Visual acuity

Jeff Koons was born in January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. From an early age, he obtained an interest in the arts from his father who was a furniture store owner and interior designer. After high school, he attended Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974, he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), it was thereafter that he…

Jackman Responses The first response is from pages 195-210 from Ian Jackman’s book, “The Artist’s Mentor.” Throughout these pages there are various quotes and examples of what it means and feels to be an artist. Jackman states that if you truly want to be an artist that you will do anything to try and create something. For example, Jackman uses a quote from Mary Frank, she sates “for me, the reason to do art is that it is compelling. Art is a drive, a very complex desire and need, urgency and…

The work of photographer Jeff Wall utilizes previous art in order to give his photographes meaning. One of Wall’s pieces of art is A Sudden Gust of Wind, and it takes inspiration from another famous piece of artwork by Hokusai named Ejiri in Suruga Province. The two pieces of art share a very obvious resemblance to each other being that Wall’s purpose was to recreate Hokusai’s previous work. Wall finds a very similar landscape to take his photo at, and he even finds a similar tree. The…

When you are evaluating artwork subjectively, you want to look at the creativity that the art piece expression and what feelings that the artwork brings out of you. Take in account how much space that the drawing takes up, what tools were used to create the artwork, and the amount of difficultly involved in creating the art piece. Subjectively evaluating artwork is mostly about personal opinion and relates to your feelings. When you are evaluating art objectively, you want keep personal opinions…

The subject matter of Paul Strand’s Porch Shadows is abstracted by limitations of the artist’s preconceived techniques. Strand isolated the subject’s basic formal elements to make it an aesthetically pleasing photograph and nothing more. Anyone can photograph an object, yet it takes a trained eye and a defined strategy to reduce the object into an abstract form. Porch Shadows exemplifies the Modernist shift in photography by rejecting previous conventions of artistic expression and adopting a…

overall indicator of fluid reasoning in the perceptual domain with tasks that assess nonverbal concept formation, visual perception and organization, simultaneous processing, and visual-motor coordination, learning, and the ability to separate figure and ground in visual stimuli (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2013). For the subtest Block Design, Mr. Lewis scored in the 75th percentile rank. For Visual Puzzles subset, Mr. Lewis scored in the 16th percentile and at the Low Average. For Matrix Reasoning…

Art Censorship: Necessary or Not? Art was judged by its beauty, emotional power, and personal interest. Now art is judged by safety guidelines determining if the art work is “viewer safe” or “pornographic”. Since the beginning of the artistic era; artists have challenged controversies and shown different mediums of thinking. But, society has neglected many of these works of art saying that the art is dangerous and harmful. So, to prevent such harm rules of censorship were created, but artists…

By Lizabel Mónica Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS…

It was after my 3 years of school in American, I realized that my dream to learned art could be possible. Over the past four precious years, I begin to see art as an integral part of my life. Having been buried in the influential and lively air of artistic creation, my point of view on art and culture has been modified. I do not learn and practice art; in fact, I live art. I go about expressing my feelings, aspirations and view points through my artistic creations. The most distinct trait of the…

Szarkowski’s “The Photographer’s Eye”, discusses the transition at the beginning of the age of photography. One of the most striking statements he made was the fact that photography has made impacts on modern artists. Not only has it affected fellow photographers, but also painters, sculptors, and even writers. Being able to look at actual still photographs long after the moment it was taken has completely changed the way most people look at the world around them. Photographers are considered…