Cover art

When we mention about graffiti, where do we expect to see it? Probably not in museum. Unlike order arts, the background of graffiti does not gorgeous and magnificent that is why graffiti mostlikely being on streets, under bridges, or on some buildings. Graffiti borns mainly in low – in come areas, so the boundary between art and vandalism is very arachnoid. The debate about graffiti has been going for decade because people do not understand the difference between creation and destruction. In…

Only if I knew what to say when the art teacher rejected my art portfolio. I was in my ninth grade year and we had a portfolio assignment on any topic we wanted. I chose to express my thoughts and point of view through visual arts on self-worth, why you should love yourself and appreciate it no matter how it is. Then was rejected by the inappropriate content and then was some of my art pieces were censored. I don’t want other young artists and their art to be censored just because of one person…

French scholar and art critic Souren Melikian criticizes the concept of an all-encompassing notion of Islamic art, stating that a European equivalent wouldn’t exist in both the museum and academia (Melikian, 2004). Indeed it would be frowned upon to be a specialist in “Western art” ranging from Greek antiquity to Futurism, yet this case for an “Islamic art” specialist. It is perfectly acceptable to demand from a scholar in “Islamic art” to know about early Islamic Abbasid architecture, and late…

Walking into the Princeton University Art Museum, the first gallery displays an exceptional acrylic on canvas, Tan Tan Bo. The painting stands as a huge work of art almost covering an entire wall. The vibrant colors of the work drew my eyes to the radiant painting. The grand size and the colors of this work popped out to me and made me stare at it for a while. Its complexity with so much happening almost everywhere you look catches your eyes and makes you wonder. In a gallery surrounded by…

The Fayum portraits are panel paintings that were found in the Fayum oasis in Egypt. The style of this paintings date back to the Hellenistic Period 50BCE-250CE which is the Greek art period. These portraits were attached to mummies to cover the person’s face for burial (Encyclopedia of Art and Classical Antiquates). Fayum portraits illustrated a multicultural society of Roman Egypt. Those paintings were made by using pigments mixed with beeswax and various other ingredients like eggs, resin,…

Both of the art form and the medium is drawing. What I see in this type of art piece is a hunter trying to trap a bear into a trap, or a hunter becoming a bear’s friend and his hands up in the air because he’s glad that the bear accepted him as a friend instead of eating him. The objects that I see in this artwork is an old guy, and an animal. I can tell that he’s and old guy because of how much hair he has on his head and his mustache and how his hand is bent into an odd shape. The bear is just…

concerts, but some like to stray off and perform covers to songs that were written and or recorded by a different artist. There are innumerous amounts of cover bands and tribute artists that focus entirely on remaking songs from other artist into their own piece of art. This is where the line gets blurred. For instance, with copyrights on almost all records that are recorded through a record company, how do these artists legally perform these covers? If the proper royalties are paid to the…

textbook that art is everywhere in our daily activities if we apply the term art in non-specific ways, then yes art is with us constantly in our daily life whether we acknowledge it or not. Creative artistic expressions are found in even the most mundane and commonplace acts of the daily lives of all peoples. (Peoples p346) What we wear, how we do our hair and for some makeup, jewelry, piercing or tattoos are all expressions of us being an “artist” and our body the canvas to present our “art”…

had sympathy for Ali. No one should go through hell like that only because they didn’t want to fight. The portrayal of what the artist was going for was pretty consistent from my perspective. The last artwork is named “Little Big Man.” This Esquire cover was meant to prove that you don’t absolutely need an eye-catching celebrity on the front all the time. So they decided that they will use an American actor such as Dustin Hoffman as an example to fulfill their task with the right intentions. I…

In the film world it is widely regarded that there are two kinds of filmmaking : Realism and Formalism. Realism subscribes to a more narrative, social based ideology while Formalism believes that the art of cinema comes from the mastery of technical aspects. Within these two kinds of filmmaking, many theorists have emerged including Bazin, who had a humanist approach to film. Formalism on the other hand, is the theory that the technical aspects of film are meant to create the world the audience…