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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Digital art, which is based on the traditional art, refers to forms of expression and transmission of the art form with digital form. ... Digital art can simulate a form of reality by a mixture of various senses (Christiane Paul, 2008). ... Whereas with traditional art, art works look more natural. ... The purpose of it is to turn traditional shadow shows into electronic forms so that they can become more accessible and preserved. ... The increasingly aesthetic interest also can promote the inheritance of traditional form of artworks. ...

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My definition of art will differ from other people's definitions. ... Secondly a work of art should draw the viewer's interest. ... Finally, to truly appreciate art you must understand the time and effort that went into making the work of art. I believe that art has a complex meaning that includes many things and takes many forms. ... To be able to fully appreciate a work of art I think that it is necessary to know the background on how the work of art became what it is. ...

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Taylor Mercer Boatright 11:15 October 6, 2014 Art Evaluation Essay Art, "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power." Between visiting the Kimbell Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum, the Modern Art had more to observe, and in my opinion was a better overall experience. The work of art I chose from the Modern Art Museum to evaluate was The Ark by Melissa Miller 1986. ... Each piece of art is displayed on big walls a...

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I had the pleasure of discovering Jose Bedia's work of art entitled, "Figure Who Defines His Own Horizon Line" in the Miami Art Museum. Even though the whole floor was populated with art work created by the same artist, which something that I was not expecting, this piece of art in particular caught my attention. ... I also enjoyed trying to figure out the meaning of the art without reading the story. ... The person who is looking at the painting can notice how he let the tempera go down across, forming the main lines, because of the gravity. ... Also in this work, there is a little ...

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Many African ways to create art are considered some of the finer elements of art that you should be aware of today. African art is considered to be a suitable form of artistic expression in recent centuries. Many artist use African art as an inspiration to create their own works of art. African art has opened the door for many other forms of art from many other cultures. ... The art of African cultures have been blended seamlessly into many western forms of art. ...

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This will be accomplished by observing the two predominated art periods, Modern art and Post Modern forms of 20th-century art. ... This article covers some of the theories used to interpret modern art, the origins of modern art in the 19th century, and its most important characteristics and modes of expression. ... Cubist paintings create an ambiguous sense of space through geometric shapes that flatten and simplify form, spatial planes that are broken into fragments, and forms that overlap and penetrate one another. . Art historians generally consider cubism to have been the most influenti...

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Chapter 17: Modern Art Modern art is when ever artists use new subjects, materials, and techniques. ... Ingres was one of David's students and his forms were smooth and sculptural with flattened space. ... Postimpressionists were against impressionism art. ... Out of all the groups of modern art I like the impressionists the most. Because of their need to create new and different art forms. ...

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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 history imagery is used in postmodernism, often in the form of appropriation, and very much relies on the reaction and interpretation by the audience. Essentially, postmodernism uses art history imagery as its resource in a cannibalistic fashion, in a "way" that challenged art's audience, perception, themes, techniques and art in general. Pop art, in a dada-istic anti-art fashion, used commercial images in a rapidly commercializing world to challenge art's audience, perception, themes, techniques and general art, and also to challenge the consumer-orientated society that was fas...

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A man once said "I do not think that it is wise, at this stage of understanding, to attempt to propose a precise definition of consciousness, but we can rely, to good measure, on our subjective impressions and intuitive common sense as to what the term means.The same seems to hold for art You know what it is, I know it, but a definition is something else. so lets look at some basic concepts that people might have for "visual art" to be considered high art or low art. we have four catagories concept, asthedics, and excuition. i believe that if u have these three elements you have a great ...

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What is Art? Who determines what Art is? ... Therefore, hunting, mathematics, cooking, grammar, medicine, and agriculture, in addition to painting, sculpture, and architecture, were all seen as forms of Art. ... Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, the De Stijl movement, the Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art, among others characterized the diverse works of Art that define contemporary art. ... Clearly, contemporary art is not only different, but also more widely accepted than Art was in the past. ...

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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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After choosing one song that I feel is an unquestionably "good" piece of art right away I came up with a few aspects that seem to be applicable to all art in my opinion. ... When taking in what a work of art has to offer the first impression I am given is through its intensity or volume. Whether it is ranging from extremely sharp edges and colors to the softest hum of a tune, there is no limit to what art can do to ones imagination using this form of portrayal. ... However, no matter what the artist originally intended the meaning to be almost any work of art can be adapted to what the view...

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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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The history of Australian photography is most interesting has paved the way for the ever growing form of art, that is photography. ... His main focus was to capture the surrounding world e.g. the beach, landscape and city and portray the basic forms of the everyday Australians. Appendix 2, Appendix 3 The world of photography was now looking at how to make photography an independent art medium. American Photo Secessionists, Sydney Camera Circle, American and European Modernist Art Styles were already under the influence of this task. The Art Deco and German Bauhaus movements, were a major ...

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Surrealism Surrealism can best be described as a form of abstract art. ... Automatism is the only form of surrealism that was accepted by art critics after the war, according to Michael Bell, a specialist in American Art. ... "( http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/archive.html) These art forms would include Surrealism, Pop-Art and Minimalism, for example. ... Surrealism is an abstract art form with no true boundaries. ... And because it evolved from another type of art form, it has and most likely will spawn off many new forms as well. ...

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Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism is a modern art movement that flowered in America after the Second World War and held power until the dawn of Pop Art in the1960's. ... Abstract Expressionism is a form of art in which the artist expresses himself purely through the use of form and color. It is form of non-representational, or non-objective, art, which means that there are no concrete objects represented. ... This art movement changed the world we live in today. It allows artists to express their emotions through color and form. ...

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In 1913, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute and worked in a silversmith shop. ... (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 1) He served as artist in residence at the University of Iowa from 1935 to 1942. ... They are in artistic form which informs us about life. ... The painting has strong artistic form. ... To others it appears pointless with little meaning, but those views are not using the form content to find out as much about the artist as possible to really be considered a critic of the art. ...

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Tragedy and Art William Butler Yeats The theme of "Lapis Lazuli" is that all forms of art can surpass the tragedies experienced within the world; therefore making it gay. ... Art can bring people joy even in the worst of times. ... In the second stanza the reader is introduced to the first of the three arts in the form of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, Prince Hamlet and King Lear. ... Civilizations rise and fall; yet it is the art that remains. ... Literature, music, and art are that which helps to make life gay. ...

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The 1960's artists say a second Modern Movement in art, architecture and design. ... Post Modern art was widely spread, rapidly among most North American and European cultures. ... Modernism, in its several forms, has become and accepted view by the 1960's, at least in America (almost an orthodox). It was birthed in the business center of every growing city, taught in the literature and art departments of the major universities and, as a form of art, collected by many of the major galleries. ... It has productively challenged the period of influence of Modern art and architecture. ...

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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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From 1975 JH artistic career started as she entered a Masters of Fine Arts program at Rhode Island school were she worked with the form of abstract painting. JH then moved to NY were her ideas about art changed dramatically. ... In doing so JH became a momentous player in the post-modern art movement. ... This allowed her to reach people that might not pay attention to "art-. ... Many people wouldn't recognise this to be a form of art as they would see them as another advertisement. ...

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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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After serving in WW2 he studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in NY from 1946-49, and then at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine from 1949-50. ... These early works emphasized the flatness of the picture plane while remaining representational ,doing this set made his work stand out from other artists it also was at the forefront of Pop Art which didn"t come about till the following decade. ... Katz's portraits form a new and distinctive type of realism in American art which combines aspects of both abstraction and representatio Alex n. ... He has had numerous ...

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