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People have their own different interpretations of the word “Art”. More interpretations most likely cause increasing disagreements. Art is a way of expressing your creative ability and imagination commonly through emotions by showing the audience rather than telling them. Art is also a universal language that is used through many platforms and one that is globally understood (citation). However, people will interpret the meaning of art differently to the way others do. The same applies to…

Appropriation Art is the concept of taking a previously imagined and created idea and altering it either dramatically or slightly to the artist’s liking to fit the artwork. It is the idea that the new work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original 'thing' remains accessible as the original, without change.The ‘copied’ artworks can be comprised of objects seen in everyday life or can be from another artist’s work.The earliest cases of Art…

Spray Paint. Stencils. Markers. Pencils. Art. Vandalism. Jail? Jackson was 17 when it happened. When his whole life turned around just because of something he enjoyed, something that helped him tell the world how he felt. Graffiti was Jackson’s only way of feeling okay even happy, but after one of his best pieces on the back of an abandoned building downtown, Jackson was arrested and charged with vandalism and destruction of private property. While some people see graffiti as vandalism and a…

instead of the person. This painting was the very first silk screen painting he made, and this painting set up a standards that other artists could compare their silk screen paintings to. Silk screen paintings were made by using a woven mesh and stencils to move paint onto another surface. The left side of the painting is bright, representing the side of Monroe often shown to the media. The right side of the painting is faded possibly representing the dark side of Monroe hidden from everyone.…

Andy Warhol used photo silkscreen process in creating his piece. To do this system Warhol used a mesh cloth that was stretched over a heavy wooden frame and then the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing. The silkscreen process before use to be only used for mass advertisements because of its fast processes. Warhol used this process…

Ergonomic consideration for Draughtsman Ergonomics is the process of designing or arranging workplaces, products and systems so that they fit the people who use them. Ergonomics applies to the design of anything that involves people – workspaces, sports and leisure, health and safety. Ergonomics is a branch of science that aims to learn about human abilities and limitations, and then apply this learning to improve people’s interaction with products, systems and environments. Ergonomics aims to…

a descent into the kind of oligarchy that he represents. Conversely, Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis adopts an approach marked by the presence of idealism despite a defeated populace. In this way, Metropolis does not conform to a stencil of a typical dystopia that is often applied to both texts. In 1984, Orwell makes clever use of Juvenalian satire to make a biting political statement regarding autocratic ideologies in his own…

Colorful writing is scrawled on walls and other public surfaces in most cities. Graffiti is unauthorized writing or drawings on public surfaces. Graffiti not only adds color but life to the streets. In todays society it is common for men and women to assume graffiti is just a name scrawled on a wall but graffiti is more than a name or a tag, it is an art form. Urban graffiti was born in New York City in the late 1960s. Taki 183, one of the first known graffiti artists, used a maker to write…

Based on the information provided by Widewalls art website, Street art started from murals, graffiti, prints, and stencils. This is quite astonishing to me because the majority of the of the artists look at graffiti as vandalism instead of artwork. During the late 20st century there was a rise in the popularity of street art such as works by Banksy in 1991 and by Swoon…

In contemporary society, social inequalities are produced and perpetuated by social structures. One prime example is social class, which is created and sustained through the use of power by different people and groups. This will be explored through two artworks by the British street artist known as Banksy, who is known to comment heaviliy on social class, to show social inequalities within contemporary society. Social class is defined in classical Marxist theory as a three level structure where…