Japanese art

it heavily affects their mental health and generally causes stress for the person. A well known and relatively simple way to express oneself is to make art. Whether it be through painting, writing, music, singing and really anything one could imagine. Art therapy is also a common type of therapy. Expressive art therapy is the use of creative arts as a form of therapy and is a…

For my Spanish cultural event, I went to Metropolitan Museum of Art with my friend Emily during the spring break. It is located in upper Manhattan near central park. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is also known as “The Met.” This Museum have a great quality collections of art in different floors, there is four floors in the museum. However, the third and fourth floor was through reservation so I wasn’t allowed to go there. Even though we got lost since the place was huge we were thrilled to see…

Las Meninas painted in 1656 with oil on canvas, is a depiction of everyday life of the royal Spanish family where Diego Velazquez was able to show a real moment in time, avoiding idealism and capturing truth. Velazquez was a court painter of the royal family, King Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna, which he worked hard at to achieve, and wanted to show this achievement to others. When viewing the painting the obvious focal point is Princess Margarita who stands out from the center, dressed in…

José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Leonardo’s entire art career was based on observation and testing of theories. Because of his curiosity, artists in the 16th century, were able to build on Leonardo’s work to create other masterpieces that were more exact. Leonardo had been taught 15th century painting traditions and was ready to test out new ideas. Some of his ideas are believed to have come to him through observing nature while in the countryside of Florence. He began this testing process by thinking and drawing the overall…

sexual desires. Anna Chave makes some valid points and explains the reason that painters chose to portray their images in this way gave me a new outlook into what they hoped to convey. The opening grabs the reader’s attention, “What is the modern art-historical equivalent of The Greatest Story Ever Told? What else but the monumental Demoiselles d’Avignon?” (Page 597). It seems that historians are both praising and criticizing Picasso for his painting of “the five rather alien-looking…

Over the course of college level art classes, the work produced has drastically changed from beginning to end of the three-year long career. The process of making a painting begins with, ultimately, thinking too hard about the subject matter and composition. Once starting to determine subject matter, other painters are researched, such as Bonnard and Philip Guston. This gives ideas in terms of composition, color palette, and complexity of the subject matter. The influences of these two artists…

Fashion and art have been essential in my life, serving as a method to exhibit my emotions, thoughts, and desires. Ever since I entered the University of California, Los Angeles, I felt as if I could never find an environment that allowed me express my artistic abilities while still being an activist and agent of change for marginalized groups. I feel as if joining the Cultural Affairs Commission, and holding a position in the Hip-Hop Congress, will provide me a platform in which to I can fully…

In her work Reflections, Agnes Martin discusses what the goals of an artist should be. Through a cultivation of self-awareness, one can find the key to success through the rejection of perfection. With encouragement of action, not direct results, she gives the striving artist the push towards action that will result in what they want, regardless if the outcome is good or bad. Martin begins her discussion with the notion that perfection is a mystery and not easily obtainable. When perfection is…

video games were practically spat upon by those in “high-art” circles. Seen as mindless time killers, barely worth a mention, they were isolated from discussion for the better part of a quarter century. However, as years passed and technology evolved, the medium as a whole evolved with it. Development tools became more accessible to the masses, providing any person with an idea to tell a story that pushes the boundaries of the medium and of art itself. Despite these clear evolutions, there are…