Indian Art has been through many winds of change. ... The RASA theory on the other hand, relies on the fact that any creative form of expression is to spiritually transcend their individual self and achieve a state of liberation (Moksha) via a state of pure bliss (Ananda), brought out by desire (Kama) and form (Rupa). ... For example, the stone of Shiva in the form of Mahesha (The Great Lord) showcases the diety seated and heavily adorned. ... Symbolism plays a pivotal role in Indian art, more so than art from any other culture. ... In conclusion, aesthetics in Indian art function on a more sp...

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During the high medieval period (1000-1300), architecture and art based on religion was said to have flourished and the art reflected a move toward international Christianity (Renaissance Art, web). ... Art mimicked this humanistic focus. ... Although Leonardo da Vinci made many contributions in the form of art, he is most known for "Virgin of the Rocks"" (1480's) "The Last Supper"" (1490's) and "Mona Lisa"" (1500's) (Gardner, 451). ... He was an Italian architect and painter, and his work has reportedly been admired for it clarity of form, visual achievement of the human body a...

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Can video games be considered an art form? ... History shows that the typical reaction of the society to the birth of a new art form is a reactionary one. ... Video gaming is also the art form of interactive art by excellence, where the spectator becomes an actor into the accomplishment of the piece. ... Video games is a new form of art born with the expansion of technology. ... Video gaming appears to be one of the medium of art and its production begins to be an art form by itself. ...

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The Art of Innovation written by Tom Kelly is one of the bestselling books in the United States. ... Constantly reviewing and revising the brainstorm process will help one to excel in learning form brainstorming. ...

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Graffiti is an art form because it has artistic characteristics. ... These two types of graffiti are forms of art because they arrange colors and lines to form pictures and fancy designs, illustrating creativity. ... Graffiti is a form of art because it is also expressive by telling something about the community like the murals and art exhibitions of political graffiti. ... Graffiti is a form of expression just like art has been for centuries. ... However, just because graffiti is a form of art, does not mean that graffiti is not vandalism. ...

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Whether specifically through the art itself, or the market that is created around it: jobs, galleries and art schools. ... She is also an art student like myself. ... He then proposed two happiness factors via making art. ... Art therapy can works in different ways. ... Riley concludes in Art therapy with adolescents, ''Clinical art therapy can be effective for adolescents who usually see it as a nonthreatening form of treatment. ...

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The fine art form expresses the beauty, finesse and elegance of human life. As art changed through history, it is only necessary that the art form would evolve. ... The complete and utter defiance against the nude art form incorporates the anti-aesthetic art form. ... The art form of the artwork is less used in relation to nude art with paintings and sculpture being the most popular. ... The uniqueness of the art form by defying the concepts of regular art forms is an example of anti-aesthetic. ...

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It has become apparent that the impact made by art has lessened dramatically in recent times, as audiences become used to the traditional forms and features of art. ... The work is one which not only attempts to engage the audience to form their own opinions, as does Piccinini's, but also endeavours to sway the respondent to matching Rrap's own views of society and its flaws. ... Here Piccinini has presented her view of what these 'Perfect' babies would look like, the exaggeration of the form expressing her views. ... The purpose of the art is to show the issues of societ...

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I choose to review four journals, two that are relevant to art education: Art Education and Studies in Art Education, while the other two journals pertain to the art profession they are Art in America and Art Forum International. ... Articles focus on the art curriculum, teaching strategies, innovative programs, and special area curriculum such as studio, art criticism, or art history. ... The National Art Education Association publishes the Art Education Journal bimonthly. ... Contents include individual studies on artists, architects, art works, and buildings as well as articles on art media...

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Artists represent their ideas in artworks to translate their interpretation of thought into tangible form. ... This is formed through investigating different purposes such as motivations, incentives, rationales and intentions-the ideas behind the art. ... Marcel Ducahamp's art works achieve the representation of his ideas as he is an established Dadaist artist, which means his works have the intent to oppose all the norms of bourgeois culture and art forms, making dada, anti-dada. ... For Hirst, it was a disappearance from years of experimenting with paint and collage, and the first re...

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The pride and appreciation exhibited in the work of art for the human physique demonstrated the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance. ... His letters became a blueprint for humanists of the Renaissance, with letters becoming the favorite form of prose (Humanism: Italy 5). ... In his time, no longer were the teachings of the church and Aristotle, a teleologist who believed in eudaimonia, often described as the highest form of human good, suitable (Kessler 59). ... They thought of themselves as "apostles of a new golden age that would usher in the rinascita " or rebirth of all societies with the...

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How classical was Byzantine art? ... Byzantine art was a religious art, the orthodox subjects were chosen according to traditional themes and theological meanings. ... The drapery falls in naturalistic folds a definite classical convention in which the drapery clings to the body, revealing the underneath form. ... In Classicism these two qualities were very important to the classic artists who studied the human body religiously, idealising the naturalistic form. ... All the relief's were based on classical models, plastic and moulded they all have antique qualities, the dr...

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Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate into the German people. ... Thus, art in the Third Reich was merely a form of propaganda that insidiously promoted the superiority of the Nordic race, the need for loyalty and obedience and the invulnerability of the German nation. ... It is an easily accessible work, that the Dadaist Duchamp would label "retinal art", as it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... Hitler said that art should be the "expressions of the soul...

