Prehistoric art

Graffiti: To be Art, or not to be? Whenever you take a stroll through downtown, anywhere, old buildings and alleyways are stricken with spray painted works. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings”. The painted works draw your attention and can create feelings of peace, danger, wistfulness, merriment, sadness, or even anger. No matter what you may feel about the…

My visit to the Tampa Museum of Art took place on the 4th of February 2017. The Tampa Museum of Art is located at the heart of downtown Tampa and is home to some of the most widely acclaimed creative works of art in the United States. I had never been to a museum prior to my visit. My visit to the Tampa museum was very informative and a rare occasion to learn about the beauty of art. I was pretty anxious from the beginning because I didn’t know where to start, but after speaking with a security…

it there are underlying social and political messages within this art form. While the government considers itself an entity that promotes social responsibility, by stigmatizing graffiti, it limits the artistic rights of its citizens. Each generation overrides the previous art placed in public spaces, graffiti becomes layers of artistic change, reflecting each new community it represents. Graffiti itself has existed since prehistoric times and has been able to give us insight into more recent…

INTRODUCTION The Expressionism movement is an impressive modern art movement that depicted subjective emotion rather than objective reality. This movement used distortion, exaggeration and different elements to express the artist’s feelings that made it different from any other movement (artmonement.co). It has a unique sense of artistic style that uses intense colors and agitated brushstrokes with high qualities that not only affected fine art but also theatre, literature and many more…

My essay today will focus on the history of Igor Stravinsky with my main concept and interest being on his early work “The Rite of Spring”. “The Rite of Spring” was a piece which caused Igor Stravinsky to go down in history as someone who challenged the norms of music and who changed music traditions forever. As you will see further on in my essay Stravinsky's innovative ideas were not initially loved and respected but instead frowned upon and hated. I can personally relate to some concepts…

Representation in Museums In 1910, the art of the Native American culture began to be displayed in art museums. The first was an art museum in Brooklyn, which presented Native American culture’s works as serious art. The curator, Stuart Culin, selected one tribe to represent the entire region of North America. Objects exhibited in the museum were organized based on their function. Very descriptive labels, photographs, small-scale models, and others means were used to attempt to portray the…

“Performance” from Grove Music Online states: “Music-making is a virtually universal human activity. At its most fundamental, it is a form of private biological necessity […]. At its most elevated, musical performance is public property.” Within the last 5 decades, the practice of historically informed performance (hereafter HIP) has instituted itself as one of the most important concepts for performance of early music. Problems faced by today’s performers are: what makes a “good performance?…

two more of their art works that share similar characteristics with one another. Plensa and Dill both focus on human figures when building their sculptures and paintings as well. The colors and size in which these artists use can be compared to. Plensa and Dill’s sculptures can be compared by the looks and the messages that they portray. But on the other side of things,…

of the three lessons Jeanette learned from her mom was appretiatiance for the arts. Rose Mary did not care about parenting. She just specified on the arts. Rose Mary was a stay at home mom who had a teaching degree but instead of helping the family out financially especially when they were homeless she still valued finishing her paintings. When Jeanette burned herself cooking, Rose Mary was painting. The importance of art was deeply instilled in Rose Mary. That’s why Jeanette always felt Rose…

On the very top of the poster is the phrase “The Return of the Great Adventure,” which indicates that this movie is a part of a sequel. Typically, when another movie is made that is part of a sequel, many people are interested in them. The author probably chose to include this phrase on the poster to get the viewer’s attention and interest them. The title of this movie is “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” This title is written in multi colors. The main colors in this title include red, yellow, and…