Black Arts Movement

A large fish stands on two legs, the vibrant colors luring onlookers in, while standing as a massive structure. Alexander Calder’s stabiles have become extremely famous for their simplicity and hidden beauty. Calder’s work inspired a new movement of hanging wire sculptures and gargantuan firmly planted structures, each seemingly abstract, but with a true inspiration. Alexander Calder was born into a family of artists, with his mother, father and grandfather famous artists. When he was…

Art is about individual finding and imagination. It is an boulevard by which a culture is judged on its victory or failures. The intellectual and affecting strength of its populace is often prejudiced by optimistic or harmful effects that the guidance has on those society. There are at smallest amount three periods in narration in the 20th century, worldwide, where the talent of a people or inhabitants has been honestly prejudiced by the management or political bearing of that nation. The…

The title of this art piece is called Marylin Diptych. The craftsman for this piece is Andy Warhol. He made this art bit of silkscreen print, in the year 1967, for Marilyn Monroe within three or four years since she had passed away. This piece was distributed through Factory Additions, an organization he made so he can make and appropriate his prints. The original piece is presently claimed by Tate Modern. On the left side are twenty-five pictures that are printed in color while on the right…

Perception in art represents the relation between the artwork and observing eye of the audience and how it affected his current state. It is the framework where we can link the art and the individual opinion about it. Perception depends mainly on the status if observation and evaluation of the art. There is not a universal perception that we could refer to, however, many variant parameters, including political, social, cultural, gender and racial. These parameters affect how we see art and what…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…

The Civil Rights Movement began in the 60s as a backlash against racially unfair treatment and attack on the oppressive forces that caused this treatment. Through sit-ins, marches and many other form of peaceful protest the Civil rights moment was able to grow and prosper. The Civil Rights movement evolved the most between the March on Washington in 1963 and protest against the Rodney King verdict in 1992 as a result of the creation and growth of the Black Panther Party, a group that attacked…

Reading Between the Art Art, in any shape or form, can be interpreted into text nowadays. Whether it’s a photograph, painting or a sculpture, people can form an elucidation from the work. Some artists use symbolism to make the audience think about the piece and try to find the meaning behind the work. Other artists, however, draw a direct representation of what they want their art to convey to the audience; in other words realism. Edward Hopper, artist of the painting “Automat (1927)”, is an…

Write states there are three ways in which you can succeed as a digital artist, through “the art, the tools and technique” (Wright, 1). This can be applied to a varying range of visual narrative effects, one of them including matte painting. Matte painting, one of the longest standing forms of visual effects, is a traditionally 2D scene created to enhance or further extend a visual image or composite. The art form itself has been seen since the early 1800’s. Examples such as George Melies, “1898…

experienced some influential art movements which led to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Impressionists favored independent exhibitions, instead of government -controlled institution. Post Impressionism was the title bestowed upon the people who opposed the Impressionists. Camille Pissarro's The Goose Girl at Montfoutcault and Vincent Van Gogh's The Rocks are perfect comparisons of post-impressionists and impressionists. We will discuss the important figures of the two movements and each…

Salvador Dali finished The Persistence of Memory in 1931at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona, Spain and housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934. This painting was a symbol of Dali’s work and defined surrealism, breaking many of the norms previous and unique in its own way. The painting itself reflects a lot on the way Dali viewed a life and giving it a deeper meaning that others may interpret differently. Dali created a three dimensional experience that was never seen before by…