Associate of Arts

Dorian Grey. However, the influence of famous personalities, works of art, and exemplary athletic and intellectual performance on contemporary style and mass marketing would enthrall Wilde with its possibilities of wide reaching art. However, even though Oscar Wilde would approve of the fact that our art is so accessible today, he would be displeased with the products being made for their low quality and…

Wasteland, Vik Muniz embraced the opportunity to travel to Brazil in hopes of making a difference with the pickers. Muniz traveled to the landfill in Brazil in hopes of using art to improve the lives of the pickers at the landfill. While at the landfill, he experiences the life of the pickers which helps him to create the art that will transform the lives of the workers; these experiences allow Muniz to develop as a person. Vik Muniz’s perspective regarding the landfill and the pickers evolved…

Throughout history art has been used as a platform for artists to express their views, cultural concerns, and or to re-illustrate historical events in a modern scene. Samella S. Lewis used her platform, particularly in her piece entitled "The Preacher" as a medium in which she is applying the story of Jesus in a modern day context. Although the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples have been told for decades, it is often difficult for the preaching’s and teachings of Jesus to be applied in our…

relation. Finn argues that Picasso represents all his love for her in his paintings and he was representing the unions between the artist and the model. However, although she was interested in reading and music, Marie-Thérèse did not have any knowledge in art, unlike her successor Dora…

over 40 years. Bass started out as a graphic designer in 1938 with a job at Warner Brothers. After six years, Bass left to study at the Art Students League in New York. He attended Brooklyn College and made his money working as a freelance designer. After finishing school Bass took his talents to Los Angeles to start his own design studio called Saul Bass and Associates and began to work in the film industry. Baas was best known for his work in the movie industry. His first big job in the…

The article “Redemptive popular art: Television and the cultural mandate.” written by C. Christians (1980) gives us three questions that we should judge our films by. The first being, “How does it portray human life, or more strongly, what do they presume about human nature?” (p. 14) most messages of film today usually promote some kind of materialism. If this is what the main message is, then it is not redemptive. The second question is, “What does popular art convey about the created order?”…

Bill-zhyad amadou Emily Sprouse ART 101 13 October 2015 Art History in Real-Time Art is a human activity involving the intellect and emotions, which results in the creation of works with aesthetic features. It brings together different areas in constant evolution, including sculpture, painting, dance, poetry, cooking, film, printmaking, theater, comics, photography and digital art now. Study the trajectories of digital cultural assets is an entry point to better understand the social data.…

Aesthetics as a study of beauty has been the keystone for development of art and architecture, which cuts across philosophical, tactile, intuitive, mathematical and socio-cultural realms. The subjectivity of which, has given rise to innumerable attempts to quantify, measure and theorize aesthetics in art and architecture. To comprehend aesthetics, one needs to understand the changing definition of beauty. Definition of beauty has had cultural variations in the development of human civilization.…

become experts in their field, which prompted them to create such creative pieces of art work. These ideas can only be contributed to creative cognition of insight. Some researchers believe that creative cognition stems from expertise in your particular domain, but there is surmountable evidence surrounding the argument that creative cognition is deeply rooted in insight. “Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences and everyday life.” (Roger. E Beaty, 2016) The study of creative…

The media has huge power on the way it is able to influence its audience. Although some media can be positive, much the medias influence has negatively affected youth today. In the show Modern Family, it aims to portray a contemporary view of American families. Although most research on body image has focused on white girls and women, body image concerns also affect women of color, specifically among Latinas. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the media creates stereotypes that…