Dream art

groups of people who have no connections to real street or gang low rider or cholo lifestyle.” Just three days after the mural was painted, on Wednesday June 17, 2015 it was covered in red and blue spray paint covering the faces and title of the work of art, “Por Vida,” meaning for life (Kost). Manuel Paul stated that his work was supposed to be a celebration, not only for the Latino community, but also for what he saw as a changing barrio. Paul stated, “I felt that acceptance was there, and we…

As a federal prisoner, artist Michael Pelletier began painting as a way to lose himself. At least in his mind, art has the power to take him away from the concrete, cold surroundings of his cell, even if just for moments. However, it did not take long for him to see that painting gave him more than an imaginary vacation, but a reason for existing. Art literally saved his life from dissipating through the cracks of the justice system. The path to discovering his talent began many moons before…

Susan Sontag begins her article with a brief introduction to Walt Whitman’s dream of cultural revolution. In his assertion, Whitman maintains that discriminations of value seemed to be trivial and snobbish. He stated that individuals would not care about beauty or ugliness if they embraced a sufficiently large quantity of the American experience. However when the cultural revolution failed to occur, the American arts no longer were demystified but instead demystified experience themselves. In…

enjoy certain aspects or styles. However it’s more than just talking about what is my personal taste in music, but what speaks to me about the music, its components, what makes a song, rather than just the beat or the message it’s speaking about. Art has come a long ways from that of painting on a canvas or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as time advanced…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…

Japanese Art has played and influential role in western art. The influence of Japanese art made created a term, Japonism, this term specifically refers to Japanese influence on European art and culture. One of the most remarkable traditions in Japanese art is Ukiyo-e of the Edo period. As the ‘jewel’ of the Japanese printing art, it uses the most exquisite paper, the finest colors and elaborate technique. Ukiyo-e not only carved a deep influence in Japanese art, and also in western art history.…

Kant’s distinction between the beautiful and the sublime is very similar to the division Nietzsche makes between the Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies in art. They both claim that there are aesthetic experiences that are oriented towards a form or rational ideal (Nietzsche believes this ideal to be a dream), but there are also aesthetic experiences that expose man to limitlessness and formlessness. However, Kant and Nietzsche are not going to agree on what an aesthetic experience of the…

are various and often rise from the world of the Italian Renaissance. From the artist Fra Lippo Lippi who has become a monk without his will, to Andrea del Sarto, a great painter who has subordinated his art to the demands of an exploitative wife, Browning manages to reveal the true value of art. The pictures of great artists blended with historical detail are embodied in his poems. Vasari’s Lives of the artistsis the source of the back-story to Andrea Del Sarto. Andrea Del Sarto, called “the…

and the Women’s strike for equality was still a dream that Betty Friedan was still trying to properly think up. • Early Life • Barbara Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey in 1945. She was an only child who had a typical middle class upbringing. Both her parents worked - her mother as a legal secretary and her father as a chemical technician. As an undergraduate she obtained admission at Syracuse University where she enrolled in a number of art and design classes. After only one year…

Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me into the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my love for the arts because there was dance, music, the clothes we would wear (class attire and performance attire), and the posters that accompanied the…