Installation art

was omnipresent, like Augustus’ portraits. Under totalitarian rule, artists and designers hid truths and promoted ideologies in print. Their techniques were clever and persuasive. The Soviets used art to promote ideas of a new society and a new man. This propaganda was used to win over the intellectuals as well as the average man. Similar to Augustus, Stalin stressed himself as the leader. When Stalin came to power, he sent the region into full communism and demanded more industrialization.…

to be destroyed afterwards. Thomas Demand, born in 1964 in Munich, is among the most outstanding artists of our times, primarily a sculptor-slash-photographer, active also as a curator. Demand began his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1987-90), but it was at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf (1990-2) and Goldsmith's College in London (1993-4), where his artistic language has been finally shaped. Instead of the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher, an origin of the…

photography, video, costume and installation in the representations of her work. Orr professes her interest in creating distilled photographic images. Working in close collaboration with the photographer, she is simultaneously actor, director and producer in the narratives she constructs. “The photographic and video documentation is the artwork. This is where I believe I differ from most other performance artists who have not necessarily worked with images in mind as the final art work. Their…

member of multiple artistic genres and art theorist of the 20th century. Beginning his career as an apprentice in photolithography, Vostell moved on to study at the Academy of Arts of Wuppertal, Germany, remaining a student from 1854 to 1855. From that point on, Wolf Vostell began to travel across Europe, soon developing his concept of the “décollage” style while in Paris. France However, Vostell did return to his studies, attending the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris for some time before a…

the art museum being a neutral container for the disposal of art and recognized the verbal and visual methods employed in representation that leads to canonization through its establishment as a secular temple . The museum became the facilitator of modern ideological fiction . The ancient rhetoric, that observes the museum as communicator or orator, trying to persuade the public of the importance of its message through ethos, pathos and logos, can be effectively used in order to dissect art…

exciting text that provides an elaborate exposition of his career as a pre-eminent artist in the United States. His flamboyant and contorted glassworks are a unique and conspicuous trademark displayed across the globe. Chihuly described his works of art as trade blankets. In fact, in the preliminary sections of his book, he pointed out that the book documents the variety and beauty of his trade blankets or glasswork. On this account, the author’s review presents an historical background of the…

as the journey’s destination and the underlying theme is Time. 4.5.1 Spirals and Journeys. A key development in the Scottish art scene came in the 1970s with the work of Richard Demarco in bringing together artists whose views helped to change opinion on what constituted art in Scotland. Demarco has been described as ‘a pioneer in Scotland of the notion of contemporary art as firmly integrated with the landscape, whether through the making of a journey or of…

I am writing to apply for Museum Educator being offered by the education department in Museum of the Moving Image. I received my MFA from the Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York with a focus on interdisciplinary practice, working mainly with time-based media and interactive projections. While at the School of Visual Arts, I worked as a teaching assistant in both sculpture and New Media classes. My teaching experience includes responsibilities for course preparation,…

schools offer arts programs, such as theatre and music, since 2000. Art improves students’ behavior as well as students’ math and reading skills. The No Child Left Behind Act mandates that the arts as a core subject. Students who study art are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement than students who do not study art. In public schools, art is needed for students who do not have much access to art programs. Art is a global activity included by a host of disciplines. Art…

describes how art has had such an impact on the way that she views different aspects of life. She started her essay by describing a Jesus mural behind a baptismal at a Baptist church when she was only seven years old. The mural became a very important piece of work to her and it allowed her to view art in a different way. Allison uses very descriptive language when it comes to explaining art. Later in her life she compared writing to art. In her mind writing is a form art in itself. Just like…