Arts festivals

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.(John Wooden). Visiting Both beautiful museums “ The Morgan Conservatory for Papermaking” , “Zygote Press” was amazing. Definitely an experience that will always be remember. Just walking into The Morgan it just influence you to want to come up with…

museum was unlike any of my other visits to museums. First of all, I had a solid purpose for going and found myself paying much more attention to the intricacies of pieces I was viewing. Secondly, due to its sheer size, this museum had a wide variety of art from many different cultures and time periods, giving each hallway and room a different feel. Lastly, I felt much more educated about what I was viewing, when compared to previous experiences. I waited until the 8th of July to drive to Kansas…

I really enjoyed visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Downtown Houston, every panting was different many caught my attention, but the one that attracted me the most was the art piece Marsh Sunset made by Martin Johnson Heade, there was so much detail to is and I just couldn’t stop staring at the natural beauty of the landscape. When you drive past landscapes while on a road trip, sometimes no one puts in much thought into the beauty because it's there and the idea of it disappearing never comes…

through time that man may have carved this as a symbol of what the idea woman may have looked. This structure of this piece gives me the idea of independence. I believe that this art piece is open to a lot of interpretations. I plan to structure this intriguing topic starting off talking about the beginnings of this Prehistoric art piece as well as the appearance and fertility, also the environment she might have lived in. The middle of this piece will examine in depth of how this piece is…

The first painting I have picked is Rachel Wieland, “The Healing Power of Water” in the Art Gallery in Bergen Community college. Wieland created a landscape painting, 20x16, in the early 2000’s. A piece that has rough paint structure to reflect its power of healing, not only the water, but the leaves on the water as well. It’s rough paint structure looks a lot like Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889. The painting being all Cool Colors, many being different sizes than each other. Having the…

way and the reality expressed in their art did, in fact, inspire many other artists. Whether reality was seen as Surrealist, abstract-like, or a way to bring insignificant items to an obscure size, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Salvador Dali each effected a plethora of generations of artists. The most famous artist of the Surrealism movement was the Spaniard Salvador Dali. His paintings appear to be illogical and sexual. A unique part of Dali's art refers to events from his childhood…

Shatori DePonte Cabison 12/16/14 Eng 256-WI Karyn Sims Final Essay #1 Humanity in literature In literature an artist can express anything they want, and that right there is the beauty of literature. There are endless amount of topics or themes an artist can write about in any type or form of literature. Literature gives us the opportunity to express through our words and thoughts. Language is used in literature and language contains many figures of speech to spice things up and make it more…

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "Peasant Wedding" depicts one of the most joyous times in a person's life: their wedding day. This work has a spin on it though It shows this joyous occasion from the standpoint of a poor, poverty ridden peasant that does not have as much as others. Even though they are poor, they all look extremely happy with what they have. The original painting is done with oil paint on a wooden panel, which became popular about one hundred sixty years earlier. The artist…

#MediaControlsUs The influence of media on society has grown more and more due to the advancement of technology. It is no doubt that, the media has contributed greatly on influencing how people act, think, and behave. There are a lot of ways that media uses to influence society. They use things like articles in newspapers, magazines, and books. Then we have items like films, sound recordings example music, radios, and television (Perse). We also have the latest technology such as media on the…

said, "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and everything." Plato, a revolutionary philosopher, changed the way people thought and weren't the fondest of the arts. Surprisingly, Plato likes music and describes music as a moral law. Then like most laws, a person is needed to carry out such law. This person would then have a vocation to plan music in the church. Church was once a vehicle for the…