The Art of War

most important components. Both mediums create huge responses from their audiences, as these forms of art serve to let the audience experience something viscerally, all the while letting them connect these emotions to specific events occurring around them. Both world wars and the Cold War greatly impacted film and literature in Europe, ultimately leading to different ways to connect and understand art. At the beginning of the century, film was a new, visual way to tell stories. With the first…

After years of starting and stopping classes, changing majors and having a successful career for the last 15 years, I finally chose a major that is close to my heart: art. Currently, I am a graphic designer and would like to have a Bachelor’s in Fine Art, with my end goal being to complete a Master’s program and begin teaching art at the college level. Job markets and people have influenced my decisions in the past. These influences may change my mind again but for now, I am on this track. I…

YouTube has revolutionized the art of movie making in the last few years. Where once someone needed complex equipment, industry access, and specialized skills, now one can go to the nearest tech store and be ready to film in minutes. Thanks to the accessibility YouTube and other sites grant individuals, the internet has become obsessed with creating representations of individuals’ daily lives. Take a look at any blog, gaming, or art channel, and one sees this trend. This trend embodies the…

Tate Gallery ‘As applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter’ (Tate) .This happened around the mid nineteen century when there was a huge rise in industrialisation and wealth in the western world. The world was opening up with machines taking over many jobs. Railways were been created on every continent. Ordinary people could go and explore many places. At the time there was a huge disaffection with the art world in its staid…

The artist Pablo Picasso has greatly impacted the development of modern and contemporary art. His work includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings and much more. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, In Málaga, on the southern Spanish coast. Picasso’s father, José Ruiz Blasco, supported the family by teaching drawing at the local art school. At the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. His father was a traditional,…

the Russian civil war, when their government was in constant upheaval. Their vision for film translates into a vision for life, a vision for a Utopian Society, where everyone lives equally, works like a well-oiled machine and acknowledges that daily life is art. Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) was a filmmaker during an upheaval of societal values in Russia, the formation of the Soviet state. His career started recording natural sounds and other sound effects and as a newsreel filmmakers…

In my opinion, History, religion, and art are all related because they have all been cultures for the past and the present communities. Religion affects the elements of art and history affects both the elements of religion and art. History cannot be affected by either element and art cannot affect the element of religion because religion is formed by the beliefs of the community. The element of religion affects art because artists in communities paint about what they believe in or what…

Lucy Lippard defines activist art as trying to “combine social action, social theory, and the fine arts tradition, in a spirit of multiplicity and integration.” She also describes activist art as being free from any particular style, as a movement for cultural democracy, and as a way of giving a voice to the seemingly invisible and powerless victims of social and political injustice. Thus, many artists have produced activist art for the purpose of expressing their positions on particular…

An explosion of new ideas and cultures came about from the post World War universe. The world from the 1950s until the present day has been filled with these blossoming ideas, as a response to the shocking and harsh realities brought forth by the devastating World Wars. Despite some rejection of traditional values, these ideas still have roots embedded in philosophies thought up well before the the 1950s. The progression and regression of certain ideas are apparent if one looks at the historical…

Vassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, writer, teacher, art theorist and the father of abstract art. Being a trained musician, he used music in his approach to color which he made sing from the canvas. A major turning point in his style of art came after he viewed Claude Monet’s “Haystack at Giverny” at a Moscow exhibition. Over the years he perfected his style of abstract art. He inspired other artists, wrote books on his theories, worked with museums, and ballet’s, experienced his work…