Aesthetics

“My spirit takes journey, my spirit takes flight, could not have risen otherwise & I am not running… I am choosing.” Alike is an intelligent and poetically talented 17 year old girl. On the surface, Dee Rees’s Pariah (2011), is the coming of age story of African-American lesbian, Alike. Growing up in a traditional household…

Assignment 2 Evaluating The Visual Elements of Art & Principles of Organization in Pablo Picasso’s painting “Girl Before A Mirror. ” For this second assignment, you will need to make sure you have read chapters 4 & 5 (pages 75 thru 137) of the 9th edition of the “Living With Art” textbook. This topic will…

This painting is called ‘still life with a basket of apples’. It was made between 1890 and 1894, this means it took Cezanne 4 years to produce; it is 23 3/8 by 31 inches. The artwork is of some apples in a basket and a bottle of wine. This is a scene that is not…

            During the 6th and 4th centuries B.C., pottery was the commonly used method to create functional and decorative pieces. One of the famous products of pottery that were produced during this era was the painted vase which was ornamented using “black and red figure techniques.” More so, in Athens, Greece, artisans used this to…

Starry Night is a beautiful painting, representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ? in. , and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting, there is a group…

From where do we get our notion of art? The assumption is that art is something that takes talent, patience, and hard work, and thus should be appreciated for the considerable skills of its maker. Another assumption is that art is supposed to look “like something”. But who is to say that rendering objects from…

Critical Analysis of Guernica – By Bryce Craig Spanish artist Pablo Picasso can often be collectively seen as the greatest and most influential artist of the twentieth century. In a historical sense he encompassed all that is to be a practicing modernist artist and prevailed as one of the most significant artists overall in human…

Kokoschka was born in P’chlarn, a Danube town, on March 1, 1886. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1905 to 1908. As an early exponent of the avant-garde expressionist movement, he began to paint psychologically penetrating portraits of Viennese physicians, architects, and artists. Among these works are Hans Tietze and…

Within the world that we reside we are constantly bombarded with stimuli that create reactions in an instant. Some are positive–the moment that we catch a whiff of our Mother’s bread baking in the kitchen, or a beautiful sunset behind lush mountains. Some inspire a negative response- abandoned ruins, harkening back to older days of…

William Cowper, pronounced “Cooper,” is one of the few English hymn writers who ranks highly among the English poets as well. Cowper wrote about the simple pleasures of life in the country and expressed a deep concern with human cruelty and suffering. The simplicity of his work and his treatment of subjects in nature contrasted…