Conceptual art

Damien Hirst Damien is an artist that uses different kinds of mediums and has different areas of interest as far as art goes much like that of Leonardo Da Vinci. He is famous for his work based on dead creatures of all sorts and his questioning of existence. Yet again another artist breaking through barriers in the world of art, while still maintaining a somewhat traditional style of art at the same time. Some of Damien’s most famous pieces of artwork are that which portray death in some…

The next rhetorical device used is metaphors, through metaphors in All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren is able to explain his idea that present actions will directly affect the future for good or bad. The first metaphor is, “And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good...”(Warren 333). In this quote, Jack is justifying…

An excerpt from Susan Sontag’s book Illness opens a reader up to a realization that metphors used in relation to illness are the “ill prejudiced by the lurid metphors with which it has been landscaped”. Sontag’s attitude towards metaphors comes from her strong understanding of how they are just a made up illusion to capture an audience. Metaphors are just a made up illusion to capture an audience because they elude the seriousness of a true illness and dishonor it does to an illness. Sontag has…

Modern and Contemporary Conceptual Art “I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art. Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades…

which he extracted from Lakoff’s (2002). His concern was the actual representation of the two sets of conceptual metaphors that translate Lakoff’s proposition of conceptual structure which describes the American…

structural megametaphors CELL MEMBRANE IS A WALL and TRANSPORT PROTEINS ARE DOORS and the mappings between them, and by “hiding” (Kövecses 92) other aspects of this concept. Throughout this chapter, Peter Raven and George Johnson pair these main conceptual metaphors with visual portrayals of transport proteins that enable molecules to pass through the “wall” of the cell, in order to develop a stronger connection within the brain of the learner between the abstract concept of the CELL MEMBRANE…

As funny as it may sound in many works of art there is much more going on than meets the eye. Metaphor, for example, is a common method used by artists to add meaning or dimension to their work. Metaphor is the use of something physically in the painting to represent something entirely separate weather it is an idea, feeling, thought ect. Painting No. 2 This painting depicts three objects resting upon a table or stone slab in front of a black background. The objects include a single tulip in a…

Upon inquiring on the use of metaphors, it is possible that one would instinctively think of metaphor use in literature. However, the use of metaphors is vital to the creation of scientific terminology as exemplified by various scientists that have used metaphors in the explanation of scientific concepts: Copernicus in the Theory of Heliocentricity, Newton in Newtonian physics, or Carl Linnaeus in Systema Naturae. In particular, metaphor has been a tool of speech utilized by Linnaeus in order to…

effort to bring out the artists' and expose more people to art in Philadelphia in the 80's Jeff Harris opened up the doors of the Boston street art gallery, with full faith that there is potential to be reaped in Philadelphia. The artists of Philadelphia now have a chance to get public exposure at the Boston street art gallery, where Mr. Harris will reach out to those who have excellent art and artistic energy, but very little exposure in the art community. “Many new artists interested in…

storm that demands the articulation of feelings and concepts that will forever challenge and cause us to grow and define what it means to be human. William Lawrence’s emphasis on the arts as a crucial element to the evolution of society resonates so profoundly within me; I wish to take part in a school that seeks to use art as a tool to impact others and I. I visualize Sarah Lawrence as a home where I can take charge of my own education, a place that allows me to mold a curriculum I desire by…