lived in Mumbai, before spending relocating to London and attending St. Martin 's School of the Arts, in London in the late fifties. The artist lived for a short time with her family in Bahrain, a small island country off the western shores of the Persian gulf. In the sixties she lived and studied with a scholarship in Paris before returning to India. There she joined the Bhulabhai Institute for the Arts in Mumbai. The Bhulabhai Institute also included famous Indian artists like V.S.…
incredible lost, perhaps not in their own perception, but clearly seen through the eyes of another. They are unnurtered, unseen, and scared in their own community. In addition to personal influences, these youths are influenced by the city around them, an art capital, teeming with the vibrancy and life of widespread artistic expression. These influenced combined create a youth culture characterized by some of the following norms and expressions. As seen in the influences of the culture…
Art is about creative expression, it serves as an outlet for emotions and opinions. In present society, art plays a crucial role in culture and helps exemplify present-day issues while also allowing us to connect with the past. Artists present society with a plethora of viewpoints and subjects to think about and every artist has a different style. Art can be a variety of things from sculpture to painting to photography, but at what extent does art become offensive? One of the most controversial…
Art is a very emotional entity both inspired and created by feeling. Something moves the painter and sculptor to transform the perspectives of their minds’ eye into something tangible and visible. With that same feeling, designers of the landscape, interiors, structures, fashion, transportation, cities and government have been [at least initially] moved by ideals and passion. The assigned bulleted manifestos and pointed proclamations seemed to carry an evolutionary theme. This theme is not…
“This project generates a method through which the art of living is an art of embodiment: the ability of the body to explore new environmental stimuli, such that we come to embody new experiences of reality” ( Haddad, 2016) in regards to this quote Orianna Haddad uses the idea of stepping away from what an everyday…
define them. Overtime, artists express the concept of identity through portraits, self-portraits, photography, videography and many more medias. The concept of identity is popular with many artists as it allows them to write their own story through art and to express whom they truly are and to not be trapped into whom society thinks they are. Identity is the way we perceive and express ourselves. Circumstances and factors that an individual is born with such as ethnic heritage, sex, or one’s…
While looking at a work of art it is common to feel a sort of energy in which encourages you to learn more about it. The energy that you feel is a connection or a bond that is being formed between you and the piece of art that you are viewing. This connection is called the “common language” which we all feel when viewing something if the field of The Arts. Throughout history we have found that The Arts are used to express different forms of communication in different ways. Without noticing…
difficult, even for an expert. I believe that the paintings should not be precise or real, maybe for some painters it is, in my opinion an artistic creation must be unique, that arises with the purpose of transmitting something special. A good work of art is the one that is difficult to forget, it is as if you enter a gallery full of paintings, and when you finish seeing them all, only a few are engraved in your memory, those that managed to capture your attention, arousing feelings and…
The Skin I Live In reinterprets the relationship between the artist and his art, and the connotations of the reclining nude as mediated through the Titian’s Renaissance masterpiece Venus of Urbino. Robert’s mansion is filled with a collection of reclining nude paintings, ranging from Renaissance to Modern. Titian’s larger than…
Art is a influential mode of communication as it has the power to be a direct reflection of the cultural conditions surrounding the artist at the time of the arts creation. Art shows a side of history rarely portrayed in ancient textbooks. I has the ability to lay bare the subconscious opinions, values, and beliefs of individuals and cultures that the individuals and cultures do not even recognize in themselves. Think of artwork as a reflection of the difference between the soul and the mind.…