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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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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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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There are three forms of art, or "three forms of the beautiful", (Hegel, 68) that is necessary to form the idea of art itself, as Hegel believes. The development of art from one form to the other is what Hegel defines as the history of art. ... "Classical" art is the form of art that is characterized as the works of ideal beauty. ... In "Symbolic" art the content is formed abstractly, it is not able to demonstrate itself sufficiently enough in a sensuous, visible form, in contrast, "Classical" art is conceived in the manner that is able to find utter per...

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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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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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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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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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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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Perhaps, no other literary era has dealt more with the purpose of art. ... Also the Pre- Raphaelites, who did not accept to heighten the effect of art, had a view of art which was related to the single phrase stimulated by the Aesthetic movement 'Art for Art's sake'. ... Even Sibyl's death is seen from a hedonistic perspective, a fact that shocked Basil Hallward who had formed a great affection towards Dorian's beauty and former innocence: 'A man who is a master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. ... His ideas of Art for art'...

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I tried to organize my critique of Dave Matthews Band by asking 1) if it is really more valuable to contain 'meaningful' (ethical) lyrics, 2) can the lyrics contribute to the aesthetic value of a certain type of music at all 3) if so, what is the conditions to be 'valuable art' with meaningful lyrics, and at last, 4) what does the appreciation of art in a disinterested way mean in listening to music, which cannot be seen in a real 'form'. ... But its impact as an art was ephemeral, not lasting that long. ... And when a certain type of art can be construed to ...

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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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