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Comparison of Art Works of the Past

Art

Myth

Sculpture

Words: 1354 (6 pages)

Art works of the past preserved for the present civilizations represents a great deal knowledge and information regarding the characteristics of the society and values in the past. These preserved artworks through antiquity represent the social values and humanistic nature of the people who have once existed in the previous timeline. Contained in the artistic…

Art and Its Role in Society

Art

Words: 1059 (5 pages)

It goes without saying that art has not always been what we think it is nowadays, though the terms “art” and “artist” are rather modern notions. Nowadays we consider Greek painted pottery or medieval manuscript illumination as the best examples of art, because they were made in times. However, these objects may be and should…

Art as Distraction To Poetic Eyes

Art

Words: 3380 (14 pages)

“Art as Distraction To Poetic Eyes: How Art Serves to distract us from tragedy as exemplified by W.H Auden’s Musee “Des Beaux Arts” and James Joyce’s “All Day I Hear The Noise of Waters”             Plato openly shun the idea of imitation in art, while Aristotle argued that art, in any form, is an expression…

Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice

Art

Pottery

Visual Arts

Words: 768 (4 pages)

During our visit to the museum of fine arts in Richmond, Virginia on April 17th, I had the opportunity to observe an ancient pot on exhibition. This particular pot is an amphora with black figure decoration, characterized by its round shape and approximate height of 16 inches. Crafted from terracotta clay, it is believed to…

Computer generated art

Art

Computer

Words: 1615 (7 pages)

Philosophically speaking, there is no such thing as computer generated art. Even in its most automated state, the process of creating art depends on human artistic judgments. Even if the art is created by running filters over a photograph, the original photo was composed and captured by humans and the artistic decisions about how to…

Gustav Klimt Biography

Art

Painting

Words: 976 (4 pages)

A Biography on Klimt From around 1900 until his death in 1918, Gustav Klimt dominated the art scene in the capital empire of Austro-Hungary. He was born on July 14, 1962 in Baumgarten, near Vienna. Gustav Klimt was the second of seven children of a meticulous but poor engraver and carver. His brother Ernest, who…

Analysis of Showtime’s Tv Show Dexter’s Cover Art

Art

Tv Show

Words: 1482 (6 pages)

Showtime’s new age murder drama, Dexter (2006- to present), is more than what the cover art will have you to believe it is, or is it? Dexter is a television show about the life of a murderer. Dexter, the main character, is no ordinary killer though. He is a community hero! He kills murderers; only…

Avant-Garde and Kitsch Analysis

Art

Words: 324 (2 pages)

            Said to be one of the most important 20th century documents on culture, Clement Greenberg actually developed a distate for this essay. Especially with bizarre statements like, “only under socialism could the taste of the masses be raised,” one can see that there was an echo of 1930s Marxism foreshadowing his work. His learned…

“The Wave” of 1869. Gustave Courbet

Art

Painting

Words: 2041 (9 pages)

Beginning in the summer of 1869 Gustave Courbet produced a series of paintings depicting stormy seas during his stay at Etretat on the Normandy coast. The Wave (La Vague c. 1872) exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria is one such painting that features the central motif of a cresting wave. While many viewed the…

Ansel Adams Biography

Art

Nature

Photography

Words: 1882 (8 pages)

            Ansel Adams was a member of the Western school of photography, which included others such as Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham and as a group were nature-oriented, nature encompassing everything from a desert landscape to closeup floral forms, to studies in humans.  Adams was a member of the Western school that brought together an…

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