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As mobile creatures living in a fourth dimensional world, these artists argued that although the work of Rembrandt is indeed visually compelling, there is an element missing in these forms of art: time and space through the human experience. Cubism, an art form that developed in the early twentieth century, is an attempt to encompass the narrative of visual human perception. ... This form of art recognized that the natural world was not conceptualized through snapshots of visualizations but rather a constant flux of dimensions in space. ... This work of art illustrates multi-perspective elemen...

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However, I believe that art is something that, in the end, is perhaps the most subjective form of idea in our society, and as such it is not without reason for many to question it. ... This is what I feel as a good example of the idea of tension to describe a scene portrayal in art. ... "The Last Supper" and this statue of David are two adequate examples of implied tension in art. ... Another difference in this shared idea is their state of forms: One is a 2D illustration, while the other a 3D object. ... Whereas in the case of the statue David, it exists as a complete form; one would be a...

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Dada is a radical way of rethinking of art - how it's created and what are it's historical and ethical imperatives. ... All was accepted; geometric tapestries, glass, plaster, assemblage, collage, photo-montage, ready-made objects and many other art forms. ... Abstraction in itself was new; it is the modern form against the modern itself. ... NY Dada was linked to German art (vast majority of its members were of German extraction). ... The end of the war formed a new phase of New York Dada, initiated by Dreier's visit to Germany in 1919. ...

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Auden seemed to try to uphold the idea that works of art can and should provide unity, coherence, and meaning. ... While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form and style, such as William Faulkner's multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. ... Indeed, nighttime, even though it functions as a lull in the hunchback's otherwise continual war with society and allows him temporary escape, represents an even worse form of suffering for the hunchbac...

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The Pop Art movement was a response to the ideas of Abstract Expressionism and radically changed the landscape of art. ... "It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post-war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). ... They effectively recognized its "pervasive presence as a natural fact" (Gersh-Nesic, Pop Art - Art History 101 Basics). ... He saw them as "pre-formed, conventional, depersonalized, factual, exterior elements." ... It is both "sensual and cerebral - an art about ar...

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This essay will take as its subject the somewhat feeling-oriented and anti-rationale account of art, which is modern art that is called the Avant-garde, by Jean-François Lyotard. ... He points that the introduction of the sublime into art disrupts the harmony of the traditional understanding of art, that understanding which can afford a notion of education of art. ... After this continued definition of the sublime and the explanation of the way it effects how we understand art Lyotard goes on to claim that art, with the sublime implanted in it or rather art as the sublime, is both uncertain a...

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However, over the past few years, the use of text in art, also known as the art of typography, has become a frequent means of communication for artists in the creation of their works. ... The art of typography is the technique of arranging type in such a way that makes language visible. ... Regardless of the artist's intentions, the appearance of text within art can shift our appreciation of their sound and meaning. ... Shirin Neshat is an Iranian born artist who, upon turning seventeen, moved to California to study art. ... She was faced by a very strict, pure form of Islam introduced b...

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Art explores many elements of life and the world. ... Whilst Grayson Perry explores identity and what is represents through different forms of art, whether as miniatures, large tapestries, statues or pots. Art is the representation of the many elements of human life. ... Grayson Perry, winner of the 2003 Turner Prize, uses the seductive qualities of ceramics and other art forms to make stealthy comments about societal injustices and hypocrisies, and to explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes. ... Art reflects what we feel, think, practice, believe or image....

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The artists aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. Many aspects of society at the time affected art such as the industrial revolution. ... His paintings however showed the same themes of exposing injustices but his approach was less simple and focused more on realistic representation of both colour and form. ... Paintings such as The Sower, The Gleaners and The Angelus are typical of Millets most ambitious work, with the peasant figures generalized into large forms, dominating the foreground of a deep landscape. ... The social c...

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It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. ... (The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer p. 1) The development of a bourgeois economy and a free-commercial art market resulted in a significant change in the kind of art produced. ... Art dealers sold work to middle-class citizens, who often purchased as much for investment and resale as for aesthetic pleasure. ... The emphatically doubled elements of domestic chaos, emphasized by Maes's tipped-up perspective, form a jarring com...

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Edward Bullough says that psychical distance is created when art causes us to disengage from our ordinary emotions towards a thing or event and when it proceeds to remove the ordinary sense or uses of an object and an aesthetic is created. ... Monroe Beardsly claims that the aesthetic experience is characterized by 1) "object focus," where the viewer pays attention to a visual stimulus (although not all art is visual), 2) "felt freedom," the viewer feels something that makes them forget their everyday experience, 3) "detached affect," the experience is understood to be imaginary (for example, ...

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Is Graffiti Art? ... Banksy Whether graffiti is an art form or crime has been a long standing debate between graffiti writers and the public since graffiti made its way into pop culture in the early 1980's. ... And will graffiti always be viewed as negatively, or is there hope for the future of this art form? ... Graffiti is a form of artistic expression on the streets, so therefore graffiti is essentially 'street art'. ... With this said, I believe there is defiantly the most prominent lack of acknowledgment for graffiti as an art form because of certain types of graffiti, su...

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