Visual arts

For me, cultural capital in the form of the objectified state has played a large role in shaping my life and personality. In the reading, Bourdieu defines objectified cultural capital as that of which physically or symbolically connotes one’s tastes and/or status. Examples of physical/material cultural capital would include paintings, instruments, writings, etc. Examples of symbolic cultural capital would include musical tastes, experiences obtained, knowledge gained, etc. Cultural capital…

Andy Warhol, the king of the pop-art movement, compromised within his life one of the most subtly diverse oeuvres immediately recognizable within the latter half of the twentieth century. Warhol’s “Disaster Series” lies in stark contrast with his earlier works, which consisted of popular imagery such as the bust of Marilyn Monroe, Brillo boxes and Campbell’s soup cans. Warhol’s “Red Disaster”, currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, was crafted in 1963, using silkscreen ink on synthetic…

to express myself through art. Being a very inquisitive child with a penchant for animals, I explored the outdoors my sketch pad, and drew whatever living creature that caught my attention. I began drawing birds, insects, lizards and cats. I think it was around that time my parents started to recognize my artistic talent, and decided to let me practice…

One tends to feel that the expression of art in any form cannot be restricted to a predetermined structure of any sort. Art is diverse. Language through different mediums helps the authors, poets, painters alike to express their art. Language can maintain the uncertain and infinite possibilities of individual expressions. One can say literature represents one of the most persistent uses of language. Literary texts have the potential to motivate the reader in a very big way. Throughout the…

expressionist art that play a significant role to express emotions. They are the elements that the expressionists artists use to portray their inner self and their reaction to their life and the world. I have chosen this topic “How do expressionist artists use vivid colour and distortion…

grand Smithsonian American Art museum, it stands three stories high with impeccable architecture inside and out, withholding some of the most antique and modern works of American art. For some locals, the most iconic places in Washington, D.C are the White House, the National Mall,or the United States Capitol. However, I myself, believe the most iconic place in Washington, D.C is the galleries within every Smithsonian museum. It was there in the Smithsonian American Art Museum that I found the…

The one club that most students enjoy is art club. All of the 8th grade students at my school are in it. The reasons students enjoy art is because they get to paint, they learn to draw cool things and also there is no SOL test. Only 8th grade students are allowed to take art in my school so that makes it more cool. The first reason students enjoy art club is because, they get to work with paint. For example they get to work with so many different colors and how to mix them to make different…

visited the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday October 29, 2016 I had the opportunity to visually see many different types of artworks. This was my first visit to an art museum. The museum collects and houses hundreds of contemporary works by Georgia artist. There were many different types of artwork including painting, prints, sculptures and photography. The art museum was smaller than what I thought it would be and reminded me of an art exhibit but without…

The theme from Sturken/Cartwright's Intro to visual culture: chapter 5 I wanted to talk about is the idea of mechanical reproduction and politics. First of all, Walter Benjamin use first-hand evidences to prove that this two elements are connected: He is in Germany in the 30s, where the rise of the nazi party is evident, and he noticed the main weapon the party is using: propaganda. They use an image, reproduced hundreds of times to promote their ideas. Propaganda has always been used, but the…

Re-Viewing Marquesan Art Carol S. Ivory Carol Ivory's article Re-Viewing Marquesan Art focuses on the need for a renewed study of Marquesan art. The factors of her study is not just reviewing Marquesan art, but also the history of the research and what is up and coming. Ivory gives a distinct history of the Marquesas Islands art and culture and how it has not received proper research and data collection. The intent of the article is to give reason to learn more about Marquesan art and give…