Public Art : Chicago Is A Hub For A Booming Culture Of Art

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but maybe they are worth far more than that. Pictures, although seemingly simple in nature, are extremely complex. Far too often, people overlook what a picture truly is. When a person looks at an image, they most likely see only the image, nothing else. Many people do not look deep enough into an image to fully comprehend the true meaning of it. However, when an individual begins to truly study an image in an attempt to understand the true complexity of it, they will be surprised at what they overlooked before. As stated by French Realist Painter, Gustave Courbet, “Fine art is knowledge made visible.”

For centuries, people’s aesthetic value has been influenced by Rome's perfectionism, so do I. I used to think that artworks that make people feel appreciated are just equivalent to visual appreciation and satisfaction. However, after observing the painting and researching sources of this pieces of art I realized that an excellent artwork needs to cover all aspect requirements. For instance, an excellent artwork needs to contain a high operation of art skills as well as art knowledge in order to persuade audience. In addition, to qualify as a great artwork it has to create a substantial amount of activity in the audience’s mind or heart. When I look at an artwork I always try to figure out what is the artwork's message or what the artist is trying to communicate, to convey. Overall, I think a good artwork needs include some of the elements and principles of the language of art as well as the structure they give to be able to successfully communicate an idea.

Public forms of art have had a long-standing cultural and political effect on the citizens and history of Chicago. With the growing recognition and notoriety of Chicago on a global scale, the desire for tourists to visit the public art instalments as well as flock to each of Chicago’s cultural neighborhoods has increased. Areas like Pilsen, Chinatown and Bridgeport are now seen as destinations for tourists to experience authentic microcosms of other cultures that make up the greater Chicago metropolitan area. For large metropolitan areas, the need to create revenue is always an issue on city offical’s minds. Due to this need to generate income, cities like Chicago have taken to copyrighting popular sites and designs associated with the city

Public art is a great reflection of the community within the city which the art is. In

Many situations present the important synchronization of internal versus external negotiations. Many individuals have studied how each side in the negotiation is able to manage the internal opposition to agreements being negotiated. This can also be known as “on the table”, or what exactly is on the line in a heated argument. Each individual involve in an argument has a particular position to be managed, and often times own personal interests are widely expressed. This paper will expand upon the case of Fischer collecting needed funds from Smith with proposals and ideas for a manageable negotiation.

Positioned alongside Central Park within the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museums, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within a museum. By analyzing two separate works on exhibit at the Met, I will pose the argument that museums offer a unique expression of a world view that is dictated through every element of its construction.

time to visit museums. When public art is funded by the government, the artist’s imagination is

Just as other works that reflect art, pieces in the category of fine arts serve the important message of passing certain messages or portraying a special feeling towards a particular person, function or activity. At times due to the nature of a particular work, it can become so valuable that its viewers cannot place a price on it. It is not the nature or texture of an art that qualifies it, but the appreciation by those who look at it (Lewis & Lewis, 2008).

Art, in my view, is than an activity of using man-made symbols to represent and transfer ideas. Yet, it is limited by the artist’s ability to manipulate these symbols to express his or her ideas, the clarity with which the symbols themselves express ideas, and the audience’s ability to perceive and understand the ideas that the artist has expressed. Overall, art as I have defined it is limited by our ability to express, transmit, and perceive ideas, as well as the constructs we have created to express ideas. Due to these constraints, it makes it almost impossible, in my view, to create a flawless work of art, where there is no conscious separation between artist and audience. There will always be some conscious separation between artist and audience; yet the great artists, in my view, are able to minimize this conscious separation between themselves and large audiences. Thus, I believe

     Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or representation of life-or even the afterlife-has surfaced time and time again in the form of artwork. Sometimes it comes through genius and complexity, full of meaning and symbolism. Others, it is simple and void of any clear meaning at all other than that it is art. Soon, however, there became a point when the work of art was no longer something one could just look at and understand; the principle of the matter had

The integration of public art in urban cities has long been a beneficial tool in modifying the way urban life is lived. Art has the power to provoke thought and change, spark controversy, and even prevent crime. Philadelphia has exemplified the dominance of art in an urban city through murals, statues, and various other forms of art. The matter in which these works of art are placed throughout the city contributes greatly to the reception by the public. The presence of artwork in various places gives a neighborhood a welcoming appearance of upkeep and order. A notable example is the works of Isaiah Zagar, who created the Philadelphia Magic Gardens and various murals that plaster South Street and surrounding neighborhoods. The presence of intricate murals makes the neighborhood an inviting place to be, and it doubles as a device for warding off the occurrence of crime. The bond between urban art and its success is highly dependent on location, which ultimately determines the functionality and interpretation that the public has on the artwork.

As onlookers peer into the artworks in front of them, there is no question as to whether or not they considered what the artwork means, where it came from and what the artist was interested in who created it. The

“The value of art might be that it offers us a way of working through the complexity of moral or ethical issues – not prescribing solutions to them.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Cite specific visual examples to substantiate your argument.

The connotations associated with any work of art or art medium are those of free individual expression without constraints or limitations. Even without constraints or limitations, artists are constantly under the watchful, scrutinous eye of the public. Each work of art, whether that be a painting, a dance performance, or a musical composition, is innately intended to engage an audience. I believe that captivating an audience with artwork should not be considered an act that should always result in an overall positive reaction from an audience. Instead, works of art should merely strive to make viewers or listeners feel some set of strong emotions, positive or negative. This discussion leads me to argue that due to the entire meaning of art being centered in an artist’s expression, censorship in artwork should not be allowed.

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