Conceptual art

“Demolition”, a stilted comedy drama written by Bryan Sipe, was conceived by an extraordinary director and showcased a no less extraordinary cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, and Chris Cooper. Despite these observations, it’s not an extraordinary movie, showing several problems that turn it into an unfortunate stumble in the filmography of the Quebecois Jean-Marc Valleé. The latter, who deserves all my respect for accomplished works such as “C.R.A.Z.Y”, “Café de Fleur”, “Dallas…

Every film director and writer is unique and talented in their own ways. An example of that statement is a well-known movie producer in the Disney franchise, named Tim Burton. Not only is he talented in directing and writing movies, but he is also an animator and artist. He started his career in 1984; and today, he has impacted the movie industry with various unforgettable films that are still being talked about today. His unique sense of style and technique in each of his films is what makes…

The painting The Jungle by Wilfredo Lam was created in 1943 C.E. The medium used for the painting was gouache on paper, which is mounted on canvas. This work of art hangs in The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York. The color of blue is used throughout the painting, along with a few strokes of yellow, orange, and green. Many bamboo plants and leaves are shown in the background suggesting the setting on a farm or plantation and show the use of organic shapes. Several distorted figures…

The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, by Robert W. Weir, was commissioned and hung in 1843. Like the Baptism of Pocahontas by John Chapman, the time frame around the painting of this scene was while America was experiencing the Second Great Awakening (Keene, Cornell and O'Donnell 2013, 284). Much emphasis was placed on religion during this time to address the negative aspects and moral impurity that had infected society. As such, Weir’s painting is highly religious in theme and provides insight to…

Strangers on a Train Alfred Hitchcock is an auteur that is recognizable as a director. He is known as the master of suspense and through his artistic choices he is the author of his films. Hitchcock has his own persona and often appeared in cameos in his films. His unique style leaned away from studying films as a genre but through an auteur approach, Cashiers du Cinema written by the father of auteruirsm, Andre Bazin. Bazin stresses on mise-en-scène, the content of images, that reveals the…

The video in class was about the artist known Kara Walker. She wanted to become an artist because as a child she remembers sitting on her Fathers lap and just sitting there and watching her father draw. Something about that made her realize that she wanted to be an artist. She is known for her silhouette pieces. Her pieces focus on a singular point in history. Most of those are pieces on slavery. As she said about her work “A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing…

Were Seven In Eight” This painting was created by Jackson Pollock during the year of 1943. “There Were Seven In Eight” is now located in New York, at the Museum Of Modern Art. ("Art/Museums: Abstract Expressionist New York at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Oct. 3, 2010 to April 25, 2011.") During the creation of this art Pollock would take month long breaks and would continue back making this a long project to finish. The project was finally finished in the spring of 1945, it took…

conforming to society's standards and the way the times are supposed to be, Edna is beginning to think for herself and also express herself in the different ways that she knows how. Particularly, Edna begins to self-express thorough new languages, art, music, and love. The Zeitgeist of the times was to follow the society around you, and Adele was the perfect example of what a "mother-woman" is supposed to look like during this time period. Edna dared to venture into her own emotions and…

guaranteed a work by the artist in the past, Guitare, Verre, Bouteille de Vieuz Marc, which we purchased in May 2014 for $5,373,000 including Buyer’s Premium. 3. Rarity value of the work in question "The theme of the artist and [their] model, or of art in practice, is a corollary of the studio theme," Marie-Laure Bernadac has written. "It runs like a thread through [Picasso’s] whole career, mostly concealed but sometimes quite explicit" (Late Picasso, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1988, p.…

As You Can’t Stop the Beat was being created, there were many thoughts developed as to how it would be written. When I thought about the tone, I realized that I wanted the audience to be able to trust me, without being too skeptical of my topic. Once people against my topic realize what it actually is, they would want to stop reading it as soon as possible. So I tried to get my point across without being too informative but still trying to teach people about the topic. The reasoning behind my…