Master of Fine Arts

and also the art field itself is hardly imaginable. The symposium From Social Sculpture to Art related Action deals with the history of socially committed art, what has changed from the term “social sculpture” by Joseph Beuys in the 1970’s and how the concept developed in an international context. Joseph Beuys had the need to get a deep understanding of the human being and his connection with the universe. He also believes anyone can be an artist which made him very influential. “Art alone…

Eyck and the sensitive feelings of Rogier van der Weyden, creating his own style of art. In Ghent, Hugo was the dean of the painters’ guild. An artisan guild was organized by occupation and exerted quality control of its members and administered education with an apprenticeship system. It was a master-apprentice system, where apprentices commonly finished the smaller details on a piece of work letting the master complete the more important figures. His major work was an unusually large…

decided to follow his own aesthetic feelings and created works full of self. Goya is said to be the last of the old masters and…

Art during the 1800s represented reality and detail. Artists were concerned with the fine finishing and details of the subjects they painted. Salons had conservative juries who screened and approved artwork that could be displayed for the public. In Paris, artists like Édouard Manet and Claude Monet would begin to challenge the status quo of art during the1860s. They influenced art in a movement that would be called impressionism. Impressionist wanted to capture the changes in the…

way to put their ever-expanding thoughts and emotions into a tangible form. I believe art used to be a form of ‘decorativeness’. For others to express themselves in various forms. “Art is expression; what is expressed often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skillful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.” George…

new lands and make life easier for those around it. The Egyptian thrive on the river as we do in Chicago from Lake Michigan. If we didn’t used the earth natural resources we couldn’t even image where we would be at. If our ancient relative haven’t master transportation by air, land and sea we wouldn’t have any great explores searching for new lands and riches. Nature is a gift and today we don’t give it enough credit for all the help it has given human being. We have slowly turn our back to it…

skills, and his beautiful creations of glass art work. Chihul’s life is well marked by his wonderful glassblowing capabilities. Chihuly is having a wonderful life, even though early on in life he had a rough, miserable, and a grief filled childhood after losing both his brother then his father within two years. Chihuly also quit high school, and later on gained inspiration to go back and get a degree, then start work, and begins his life of glass art. Dale Chihuly was born on 20th August 1941…

to be a correlation between age and complexity of the picture drawn. Meaning that the young toddlers have not yet fully developed the fine motor skills necessary to create detailed pictures. This also gave me a little insight as to the difference in the way the crayons were held among the varying ages. Again, I attributed this difference to the development of fine motor and small motor…

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…

Frey’s 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…