Black Arts Movement

Jean-Michel Basquiat During the 1980’s, the art movement “Neo-Expressionism” was taking the United States by storm and artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat’s big break was just beginning. If you’re not too familiar with him or isn’t really educated on him, you may know or heard Jean-Michel Basquiat from listening to your favorite artist’s songs, because of his unique hairdo that inspired The Weeknd, or for his phenomenal art that convey deep messages. Jean-Michel Basquiat, a high school dropout,…

influential artist of the 20th century. The following is a case for Marcel Duchamp. The Duchampian ideals laid out in the beginning of the 20th century changed what it meant to be an artist for the rest of time, influencing artists of different styles and movements. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal turned 90 degrees with the name “R. Mutt” signed on it to the exhibition of the New York Society of Independent Artists. The porcelain urinal was not accepted Of course at the…

Laura Evans Dr. Heather McPherson ARH 204 10/30/17 The Great Day of His Wrath During the 19th – century, art evolved into the movement know as Romanticism. The Romanticism movement influenced a determination to achieve freedoms of worship, speech, and feeling. The Romantics sought to express these new found freedoms through imaginative and emotional artworks. A primary element of the Romanticism period was the increased interest in the sublime. The sublime was a product of the dark middle ages,…

predominant factor instead communication is the main concern. Art is such a dexterous community, with countless of people from different backgrounds, ideals or beliefs, as a result, it doesn’t belong to only one culture alone and it becomes a form of communication that can reach multiple people regardless of the language boundary that has separated men throughout time and time again. In a sense, I am Alice in the Art world, as a discourse community art has established a part of what I am today…

Can anything be art? Or is there a richer set of criteria for what art can and must be? I do not believe that anything can be art and that there is a richer set of criteria for what art must be. I will justify this view within my essay. I will put forth the criteria for what I believe what can be considered art and why I think that. Some of these thoughts have been influenced by what I have read in the The Role of Theory in Aesthetics and, ‘What is Art? An Institutional Analysis aswell as other…

commonly known Greek pottery styles, where they are from, and what time do they date back to in Greek history. In order to distinguish these factors, research was conducted on four commonly known types of Greek pottery—polychrome style, geometric style, black-figure style, and red figure style pottery. Following this, research was completed to be able to…

3. Docherty believes that a cultural event is something that allows people to see the potential of freedom. A cultural event can take many forms. Some examples are: books, poetry and art forms such as painting, music, dance, and sculpture. This idea relates to play of imagination which occurs when people imagine the world different from the way it is now. Many artists have created images that could be considered cultural events. Some examples of these artists are Shepard Fairey and the…

southern Spain on October 25, 1881, Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. His impressive artistic talent and inexhaustible inspiration made him a legendary figure in the 20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso had done as much as 37,000 artwork, which includes 1885 oil paintings, 7089 sketches, 2000 prints, and 6121 lithographs. Picasso’s representative works are "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Kahn Weiler…

Rastafari a Way of; Living, Worshiping and a Cultural Philosophy Rastafari is more than a religion. Rastafarians are Africans who are engaged unconsciousness raising with regard to African heritage, such as black religion, black pride and being in the world. Rastas reserve the right to think, know, name reinterpret and define their essence and existence in nontraditional matters. Rastafarian developed in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica in the early 1900—30’s In the environment of poverty,…

photograph was taken by Fulvio Bonavia. It is explored at the Vanitas exhibition, Publics, Paris. Its dimensions are 25.6 by 14.4 inches. The photo is vanitas themed. We can see the skull, flowers, crow, book, dice, candle and the fruit. The hues in this art piece are mostly dark and cool, from the flat background to the table and most of the objects. The bright colors are arranged in the diagonal from the upper left to the lower right. On the left there is a flowers bouquet in a metal vase.…