Conceptual metaphor

Iteration on Stanley Street 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010 A relatively small gallery in the middle of Stanley Street brings together three artist displaying their artworks that vary in scale, medium, and character. The gallery standings in the heart of Sydney’s Darlinghurst art precinct, the exciting energetic gallery displays works of mostly Australian Artists. Showcases the works of established and emerging artists. The space is a multi-disciplinary…

Finial, a gilt bronze ornament created in the 18th century and currently displayed in the Arts of Asia department, has a two visual elements, shape and space. This art piece has organic shape where there is the wavy form of water and bodies of two fish. These two organic shapes contribute to the piece as they exist in the same environment. In Buddhism art, fish in water represent happiness because they are free to swim in the water. This 3D piece has a geometric circle shape that connects every…

The Outrageous Price of Art The rich are easily viewed as insane for making purchases in the market of one subject in particular. That market, art and the subject modern, for it’s hard to put a price on art. It is especially hard to calculate the value when it’s made by any famous artist. So why are people spending outrageous amounts of money on art…? There is an unspoken rule in this world that a piece of art created by a Pablo Picasso is automatically worth more than the paint and parchment…

The publication “The Museum as Context” by Amy Tucker analyzes the environment of the museum and how culture and context is changed depending on the environment art is presented in. The purpose of art exhibitions is to show the audience an organized presentation of particular art pieces. The question raised in this chapter is whether the organization of the presentation is precise to represent each piece of work and does this representation distort the meaning of a piece. There are many ways art…

Known for her large-scale public installations, Jenny Holzer is a neo-conceptual artist who creates thought provoking narratives through her installations. Her medium includes billboards, buildings, posters, stickers, light projections, plaques, photographs, and perhaps her most famous medium, LED signs. No matter which medium she uses, however, her work never fails to incite and arouse the public. Holzer’s aesthetic includes language and narratives as art, which continues to inspire people…

in the spirit of its movement. This is fueled by the need for experimentation. The current climate of our surrounding culture is hard to pinpoint; although in all honestly it maybe be hard to classify a movement while still in the midst of one. Conceptual art removes the aesthetic standards, skill, purpose and meaning of true art. It diminishes the word. This division pulls the public away and what remains are the…

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia to two military parents with close ties to the communist regime. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, initially wanting to be a painter, but, wanting to explore the creation of art without material objects, she eventually decided to focus on performance art. She has often used her body as her subject and medium throughout her career, testing the limits of the human body’s endurance and putting herself in extreme pain, exhaustion, and…

I am going to begin this essay with a heartfelt apology. I wanted to get this out of the way because this is going to be a very opinionated essay, comparable to that found within the last two pages of the online reading Art Without Boundaries. Unlike the aforementioned reading, I do not believe art has cultural boundaries. Neither in the past and especially not in today’s multi-culturally embracing society. There used to be an understanding that (good) art transcends all boundaries. Up…

The Museum of Modern Art: Business Model Examination Report The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art is a non-profit organization engaged in the business of acquisition and exhibition of modern art in various forms for children, adults, and other organizations. The museum was established in 1929 and is located in New York (Museum of Modern Art, 2016). Currently the museum contains, “almost 200,000 works from around the world spanning the last 150 years”, and it “includes an…

When Maoris expanded their tribal territories in Aotearoa, they gathered resources for trading purposes and began to make strong trading ties to countries around the world. This was essential to their survival and they became a strong economic power base due to the help from the British Government (Declaration of Independence, 2013). Declaration of Independence was created, in 1840, to form protections for their resources and provide leadership to citizens. This is because the country and…