History of art

WPA (the Works Progress Administration) was funding for the arts as part of a relief program. She was ecstatic to hear she could finally obtain a job to provide for her family. This artist was put in the position of poverty because after WWI, the economy was booming and the American society went through a prosperous period known as the Roaring 20s. In 1929, there was an excessive amount of spending, thus the stock market crashed (History). This devastation affected every class because people…

Evaluate the claim that what constitutes ‘art’ is highly dependant on social and cultural context. In a world where one can roll out of bed leaving a disarray of sheets and strewn tissues and call it art (Emin 1998), we could be forgiven for believing that the former famous greats of the art world such as Van Gogh and Da Vinci might well be turning in their graves at the preposterous levels at which art can be declared within our contemporary society. This begs the debate of what is it that we…

to open their bibles and get their relief from reading just a few pages. Although there are many different religions beliefs and cultures around the world, as a group we believe that the Ten Commandments painting is a great piece of religious art, and placed in the front or in the antechamber of a new Christian and Jewish Interfaith Cultural and Historical Center would reflect a great unity in the largest religion and its beliefs,…

growing popularity, is that his art did not follow current social issues that shaped the time. In the 1980’s and 90’s was a decade of change in the art world. There was a rise in cultural inequalities that was expressed with different medium and style. Along with this, there was the growing media exposure and the technology of the Internet (Allenchey). Lots of changes of social issues and media technical developments that Chia’s artwork did not confront. The art world at the time was…

Society’s demands mandate art. A society’s lust for the ‘new’ and ‘innovative’ often tramples the old. Such was the case with tapestry in the 16th century as the Renaissance swept over Europe. Tapestry-makers bent to the demands of society to include Renaissance ideas into tapestry, ultimately leading to their own demise. By examining the aesthetic differences between Gothic and Renaissance Tapestry, one can examine the damage that occurred as cartoonists and weavers began applying Renaissance…

Volunteering for the Creative Time Summit allowed me to participate in the production of a large scale, multi-day conference that connects the arts with social justice. Attendee’s included Innovative artists, activists, writers, and curators. As the Junior Producer and Gallery Coordinator at the creative communication agency Exposure, I was responsible for all the in-house exhibition logistics…

David Batchelor stated in his essay ‘Unpopular Culture’ of 1995 “Artists have a responsibility to art, not to anything else, or anyone else”1. To truly understand this statement you must first understand how the cultural field operates in art society either economically, politically, and culturally. Therefore detaching yourself from any social or moral ties to the rest of humanity. I understand that this statement can be read on lots of different levels, by first looking at commitment and the…

life-size but larger than life Pink Lady. In 1956, Frey received a bachelor of fine arts at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, then received a Master of Fine Arts from Tulane in 1958. She settled in Oakland, where she became a tenured professor in ceramics at CCA in 1965. Her work is renowned for its non-classical, unique form and thematic notations regarding “gender, cultural iconography, and art history.” Her piece Pink Lady was sculpted from stoneware, glazed, and painted 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…

consisted of Diorite. Their physical dimensions are quite similar, and they also belong to the same timeline of 8000 – 2000 BC, but the chronology of Memi and Sabu is Egyptian while the chronology of Gudea is Mesopotamian (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d.). The medium that the statues were made of can be indicative of the abundance of the natural resource available to those regions during those time periods. Due to similar subsistence and agricultural lifestyles of both the ancient…