Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or representation of life-or even the afterlife-has surfaced time and time again in the form of artwork. ... Essentially, artwork is not art because of theory, and art based on theory cannot be creative or truly said to be art. ... The purity of flatness essentially came down to a style in which lines, forms, colors, and contours all are merged eloquently in such a unification with the flatness of the canvas that it is art, as pure as art can be. ... To make long stories short, more or less, art th...

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What exactly is classified as art and what is not is very subjective. ... I can sometimes understand abstract art, or at least recognize the fact that a piece of art took a long time to create and a lot of effort was put in. ... The odd thing about art is that there is no one way to describe what is and what is not art. ... Art is just a different form of expression. ... There is definitely such a thing as over analyzing art. ...

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However, American Art has its place too in the importance and history of art culture. ... However it is important that American art be seen as influential as European art within the art culture. ... The art lights illuminate the featured paintings and art pieces so that they may take center stage. ... Each painting within this exhibit extends itself through color, tone, texture and form. ... It is my belief that art imitates life. ...

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More often than not the abstract artists is not imitating nature or pursuing realism, but concerned with the spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony, and will attempt to engage the viewer in a way that narrative, realistic of naturalistic art cannot.? ... Christo and Jeanne-Claude confront what does exist with what they alone have determined can exist as a dramatic and beautiful form. ... Rosalie Gascoigne began her art life arranging flowers. She had no art training. ... Connecting people with beautiful materials and structures with spiritual ...

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Art, it's everywhere you look. ... At this point in time, so many people were interested in art that many Societies were formed to display art. ... Surrealists claim to create forms and images not primarily by reason, but by unthinking impulse and blind feeling-or even by accident. One modern art movements in art was Pop Art. Pop art was an art movement, mostly American, that became well known during the 1960s. ...

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The "isms" of Art In the later years of our history we have come to see art progress in many stages. These stages surround modern art. ... Cubism is an art form derived from modernism and said to be invented by Pablo Picasso who invented a new style of painting, focusing mainly on line rather than color. ... Much like the futurists Constructivism sought an art that would be abstract yet easily understood. ... Lastly, it is these series of movements that defines the art of the later years of our history. ...

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I started to appreciate most works of art. I know now whatever the art might be; abstract, impressionist, realistic and other sorts of art that I might call strange, mean something. ... The structure is a three-dimensional symmetrically balanced form. ... Pyramdic and rectangular forms of the ceilings give more altitudes to the cathedral. ... The painting belongs to impressionist art era. ...

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Giving off a feeling of a close community rather than a divided and unstable group, the SASA made sure to bring the South African art form and its artists to national recognition. ... While the Colonial period was underway, South African painters and sculptors began to put the images and reflections of the new world onto blank canvases and rocks that took on a new form of its own. ... A new change and removal of certain limitations was to be taken place as the years of apartheid created more diversity in the art form. ... These two rejected the mixed South African-European arts and artists, an...

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There are many different works of art that have different stylistic periods. ... In both of these works of art, conventions of the Baroque Style are recognizable. Baroque is a seventeenth-century style of European art characterized by ornamentation, curved lines, irregularity of form, dramatic lighting and color, and exaggerated gestures. The cultural and historic contents of these two pieces of art are closely related. ... Those great works are about something for which form and colour are only the dynamic means to an even larger end. ...

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Art for Politics Sake: Art Censorship in Communist China, And The United States We want one single, grand lie which will be believed by everybody - including the rulers, ideally, but failing that the rest of the city -Plato from his Republic Today if an average American was asked if he or she believed that censorship was an important part of the perfect state, they would not only answer "no" but they would say that the perfect state must have no form of censorship in order for it's people to be happy. ... Though Plato was a champion of rational thought, he made clear ...

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After attending the celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gregg asked "Do you like the Denver Art Museum?" ... Others, such as the Denver Art Museum, only pale in comparison. ... The two pieces of art cannot be compared as far as the quality or ideas, but they are both unique in their own art form. This class hasn't taught me what is good and bad art. ... I believe that if the person looking at the painting sees good art, than at least in their own world, its good art....

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Question 4 Briefly discuss the first art historian and identify his writing. The first art historian was a man by the name of Giorgio Vasari. ... *Question 7 Fully discuss the development of Perspective in Renaissance art from Giotto to Masaccio. ... Question 9 Discuss, using the formalist approach to art history, Leonardo's Last Supper. ... Christ's outstretched arms form a pyramid at the center of the piece, and the disciples are grouped into pairs of three to each side of Jesus. ...

