How The Arts Has Affected My Life

While the picture itself may be very nice to look at, and it may be sharp and have nice colors and lighting, it typically lacks depth, emotion, and feeling. Many of us forget to look for that when taking pictures. Especially in a world where social media is a habit and cameras are in our pockets, we take pictures for others to see, and we take photos for proof – proof that we were somewhere, proof that we did something. Due to that, we forget about what we are actually doing. We forget about the experiences we should be taking pictures of, and we lose the feelings that we should capture. With our cameras in hand, our objectives are changed. Rather than having the intent to have enjoyable experiences, then taking pictures of it, we have the intent to take pictures, with the experience being a

Student debt is what the School of Visual Arts students’ nightmares are made of. Like many students at SVA, I have had to take out loans on top of the loans the Financial Aid department has offered me and my parents are limited to how much financially they can help me. I hope to be considered for the Photography and Video Department Awards with a review of my work, as well as, the following academic achievements and contributions I have made in my three years at SVA:

Dynamic, motivated, highly organised individual with a career track record of dispensing personalised attention, maintaining composure under pressure, and juggling multiple job tasks and challenges with skilled discretion and concern. Over a decade of corporate sector experience in fast-paced customer-care environments has been broadened and strengthened by coaching experiences in roles requiring the ability to design and deliver customized training modules and program to diverse audience.

A world without photography seems merely impossible to the modern age humans. Photography is seen throughout our everyday lives, from the television, to smartphones, and on our computers, it seems impossible to avoid it. But why would we want to? Photography is a vision, a memory, a moment captured in time that makes it possible for humans to share these moments with others. But more than times than not, these moments, visions, photographs are altered, manipulated, and distorted to influence, and change the audience’s view. By analyzing the many methods the photographer’s ways of manipulating, altering, and the distortion of the truth of their works, one can conclude that not everything shown is accurate and often overlooked by the

Everyone strives to do better and succeed, why would people want to do worse? The key to succeeding may be different across unique people, but a trait known as grit was introduced by a psychologist named Angela Duckworth in a TedTalk, “…One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn 't social intelligence, it wasn 't good looks, physical health, and it wasn 't IQ: It was grit.” Grit, in my words, is the capability of failing or persevering through difficulties and still being able to succeed in the end. Whether you are or not familiar with grit, it has the potential to change lives, and examples of this trait are shown in my personal life, the arts, and world events.

Growing up as a member of a Chinese household in a mostly Asian dominant society is vastly different from an average suburban American lifestyle, I became aware of this when I moved from my Asian dominant society of Daly City to a Caucasian and Latino majority of Napa.To start off, both of my parents immigrated from Hong Kong in need of a new life for their siblings and parents and to escape the violence from their homeland- Cultural Revolution and Communist Revolution of 1949. From this incident , both me and my older brother were the first in our average family to be born in the U.S .

In her essay Photography at the Crossroads, Berenice Abbott advocates for the return of documentary photography at a time when commercial and fictitious approaches were dominating. Photography is the most creative medium available to capture the spontaneity of real life, and the essence of photographic art is realism (Abbott, 179). In her summary of photography’s development, Abbott describes the early stages as “truly spectacular” and commended the “sound American tradition” of realism – for example, portraiture and post-war geological documentation (180). She denounces the commercialization of photography – the use of props, constructed backdrops and retouching to create ostentatious painting-like photographs. Honest documentation was abandoned for sentimental painting-like images by photographers such as Henry Peach Robinson (Abbott, 181).

For many centuries since their inception, photographs and photography struggled to find its own niche, inspiring heated debates over their value and place in the artistic world. Today, they are viewed as an instrument of artistic expression, inspiring change and thought, reflecting our tastes and interests, as well as social and political realities. The photograph has the ability to inform and educate, as well as to evoke emotion. With its ability to capture a moment in time photograph is a time capsule enclosing the secrets of the people and times that it captured.

We’ve all heard the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s the mere fact that an idea can be conveyed with just one single image. We come across tons of unfiltered images everyday, whether we see them in newspapers or magazines. These images move us, they have an impact on some of us, deep to our core. When a photograph directly impacts an individual, one will recount an image long after they have seen it.

My intended major is Art History. When I first took the Ancient-Medieval class in 2011, I was taken back by all the historic beauty to be seen and stories, to be heard. When I met Terri McDermott, my Western art professor, I became drawn even more so. I loved every lecture, assignment, exam, and taking notes. Having become an outspoken student, I communicated to professor McDermott after every class about comparisons between movements and artists. She quickly took notice of my interest and motivated me to take on the next class. At this time, I started to believe I had found my major so I set up an appointment to meet with a counselor to create my educational plan. From then on I began checking off classes on the associates degree for transfer

I traveled, I saw art, I lived my life and I maintained my health and relationships, and remained as ever, an artist. As I write this blog I have seen lapses, weaknesses, and plenty of things I could have done differently but 2016 was 2016 and now it's time to move on. Thanks to everyone who supports my work and reads this blog. You and your encouragement are my currency of hope and you mean the world to me.

The study of the arts belongs in every K-12 classroom. Participation in the arts is correlated with increases in cognitive capacity, reading, mathematics, critical thinking, and verbal skill (Lynch, n.d.). Artwork learning can additionally enhance focus, motivation, trust, and teamwork. Arts programming in schools helps close a gap that 's left many a youngster behind and acts as an equalizer of sorts. Children of wealthy parents are exposed to the arts whereas the children from low-income families do not have the same exposure. The research behind this paper will show that art belongs in the K-12 curricula in schools since education is fundamental to a child’s development.

Imagine going through school without having to sing in choir, take an art class or play a musical instrument. Without all of those programs, life might be very dull and boring. It is the arts that gives all of our lives meaning and adds creativity to every single day. However, people usually do not stop to think about the impact that it has on our own self. In fact, the arts in schools may be one of the most beneficial aspects towards our own education. Then, whey are the arts always the first to get their programs cut? It is because people do not fully understand the direct positive impact the arts have. Art in education is one of the most important factors towards raising test scores, improving social and developmental skills and improving the overall quality of all of our lives.

To start with, as I began this class, I had little idea of what challenges I was going to face while taking the course. Mentally, I had a problem of being stubborn while going through this class as I like to consider myself a skilled hobbyist as an artist. For the first unit on lines, I found myself thinking that I didn't need to learn this and that it was just useless information being shown to me. It made my sluggish while completing my lessons initially and I had a stubborn mental block. However, as I went to the second unit onwards, I saw topics that were more of interest to me, and I thought of ways I could incorporate what I was learning into my art. Another additional challenge for me was the projects as I found that it got me out of my comfort zone. It made me realize that even though I had a slight familiarity with creating focal points, balance, and interest — I didn't quite know how to express it. It brought to my attention that even when I was able to create appealing fully colored pieces, that I still had much to work on the foundation part of the art such as drawing. Doing these project traditionally instead of digitally meant I didn't have my usual array of colors to pick from via the color wheel and I had to choose how to frame my drawings in a way that agreed with the element of design I wanted to show. In the end, I did conquer these challenges that I confronted during this course.

In this time of ever-increasing focus on improving standardized test scores while streamlining expenses to meet shrinking budgets, many school districts are defunding art classes. However, art is a vast and important field that is crucial to education and life. Art teaches invaluable lessons that prepare children for school, the workplace, and the world. Art helps to build creativity, critical thinking skills, and self-confidence. The study of art provides an immense range of benefits for children, both in school and out.