Yet, according to artists, museum curators, art patrons, art educators, art critics, art historians, and others involved with art, art follows some rules that characterize what is considered art today.... Maybe this is only because modern art is the most popular form of art of the time period I am growing up in. ... (Goguen, 3) Another type of art called "found art" or "readymade art" challenges the role of the artist as the constructor of art. ... (Goguen, 2) Conceptual art is another form of art that challenges the materiality of art, by using physical forms that may be relatively prosa...

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There are several ways we put a value on art. ... This was valuable not simply because of the way it looked, but because these pieces of art could be melted down and formed into weapons if the need arose. ... Stories from the Bible were communicated more effectively to people that were basically illiterate by various forms of art: paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and the like. ... Art has Nationalistic value also. ... Art is valuable in many ways. ...

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The purpose of art education when pertaining to children is to aid them when dealing with abstract thought development by way of bringing them into visible form or symbols. The symbols and forms represent our environment. ... When it came to the principles of art I wasn't as knowledgeable. ... Aesthetics is very important when dealing with any art form music, dance, writing, etc. ... (beginnings of self-expression), the preschematic stage four-seven years (representational attempts), the schematic stage (achievement of a form concept), the gang age nine-twelve (dawning realism), pseud...

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This life-sized work of art has an academic artistic style which is orderly and systematic. ... This piece has a naturalistic view to it as you can see the belly formed through the cloth. ... Both pieces of art are academically naturalistic because of its systematic symmetry. The artistic style uses organic, calligraphic, and compositional lines that define, flow, thickness, curves, and form throughout the entire piece of art. ... For example, the statue of Yakshi is a figure of a female form, unlike the statue of Buddha, which is a figure of a male form. ...

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Beauty and art is not often defined by what individuals finds acceptable and pleasing to the eye; but can be used as a form of self-expression and developing identity as a person. ... Body art is not new to humanity, rather every culture in the world has had some form of body art influence their lifestyles. ... Enid Schildkrout believes body art is a visual language. ... For some people, body art became a visual history. ... "Body art is always changing, and in some form or another always engaging; it allows people to reinvent themselves to rebel, to follow fashion, or to play and experimen...

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For the gallery report assignment, I went with my class to the Art Gallery of Ontario, located in Downtown Toronto (317 Dundas Street West) on Thursday, November 6th, 2014. ... This drawing is also uses form to make the drawing look 3-Dimensional on a 2-Dimensional surface. ... It is amazing that a work from one of the most famous artists in history have their work being displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. ... All the prints use line, colour, form, value, shape, and space in one way or another. ... Michelangelo's work was completed in the Renaissance period and Suzy Lake's wor...

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Bendetto Croce believed works of art to be the expression of these intuitions in material form; beauty and ugliness are not part of this. ... One can only define significant form in view of the aesthetic emotion and the aesthetic emotion can only be defined in view of the significant form. This is much like Plato's ideal form theory: only people who are intelligent (mainly philosophers such as himself) can see these ideal forms and say what they are. The only problem is one can't define who is intelligent until someone sees the ideal form. ... According to both the significant for...

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In Greek they were inspiration from Egyptian art, and over centuries they evolved there unique way of art. Their art captured the human form in a way that was really never seen before and since then was copied throughout centuries. ... Art to them was a form of striving for truth and great feeling, basically meaning they wanted perfection or beauty. ... The form of classical sculpture became fluid and natural and the stylization of the archaic art gave way to realistic figures which emanated the illusion of moving through space. ... Egyptians wanted their art to be stiff and plain. ...

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He himself becomes his own god so he loses gradually his conscience because that will live on independently in the form of an object. ... These thoughts are related to the English "l' art pour l' art- movement, called "Aesthetic Movement- of which figurehead became Wilde from the beginning. ... This new interpretation of art was in a sharp contrast with the previous one originating from Greeks, that art copies life. ... In the novella this idea is shown through Dorian's fate because his portrait forms his life and not inversely. ... He always mixed art with life and tried to mak...

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Poetry and Unreality is Plato's famous attack on poetry and by extension, all forms of art which are aimed at inducing pleasure. ... Art does not attempt to teach. ... Art is meant to be aesthetically pleasing. ... Banksy once said about art: "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.... Humanity doesn't live to merely form a well governed society. ...

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The term art can also be used to designate one of several forms of expression such as filmmaking, painting, music, dance, architecture, sculptures, literature, and many other modes of aesthetic expression. ... It has a rectangular base and four sloping triangular side that meet at an apex or truncated to form a platform. ... The core is formed of yellowish limestone blocks. ... We can see the usage of pyramids in literature, movies, videos, plays and several other forms of aesthetic expression. ... Even within one form of art, motives may vary widely. ...

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FLOETRY What is art? ... From the cologne a perfumer makes to the pastries a chef bakes, they are all forms of art. To me "POETRY" embodies all that art should be. ... Poetry is the one art form that I am most able to connect with. ... The form is sometimes quite topsy-turvy. ...

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"- Jon Franklin Many individuals agree that Art, craft and design are the same thing. ... Howard Risatti's argument is that craft objects are defined by having a connection to the body, and being formed around physical purpose and function. ... Otherwise, it will be absorbed by fine art or design, and its approach to understanding the world will be lost. ... The topic I want to focus on is art, craft and design. ... -Is art, craft and design the same thing? ...

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Censorship of these artists, as much as we may disagree with the content of their art, is unconstitutional. ... The American Civil Liberty Union states "No direct link between anti-social behavior and exposure to the content of any form of artistic expression has ever been scientifically established. ... We raise the proverbial question: "Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life?". ...

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Each of the three primary characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. ... Ironically, the purpose of Basil Hallward's existence is that he is an aesthete striving to become one with his art (Eriksen 105). It is this very work of art which Basil refuses to display that provides Dorian Gray with the idea that there are no consequences to his actions. ... Eventually, he is left destitute, without Dorian, the art he so cherishes, because he tried to mold it, as dictated by aestheticism. ... He also demonstrates that "art cannot be a substitute for life" (Erikse...

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In 36 lines, Li Ho gives a vivid insight on his poetic form of an extravagant oriental poem about a young woman's beauty. ... They are pieces of art in their own place that cannot compare to other writers. ...

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James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied art history and political science. ... Everything James Nachtwey did, from his materials and equipment to his technique and style, led to the final form and content. ...

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