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classical works of a famous artist in the past like Van Gogh or Leonardo da Vinci because their paintings are too valuable for the museums displaying them to give up. Therefore, the museum should focus on the contemporary arts of the 21st Century. The modern arts are still very unpopular considering to classical arts. Hence, this art movement can make the museum…

was speaking to a mixed audience: some bohemians and mostly bourgeoisie. This contrast between audience members shows one of the major paradoxes of the modern, which I refer to as the theatre price paradox, where the intended audience (the common man) does not attend plays originally written for their empowerment and benefit due to a lack of financial resources. This paradox still exists in contemporary times, as the high costs of tickets to today’s major Broadway shows make access difficult…

Project Space First Draft The Los Angeles County Museum of Art well known as LACMA is home to thousands of artworks spanning all through history from ancient civilizations to modern exhibits of present artists. There is no doubt LACMA is consumed by art that demonstrates diversity even the most unlikely kind of art can be found. The space is filled with the freedom of an open atmosphere and transparency of images representing…

City view by Osnat Tzadoc is a modern day contemporary abstracts piece, presented as a vibrant coloured oil painting as a stretched canvas, over a wooden frame sizes 4foot by 2 foot. Best appreciated in a spacious area on a plain background, to enhance the hues , cast and texture of the work. Osnat’s art has appeared on TV Drama’s and adverts- an artist recognised in her time. She is a Canadian artist who uses real life and realistic approaches to here abstract form. Being self-taught she show…

This pair of artworks applies entirely different medias; however, both aim to achieve a sense of Scottish national identity. In Leviathan Elegy, there are three dimensional works combined together to construct an almost museum-like display in a manner of natural history exhibit, which can be seen in the labeling of the sculptural forms with single letter A from letter G in the top panel. These labels resemble that of the natural history museums that are used to define orthodox narrative or…

The PowerPoint eight sheds a light on my knowledge and understanding about ballet. I am totally astonished to learn in the “History of Ballet” video that King Louis XIV was the father of this kind of art form. That is probably why I always feel and view ballet as one of the most graceful and classy types of dance. Even though ballet is typical and unique with five basic steps or positions that were invented by King Louis XIV and still applied till today, it has a wide variety of aspects and has…

haunted house to partake in a study of its paranormal activity. Eleanor Vance, the protagonist, is exceptionally susceptible to the haunting and feels oddly drawn to the house, with her life ultimately ending in suicide after she was ordered to leave. Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the 1930s during the time of a depression and follows the story of Charlie (as himself) and his precarious…

paint what he sees and is who he is. They began to understand light and color and even pigmentations of oil and other chemicals (1). Yet rather than painting scenes from insides they wanted to paint the world, as the world, outside in that moment in modern, contemporary life. These Impressions were heavily influenced by Japanese Woodprints that illustrated the trade between Japan and the West in the last 1800s (1). They referred to this art as Uliyo-e means “fleeting or floating science”.…

Rachel Lowry writes in her essay “Straddling Online and Offline Profiles, Millennials Search for Identity” that according to a recent online study, one out of four Millennials say they can only be their true self when alone (p. 500). But in this modern age of social media and smartphones, are we ever truly alone? Everyone can be connected with people all over the world in a second, and everyone can easily find out information about whoever they want with a simple Google search. Consequently,…

Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert were at the forefront of style and artistic innovation. It was popular at the time, and continues to be to this day, to create art that does not depict the true nature of reality. As the trends of art were in full swing towards cubism, which tended to utilize a more muted color palette, the Delaunay’s wanted to bring back color in their works while still depicting geometric forms. The new movement used to describe the works of the Delaunay’s was called…