Bridget Mullen is an amazing and innovative artist. She did an artist talk at the University of North Georgia (UNG) on August 27th at 2pm. The presentation of her art was held at the Gainesville Campus Art Gallery in the Performing Arts building. Recently I also saw Hsiu-Ching Yu at the University of North Georgia at the Gainesville Campus. She was there doing an Art Talk on October 1, 2015 and she had an art gallery set up as well.
Kerry James Marshall’s work is informed by his deep appreciation for the history of artistic expression, and profoundly influenced by urban culture, the African-American experience, and civil rights. “What I want to happen when I go to a museum is that expectations of what you find in there are completely altered, so that it’s not commonplace to just see European paintings with European bodies, but it’s also as likely that you will see ... black figures, Asian figures, or Hispanic figures.” Marshal’s art references a number of movements such as Fauvism, abstraction, and perception. He also has a unique way of using of cultural symbolism and pictorial devices that are informed by his own experiences of the world and his avid collecting of artefacts from classical mythology, folklore, African and African-American history, film history, art, literature, posters and comic books. Marshall 's pictures use a
What do you do when you lose something? Well, Elizabeth Bishop wrote “One Art” to mock how people cannot accept or get over a loss of something. Elizabeth Bishop, used rhyme, meter, and language and structure. Elizabeth Bishop used rhyming to help mock the idea of loss. In line 1 the speaker says, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
Saginaw Valley State University has a spectacular art program, with a sculpture museum by Marshall M. Frederick, and an art gallery with frequent changing exhibits that display a wide variety of contemporary artistic styles and media (Saginaw Valley State University 2001). For the beginning of the fall semester the exhibition is called Saints, Sinners & Song. We’ve been assigned to analyze both a two-dimensional and three-dimensional work of art out of this exhibit by using the basic elements of art like line, shape, form, space and texture. I’ve never been completely engrossed by art because I am not very artistic, but my favorite aspect of art is that it is up to interpretation. While most artists have a meaning behind their art work, people
I sit on the edge of my seat, as I wait for my professor to explain the next bit of symbolism hidden in Jan Van Eyck’s, Ghent Altarpiece. To me, the silence of the classroom screams of suspense, even if, a few classmates are sleeping. Each detail painted or formed by the artist represents a conscious effort to communicate beyond words. Their work joins in the eternal quest to define a specific reality, to capture an ephemeral moment. I have never enjoyed a course more than my first art history course.
While reading “The Trouble with (the Term) Art,” written by Carolyn Dean in the summer of 2006, we are taken through an array of different scenarios that lead us to questions what art really is. Dean explores the idea that the word “art” is used far too often and too habitually, and that as we study the non-Western cultures we need to use much more discretion regarding what we call the different pieces of their culture. Throughout the essay, Dean supports her thesis that we too often categorize non-Western pieces as art by using different examples of how certain non-art pieces were deemed as art throughout the course of their history. Dean does this by using four key examples of how these ancient pieces are inappropriately called art to successfully support her thesis and avoid biases.
Enduring understanding and essential knowledge statements provide contextual information that serves as a starting point for student learning in the course. Required Course Content (250 Image set): Each content area is represented by a number of exemplary works of art within a prescribed image set of 250 works. AP Art History required course content is defined to support students’ in-depth learning, critical analysis, and understanding of connections among global artistic traditions by focusing study on works representing the diversity of art through time and place. The image set consists of approximately 65 percent works from the Western tradition and 35 percent from non-Western artistic traditions. Students will also be asked to attribute works of art outside the image set based on their knowledge and understanding of works within the set; attributions
I was pleasantly surprised when I first encountered Emily’s work which is mainly due to her charming and low-key personality. At that moment a question popped in my head. How can such deranged and sexual imagery come from someone seemingly so sweet? To see work that delicately delineated such charged interactions with figures that seem emotionally mute towards the chaos signaled thoughtful quirkiness.
Frida Kahlo created many glorious pieces. One of her most intriguing pieces is The Two Fridas. The image is quite symbolic and meaningful. Kahlo was a Mexican artist greatly known for her self portraits and the pain, passion and feminism of her paintings. The name of the piece I choose to analysis is Las dos Fridas, also known as The Two Fridas.
In the reading, Art, Space, and the City by Malcolm Miles, the contrasting space and representation of gender that is designated in city spaces is analyzed, along with the overall representation of the city. The novel notes that the space and representation of men in the city is larger and more dominating in the city, men are assumed to control the public city spaces. Women on the other hand are pushed out of public spaces and are associated with more private, domestic parts of life. This association has shaped the development of the city, which takes after male characteristics, and has spread to occupations that often omit of ignore the presence of women in fields of work and portions of life. Today, the growing presence of women in art and in the city is changing assumptions about art and womens artists.
Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, One Art, discusses the theme of loss and how it affects the speaker. The structure of the poem itself as well as language affects the overall tone and the shift in attitude towards the growing impact of loss throughout the poem. The poem is structured as a Villanelle. With a Villanelle poem, the repetition of certain words and lines provides emphasis towards the theme of loss.
Cynthia Collins is not only a wonderful wife and mother of two but also a wonderfully different form of artist. Collins had been interested in the arts ever since her mother started teaching her how to paint and knit. In high school Collins’s mother pushed her to try an art class so she could learn more. Collins fell in love with the class learning about things like woodcarving, sculpting, painting, and pottery. This passion of arts led Collins to wonder even more about the different forms of art in the world.
Artwork is all around the world, but is it really worth the resources and time for it? In the essay “Is Art a Waste of Time?” by Ryhs Southan he discusses the purpose of art and explains the group, Effective Altruism. The main argument is that Effective Altruism do not agree with using resources and time on artwork. Effective Altruism is against artwork the resources, and time it uses up that do not contribute to the poor.
Ever wondered how artists are capable of pushing the dangerous nature of boundaries by using bodies within art? Well within this essay I will explore how artistic works utilise the materiality of the body in order to expose the precarious and dangerous nature of boundaries. I will be focusing on three key ways that five different artists have adopted the materiality of the body to push boundaries. The three key ways that I will be exploring are: audience participation, masochism within art performance and nudity- uncovering or using of the lower body. I will address the reactions that have been created by using these key factors within this essay.
Introduction Visual and performing arts tend to act as separate entities within the field of education; considerably isolated from the majority of academia, these sectors are often considered to be secondary or elective options after completing primary education. The arts are an essential part of a well-rounded education, however, when an institute begins a budgeting process, the arts are rarely considered a top priority. For example, during periods of recession many public schools within the United Stated were forced to cut visual, performing and musical arts programs, despite studies that proved the exposure to the arts to be beneficial for students both academically and in extracurricular activities. Learning in an art-infused environment
