Artist Drew Hamilton 's ' Street Corner Project '

This essay will discuss the historical-, philosophical-, and theoretical background of House and Street by Stuart Davis created in 1931. This art is a typical example of the look and feel of the Modern Movement style.

The exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art featured one of Bearden’s best works called The Block. It is part of a celebration of Bearden’s birth. According to the Museum, “The Block, an eighteen-foot-long collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood in New York City that nurtured and inspired so much of the artist's life and work. Bearden's elaborate and colorful cut-paper collages elevated this genre to a major art form through its unusual materials, expressionist color, abstracted forms, flattened shapes and spaces, and shifts in perspective and scale—all the while maintaining focus on the human narrative being told within a single city block” (Met Museum). The block depicts Lenox Avenue between 132nd and 113rd street, in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. The placement or arrangement of the visual elements in this collage is structured by what we usually see on a normal city block. This includes apartments, store fronts, and groups of people gathering. Bearden also includes a liquor store, a funeral parlor, a church, and a barbershop. You can see how people live and where they

“Street art is omnipresent in urban streets and is a rish source of inspiration for artistic creativity. . . It possesses the aesthetic voices of the ordinary and enables resistance for the marginalized. Banksy’s street art, in particular, can guide students to think about various social and political issues and to reflect upon the immediate, if not unjust, world in which they live, to transform that world, and to

“Artists today explore ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that examine the past, describe the present, or imagine the future.” Contemporary artists use a dynamic combination of media and technologies, methods, concepts, and subjects to create works that reflects The Human Condition in modern culture and society. Three contemporary artworks that utilise these artistic practices to express The Human Condition are Michael Parekowhai, Tracey Moffatt and Vernon Ah Kee. Each artist has used artistic devices to express the contemporary significance of The Human Condition by creating works that reflect back to their own experience and the history of their nationality.

Being new to an unfamiliar place is always a challenge and bring discomfort, being alone and knowing no one. In “The Street”, Ann Petry uses personification, selection of detail, and imagery in order to reveal Lutie's relationship to the urban setting and to show the challenges Lutie Johnson faces in the urban environment.

Street art is progressively increasing as a forbidding magnet to charm tourists to the Bronx. People are taking benefit of the worldwide interest in street art and its strong origins as a Bronx art form, and expecting that this overpowers what Maruri named the “world-wide problem” of a bad image that the area still fights with.

In the excerpt from Ann Petry’s novel, The Street, Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting. Petry sets a third-person omniscient pov to capture the harshness of the wind, which is the main antagonist of the excerpt. The narrator successfully captures the bitterness of the wind by using descriptive imagery and vivid personality.

Byerman argues that underlying aesthetic is the misreading’s of art and language without sufficient evidence. The evidence that Byerman gives, involves more emotion and the thoughts of a young man growing into an adult in the streets of Harlem. Byerman takes a look at the short Story without the thought of

Life in the slums of New York, particularly that of Harlem during the years when racism was still openly practiced in public, has always interested me. I had a chance to go to museum about Gordon Parks. He was the first black photographer. He Proposed a series of pictures about the gang wars that were harassing post-war Harlem. He believed that he could draw attention to the problem then possibly it would be addressed through social programs or government intervention. Parks gained the trust one of particular gang and their leader, Leonard “Red”, and produced a serious of pictures of them that are artful, emotive, touching, and something shocking. The editors at Life selected twenty-one pictures to reproduce in a graphic, adventurous layout in the magazine, often cropping or increasing details in the pictures. Also, this museum photographic selection is for the writer’s eye program that challenges students and adult writers to use visual art as inspiration for the creation of original poetry and prose. So they didn’t have any information about pictures. Perception and the individual and ethics and perception are best subtopic for Gordon Parker museum. Perception and the individual is very important in daily our life. Individual perception means engage in selective attention and appoint meaning to our perception. Gordon Parker’s photographic was the best example of individual perception. He didn’t want to put

Many times in society, life is sometimes influenced by art and during other times art is imitated by life. Art being able to imitate life means that the brush strokes of a painter or the innovative ideas of an architect are influenced by the world around him or her. During the years of 1900-1917 the United States was going through a number of changes. These changes helped to indentify the period as the Reformation Era. During the Reformation era the United States was becoming reshaped politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Painters such as George Benjamin Luks used pastel colors to paint pictures of a newly reformed society. In his painting Hester Street revealed a New York City that was accepting to Jewish culture and lifestyles (Figure 1) . Other pictures painted during the Progressive Era depicted more areas of city life, sports, different ethnic groups and culture. The life that was present in many of these painting showed a country that valued women, minorities, and individuality.

Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.

In the contemporary art world changes are constantly happening. Some changes benefitted the art world and some did not. Lucky for artists in the 1970s the amount of art–related jobs were a lot and many public places opened up to display new art. During the 1970s, SoHo was kicking off in the art world and attracting many and by the end of the 1970s artists were beginning to become familiar with one another and their works. In the 1980s, painters and sculptures had so much creativity that a lot of their pieces made it into the clubs and different areas. Also in the 1980s a lot of “punk” artwork was released. As time passed on rent prices raised almost three times than it had originally been. This economic downfall continued into the 1990s making

has given the residents a sense of community, it helped “put the concept of the village back in Greenwich Village; it serves as a powerful, an hourly, reminder of the values of architectural preservation”[9].

Art is all around us. There are many different forms of art. It can be something created, captured, or it can be already existent. Not a single person is to say what makes something art because there is a different definition for everyone. However, there are a couple factors that come into mind whenever someone decides to declare something as art. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting four different pieces of art. I will be discussing each art piece’s form, time period of creation, intention or purpose, and value. These four pieces of art are Michelangelo’s Pieta, Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko’s No.61, and the “Oyster Dress” by Alexander McQueen. These works of art come in all different shapes and sizes but they are valued

The Gucci building’s immense structure, as well as golden detail, express the city’s desire for materialism and wealth. Tyler Gillespie, a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is currently taking academic writing on Chicago, studying the way pictures can portray more than beyond just images. In 2017, for a class project he took the picture, Chicago and Catering to the Wealthy, exhibiting the city's materialistic values. Taken in daytime Chicago, this building seems to be in a well off neighborhood with a flashy exterior and bright lights. The building itself is big and bright and the windows are well lit to present the items inside in a way to draw customers in. Meanwhile, in the front of the building are two well dressed buyers and more shoppers inside. In this photo, Gillespie uses lighting, structure, and advertisement to portray how today’s society is obsessed with material possessions.