Street art

Sofia Coppola is a visually stylish filmmaker. A penchant for aesthetically pleasing fashion, photography, and art has largely contributed to her oeuvre. Beauty is self-conscious throughout her work with sensuality becoming an all-important part of the viewing process. The numerous pastels, fluid camerawork, and contemporary soundtracks have often been dubbed as the Coppola “Dreamscape.” On the surface, these “dreamscapes” are incredibly inviting. Viewers are forced to feel instead of watching…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…

Twist Postmodernism, a movement in the late 20th century, followed the Modernism movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. The Modernism movement is characterized as a movement that steered away from 19th century traditions in art, religion and faith, and literature. It encouraged rebellion against the cultural norm, was a change for the believed “outdated” day to day life, and focused on finding the meaning/root. At the time, it was believed that science and reason have the…

Homelessness, a term so familiar to most people, a term that is so often talked about in such a casual way, but most importantly, a term that has to change. There are thousands of people in the city of San Francisco who have been declared homeless. As mentioned in a SF Gate article, “The most recent homeless count, conducted in January 2015, found 6,686 homeless people in the city” (Knight). It is important to know that although it is a huge number, not every single homeless person is included…

Caring and therapeutic relationships are interrelated, as nursing can be defined as the comprehension and art of caring, whereas caring can be conveyed as a relational interaction (Arli, Bakan, Ozturk, Erisik, & Yildirim, 2017). Therapeutic relationships include the utilization of silence, understanding, observation, openness, expression, time, encouragement…

face, a century old definition of facade: solid, symmetrical, and set to right angles from the axis of approach. Transitioning to the Robie House, the dramatics of deceit were brought into the mix as there was no apparent front door or façade for the street on the axis which Wright designed. Being that the interior possesses hardly any solid walls, it seems to the passerby that the building is assembled out of large blocks, roofs which float freely, and horizontal lines to carry the eyes…

the town now fear the reverend due to the black veil, and his wife feels she must now address this issue. With kind words of removing the veil failing, she moves on to explaining that “although he is beloved and respected, there are whispers on the street that he hides his face under secret sin” (Hawthorne). By wearing this veil, Hooper creates a gloomy cloud of fear and confusion. Without any proper context as to why he wears it, the public must come to its own conclusion, this conclusion being…

and to hide it would be the equivalent of hiding themselves from who they are. In today’s popular culture it is widely celebrated and encouraged to be able to express one’s self freely and proudly, and tattoos let people do that through beautiful art. Although a lot of tattoos are copied or repeats of the past, like sailors today getting WW2 tattoos, it still represents who that person is and what they…

Susan Rothenberg I chose to write about Susan Rothenberg she is a very influential artist. She was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945. In 1966, she graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1967, she went to Washington DC and studied at George Washington University and the Corcoran Museum School. In 1969, she moved to New York, she met and married sculptor George Traka’s from 1971-1979. The couple has a daughter, and her name is Maggie, she was…

in other words I can say that the museum is the machine that makes up move and see things in one particular way, but what if instead of us moving across the machine, the machine moves around us. Spaces that change, works of art with out any descriptions. A new way to view art. Jonathan Crary says that stereoscope changed the way people looked at the world, with the change of perspective. So why not change the paradigm of the museum with the same change of perspective, making public…