Body art

According to Plotinus philosophical beliefs, beauty communicates the order of things both visually and intellectually. That through art you can connect the two realms together. It is through the goodness of one’s soul to bring the intellectual principle of form into something visually beautiful to help the human soul connect to the one (God). One such example of this is the baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence, Italy. The structure was rebuilt on top of Roman Ruins in the Tuscan Romanesque…

influenced images. For she has many photomontages of deep contrast B&W photos, such as “At Twelve, Sally Mann.” This collage represents sharp blankness in each of her subjects. Mann focuses on these gloomy B&W photos because she appreciates the fine art aspect to photography. In the selection “Southern Landscapes, Sally Mann,” she portrays grunge/lowlight themed landscapes. These scenes are often dark and consist of strong vignettes. I replicated this theme at…

The focal point in this artwork would be the various types of wigs. Lorna Simpson uses a Valencia like filter on her artwork. She uses a white canvas to place her cream colored frames for the wigs, the majority of them being black, with the exception of one white wig. The technique in which she organizes her photos is somewhat like a collage of wigs. Lorna Simpson’s artwork tries to explain how the role of hair can sometimes socially identify us. Simpson photographed twenty-one different types…

The first work of art I chose is the Pair of Winged Deities. The works are of Assyrian origin, and were created circa 874 – 860 B.C.E. out of Gypsum. What drew me to these reliefs, and caused me to choose them, is the organized and rigid nature of them. Every detail, be it on the beards, wings, hair, or clothing, is clearly defined by deep indentations of solid, dark lines and curves. Though the faces and bodies are not particularly true to life in their depiction, their stylized nature gives…

turn our bodies inside out and they would tell different stories”. Have you ever wondered what was going on inside your body? What’s causing your tummy to ache? Why it takes the doctor so long to figure out what's actually wrong with you? Although X-Rays may show us dense materials like bones, it can’t tell you things like what's in your veins. Turning ourselves inside is not an option at the moment, but, the Endoscopy Pill is. It allows you to know what’s exactly going on inside our bodies and…

Mexican stereotype. The main aim behind this work of art was to protest against the immigration politics that were put in place and to draw public audiences to this issue. Again we see in Guillermo’s work Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit London, him trying to address the…

According to Martha Graham, “The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body." For dancers, our body is the main instrument that conveys our unspoken words. Movement and Improvisation class is a creative platform that allows us to tap into our creativity and explore a large range of movements outside of our usual technique classes. It allows us to develop our ideas and thoughts and move in a way that expresses them. Despite being allowed this space of…

like method, creation, and technique come to mind. The different approaches to the creation of art were reflected in the variety of artistic movements that defined the period between 1900 and 1980. Two different pieces that encompass varied approaches to art are Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso and Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. Both of these works are largely influential in the span of modern art for their innovation in representation and method of depiction. Pablo Picasso is perhaps…

You can always find senior Art major Diana Ostiguy in a very unique place: through the doors of Antone, down the main hallway, up the back staircase, and into a well lit, shared art studio on the top floor. Entering the studio, makeshift walls separate individual studio spaces that contain desks and easels. Ostiguy’s studio space, tucked away in a corner, is where you can find her, hunched over her desk, sketching out ideas on paper with the help from a single light above her. Peering over her…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…