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Not only because the art is fairly recent, not in some distant past like the 1600s, but also because of the questions posed by and the involvement with many of the works. Modern and contemporary art is always controversial, but these mechanisms of engagement allow the visitor to have their own opinions of the work. It is okay to think a work of art is ugly. It is okay to think a work of art is amateur. It is okay to not even like your…

Day labourers, London prostitutes, and Mexican migrants are communities that live on the margins of society. Their status and occupation labels them as outcasts as they are considered to be communities who are deviant from societal norms (Gill 1999:120; Day 1999:141; Gonzales and Chavez 2012:277) These individuals live their daily lives in the ‘here and now’, in other words, their temporal orientation is towards the present. According to Park et al., (2016:1-5) and Kwapinska (2009:433), temporal…

WWW8 In William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and The Fury, he enlists different characters like Benjy, a thirty-three year old disabled and mentally ill member of the Compson family to illustrate life in the South during the Reconstruction era of American history. Benjy’s narration is unique in that it warps time, amalgamating many different memories with the present. Benjy’s role within the Compson family and within The Sound and the Fury is to represent unity, both in the familial sense, and…

highest priced types of art are modern and contemporary. Modern art is commonly summarized as impressionism but sometimes varies. Modern art is the artist’s inner visions expressed using real life subject matter and is usually made with many different mediums. Contemporary art is more difficult to describe. Contemporary art is the successor to modern art and is taking place now. Because there is such a large quantity and vastly different artists today, contemporary art cannot be summarized under…

resist change because they wanted service to remain the same. Some traditional churches see contemporary music as entertainment and not glorifying God, but causing the congregations…

El Anatsui is an inspirational African artist who has inspired the work of many other artists in the contemporary age. He is a mentor to other creative artist who devotes their lives for changing the way people see art, especially African art. In the article, “A Nomad’s Revolutionary Beauty,” the author, Elizabeth Harney, challenges the views of museums and critics about El Anatsui works and how it is limited when put in museums. El Anatsui’s artwork expresses a deeper, global, personal meaning,…

There is speculation about ancient aliens who seeded life on earth, but are these claims worth listening to? Scientists have been doing some intense research about early life on earth and where it started. Some believe ancient beings came to earth and seeded life or interacted with early civilizations. Subsequently many questions are being brought and researched such as: when they appeared; how they came; what they did; how it affected us; what did they look like and what did they teach humans?…

Created in 1958, Sky Cathedral, a piece of assemblage art constructed by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988). As it was created in the 1950s, this piece of art falls into the contemporary period, which stretches all the way from post-war to the modern day. Regarded as one of the most successful female sculptures of the 20th century, Nevelson was born in Russia, however, at of 6, Nevelson and her family moved to America, where she would pursuit her art career. In her early days, Nevelson aspired to…

THIS IS NOT PLAGARISM, I AM USING AN ONLINE GRAMMER CHECKER. Adams, Marianna, Moreno Cynthia, Polk Molly, and Buck Lisa. The Dilemma of Interactive Art Museum Spaces. Art Education 56.5 (2003): 42-52. Web. This paper analyzes the conversion of contemporary interactive art through its intentions to influence youth culture with creative play, but ultimately sacrifices the deeper excruciation of art and its metaphorical representations for instead a tangible space. The author presents two main…

Many cultures and religions partake in some general form of “worship.” The concept of worship, and what that means, however, takes shape in many different ways as one examines one culture from a different culture. Growing up in a Christian family, I have a lot of experience with the complexities of worship even just within my denomination of Christianity. When examining Islamic worship, and comparing it to the concepts of worship I have come to hold, I see many similarities and differences.…