The Artist at Work

contemporary African-American artists and it offers an exploration of the turbulent culture and history that formed these contemporary artists. The center has four galleries, all of which are decorated with works made by contemporary artists. Alongside with their works, there are also pieces of traditional African tribal art and with other art works that date back to slavery periods, including the Jim Crow period and the civil rights…

Jaume Plensa and Lesley Dill are two artist that share many characteristics in their artworks. A few areas in which they are similar is texture, shape, and the way they incorporate letters onto their sculptures. For example, Plensa’s Soul XII and Dill’s Women in Dress with Star can be compared in all of these areas, and more. Also, Plensa’s Private Dreams and Dill’s Faith are two more of their art works that share similar characteristics with one another. Plensa and Dill both focus on human…

profound respect for both the piece as well as fellow artists of the Renaissance era. Renaissance artists are admired by the general public, including scholars, as gifted geniuses in their respective crafts, specifically for their ability to resuscitate previous ideologies. Even though Renaissance artists can be approached from various disciplines, whether it be artistic, historical, or religiously based, each one maintains the idea that artists were revered for their ability…

Introduction Pixel Apartment is a solo-artist and a one-man band featuring multi-instrumentalist, Jordan Chia. Jordan is a graduating Recording Arts and Science student under full Scholarship at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. In 2009, he started a solo project called the Pixel Apartment, where he combined visual effects with music. His performance is accompanied by several white cubes, where there will be visual effects shown on it via a projector and it correspond to the performance…

language andthoughts of another author without authorization and therepresentation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author," is how dictionary.com defines plagiarism. Having been a student for the majority of my life, it has been taught to me that when it comes to writing, plagiarism is one of the worst mistakes you can make. However; the timeless issue of ownership over a work of art has been present not only in pieces of literature, but in the music industry…

identifies problems of bargaining inequality in relation to consent provisions, sections 195AW, 195AWB and 195AXJ in Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (hereafter “the Act”). The pivotal analysis in this paper is if artists’ moral rights, especially the young visual artists under age of 30 in the Queensland Youth Artists Collective, are effectively protected against the inequality under the provisions. The paper applies the theory of liberalism to examine the effectiveness of the current provisions,…

world. His work change the way we look at art and he opened artist minds to new ideas when it came to their own art whether it was to inspire or as a reaction against what Pollock and other Abstract Expressionist were doing. Pollock’s free form and endless space that he created through his work opened artist up to the idea that art did not need any kind of defections to be great art. Also, art could flow through the artist as he or she was creating it. Pollock’s work influenced the artists of…

discussion, emotion, understanding and/or confusion. It has no limitations in the messages or aesthetic that an artist can bring to the forefront. This creates a perfect space to speak about social or political issues. This is no different in Aboriginal Art. Pre-colonised Aboriginal peoples used art to symbolically tell stories and document scientific knowledge for tens of thousands of years. The artists traditionally used the land itself to show these stories with materials such as tree bark,…

can be, and many artists practice even more advanced artistic methods to help them reach real looking pictures. Another way that their techniques and artistic convention is connected to the world of our art today is that many of their paintings, have grown to be famous. These famous paintings have been used as examples of how to properly do some of our more basic level techniques for making things appear as if they are a window into a three dimensional image. Renaissance artists used their…

persists in a number of works. Copyright is created as soon as the piece of work is put into a material form. An idea cannot be copyrighted, only the expression of one can. In the UK, copyright is protected under the UK CDPA 1988 (Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts). This act protects the copyright of literary works, musical works, artistic works, dramatic works, films, sound recordings, broadcasts and typographical arrangements. Copyright for musical and literary works lasts for 70 years,…