Reflection Of Art

New York City, one of the greatest cities of the world, is remarkable because of its history, culture, and diversity. It is world renowned for its skyscrapers, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Broadway entertainment, Radio City Music Hall, Central Park, and even restaurants specializing in ethnic foods. However, the thing that most intrigues and excites me about New York City is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Society, it’s complex, it’s frustrating, it’s something that we’re all apart of. Art, it’s complicated, it’s lovely, it’s a part of everyone’s lives. Without art, society would be unable to truly thrive. Art is one of the most important things that society could even dream of having. Life would be bland and meaningless, there would be no personality and society would be completely emotionless. Art surrounds our daily lives and people fail to realize that. Art created our society that we love so deeply, without it, life would not have a purpose.

When I lived in Chile I got to observe poverty, injustice, and corruption, but I didn’t recognize it as such while living there, I simply saw it as the way things were and accepted the bitter reality that my home country put me through. Thankfully, when I moved to Canada, I got to experience living in a comfortable first world country and truly realized the flaws that Chile has. This is why elements such as rebellion, social issues and the forceful infliction of Christianity reflect on many of my artworks. When I first started taking art classes in Canada, my teachers required me to put meaning into my artwork, something I had never done before. Due to this requirement, I slowly began to think about what the meaning of my art was before I started. This allowed me to meticulously plan my piece, which resulted in an improvement in my overall composition process. I began to express my point of view of the world, and brought in my experience of living both a third and first world countries into my art; in my opinion, making it unique, and personal. I usually tend to express my perspective of the world, with a variety of materials. These include pastels, charcoal, pen, paint, and multimedia. Stylistic trends that tend to appear in this type of my artwork is the use of dark colors, rhythm and the use of materials in a chaotic matter; by this, I refer to the use of multiple materials in one piece. While some conceptual trends include my expressing of social issues that I can

Many new materials were thought so far throughout the course. We learned about many types of arts and their purpose. We watched many videos in class that talked about the different types of arts.  Art stimulates our mind. And gives us the opportunity to explore our creative side. Art of any type pleases, notifies, teaches and informs us in every way possible. Some of the different works of art that really interest me are The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci, Aphrodite of Milos, and the David Statue by Michelangelo.

The various uses of fonts, sizes, and educational literature is not only visually appealing to viewers, but also is a change of scenery many may be used to when visiting an exhibit. If the mixture of descriptive texts and labels of the items were the same font and size, the aesthetics of the exhibition would have been decreased a significant amount. The Amazonia display has an abundance of resources for guests to engage with. The use of audio, visual and interactive materials, engages those who visit to become more involved. The brochure is a critical element in understanding the political drive of the exhibition, almost to a point where the artifacts are merely seen as historical “accessories” to a more extensive message. “There is [this] urgent need to change course, and to realize a radically different world, one released from centuries of the domination of nature, a nature historically relegated to the status of “natural resources”, and Rights of Nature does exactly this (Demos, 4). It is not only the brochure provided that contains an abundance of information, but the texts within the exhibit are also seen along the entirety of the rounded walls filled with statistics of inhabitants and components associated with the Amazon. As a regular visitor of the Museum of Anthropology, I find that the curator's tactics and methods to create a sense of intertextuality within exhibitions, this by far is one of the highest I have been able to visit. The importance of aboriginal and

When I found out the first paper assignment was going to look at the SIUE art show, I was intrigued. I have only been to one other art exhibit in my life and it was in Washington D.C. I did not have as high of expectations for the SIUE show as I did for the one in D.C., but I do enjoy looking at art so I was excited. It was a slightly different experience than my D.C adventure, but still interesting. There was not as many people and it was quieter. I liked this setting better because I was able to focus more on understanding and interpreting the art. Going into it, I figured most of the art would be either paintings on canvas or sculptures.

This unit has been quite enjoyable for me as I have strengthened my art skills and knowledge. To create my ATC’s I have used my media explorations, experiments, and drafts which were done in my process journal. I have used my media explorations for each of the elements of art and principles of design to create my final ATC’s. I have applied the methods and media that I have explored and experimented with to use creative ways to display elements of art and principles of design in my final example. For texture, in my media explorations, I have tried using scissors engraving on my paper to create real texture. This has given me the idea and inspired me to use a needle and poke holes along the lines of the leaf to show real texture, this can be seen in my final ATC with the leaf. I have also used my media exploration and experiments to show lines in one of my final ATC. During my media exploration on the element of line, I have tried using markers to make bold and thick lines. This inspired me to use a marker to create lines in my final ATC, therefore I have chosen to use a marker to create lines in one of my final ATC to show clearer lines. I have also used my 12 drafts (2 drafts for each ATC) to help create the final artwork piece. All the drafts have helped me creating the final artwork as I could see which draft can show the elements of art and principles of design in a clear way.

