New media art

In times of conflict, society has often turned to the arts in order to cope with and make sense of the world’s shifting socioeconomic and political matters. In addition to that, music and art have often been used as a type of call to action. Especially before the twentieth century, music in war has been used in the form of drum cadences for marching into combat, as well as summoning servicemen into battle (Dobney). The rise of American jazz music in the 1920s challenged traditional values by…

There are many exciting careers in the art field! In addition, there are many specialized art schools to choose from. In particular, I searched different types of art schools that will help me obtain a well-rounded animation study for a great successful career. Luckily, I narrowed the various choices to three schools, and the Arts Institute of Fort Lauderdale happened to be one of those choices. This school will prepare me for a triumphant and memorable occupation in the animation field due to…

to Japonism and ukiyo-e because his brother ran an art gallery and he lived next to one. He was fascinated with the designs, colors, and compositions of the artwork he had seen in Japonisme work and started collecting ukiyo-e prints. In 1887, he was inspired by a Japanese landscape painter, Utagawa Hiroshige, and started creating his oil painting. This makes his piece a form of Japonisme, as this means the influence of Japanese art on Western art (“Japonisme”). Van Gogh’s recreation slightly…

Walking into the Princeton University Art Museum, the first gallery displays an exceptional acrylic on canvas, Tan Tan Bo. The painting stands as a huge work of art almost covering an entire wall. The vibrant colors of the work drew my eyes to the radiant painting. The grand size and the colors of this work popped out to me and made me stare at it for a while. Its complexity with so much happening almost everywhere you look catches your eyes and makes you wonder. In a gallery surrounded by…

looked to the Japanese as inspiration for their own art. Artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso have utilized the Japanese style, known as Japonisme to give their art a fresh look, or just to experiment with new things. A very accomplished artist, James Tissot, used this Japanese style in his earlier works. Tissot began his art career in the mid 1850’s while studying in college. It was in the 1860’s when he began to experiment with the eastern art style that many of his successors would…

problem in our modern society, we need only look at the recent the shootings of young black males by police officers in our urban cities or the escalating rate of homicides among our youths in order to fully understand the extent of how the exposure to media violence plays an important role in the causes for violent behavior. By seeing violence over and over, we learn to accept and tolerate violence, and it comes to be seen as normal. Repeatedly watching violent images reinforces the myths,…

Barbara Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey in 1945. She was an only child who had a typical middle class upbringing. Both her parents worked - her mother as a legal secretary and her father as a chemical technician. As an undergraduate she obtained admission at Syracuse University where she enrolled in a number of art and design classes. After only one year at Syracuse, she moved to Parsons School of Design,New York and took more advanced art and design classes. • She was greatly…

African Art During 5th Century BC, African people started using Art for visual social for forms and practices. African artwork has influenced a variety of artworks towards the outside of Africa. They used a variety of media articles. African created new inventions, style, and entertainment. Africans use mainly wood to create sculptures and masks. In African Artwork, it all began when Africans started painting in the caves. As they began to try a new style of painting, they started…

When I first saw The Artifact Piece by James Luna, I was confused where to start to look at the artwork. Performance art is the new way of performing art, in the way of using self-performance or physical representation to delivered the message or represent art. Through The Artifact Piece, James is lying down on the glass box which it has sand on it. He is shirtless but simply covered with a towel. I can see that through his denial of him, he is nicely dressed up and care about his daily living…

“three official transcripts on file (Syracuse U, SCSU and Univ. of New Hampshire), FIA206, Arts and Ideas II was accepted for three semester hours of credit in art. A full 12 semester hours of credit in art were not identifiable. Please submit course descriptions for the course(s) that you feel may be considered for art course work.” While is it accurate to conclude that my only “formal” credits in fine arts were earned in FIA206, Arts and Ideas II, Connecticut General Statutes relating to…