Body art

and refining your craft and concept culminate in you senior exhibition. You 've spent months preparing a body of work for exhibition, you 've taken great care to mount and present your work professionally, you 've touched up the walls, fine-tuned the lighting, ordered food and drink for the receptions, sent out the exhibition announcements, labeled the work, and put on your best "I 'm the art star" outfit. Your friends, family, and classmates arrive and admire your work. They compliment you, ask…

Valerie Steele’s essay, A Museum of Fashion is More Than a Clothes Bag, points out that the research which is based on objects would provide a unique view about the development of fashion (1998, p327). And according to Prown, object analysis follows three stages. The analysis starts with a comprehensive description, recording the outer qualities of the object. The second stage is the deduction, interacting a more open reflection between the object and the perceiver. Finally, the analysis causes…

We as the viewers of art begin at the focal point of the painting Naked Maja, a reclined female nude depiction, oil on canvas created before 1800 (MUSEUM PRADO). It scales at 98 x 191 cm 1800 and was painted by artist Francisco de Goya Y Lucientes from Fuendetodos, Zaragoza and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid for public viewing (MUSEUM PRADO). Where the observer's eyes are first drawn when looking upon Naked Maja, is her face, and more distinctly her eye. Mostly due to the tendency of…

distinct art movements in Europe. During the 1870s, the impressionist art movement came to life. Artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Gustave Caillebotte were all part of this movement. Following, was the expressionist art movement which took place during the beginning of the 1900s. This was a time of emotional and spiritual vision of the world through paintings. Toward the end of the era came cubism, also around the early 1900s. Cubism is known as the first abstract style of modern…

According to Kleiner’s analysis of African art before the 1800s, caves such as the Apollo 11 come from Africa and are assumed to be some of the oldest paintings currently discovered, showing the diversity of the continent itself. The works are difficult to date and decipher meaning, although some of the best work comes from the Benin Kingdom. Assumed to be established in the 13th century, most of its power rose along the 16th century. The kingship was considered sacred and presented artworks…

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…

The progression of time has witnessed profound changes to the depiction of the women in the artistic sphere. Art can be seen as a mechanism for exploring many representations of the female form. Grace Cossington Smith’s The Sock Knitter (1915), celebrated as the first post-impressionist painting to be exhibited in Australia, Frederic Leighton’s idealized characterization of a reclining female figure in Cymon and Iphigenia (1884) and Henry Moore’s sculptural rendering Reclining Figure: Angles are…

According to John Kenneth Muir in his book Wes Craven: The Art of Horror (1998) Craven?s horror ?erupts full blown from the innate brutality of man?? (p 2.) One of his first films showing this being The Last House on the Left (1972). The Last House on the Left shows multiple similarities to Bergman?s The Virgin…

destructive characteristic to correlate with it. In my opinion, the subject for each mannequin that Shonibare is trying to portray is a destructive kind of beauty. The mannequins also emphasize on other numerous subjects as well. Focusing on just their bodies specifically, it emphasizes anger at humankind, environmental disasters, and survival of…

strong relationship with human life, and human life is an important theme in art. For this reason, artists love to use horses in artworks throughout history. Artists use horses as the subject to show the beauty of art; the beauty of horses and the scene of daily life in a specific time also can be shown through artworks. Therefore, the two pieces of artworks I chose that impressed me a lot during my visit to the Museum of Fine Art in Boston…