Master of Arts

The Arts are not a Waste We see a wall, whose height impresses on us the idea that it is thoroughly unbreachable; we see an obstacle, who, like the wall before, only serves to hold us back; and we see an impossibility — to which we cry and despair, for who can do what can 't be done? Yet, to an artist of any kind, a wall is but a canvas on which their success will hang, an obstacle is but a challenge through which the artist will persevere, and an impossibility is but an opportunity to do…

exhibition, which was not successful. Though for Renoir, the exhibits brought recognition to his art work from patrons, and he got paid portrait projects to make a living. In the 1880s, Renoir departed from Impressionism and his artist friends. He was looking for inspiration, so he traveled Italy to rediscovered some of his old master's’ works. During this time, he began to outline his figures in his art works to give them clarity. This time period is also where Renoir’s least successful works…

Art is influenced by everything around it, it comes as a direct result of the cultural sphere it occurs within. The Italian group of painters known as the Macchiaioli are no different from this rule, during the nineteenth-century they took outside influences to create a new esthetic that reflected their personal ideals. Although how independently this new esthetic came about, and who influenced them directly can varied. Depending on the point of view of the author writing on the Macchiaioli,…

Conquer” by Marco Grassi is about two artists, Jacopo Carucci called Pontormo and Giovanni Battista di Jacopo called Rosso Fiorentino and the people who influenced them, what they learned, and how they had grew as artists. Having both studied under Master Del Sarto these two artists would continue to grow, but each would have their own style. Del Sarto, who had learned from Leonardo, his works typically depicted elements of a grand and monumental style. These three artists would create something…

Toronto, Canada onNovember 15, 1923. Her talent rose at age of six when her father gave her weekly drawing assignments. She was a student at the Museum of Modern Art and learned to draw from the nude model at age 14, when she attended Federal Art Project classes. She received both her undergraduate (1945) and graduate (1946, 1949) degrees in art from the University of Iowa, where she studied printmaking with Mauricio Lasansky. While at the university, Schapiro met and married the artist Paul…

Night and Day Hong is largely seen as a master of the essay art films. The film, Night and Day, follows an artist, Kim Seong-nam’s journey in Paris after escaping the Korean government and leaving his wife behind. The film references three common themes of Hong’s style; an artist as a protagonist, an aspect of rebellion, and travel as an excursion. In the film, the artist’s escape from Paris as a result of using Marijuana represents deviance. The film uses romance as a style to further augment…

Art isn’t about what you can depict from it, but how it makes you feel as you gaze upon it. Recently I went on an excursion to MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Arts, located in North Miami, Fl. The temporary exhibit is “Beijing Booster” the works of Peter Wayne Lewis. The exhibit is showcasing 30-40 pieces of artwork. Of course some peak more interest than others; nevertheless Peter Wayne Lewis energy is definitely projected in the galleries. Peter Wayne Lewis was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West…

Art from the Ground Up Art is everywhere, it surrounds us from the buildings we stay to the nature we enjoy. However, art in all its phenomena is still underrated to this day. As an Art major, I have been asked, “What can you do with art?” I have also been told that I will be a failure and poor for the rest of my life if I rely on art. These statements created an opposite effect. It was intended to discourage me but, instead it gave me the chance to prove people wrong. Art is not worthless, it…

For this art analysis I decided to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art. After an hour or so of visiting through the many and various exhibitions and galleries offered at the SAMA I stumbled upon a gallery that caught my attention, the Latin America Modern Contemporary exhibition. At the gallery the first art piece that I observed was “El Brujo de Malasia”. “El Brujo de Malasia” is an art piece from the Mexican artist Sergio Hernandez. “El Brujo de Malasia” is a painting composed of oil and sand…

extremely shy young boy – insecure to a point – he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years until his death, Dali at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to his determination in perfecting his own hallucinatory images and fabricating memories that would…