Essay on Cultures Influences on Art

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Over the past few decades, enhancements in the visual fields have greatly improved, giving weight on the importance of visual material in text. Something that is more visually stimulating can usually make a text more convincing or credible. The term “seeing is believing” proves this fact. As humans, we tend to believe something if we can actually see it, which is why Jay David Bolter has referred to this phenomenon of the changed role of text and graphics as the “visual culture” in his book Writing Space. “Mere words no longer seemed adequate; they had to share their space with images.” (Bolter, 69).

In the nineteenth century Paris, Edouard Manet’s Olympia confronted the gender roles of its time. To study this objection of societal inequality, this research composition will seek first to expound the social structures and customs European men and women followed in the 1800s. Following a detailed account of their era’s understanding and enforcement of gender roles, is a brief description and analyzation of the history of Manet’s painting. Manet’s painting at the time was a painting that varied from previous paintings in a very uncomfortable way for the European and Parisian societies, due to the challenge and the time period in which the painting was presented into the society. Edouard Manet’s Olympia challenged gender roles in the 19th

Case Study: The use of assemblage and the found object in historical and contemporary art practice.

Edouard Manet incorporated a number of art historical references in his paintings of the 1860's, adding visual "quotations" into his paintings. Although this was not the reason why Manet was considered avant-garde, it reveals some of the artist's underlying philosophies and theories. Manet's visual allusions also serve the purpose of anchoring the artist in his own historical context. The social commentary Manet is famous for reveals itself in paintings like Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass. Similar technique can be witnessed in other 1860s-era Manet work including The Execution of Maximilian and Music at the Tuilleries.

The school atmosphere was different I was hanging with Caucasian girls and the African American children did not understand what I was doing being so close to children opposite of my own culture. At that point, I was unsure of what their problem was but realized they were sheltered from other cultures and raised differently. This caused several fights as a child because other children would call me a “little white girl” and I had no idea of what that meant and was offended. I was raised around majority boys in the neighborhood, until I started playing softball, some would consider me as a tomboy. So

Edouard Manet was unlike many other impressionist artist he chose to paint what he saw and not what others wanted to see. He painted meaningful paintings such as Olympia (1865), Manet chose to paint a woman of his time instead of what was accepted in the french art. This painting was hated by many, it was not acceptable to paint courtesans also known as mistresses. Upon researching this painting many people felt as if he humanized prostitution. The women were meant to be modeled after historical, mythical or biblical themes. Manet came from a privileged family, instead of painting what he saw around him he wanted to paint the lower class or the less desirable.

The Story of an Hour is set on a woman that has a heart disease, her sister and her husband’s friend have to break the news that her husband was killed an ancient. The moment she found out her husband was killed, she had a change of heart for her husband . Instead of being sad she was happy she didn’t have to be a wife anymore. After spending time to herself ,she deside to come out her room and down the stairs. Then, her husband opened the front door and she died.

African art has played an important role in the culture of the world. The sculpture is the most common traditional culture expression for the African art. The different sculptures are shown by their local styles and they serve for the specific functions, such as religion. From some of these old art pieces, we figure out this kind of traditional culture expression already existed in the African for such a long time. In this paper, the art piece I am going to analyze is the Female Figure with Child and it made by Akan-Asante people. The Akan people of Ghana have been recognized for their various and attractive culture and it located in what are today Ivory Coast and the republic of Ghana in Western African. The Akan people are combined by different groups, such as the Anyi, Akawpim, Akyem, Aowin and Asante, and these people have their own dialect, but they share a lingua franca, which called Twi. The sculpture I choose could effectively reflect its own distinctive culture, because of the social connection reflect on the royalty, the comparison with other local art pieces, like Akuaba fertility dolls and its specific art form.

