Western canon

Cultural Synthesis When someone thinks of traditions they might think of how they go about their life completing their own tasks their own way. Although that statement is right the more formal definition of tradition is “a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices.” In the short story “By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau, and other similar short stories, she explains how tradition and ethnicity are important in culture. The definition of tradition deeply relates to culture in that…

The general conception of visual realism that I believe best suits Vermeer’s The Concert and The Music Lesson and Bierstadt’s Yosemite Valley, would be the use of pictorial depth cues to portray visual realism. Both painters used pictorial depth cues to create a strong sense of visual realism that helped draw fascination into their paintings. Without the use of the pictorial depth cues, the paintings would not have appeared as if they were realistic and definitely would not have been questioned…

ideological differences between eastern mysticism and western humanism; represented and symbolized by George and Dr. Haber respectively. Through the use of the dreams, Le Guin explores the antipodal ideologies and reasons with how each would make the world a “better place”. Dr. Haber is portrayed as the antagonist in the novel and yet, shares the same ideology of so many of this novel’s readers. Le Guin designed the character to be a symbol for western humanism and utilitarian ideologies.…

I visited the Gilcrease Museum and toured various exhibits. The museum hosts a vast assortment of artifacts entailing the history of America, from its multitude of early Native American art to current day. I loved seeing the different forms of artwork housed at the museum. My favorite exhibit was over impressionism in California during the 20th century. The movement, while rooted in impressionism, changed shape with new American influences. For example, painters used new methods to show God…

He had an certain aspects of what it means to be an artist. I expect a painter to paint something to show expressive gesture. I always look at paining that I a tendency to create feelings, emotions, nature, or beauty. I simply to not see what Robert Motherwell was portraying. Most of his painting is nothing but a collage feature, simply with shapes, abstract shapes and/or gestural brushstrokes , to me of-course. However there’s some of his painting that may had a contemporary event with…

Gallery Report According to Confucius, “Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.” As a NIACC student taking Art History II, I agree with Confucius, there is beauty in everything, but not everyone sees it. When viewing the North Iowa Area Community College Auditorium Art Gallery in Mason City, Iowa on Monday that is presenting “Painting & Mixed Media,” I can’t help but to be mystified by Rita Kirsch Dungey’s work. Rita’s work is a temporary NIACC art showcase that shows from February…

Carlos Cruz Diez, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1923, is considered to be one of Venezuela’s modernist master. He lived in Paris since 1960 studying and understanding concepts of Kinetic and Optical art. Holland Cotter, a writer for the Ney York Times explains, "he turned his attention to new strains of geometric abstraction, including Op art, and to kinetic art." All of his works and his research established him as one of the 20th-century thinkers in the means of color. Jessica Leigh Lebos, a…

For starters this is a book about many characters in a futuristic society that are controlled by the society. They are always watched and they never really question if this is the way they should live. They live and get the jobs they are picked and they live by the rules of the society. The book was written by Aldous Huxley and it is a book based upon the society in the book but also can be seen as our society today. There are many questions that make you think hard and long about today’s…

Pastoral Tableau was designed by Shara Rowley Plough, a mixed media artist who formerly worked in Cleveland,MS. Ms. Plough attended school at the University of Iowa, obtaining a Bachelors of Fine Arts, and at the University of Arizona receiving a Master of Fine Arts. After receiving such illustrious degrees, she went on to pursue her career as an artist. Pastoral Tableau exhibit was displayed in the Wright Art Center located on Delta State University’s campus. This exhibit featured several…

Saving Private Ryan Critical Analysis Saving Private Ryan is a story about a group of American soldiers during World War ll overcoming obstacles to accomplish a signal mission. One of the biggest obstacles they had to face was keeping everyone focused on the mission at hand. I think the book did an excellent job at making that obstacle clear to the audience. Saving Private ryan is a story of a small group of American soldiers on a mission to find and bring home a soldier named…