Associate of Arts

In accordance with the book Who needs Classical Music, Johnson holds to the view that musical literacy is undeveloped; music education is far from comprehensibility and neutral ; focusing on immediacy is not a way to understand artworks. To a large extent, I agree with him because there is a phenomenon of people seeing music as more of an entertainment that provide them immediate enjoyment than taking it seriously and understanding it through a comprehensive way. Johnson compares literacy of…

Alwin Nikolais: Visual Artist Extraordinaire Alwin Nikolais was a modern dance genius whose contributions to dance as an art form are numerous. Known for his innovative dance works and performances, he was a master of all trades who wanted to encompass a variety of visual and auditory art forms to create one large spectacle. Many considered him to be a pioneer of modern dance, and Anna Kisselgoff, a journalist and dance critic, was quoted in The New York Times obituary for Nikolais as saying:…

contemporary artist Christo a number of times, capturing Christo's art work in a cinematic format. However, the Maysle's brother capture much more then just the artwork itself, they capture it's process which in contextualizes and immortalizes Christo's work in a contemporary format. In this essay, I will discuss the methods in which the Maysle's brothers represent Christo's art work so as to best represent Christo's contemporary approach to his art. I will discuss the format in which the film…

introduced me to the art form. Eventually, I kept myself busy with outside school programs like the "Youth on stage" All Stars project and Harlem School of the Arts Hsa Theatre Alliance Company. I even skipped out on my birthday plans when I turned 18 for a special performance of "The Colored Museum" by George C Wolfe.That is when I realized performing became second nature to me. No matter what route I took it always came back to acting. Even after gaining my Theatre associates degree I still…

Herdswoman Familiarity: Timelessness in Art. Amidst the many art styles in Western history, the rococo style stands out as one of the most defining styles. As an evolution from the baroque period, rococo paintings have cemented themselves with asymmetry and pastel colors, evoking playful themes as opposed to political themes of the past. Upon visiting the Dallas Museum of Art, I encountered the rococo painting, Landscape with Distant Buildings and a Herdswoman, while perusing the museum’s…

Art is a projection of the artist’s experiences and memories depicted through the use of different shapes and lines. An artist’s artwork is based on how he or she perceives the world. Each minute detail must be reflected in the painting. In order to achieve this, artists strive to account for every bump, crease and shadow. Thus, observation is a key component in art. Whether by choice or unconsciously, artists depict appearances and shapes that reflect the health of the subjects being drawn.…

he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy, he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to his determination in perfecting his own hallucinatory images and fabricating memories that would later…

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera.” Daniel J. Boorstin once stated (Quoteland). What is a photographer? A…

landscapes that even photography could mimic and adapt. Photography is an art form that differs from other forms, because it communicates with the world through real life. Photography was developed in 1826 when the first photography was made in France by Joseph Nicephore…

Music, Drama and Art in the Hallways (An Argument Concerning the Validity of Arts in Schools) School is supposed to be a place of learning and enrichment, but it doesn’t take long for the students to become uninterested with the same boring lessons that are pulled out of dusty textbooks. From calculus quizzes to English exams, the material learned isn’t always the most interesting, to say the least. There is a way to make learning a bit more bearable and school a pinch more pleasant. For…