Visual arts

People have their own different interpretations of the word “Art”. More interpretations most likely cause increasing disagreements. Art is a way of expressing your creative ability and imagination commonly through emotions by showing the audience rather than telling them. Art is also a universal language that is used through many platforms and one that is globally understood (citation). However, people will interpret the meaning of art differently to the way others do. The same applies to…

influence on the population over audio cues like speeches as art involves techniques such as colour, the location and many other methods. The article, ‘Influence of Art on American Society’ and the artist Shepard Fairey correspond with this statement through facts and artworks. The ‘Influence of Art on American Society’ article discusses multiple essays related to influences of art and goes into detail about how techniques used in art influence the society of America. According to the article,…

Children need Fine Arts, because it will help their creativity, Fine arts is being taken away. Today more than 1.3 million elementary students fail to get any music instruction,including 800,000 secondary school students (Walker). I believe that schools should keep the Fine Arts to teach the students music,art,and how to do those. First of all the main reason for Fine Arts going away is budget cuts,budget cuts have been hurting the fine arts program because more schools want sports to stay the…

Art in the Bible Is art in the bible? Would God understand our art or want us to create art? Francis Schaeffer explains all of this in the short book, Art and the Bible. There are many opinions and views on art in a Christian life, or from biblical point of view that argue if art and the bible is considered acceptable. Schaeffer goes in depth on; Art in the bible, different perspectives on art and the bible, and how we are as individuals linked to both art and the bible. When you look at the…

Ashley Newlon | Art Education 1600 | Autumn 2015 | Smith | Art Paper Rod Gilbert, Andy Warhol, and The Athlete Series Andy Warhol’s painting’s, the Athletes series, is famously known, but can be complicated to decipher. On Friday, November 20th, I was lucky enough to make a visit to the Columbus Museum of Art. With only five minutes to spare after…

Face it, Art is Art To be considered an artist is debatable. If one can be considered an artist, and if their work should even be considered as art, is argued constantly, but the truth is, no one can define an artist as one solid definition. The exact definition of art is considered: a wide variety of possessions and effects a person can show, create or capture. So, when it comes to photography, it shouldn 't be questionable if the photos themselves are art or not. They should be, because of…

Art is everywhere. It’s on your phone that you look at first thing in the morning, the small, square, vivid apps. It’s on the billboards you drive by on your way to class or work, advertising the newest food at your local McDonald 's with the flashy yellow double arch drawing your attention. It is even on this piece of paper, the deep black letters contrasting against the bright white of the paper. To some, art means nothing. To others, it is the world, it is the reason they get up in the…

at the Arts Students League. He is an artist whose work I found very eye catching. Now his world renowned for his unique sculptures being very oval in shape and funny looking. He makes the sculptures using caster or metal and his unique…

still used today in our body art; Celtic tattoos proving to be eternally popular. In the Celtic world, symbolism was everything and it can be assumed to have been used to identify different tribes. Britain alone was made up of numerous tribes from the Catuvellauni tribe in southern England, the Iceni in the East to the Briganties in the North. While it is not known whether the appearance of the people differed between the tribes, one wonders whether their body art and ornamentation did.…

Vyse Tom Bowling In 1936, Vyse developed a new and complementary figurative work titled Tom Bowling. This is a construct of the well-known Staffordshire Toby Philpots Jug form. For some, the name Tom Bowling may conjure up a scene from the old sea shanty and the death of a sailor lad. Vyse however, takes the opportunity to make a pun of the name, and instead of a sailor, he presents a figure of an unknown subject when playing a game of bowls. The composition encapsulates the spirit of this…