The International Pop Exhibition currently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art offers a variety of work produced from artists across the world. Pop art, which is the subject of the exhibit, rose to prominence in Great Britain through the International Group in the late 1950s. It was an art movement that is categorized as utilizing popular culture and challenging high, intellectual art that was the prominent from past decades. It was a change in attitudes among new artists who played with this idea and the way in which pop culture elements interacted with life. Artists’ work in the exhibition shows themes of parody, criticism, celebration of popular culture. The most particularly interesting part of the exhibit is the Brazilian artists’

Art is not just a picture on a wall or in a museum, art comes in many forms. It can be a song you just heard, a video you watched, or a painting you saw in a gallery. Also, art can be just text. All forms of art grasp you in different ways and make your thoughts evolve to new distances. Art can bring you feelings you did not think you had. You can perceive the art in many ways and the creator wants it to influence you. I believe that yes, at can truly influence society and inform human behavior. While it may seem to some that pictures, songs, and videos influence you the most, it is actually true that books are the most influential and informative because they get in touch with your mind and emotions.

Art has always been an interesting and creative way for people to express themselves and what they believe in. Through art, people’s actions speak louder than their words and they are able to communicate so many thoughts and feelings simply through painting or drawing. Dating back to prehistoric times, mural paintings on cave walls were a major piece of Indian history. Typically found on the face of a mountain, people would both carve and paint on the cave walls, depicting designs ranging from portraits, scenes from their lives or animals, to Buddha and his teachings. While many chose to base their creations off their personal belief, some stuck to oriental designs. The Jogimara Cave for example did not include religion but rather paintings of dancing humans and animals(Wondermondo). There was however an overarching religious theme as religion was a major part of people’s everyday lives. Unfortunately, many of these paintings and creations have been destroyed, left with only small remains. These remains are still very useful as they allow us to get a glimpse into what our ancestors lives were like. After all, these paintings were the catalyst to Buddhist paintings all across Asia(Frontline.in). Today, we can still pull inspiration from these and chose to follow the tradition, creating art based off of our beliefs and our daily lifestyle. Indian mural paintings are a significant historical artifact because they allow us to see the beliefs and lifestyles of our ancestors.

Art has played an important role in the history of the world as well as it has been one of the most important elements of life. When food and water are very important for our physical bodies to keep on working, art is the element that feeds our souls. Art can affect our emotions; sad, happy, calm, excited and more, as well as it adds more color into life. It helps delivering imagination, point of view and desire of the artist to the audience visually. Art has so many forms such as painting, drawing, sculpture, crafting, photography, performance art and more, but it does not matter where the artist comes from or what his point of view is, art is his tool that is used to transfer his dream, his feeling about everything in life into his paintings or sculptures. Among hundreds of topics, unclothed body is one of the greatest topic that inspires artists of all time. The Olympia by Manet was one of the most popular nude figure paintings. Olympia ,was hung in 1865, gave its viewers the most uneasy feelings. On the painting, there is a nude woman lying on a bed with a black ribbon around her neck, gold bracelet on her wrist, a flower on her hair and an expensive slipper on her feet. Especially, there is a dark shadow between her hand and her genitals which obviously describing her identity as a prostitute. Also, there are a cat , that is arching it's back, and a black maid, who is holding the flowers at the foot of the bed, on the painting but both of them we ignored by the young

Art is an expression of free speech in a sense. However, some seek to influence and sensor an individual's artistic expression. Socrates believes that banning certain works of art from his ideal city is the best course of action for everyone. I will argue that Socrates is correct in his assessment that controlling the flow of art is for the betterment of society. By banning certain works of art, the souls of the young can be molded into an image that loves truth and honesty. Socrates says “ So our first task, it seems, is to supervise the storytellers: if they make up a good story, we must accept it; if not, we must reject it.” (Republic II, 377B). The objection is that such policies suppress the individuals right to autonomy, and to decide for themselves what is virtuous and what is not. Nonetheless, Socrates believes that restricting art is the best course of action.

Art is a form of human expression. Art can be seen as the artist sleight of hand on his mood. Art is in various media from posters to public wall of which we call “graffiti”. Art is elusive as the use of colors shapes and the surface used adds a new dimension. Art portrays various ideas, feelings such as triumph, love, happiness, sorrow and boredom in loss to mention a few. Art is beauty and creativity. During man’s evolution art has progressed over in its most primitive state up to its most modernized versions today.