Folk art

demonstrates the journey of Li’s life from a young age. From him being destined to be a peasant boy working out in the fields to a world-famous professional dancer. He was chosen to represent Chairman Mao and his wife Madame Mao for the revolutionary arts. The following essay will explore the elements of poverty, freedom and security that Li enhances throughout his life in America and China. Poverty, one of the main problems shown throughout the novel has a lot of effect over the lives of the…

Danielle Ignacio AAS 514 Valerie Soe October 9, 2015 Journal #2 Week Four Scott Tsuchitani is a visual artist located here in San Francisco. Tsuchitani’s art has been featured in museums, galleries, and universities in eight states and here at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), SFMOMA Arts Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Asian Art Museum and de Young Museum. Before becoming a visual artist, Scott worked in documentary film on international productions and alongside Academy Award…

Society and other political reasons, the art comes in many forms; as has many perspectives to Social Media’s eye.” There are many different types of artists out there who explore the different sectors of art itself. People who define their art in a way that catches the human eye, It could mean anything really, sadness, anger, happiness, anything, even the most randomest of things, some come out as a comedic way and others take it more seriously. Visual art, or as in sketching on plain old paper,…

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar…

Lamentation of the dead Christ- Andrea Mantegna and David- Leonardo Da Vinci. Each painting in any genre and time period contains a number of values connected to the artist and consequently determines its worth. The definition of a value in respects to art is ‘the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something’. And also ‘estimate the monetary worth of’. The values within the paintings mentioned include; symbolic, artistic, religious, and political.…

of working-class folk art. Tattooing is a centuries old art form with various styles, purposes, and applications. Each style has fundamentals that contribute to the distinctive appearance of its tattoo. There's hundreds of styles but only a few have been bold enough to be remembered. Some styles have been so indelible…

Culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time based on the Merriam-Webster. There are a lot of examples of culture based on the video clip. Culture is the festivals, events, dinning art scene, stories and customs, history, cool architecture, creative talents, public art, and outdoor places like park, farms and outdoor fountain, they are all part of the culture all of these things create activity and buzz. There are also a positive energy that is…

The Character of Aaron Crawford in “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” “The teacher always pronounced his name with profound gusto as she pointed him out as an ideal student”, as stated in the short story, “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” by John Henrik Clarke. Aaron Crawford, Aaron Crawford was the smartest in the Muskogee County School in Columbus, Georgia. This young boy painted a portrait that caused uproar at his school. This very unique portrait was a painting of Christ; not the…

Elbert Hubbard once said “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” Art is all around us; from the floor we walk on, to the color of the walls around us, to the music we listen to on the radio. Many kids have taken on a lot of different forms that did not exist many years ago. Today, we fill our world with street art not exactly thought about to be art like mimes, circus acts, puppetry, mask theater, vaudeville, and storytelling through movement (Rapp 4). Art is an essential part of our society…

did not take the public museum as their guide; not only did they lack the money and the trained staff, they focused on those subjects denied by the public museum’s homogenized narrative and history of the United States” (Davalos 60). Mexican American art institutions presented topics and other artwork that public museums did not accept. They did this to gain authority for subjects that were previously denied. Davalos also states, “If marginalized people determine the shape and content of an…