How The Artist Is Present By Marina Abramovic

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

The post-modernist Julie Rrap is a contemporary artist whose focal point rests on the basis of femineity and the way the female identity is represented historically within art. She is a feminist who accuses the ‘male gaze’ of instigating a predatory activity that is accustomed with the norm of society. She relates this norm to existing social structures that are attributed with a patriarchal society, where women were nothing more than sexual objects. All in all this term, the ‘male gaze’ evaluates the predatory voyeurism of society, where the male is the active subject and the female is a passive object of representation.

Nina Simone was one of the most unique, influential, and gifted singers of her generation. She was born on February 21, 1933 as Eunice Waymon, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother was a preacher and she started playing piano at an early age, around 3 or 4 at her mother’s church, as she was playing piano at a local recital she caught the eye of an older white woman willing to give her lessons. Nina went on to studying classical piano for 5 years with the woman, learning the stylings of the classical greats such as Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, and Brahms. As a child she felt so isolated, spending up to 7 hours a day practicing the piano, and growing up in the south in the segregation era, she felt as she could not fit in neither with the white or black community, even when surrounded by other children all they wanted to

Art is one aspect of the past that has carried on for decades. Art in any form may it be poetry, novels, and playwright, sculpting as well as painting, has been an outlet for generations and continues to be an outlet and a means for expression. This paper will discuss “ The Mona Lisa” one of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings, as well as another great painting, Antonio Veneziano’s

Look at that!” Absolutely stunning and breathtaking artwork from artists then and now. It was nice to see the different styles and techniques that’s each person used, none of which were exactly the same. Going to the MoMa was like going through history and through the lives, lifestyle of a variety of people from all over. That is what I took away, I saw the individuality of everything. They were able to take risks and break boundaries, try new things take what they knew about art and make it completely what they felt it should

Throughout human history people used to capture the reality of their time, express their feelings and share their impressions by copying both literally or figurative the mundane. The so-called artists have had different impacts in society all along the centuries. Only a few are currently taught in school, although the reverberation of their work is still impregnated in XXI Century. Nowadays, the term ‘artist’ can be used in reference of painters, sculptors, writers, singers, choreographers and other professions whose production are considered valuable culturally speaking. One of the main problems is that their work produce such a magnificent impact on the audience the artist is set aside and usually forgotten as a person, so they feel their rights to be violated.

When visiting an exhibition of art work by artists was organized by Winston Salem State University at the Diggs Gallery. When I reached, the Art Gallery, it packed with students of the university. Clusters of people were inflowing the exhibition halls, their faces were pleased with joy. On the walls, pencil drawings and Jet Magazines were up for presentation. Most of them replicate daily activities and some of them brought us into a world of imagination of how life was in the past. As I sauntered through the exhibition halls, I heard the voice of a public speaker who was telling the guests about the artists and their works. The exhibition offered me precious minutes of moderation and enriched my mind. It brought me back into my pleased and peaceful past.

Casteel’s exhibition is attractive not only in its thematic purpose, but also in the quality of the art. The way she is able to blend many different vibrant colors together to create a serene piece of art is amazing. Whether you visit the gallery when it is full of many people, or you hear every footstep as you walk through it alone, it will be a worthwhile experience. It is not the typical art one would see in a museum or gallery, and for that reason, I would encourage anyone to go out and see the unusual. You may find out that what you thought was unusual, is more like home than you

After reading the article Everyone is an Artist written by Megan Kokomo, it gave me a great chance to look back of myself and to think again about the controversial topic: “What is art and who is the Real Artist?”

The documentary looks into a day of the artist rather than detailing more about the origin, rise and successes which we usually love to know about veterans. Hence, engagement was lacking as we progress through the film. However, Louis’ technical contribution needs to be appreciated. His editing was well structured despite lacking more story and visuals are well framed. The documentary also would have improved with a mix of narrator and artist’s own narration as it is, it was mundane.

Marina Abramovic is known for completely excluding using paint and canvas for her art. She is a performance artist, Marina uses her body as the medium between her and the audience. In her piece “The Artist is Present”, she sits with hundreds of people for several months without showing any emotion. Marina is simply present at the moment she is sitting with different people, while the person sitting shows tremendous feelings towards Marina. Marina has a gift of making people think she is in love with them. Her fans that were able to sit with her explain their time with Marina as life changing. She is the greatest living performance artist and that is why she is why she will be remembered as the grandmother of performance

Performance art is live in motion and real, a person can grab the concept of the message being told or shown in a short time, just by listening and watching. Performance art subject can be analyzed to be biographical and contextual analysis, since it does focus on real life events that are taking place in the world. All five of the performance art that Tania has done, depending on the subject, all spread awareness to the public. We should actually take Tania Bruguera as an artist and her art work into consideration, because it not only delivers a message, but she opens her audience mind to think deeper. Everything that is going on in the world is not always on big screen news stations, sometimes it takes a famous artist to point out the important issues going on in our society that we don’t see on television. Tania Bruguera encourages her audience to see things in a different horizon, and not just from a selfish angle when it comes down to certain issues and topics that affect the world and the people in

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She came to the UK in 1975, where she remained following the outbreak of civil war in her homeland. Mona Hatoum has received wide recognition due to conceptual works, mainly the performances, videos, objects and installations. Most of the critics consider her art through political and geographical approach and Mona call this approach - “journalistic” in her interviews she states that the most important element of her art is its relationship to the body, tactile sensations and human relationships [1], but after studying her works I disagree with this kind of statements, I think she widely exploit her own story, political and geographical background to bring more sense to her art.

The history of art dates back to ancient times. Artwork can be, and was, found around the world. What makes art interesting is that it can be created in any way, shape or form with any materials. It seems that the artwork can also tell us a lot about the artist. Art seems to be simply, a direct, visual reflection of the artist’s life. Therefore, one can assume that an artist’s life experiences and beliefs directly influence their art. If we look at examples from different periods of art we will be able to see the connection between the artist and the art.

After getting over my initial reluctance, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was only the 2nd time I’d been to an art museum, so I wanted to make the most of it. When we first arrived, we looked around at some paintings. I visited an exclusive temporary exhibit of Edvard Munch which included a surprising amount of paintings of naked women. Nothing caught my eye in the first few galleries, but then I stumbled on an exhibit called “In Character” by Nam June Paik. As soon as I walked in, I got embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.”