The Art of War

William Marcellous Lindgren Asian Art Collection Reception in the Miller Center occurring from 4-5 PM. This event displayed St. Cloud State’s large collection of Asian art such as paintings, sculptures, stone carvings, metalwork, decorative arts, and ceramics. All of these art pieces are from nine different countries, spanning many centuries. I learned that William Lindgren was a former professor here at St. Cloud State University, and he donated his collection of Asian art to SCSU upon his…

The visual arts are vital to society because they portray scenes in unique and emotional ways, which other types of art such as literature sometimes cannot. Situations which art portrays well are violence, a theme that has been reoccurring throughout the centuries. Throughout the centuries, artists have used various mediums to portray the various effects of violence on society. Although similar, each piece of art displays a different underlying theme of violence. Whether it is a lithograph,…

“Kill for Peace” was created in 1967. The work of art has multiple editions and one of them is currently in the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The mediums of the work of art consist of printmaking, and is a screenprint on cardboard with “bullet holes”. The painting is medium sized at 23 ¼ inch by 19 ¼ inch. Carol Summer’s piece titled “Kill for Peace” is a dark, naturalistic work of art that depicts a family’s position in a war between violence and peace. Some figures…

In this lecture, the author introduces a piece of art and literary movement that was influenced by World War I. In the first few paragraphs he explains 2 movements that were created inclined by the war. He provides a general artistic background followed by an extended example. The author offers a postmodern writer, named Kurt Vonnegut Jr, a well-known American author. He is well known for his style of writing, often jumping around in time, place and character between each chunk of texts. In…

The Nazis controlled many things during World War II including art. Hitler used art to help him gain power and take control. He made it very clear what his art preference was by regulating all of the art. Hitler was a very manipulative man and used his power to get what he wanted. He used art to sway people in his favor. Art started being used as propaganda, he knew how powerful propaganda was and used it to its full ability. Hitler had two official artists for the Third Reich; one of which was…

human, art is to an artist “Life”. When I first registered to the course everyone started to tell me you should have taken another elective class, you don’t know how to draw nor to imagine what have you done, drop it and take something else. Today I am done with this course and I am really happy that I didn’t drop it. Art is not only drawing it has various broad. I learned a lot through this course, specifically how life is seen from another person’s view. The word contemporary is defined as art…

On November 18, 2016, I went to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, where the motto is “The Secret to Life is in Art .” Prior to my visit to the museum, I was already familiar with it due to the fact that, two of my works of art from high school, was shown there. Even though this was true, I still had not actually looked through the museum. Prior to this course, I did not have much of an appreciation or care for art because of how “overrated” it seems today. But with the knowledge and…

May 3, 1808 (Goya, 1814). The Executions of May 3, 1808 Introduction Artwork analysis involves a thorough scrutiny on how the Elements of Art and Principles of Composition have been applied in a given piece of art. The purpose of the analysis is to determine whether the artwork meets the threshold both in composition principles and in the use of elements of art. Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808 is an impressive artwork whose style and message are as interesting as its history.…

sponsored an international exhibit in the Albright Art Gallery. More than five hundred photographs occupied over half of the gallery space. By this time in history the photograph has finally reached its art status. Photography was not used only for art purposes. It was used in wars to take aerial photos of the surrounding grounds. It was used as propaganda to boost moral or to “clearly show” who the enemy was in times of war. It was used to show what war was like. Robert Capa took an iconic…

Effects of Art The documentary "The Rape of Europa" is about the war on European art that took place during World War II. During this war countless pieces of art were either destroyed or stolen by the Nazis. Adolph Hitler--and other Nazi leaders--destroyed "condemned" art or systematically stole pieces that were desired for personal collections. When watching this documentary one can clearly see the effect that art--or lack of art--can have on people. "Condemned" art were modern pieces of…