The Art of War

crusades. The majority of images will come from Art History fifth edition by Maryn Stostand and as well as other documents (books, peer reviewed online journals) to understand the implications the crusades had on people. How did, the relics influence the church and people’s ideas? How would spreading the word of god generate wealth and prosperity?…

Recently I got to visit the mobile museum of art located in Mobile, Alabama. The visit was quite interesting and I got to experience the allure of detailed pieces of art that are so masterfully crafted, painted or drawn. The trip to the Mobile Museum of Art is one that I cannot forget. The Museum is a host permanent and temporary visiting collection of art. The collection available in the Museum spans the periods from the classical antiquity to the present day art. The museum is owned and…

Blasco, his father being a painter and art teacher helped build Pablo’s background. Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Throughout Pablo’s career, we see many different periods of art such as- the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism, Classical Period, and Surrealism- each period resembled the experiences of his life. Emotion was expressed through each and every one of his works of art. Picasso attended many different fine art schools, spite the fact that he…

During World War I, a group of artists came together and began a new art movement created to show their distaste towards the war, and the ideas of nationalism and materialism. This movement came to be called Dada, which is said to mean ‘hobby horse’ in French by some, but known as just baby talk by others. It was known to use Shock Art, thrusting vulgar language and scatological humour into the eye of the public, who were displeased with the new artworks. The creators said that it wasn’t a…

Initially with the unveil of the art work, the audience saw a young innocent boy and because a child is a child and they immediately assume there is no other hidden meaning to it. Once the truth was revealed that Hitler was behind the disguise of a young boy, that audiences shifts to people…

In Robert Hughes text ‘The Shock of the New’, he confronts Picasso’s painting Guernica and discusses the importance of the artwork, as well as how art/artists have changed since the production of the painting. Robert Hughes was an Australian born art critic and writer. ‘The Shock of the New’ is part of a larger text of Hughes’ called ‘The faces of Power’, and the Shock of the New was made into a television series that Hughes produced. In his text, Hughes claimed that Guernica was the last great…

be crude and racist. The Oxford Dictionary defines graffiti as being, “writings or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or in a public place,” while other people argue that it’s not illegal and is art. Which side of the story is correct? Is graffiti art or vandalism? Graffiti is a way for people to express themselves and it also can inspire people to make changes for the better. In “If Walls Could Talk,” The artist Rosembert shows how he feels about specific things that…

Testimony for Prevention in Maus The graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman is a unique running testimony about the horrors of the Holocaust. This novel uses sequential art to lay out two separate testimonies--Art obtaining his father's experiences of being a Holocaust survivor, and the story of Art’s father as a Polish Jew living through the war. These two testimonies are then intertwined and written in real time. This lets the reader to truly witness two separate testimonies at once. The…

Art is a controversial topic to discuss, and also a great medium for expressing messages about topics that are both controversial, and non-controversial. In the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Steve Martin uses a cast of characters that includes artistic and scientific geniuses of the 20th century to talk about subjects related to art and science. on the wall of the bar where the characters are, there is a painting of sheep in some fog. The conversation between the characters shifts to this…

Culture the meaning of the way of life of a group of people. Their behaviors, beliefs, values, symbols, art, music, celebration and acceptance. (Merriam) However, this is just a basic understanding of the word culture. A culture is about a group of people and the way they live in society how they see art and what they believe in. Also, the location of the society where they are located and their surrounding played a role in their culture. What they have to work with and what they are needing to…