Arts and crafts

Art is said to be the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. The various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance all produce work to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. The arts have the ability to supply so much more than just beauty and emotional power. They have the capacity to create community and special memories all throughout their process of becoming a final product. Sara Ashley Davies grew up…

abstracted from reality is my favorite thing in art and in my opinion shows creativity. When I was back in elementary school I always dreaded art assignments or activities that required precision and rigid step by step directions. Blame it on my caregiver 's permissive parenting style but, I liked to do things independently. Following teacher’s direction in art, frustrated me when the final product didn 't look exactly like the teachers. It made me hate art. Much later in high school, I learned…

Old Art Education Analytic Research Paper: Light And Shade With Chapters On Charcoal, Pencil, And Brush Drawing: A Manual For Teachers And Students Understanding the basic concepts and fundamentals of art is essential to creating good art work. Instruction in drawing must be built upon the principles which underlie the most successful in art (Cross, 1892). It is crucial to a student's development to show them how to visualize, imagine, and work independently. As an individual the arts can…

Preserving Arts Education in New York City Public Schools When people think of education and the public school system, they usually think of the four core subjects such as english, math, history, and science. Often, forgetting about the importance of an arts education. Yet, it is performing and visual arts that enhance a student’s academic performance. Exposing children to the incredible world of dance, music, or even visual art allows them to think creatively. It allows them to think…

David Owsley Museum of Art The David Owsley Museum of Art is located in the Fine Arts Building on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. From sculpture to watercolor, to ancient African tribal masks and mid-century modern American furniture, its eclectic collection includes various works of art from around the world (“About the Museum,” 2015). The central mission of the museum is the cultivation of “lifelong learning and recreation in the visual arts through its…

perspective of a Lutheran Baroque Composer in 1680 Dearest Friend, How curious is it, looking dimensionally, how retroactive we are as musicians. It seems as though the other forms of expression such as art, literature, philosophy, and architecture seem to predate all our efforts in the fine arts. I am thinking directly to the days of Martin Luther, that initial step into protestant reformation. Thus came from the manifested power of the Catholic Church the words of the Disputation on the Power…

designer from France, was responsible for the creation of multiple fine works of art throughout her long career. Though she was relatively obscure as an artist during her life, she and her works would later gain recognition and notoriety after her death in 1943. This paper will analyze one of these works, La Fortune created 1902-1905. Through the analysis of this artwork, an understanding of Camille Claudel, her life, her art style, and the time that it was created will be established. La…

Over the decades contemporary art has always been a huge influence in our society, it affect unconsciously the way we behave and the way we think. It can be expressed in different forms such as crafts, TV shows, Advertisements, films, fashion and print media. Nowadays, media art has been considered as a dominant mechanism of communication that affects us as humans in a positive but also in negative way. One of the most influential expressions of media arts is advertising and it can be defined as…

great example we have the contest between the Muses and the Sirens. This sarcophagus is from the Late Imperial or Gallenic period in the third quarter of 3rd century AD. It is made from Pentelic marble and was acquired from the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the Rogers fund in 1910. It is with the rectangular sarcophagus, we have the defeat of death. The scene depicted is three gods, Athena, Zeus, and Hera, judging a musical contest among the Muses and the Sirens. The Muses represent the…

Creativity is expressed through a variety of mediums such as poetry, art, dancing and many other ways. The beauty of creativity is that the artist has freedom to do whatever they want, however they want because that finished product at the end is a reflection of themselves. Therefore what better way to display what reflects you then by making your own graphic t-shirt tailored to you by you? There are many different methods to creating your own graphic t-shirt for brevity only two methods will be…