The first art piece from David Call’s collection that caught my attention is the Resistance. My dream career is to become a dentist so I was immediately drawn to the use mouth models in this piece. In dentistry, mouth models are generally used to help explain dental procedures to patients or as teaching tools to help kids learn how to brush their teeth. However, in the Resistance, the mouth models represent oralism in a particularly oppressive and aggravating way, as they are phrased in the description as “wind-up oral chattering teeth toy”. I believe learning is one of those things that vary from person to person. Auditory, visual, verbal, and kinesthetic are many of the few learning styles that are commonly known today. The utmost priority in teaching is being able to present information in a way that accommodates for all the different learning styles and not just one particular style. My preferred method of learning is a combination of visual and kinesthetic. Throughout my academic career, I was very lucky to have an opportunity to learn visually and kinesthetically, but nevertheless, I also have experienced forced learning style assimilation.

Art is special because it takes so many different shapes and forms that every single

Areas of knowledge are specific branches of knowledge, each of which can be seen to have a distinct nature and requires different ways of knowing. Description is a written or spoken account of a person, object or event and thus, relies on our perception of the world. Transformation is a change that goes beyond a norm or a paradigm. In order for something to be considered knowledge, it needs to go through both the process of description and transformation. Due to their approach to acquisition of knowledge, certain areas of knowledge such as Art puts more emphasis in describing the world while others focus more on transforming it. All areas of knowledge, including Art, still have both functions of describing and transforming the world and there is no area of knowledge that

Art comes in many different styles and shapes; no one can choose art that will be appealing to you. After reading chapters four and five I believe there were a lot of positive outcomes. It seems as if art has been used as a major tool for communication not only during the twentieth century but still till this day. The artists that were talked about in this chapter have definitely impacted art and have become legacies because of it. These artists have influenced other aspects of art and culture and even other artists. By reading these two chapters I have learned that art is anything and is everywhere. I believe contemporary art cannot be defined to one definition because art is more than that. I have also noticed that this artist put a lot of their emotions into their art which I find to be very interesting.

I feel that my Exhibition this term was a lot better than my last. I was able to do a lot more things I wanted to do and got into more depth with the topics I talked about. I was able to engage my audience even more with the activity which I would say was a better improvement than last exhibition.

I was sitting in my classroom during art class,about 5 to 6 years ago.I was in third grade and I wasn't the best at doing much.It was freezing outside that day and going outside wasn’t an option so we had to stay inside during recess.I was about 7 or 8 and because of a storm outside, we had to stay in our classes after lunch.Our teacher had felt bad we couldn't go outside,and said we can do one of the following: Play with clay,Color in one of the what had to have been hundreds of coloring books,or drawing on lined paper.I have always chose to color in the coloring books and had completed about 2 to 3 of them with to me was perfect coloring.I had picked up a piece of paper which was located at the front of the room. After i had gotten my paper, i sat back down,grabbing my pencil and bringing the sharp edge to the paper.

I’ve always been a huge fan of art class, and I have never despised a day of art class. I think of art class as a way to express creative freedom, discovering your unique art style, and to be with some of the most hard-working and encouraging people I've ever met, even including the teacher. Art is so very important to me and I don't know what I'd be doing right now if it weren't for the art. I've created a bunch of art to help deal with a lot of things. Mainly saying that I love art.

The 2011 animated movie, The Painting, directed by Jean-François Laguionie, offered interesting thoughts on the debates about the existence of god, the perception of reality, and freewill. The complexity of the paintings and painter is in parallel with our understanding of the world and god or creator. It prompts a question though. Are we blind to our own reality never realizing that we are just one painting within another and clueless about what is beyond our own frame? While a final answer to these debates was not necessarily given because no one can truly discover the answer, the story did propose an attitude or mindset that we should adopt leading to a better understanding of the issues at hand.