Visual arts

The artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady by Adrian Piper has influenced my own artwork Timeline in that the concepts, meanings and metaphors found in her artwork are not immediately identifiable. Although there is no influence of Pipers work on mine in terms of process, media or presentation, in this essay I will be discussing the confrontation that viewer experiences when faced with Pipers artwork Self Portrait As a Nice White Lady, my own artwork Timeline, and the ways in which both…

School of Art and Design at Indiana University /Purdue University Indianapolis to attend a speech given by an artist named Creighton Michael, entitled “Mining the Subjunctive: Exploration in Drawing + Pattern Play II.” The speech ran from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm followed by the opening of Creighton Michael’s gallery exhibition at Herron School of Art and Design. This gallery show will run from September 28, 2016, through November 9, 2016. I attended this speech with my sister who is an Art History…

After this first room, there is a room featuring mostly cubist and futurist art, which is an interesting segue considering the female nude as used by cubists are seen by feminists as patriarchal forms because it shows women as passive and faceless and the superiority of the male gaze and sexuality (gouda). Next, there is a room featuring just the art of John Heartfield. After these rooms is the room on “Feminism and Media.” The main panel in this room is smaller than the ones previous, eleven,…

Annie Leibonvitz was born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She had six other siblings and her parents are Sam Leibovitz, an air force lieutenant and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was originally going to study painting she started to fall in love with photography. She moved back to the U.S. after living in Israeli Kibbutz. Then she applied for a job for Rolling Stone magazine. After two years of…

sculptures are opposites in many ways. For the primary details, everything including the medium, color, scale, texture, space, and even texture are opposites. The secondary features help to tell a story as they relate to the larger context of this piece of art. Starting out with primary form, notice how the Statue of Memi and Sabu is a lite colored limestone about 62 cm in height, depicting a man and women standing next to each other. The mans arm is over the womans shoulder, and her arm is…

Immanuel Kant presented us with the idea that only a genius can produce fine art. Fine art is a mode of representation that is created for intellectual and aesthetic purposes, and has the capacity to advance the culture of the mental powers of society. There are four qualities that an artist must have present in their work in order for them to be considered a genius. First, the artist must have a talent. The artist must produce something in which no definite rule can be given and their work must…

recollect learning how to macramé in summer camp. I recollect learning how to paint mocko jumbies, and make papier mache fishes in art class. As a child art was a consequential part of my cultural upbringing. One might ask, what are you doing now to preserve Virgin Islands culture? Well, I endeavor to preserve my culture with every painting that I engender and with every art edification that I edify. I am thankful to the…

Art is interpreted in many different ways and that depends on the interpreter. Art historians have a certain way they interpret artwork and throughout the subjects of medium, artists and objects, the interpretations of art has remained consistent. I noticed two different fields of interpretation from the each presenter. In this essay, I argue that art historians interpret works of art in connection to history or culture. The medium of art is a defining characteristic because it isn’t just what…

Inspired by Arcimboldo’s Renaissance style of art, I have utilized the style element to recreate a self-portrait with my own style. The artwork comprised of several medias from colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and even pencil drawings. Applying the techniques like shadings and color values learn from the class, I attempted to create a semi three-dimensional artwork that speaks about me as a person, my personality and what I value. Each element resembles me as a person. The clock gears…

violence and a preoccupation with sudden, unexplainable death, and this obsession is never more explicit than in his essays which study the impact and artistry of violence: ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Art’ (1827), ‘A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ (1839) and its ‘Postscript’ (1854); ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’ (1823); and ‘The English Mail-Coach’ (1849). By allying the murderer with the artist, and discussing the brutality of the contemporary…