Black Arts Movement

use durational performance to show how the body goes through time? Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist who has been creating live art since 1975. “Her work bridges the boundaries between performance in everyday life (or cultural performance) and performance art.” (Anderson and Arsem, 1995). Arsem’s work ranges from installation and interaction art to site-specific work. The majority of her most recent work has been site-specific, focusing on the site’s history or politics, and…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

than create the illusion of understanding, Mitchell creates a work of art in Chamonix that allows you to feel emotion and draw on your experiences with the art and its presentation to further your view of it. No one views art in the same way; we draw on our emotional responses, intellectual knowledge, and visual experiences with the art in order to attain our feelings towards a piece. We also draw on our pasts and our knowledge of art, which is why there is negative reactions to Mitchell’s piece…

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:…

The night consisted of food, drinks, live entertainment, art vendors of all types, and a live DJ. Baton Rouge is a fertile place for the idea because its profitable and a step towards the growth of the art culture here. Giving local artist of all kinds an opportunity to share their art with people of all shapes and sizes is the main goal of this movement. The phrase "jam session" came from a period of time where white and black musicians would congregate after their regular paying gigs, to…

Danielle Ignacio AAS 514 Valerie Soe October 9, 2015 Journal #2 Week Four Scott Tsuchitani is a visual artist located here in San Francisco. Tsuchitani’s art has been featured in museums, galleries, and universities in eight states and here at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), SFMOMA Arts Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Asian Art Museum and de Young Museum. Before becoming a visual artist, Scott worked in documentary film on international productions and alongside Academy Award…

The surrealist movement involved many dream-like scenes and devoid of normal rational controls usually found in other traditional art styles. Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter who began painting in the 1920’s. He played a very influential part in the surrealist movement and made some largely unique pieces art. There were many eccentric parts of Dali’s life that are shown through his paintings and through his personality. Salvador Dali greatly influenced the surrealist movement with his…

American society. Ideas like women’s rights, alcohol consumption, and black rights were some of the social issues this era dealt with. Prohibition was one of the major changes to American society implemented in the 20s. People had begun to worry about the role of alcohol in American society. It had become a symbol of celebration,…

Late 19th century American art was influenced by a number of art movements such as, impressionism, realism, and symbolism. Some artists were inspired to create genre paintings to enforce their significance in subjects from everyday life including figures, landscapes, and objects. These scenes of everyday life in America did not, however, include people of color. Thus, this segment of the population was being portrayed in an infelicitous angle due to the prejudices of the period, with biased…

context of art history in which they were created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and art…