What Makes A Work Of Art?

What classifies something as art? According to the Webster Dictionary, art is defined as “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects”. Art has been around since the dawn of history, seen etched into cave walls and slowly evolved into what we see around us today. All cultures use art in many forms such as paintings, dance, sculptures, music for many different reasons. In the video titled 'Pootie done did it again.' Pootie Tang records a new song titled “ “ which is then broadcasted on the radio. The song, which is just recorded silence, raises the question of if this silence can be considered art. The purpose of this essay is to support the idea that Pootie Tang's “ “ is unlikely

Smithson’s essay is a great example of the development of visual knowledge throughout the history of art. Smithson ’s writing not only depicted a theoretical visual representation of his work through the form of text, but such text also increased the artistic learning experience of viewers. The narrative format of Smithson’s essay forced a viewer to develop and learn skills necessary to evaluate, apply, and explore the contextual significance of his art through the co-presence of disagreement and mirror of the mind. His essay also explains the disruptive construction process of his piece and how the resulting work exists in perfect harmony with its surroundings. Smithson expresses his acceptance of the notion of entropy throughout nature. Smithson explains the complex concept of entropy as an irreversible trend of disorder and chaos that often leads to the obsolescence of works similar to his jetty earthwork. He documents his

Smith’s poem takes the reader to a time in her memory. Smith is describing the idea that are is made not encountered. Throughout the poem Smith is referring to a image of a man lying on the ground. He is surrounded by blue and red accents of color. In Smith’s poem, she refers to the man lying on the ground as a roman candle. He was nothing more than a dim light in a dark room. This shows that Smith’s tone is condescending at the begging of the poem. She displays little to know admiration for the photo in front of her. Then Smith describes the process of making art as rezoning and reacting. Although she’s c criticizing the work of someone else her ideas are true. The purpose of art is to instill a reaction from an observer or a reader. In a

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

“Why Art Matters” by Thomas P.Campbell, explains the importance of art through cultural aspects and roles played in today's society, to help support funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. He firsts explains that many people often see art as being an unnecessary subject; he then goes onto stating that art provides millions of jobs and brings money back through revenue taxes. Another important idea he makes is,the N.E.A. serves many functions, promotes art, disperses fundings, and helps lower the cost of insuring exhibitions. In addition, he goes into discussing the importance of the N.E.A. being a link between the government and its the people; eliminating the N.E.A. would destroy that link causing the government

Art is, first and foremost, an imitation of life. Human beings create art, be it visual, literary, or performance, in order to reflect to ends and odds of the day to day; to express the common emotions of humanity in the hopes of garnering some further substance out of life’s mundanely.

Today day, art still is a controversial subject of aesthetics, in discussing whether variety form of modern visual art is art or not. In Laurie Schneider Adams’ article “What is Art?” and Marcel Duchamp’s “The Creative Act”, they have own criteria to definite what the nature of art, its meaning and its function. In evaluation Doris Salcedo’s art work Atrabilious, a set of worn shoes encased in rectangle niches on the wall. I agree with their explanation of art thought the combined in structure and form to express the truth and beauty of Salcedo’s work, the nonfigurative subject catches the symbolic harrowing moment of the effect of war and violence happened, also a metaphor of her culture idea and individual meaning, experience her political view to deal with female issue of the subject matter.

For an unknown reason a person stops walking. Out of the corner of their eye they catch a glance, a brief moment of beauty, of a photograph. The photograph is not grand, it is a not a “Mona Lisa”, and it would be considered lucky to be even sold for a fifty dollars. Yet, the person is compelled to stop and stare at it. The is person is entranced by the photograph, overwhelmed by millions of pixels, manifesting emotions of an untold story.

Art can be considered many things. It can be considered a sculpture, a painting, a song, a movie, but it could also be considered a carefully thought out plan.

Life is full emotions like happiness and sadness. People sometimes feel happy, joyful, and cheerful, but sometimes sadness or depression. Edward Hopper and Takashi Nakamura draw their paintings to express different feelings. In Edward Hopper’s painting “Morning Sun” (1952), he displays the image of a woman looking outside alone in order to symbolize the woman’s feelings about “depression,” but also how she still has “hope” for her own life. On the other hand, in Takashi Nakamura’ painting “Kaikaikiki New” (2009), he displays the image of many cartoon-like characters in order to symbolize feelings of “happiness” Therefore, the two artists express opposing feelings in their works. In Edward Hopper’s painting,

Every piece of work has various elements of art within them, making them complete. Elements of a piece govern and manipulate the tone and overall message being conveyed. In Nunavut, Canada, Janelle Budgell designed an anti-drinking campaign that was released in 2014 to raise awareness of International FASD Awareness Day (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder). The campaign consisted of a silhouette of a pregnant woman consuming alcohol with a distress fetus. Budgell purposely integrated various elements into the campaign to capture viewers’ attention such as the red background with contrasting white and black text. Even though there was not a lot of text, the audience can affiliate the elements with the intended denotation and analyze the

There are few questions quite as esoteric or as futilely subjective as the philosopher's "What is…?" Yet posing and answering this question in reference to the identity of art is critical to further discussions of our subject matter in this course. There is no way for us to discuss art until we have a working definition of what art is; we can't adequately use the term until we've defined it. To this end, I would like to submit this as a working definition: "Art is anything created for the purpose of communicating the sensations of emotional response to, or creating emotional response in, those who experience it."

Debate over the definition of art has developed for hundreds, if not thousands of years. People have spent millions of dollars and given years of their lives to the craft called art. However, there has not been an agreement on what the definition of art is because it tends to be a very vague concept incorporating many cultures and ideas. It has proven itself to be an effective tool in the human expression over the years preserving deep and personal feelings along with history. Art can be defined as the creation of beauty through expression with skillful use of creativity, design, and manipulation of the viewers’ emotions.

Think of a work of fine art. What came to mind? Was it a painting by Van Gogh, or Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, a current pop song, or a symphony by Beethoven, a piece of literature authored by Emily Brontë, or one by the Kardashians? Due to its objectivity, art is all encompassing: It can be anything created, written, performed, or photographed within which someone finds beauty. Conversely, fine art is exclusive and elite as evidenced by its’ name and the distinction between itself and art as a whole. Whether visible to all or not, there is a definitive line between pop culture and pop art versus works considered to be fine art.

The goal of my creative project was to create various splatter paint works that each represented a key human emotion. I settled on just three and I chose joy, anxiousness, and depression. I bought three 8 by 10 inches blank canvases to do my work on, paint, and an assortment of brushes. Before I started I looked up a video on different splatter paint techniques, and I became interested in adding some texture to my artwork, so the first painting I worked on, representing joy, I added some saltwater to it and actual grains of salt. I really wanted this artwork to stand out from the other two, because of how different this emotion is. The canvas has a yellow background, because I wanted all the bright colors I used to really pop on the