Found art

In their book “Scenic Art for the Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques”, Susan Crabtree and Peter Beudert emphasized, “Don’t draw things; draw relationships. It’s so simple: just put every brush stroke in the right place.” The quotation basically summarizes the job of a scenic designer, who is responsible for bringing the world of the production onto the stage. The scenic designer (or set designer) is expected to fulfill five basic goals in order to design an overall concept for the play.…

Salvador Dali finished The Persistence of Memory in 1931at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona, Spain and housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934. This painting was a symbol of Dali’s work and defined surrealism, breaking many of the norms previous and unique in its own way. The painting itself reflects a lot on the way Dali viewed a life and giving it a deeper meaning that others may interpret differently. Dali created a three dimensional experience that was never seen before by…

Art can be represented in many ways and is differently approached by different artists. One way to define art is by explaining the three factors that are described by Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, a Russian writer and philosopher, defined art by three characteristics: individuality, clearness, and sincerity. He refers to individuality as the uniqueness of any work of art. The activity of art is an act where the performer portrays specific emotions that connect with the listener or the person being aimed…

culture of this vast country. However, if one examines the history of Canadian art and compares it to the development of Canadian identity, one can easily discern their correlation. The rise of Canadian artistic expression in the 20th century greatly contributed to the Canadian identity by illustrating the growing nationalism in accompaniment to a stronger sense of independence. The evolution of the various sectors of art, such as the unique Canadian landscapes painted by the Group of Seven, the…

Christ Rejected by the Elders in the Temple The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) houses some of Philadelphia’s oldest, most historic and most renowned pieces of artwork in its Landmark Building built in 1876. Naturally, I felt it was my duty to peruse PAFA in hopes of finding a Philadelphian artifact that interested me. I stumbled upon the gigantic 200 x 260 in. (52,000 in2) oil painting, Christ Rejected (by the Elders in the Temple), created by Philadelphian artist of the 18th-19th…

In reflection of the theme of my creative portfolio, a woman’s perspective on infertility, I have chosen an artwork by Heidi Holmes as my first artifact. What might appear as many dots scattered about on a wall, is actually thousands of pressed hydrangeas (1). Within the glass jar also seen in the photograph is thousands of more hydrangeas which are acting as potpourri scented like baby powder (1). This photograph of an exhibit by Holmes does indeed have a connection to infertility. This…

Art in the Middle Ages 3 The Influence of Art in the Middle Ages Art is in a constant state of change, modernized every day, and this has been true since the dawn of artistry. Culture inspires artwork, people have always depicted the world around them. For medieval persons the culture that surrounded them was that of either religion or of the gruesome wars their kings fought. In the span of the Middle Ages art transforms to a more prominent degree that leads the public to have a higher…

somewhere around the 9th century and is believed that this structure was initially a part of the Hindu structures but was later converted into a Jain structure. The temple features a spectacular rock cut sculpture of an elephant reminiscent to the one found at Kailasa temple and also features images of 22 Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers of Jainism) and Mahavira (the last Tirthankara) seated on his Lion throne. Paintings According to experts, the paintings at Ellora caves were done in two…

The work of art I chose to discuss this week is, Equestrian Portrait of King Phillip II (Michael Jackson), an oil on canvas painting done in 2010 by Kehinde Wiley. I chose this painting because Kehinde Wiley’s art interests me. When I first looked up some of his work I found that he has a signature style of remake classic paintings from the 17th century all the way up to the 19th century. But he adds his own twist to them. He gets innovative and incorporates African-American figures into his…

not much is known about the short life of Giorgione, and few attributable pieces of his artwork remain, his life was still important enough to be written of by Vasari, and the mystery behind his surviving work has long been an intriguing subject for art historians. Vasari chronicled multiple pieces of Giorgione’s life, including what probably had a large influence of Giorgione’s work—a meeting with Leonardo da Vinci during the Tuscan master’s visit to Venice in 1500 . Vasari also attributed…