separate religions from cults. The Church of Scientology has been unable to register its centre as a place of worship in Britain - the closest an organization can get under…

winning the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Series, an annual juried competition for professional artists living in the Philadelphia region. He also became an Independence Foundation Fellow in Visual Arts, being recognized for future artistic promise and overall artistic…