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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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So, Last week I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ... The main categories of the artworks displayed at the museum are American art, American decorative arts, Asian art, Egyptian art, Greek and Roman art, African art, European art. However, the artworks include various forms of style that I don't have any clue about each form is about, but the colors of the artworks have always intrigued me a lot due to my interest in the study of philosophy. ... As I enter, from room to room in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it has many sections to European painting. ... Some inter...

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Art is knowing which ones to keep." Oil has been a major medium in art realm for centuries. ... Brighter and clearer lines also made his work stand out from other art pieces. ... The Bellini family consisted of Jacopo, Giovanni, and Gentile who all contributed to giving the Bellini family a name in art. The father, Jacopo, influenced the next generation of Venetian artists with his curiosity in viewpoint and traditional form. ...

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Hence the current search for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, the value placed today upon the repetition of colored tones, the way colors are set in motion...ʼ Abstract art, is an art form not containing an image of the outside world. ... It is questionable as to how successfully Kandinsky, and other creative artists have in fact, incorporated these elements into art of the painting form and have triumphed in expressing their own inner world. ... Kandinsky's broad use of color also illustrated his move towards an art form, where color is presented indepen...

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"Confluence and Influence: Photography and the Japanese Print in 1850- By the nineteenth century, new forms of art were emerging and artists were now searching for ways to "unite objective reality and artful perception."" Photography and East Asian art, particularly the Japanese print, were among these new forms in France. ... Another collector of Japanese art was Dr. ... There were also concerns with reality and perception that these new forms clarified. ... These two forms together focused and gave direction to the nineteenth century. ...

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He created an idealized landscape adjusting natural and man-made forms according to geometric principles. ... He wrote that he "wanted to make of Impressionism a lasting art like that of the museums- and that he "wanted to do Poussin over again according to nature."" ... dimensional forms and two?dimensional quality of the canvas, and it is this tension that gives a vitality to his art, as well as the tension between abstract forms and the forms of nature. Although Cézanne sought a geometric underpinning for his art, he never abandoned the forms of nature for those of the cylinder, the...

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Art has come a long way in time from the early prehistoric art through the Classical period and then into the Renaissance, all the way to where we are now, art has evolved with the times. Everywhere you look, art is present, and whether it is obvious or not, be it a painting, a sculpture, or some sort of architecture, our world is full of art. ... His technique was that of a new, sharply contoured, slender form and rippling sinuous line" (Schutz, 1992, 46). ... Botticelli is of his generation in his enthusiasm for themes "from classical mythology and along with it in his suiting the ancient...

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He rejects the conception that the work of art can be created with no thought or idea. ... We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth." ... Viewer is left one on one with the work of art to form the profound relationship and absorb Rothko's transcendence. ... He claimed that if we regard him as colorist we miss the point of his art; (Weiss, 247) although, it is hard not to regard him as colorist when the color is the sole medium of his art. ... The form of the painting, the picture itself is free of edge and the color parameter seems to be endless. ...

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Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other forms of music. ... His mother often took him to The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... They both appreciate the art value of music, especially jazz. ... There are many forms of geometric shapes used in this painting. ... They both appreciate the variance of the music form jazz. ...

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The idea of simultaneity, geometricity, and passage being integrated into art started just before the 20th century. This style of art was, however, just an idea and didn't become an art form until the early 20th century, in which it came to be known as Cubism. ... This put emphasis on differentiating paintings from reality, contrary to previous works, where art was made to look as real as possible. This modern art movement was a response to the rapidly changing world. ... His works from 1908-1913 portrayed his newfound interest in geometry and simultaneous perspective in art. ...

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The artists of this movement were opposed to all forms of social realism and wanted to explore their intellectual thought through their art. There were two main types of art produced during this time. ... This is a form of technique where the artist moves with the paint and can feel "in the painting." ... We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth." ... That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art."...

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Even though Vermeer painted in a patient manner for this painting, he did not define his forms with precise lines. ... By the 17th century, artists began to shift the focus of art from solely religious and educational to depicting dramatic emotion in the real world. ... Most of Vermeer's art works are portraits of people; therefore, the moods are usually very quiet and graceful. ... This concept is very prevalent in a Christian's life.Most people have busy lifestyles and hardly take time to simply stop and live in the moments that pass by, but art has a way of causing a person to be ...

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With some delay also art historians started to shift their attention from the retualized celebration of the artist towards the role of spectators and buyers in defining the status and value of art. ... This rather capricious approach somewhat obscures the unifying - and certainly unsettling - theme of the work: instead of examining what art does to us it asks about what we - as spectators, critics, patrons, owners and buyers - are doing to art. It is about the ways in which art serves to legitimize, sustain and conceal social inequality. ... To set the stage for his study, that tellingly is co...

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