Fahrenheit 451

One must look at the root of the person creating the art to truly understand the beauty of the piece. Matisse attended law school in

The figures can be identified as nude woman and men in a bright, vibrant, landscape scenery. Instead of painting a typical and most recognizable scene of a contemporary park, Matisse tests the boundaries with sensuality, vibrancy and expression. Many of Matisse’s works express sensuality, the curvature of the figures bodies, their nude and strewn about positions, depict serenity and a sense of true relaxation and paradise. The line and curvature of the figures bodies takes the viewer on a journey. The curving and sweeping of the arcs of each person’s back, out stretched arms, and further twisted bodies move the viewers eye all about the canvas, covering every

Art is able to evoke different feelings and emotions to each person that sets their eyes on it. The act of ‘looking’ is simple, but a lot comes from it. Where the eyes are first drawn to, the duration that the eyes are focused on a specific detail, and the thoughts that flood one’s brain when viewing art is all significant. These actions say more than the piece itself, it reveals emotions of both the artist and the audience. Art can be expressed through infinite forms, but the underlying importance is not with the art itself. It represents a place in time, displaying what was noteworthy to an individual in their own life. It serves as a lasting creation representative of human imagination with the ability to bring out a multitude of emotions from whoever views it. When art is created it represents the creativity of the human mind compacted into a physical object. Art has little usage aside from pure observation, yet it has prevailed throughout time, showing its importance to humanity. Art provides a lens into humanity, showcasing the human ability over time. When studied through history, art is a view into the development of humans and their interests. Through something as basic as commonly using symmetry to transitioning to asymmetry, the European’s perspective following the Renaissance is revealed. The making of art is solely up to one individual and their creativity. It is the pinnacle of

There are different ways for art to portray elements of truth and lies; but what Picasso was mostly referring to with his quote was that art might be a representation of the truth however lies to the human eye in terms of perception. The word art is somehow “controversial, especially in contemporary philosophy” because it relies on different AOK’s and WOK’s. The main area of art focused to support Picasso’s quote will be theatre and what philosophical role it plays in our everyday society, do we really need it, and is theatre the true or false image of reality? It is evidently challenging to make any sense out of this quote especially when the truth can

New ideas come from everywhere whether they are from people, places, books, animals, or even come from something as meaningless as silence; however, we don’t just get new ideas out of the blue, we have to be inspired and influenced by those elements to create new art. Unlike Plato’s Ion, which states that God speaks through the artists, Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism; projects that inspiration comes from the influence of our surroundings which is the key to creation.

Art history: a useless pondering over sketches that have little significance to life, at least this is the notion held by many. Delving into art history is a slippery slope that requires more than any one person knows. James F. Cooper and Alan Wallach explore the considerations art historians go through to decipher the relevancy of artworks. However, James F. Cooper’s arguments retro and one-track minded, while Alan Wallach’s arguments on which artworks to pick apart, the methods to attack them, and the reasons people spend so long analyzing a piece of paper are far more relevant to today’s emerging standards.

In the paper I would like to focus on a painting that is almost 120 years old, however it appears provocative even today - in the world of contemporary art, where there seems to be no room left for astonishment. What I find so special about this beautiful painting is the technique and the artist’s vision of the scenery. Even though the second half of the 19th century was the time of rebelliousness in the art world, Henri Matisse managed to find his own niche and create his own style of painting. While “Still Life with Oranges II” appears as a primitive piece of work that neglects canonic rules of proportion, shade and volume, it opens doors to the personal world of the artists, where there is a place for imagination and flirting with the audience. Bright colors and swirls of brush strokes celebrate life and create an uplifting mood, which we often under appreciate in a painting.

“All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”

Picasso is more spontaneous application of color, there is less uniformity. In Matisse there are more color schemes, the composition is more rigid, even if it's not more descriptive; it is a still life more organized, with more degree of stability. Unlike nudes of Picasso, the nudes of Matisse with safety on the line and in the tone, makes to describe him as a flat painter. Matisse made a complex image, winning the back of the woman through the looking glass with a few simple strokes, spontaneous, but courteous Matisse achieved the creation of a space, bed, and room which is no longer description to be magic and especially calligraphic rhythm. If Picasso paraphrased other artists, Matisse makes metaphor from other poems, as the mirror

It is ironic that Meissonier played such a large role in the story of the rise of Impressionism because he was known for his detailed and accurate history paintings. In the artistic revolution of Realism and Impressionism, Meissonier became identified with those who blocked these developments. The first chapter discusses how detailed his works are stating his “punctilious craftsmanship” and how even though his painting were small in size, they “rewarded the closest and most prolonged observation.”. This is ironic because the other artists who are discussed were reprimanded for their controversial and noticeable mark-making. In the next chapter, Meissonier is compared to Manet: “Two years earlier a critic had praised Meissonier for painting his bonshommes so realistically that their lips appeared to move. Such mind-boggling manual dexterity and painstaking dedication to minutia were entirely absent from Manet’s work. He applied his paint thickly and in broad brushstrokes, suppressing finer details such as the facial features of his reeling drunkard and taking instead a more abstract approach to visual

Henry Matisse is a well regarded french minimalist ink painter, yet his bull painting looks as though it could have been copied line for line from a cave.

Henri Matisse was a famous painter but he gave it all up for a huge colorful collage that was made out of cut paper. Many would think, this is something that a children would do, but I find it very creative to see a painter use color paper and shape it into image. His cut out was carefully rework and thought out. Henri Matisse “The Cut Out” work is display in the museum art of New York. There, his work is on base on the cut out. In the museum they own one of his most famous cut out which is named “The Dance”. In the image he uses the paper cut out to move around to figure out his composition. When I look at the image, I can’t even recognized that the painter uses color paper, it looks like a painting to me. I enjoy how I can’t tell that the

Through this course, I have discovered that when an art piece is complete, it’s style, form and content while expressed by the artist, is interpreted by the viewer. The meaning of art to me has changed as I have come to realize that while there are a variety of styles and forms of art that each artist uses, each individual viewer is free to have one’s own opinion and thought about the piece. Not only have I come to learn to appreciate art from a variety of time periods, the meaning of art for me has changed how I view the art I enjoy, as well as how I view the art that I do not adore, but can now appreciate it for it’s cultural or religious significance, for it’s value through the ages, as well as through its use of elements and design. Through this course pieces of work have become more meaningful to me, the concept of art has become more relevant, and my ability to evaluate art has become more

The essence of art is the union of inspiration, discovery, imagination, and power displayed and interpreted through our five senses. Art cannot be demonstrated, nor identified by any absolute source; no one can or ever shall deem any one piece or sense as “true art.”. For art is individualized and perceived differently by each being. The appreciation of what one brings to be experienced by others classifies as art, for art is to be appreciated in different perspectives; whether it be in sorrow, pleasure, comfort, or uneasiness. With the creation of art comes the birthplace of power. With the beauty of art, comes its flexibility and willingness to bind itself to any form that you dictate.

For over two thousand years, various philosophers have questioned the influence of art in our society. They have used abstract reasoning, human emotions, and logic to go beyond this world in the search for answers about arts' existence. For philosophers, art was not viewed for its own beauty, but rather for the question of how art and artists can help make our society more stable for the next generation. Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived during 420-348 B.C. in Athens, and Aristotle, Plato’s student who argued against his beliefs, have no exceptions to the steps they had to take in order to understand the purpose of art and artists. Though these two philosophers made marvelous discoveries about the existence of art, artists, and