Master of Fine Arts

In visual Artwork an important component is the usage of colors. Color usage in visual art can either portray meaning in a piece, provide an emotion from the piece, display the piece’s subject in particular detail, allow for strategy in the pattern on how someone may look at the piece, provide an interesting perspective of the subject, and as well certain colors may just be used because the artist does not have access to other colors in their medium on or available to them or for that medium.…

The Skin I Live In reinterprets the relationship between the artist and his art, and the connotations of the reclining nude as mediated through the Titian’s Renaissance masterpiece Venus of Urbino. Robert’s mansion is filled with a collection of reclining nude paintings, ranging from Renaissance to Modern. Titian’s larger than…

The recent trend of cutting funding to art programs in public schools who are financially strained has sparked and interest in the impact of art programs on the wellbeing of students. This has led to a debate centered around whether or not fine arts education are beneficial enough to the students and staff to continue fighting for funding. Opposers argue that the money could be used in academics and that the arts provide no real life skills that are applicable after graduation. With more and…

Reading Assignment #1 The Human Phenomenon & the language of Art and Architecture When I read this first chapter of my arts and culture book I realized how fascinating and important art is. Art is in everything we do whether we know it or not. It’s in every object we contain and building/structure we have ever seen. It’s also different in every culture and it a good way to communicate feelings, culture, and customs to others. An example of this I found when reading was on page 16. It was Tim…

Different movements The Arts and Craft Movement inspired William Morris and Will Bradley, both, which was a social movement of modern art. It started during the late 1800 in Britain and the style was known as the Mission in the USA, the movement use to challenge the perception of the Victorian era. During this time period England…

Art is a influential mode of communication as it has the power to be a direct reflection of the cultural conditions surrounding the artist at the time of the arts creation. Art shows a side of history rarely portrayed in ancient textbooks. I has the ability to lay bare the subconscious opinions, values, and beliefs of individuals and cultures that the individuals and cultures do not even recognize in themselves. Think of artwork as a reflection of the difference between the soul and the mind.…

I am grateful that my exposure to art came at an early age. I used to sit in my father’s kitchen, mirroring his movements as he sketched scenes from life in Mississippi. My sister and I would think of titles for his paintings as they dried on the living room floor. My initial curiosity for his work eventually developed into a genuine desire to explore the arts further. After finding my own path through art history, honing my artistic skills, and expanding my knowledge of different cultures, I…

sculpture art. He was born in Manila, Philippines and then migrated to Los Angeles at the age of ten. After, he relocated to San Francisco to attend college and later became a professor at San Francisco University. He also received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA at Stanford University. “(Michael’s work has been) exhibited at venues including the Asian Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,…

My intended major is film studies. My career goals are to be a professional editor that My interest in film began when I met a movie, “The Mummy” in 2000. The director, Stephen Sommers, filmed this action and adventure movie about Egypt in 1999. This film told me different ethnic culture and it gave a shock to my heart. The mummy had the fast pacing with a lot of action, comedy, and special CG effects. It was my first time to watch the Egyptian culture movie and was interested. I was raised and…

sudden increase in accessibility of university education and graduate degrees in fine arts in the mid 20th century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than four decades, tracing his journey through curation, performance, photography, video, installation and architecture. Graham’s work is based within conceptual art, an example of this being his ‘Schema’ (1966), which was a work he staged…