Visual Arts Essay

Silvia Otaola has been making jewelry for 9 years, creating extraordinary artistic jewelry pieces in the industry. Otaola graduated from the Glassell School of Art with a certificate of achievement with a major in jewelry. Otaola also has a certificate of achievement with a major in sculpture. Otaola is originally from Argentina where she grow up in an artistic family. She always enjoyed creating things with her hands. Her works have been featured in various exhibitions and shows in and out of Houston

A systematic examination of photographs can reveal many insights into the individual taking the picture. For example, Dijck (2008) explains that picture taking has been widely used as a way for people to save memories of events, a tool for communication and experience, and more recently, as a tool for identity development. For example, in the 20th century, people used photography to save memories to remember their lives (Dijck,2008). As time moved forward it evolved into using photography to communicate

force behind the creation of countless advertisements, book covers, magazines, and other works of art. It would be difficult to imagine the field of graphic design without his influence. Seymour Chwast was born in 1931, in the Bronx, New York. Soon after, he started taking formal art lessons. Chwast drew his inspiration from comics, cartoons, billboards, and advertisements. He grew to love the art he encountered in the city around him more than the variety he saw in museums. This influence is

of Thomas Birch’s painting An American Ship in Distress was very interesting. This paper will analyze and illustrate what I saw in this particular piece of artwork. The paper will also discuss the art elements such as line, shape, color, texture, scale, and composition of the artwork. I chose the art piece entitled An American Ship in Distress because it looks pretty amazing. Another reason I chose to analyze this piece as opposed to the others is because it was the piece I liked the most, therefore

Christian Art In this research paper one will be reading about early Christian art and about how pagan-inspired themes, classical influences, and its two major tendencies: naturalism and abstract symbolism. Early Christian art and architecture is the art produced by Christians or under Christian ruling from the earliest period between about 350 and 525. The Christian art survived 2nd century’s and onwards. According to Beckwith “after 550 at the latest, Christian art is classified

Nadeem Aslam is what can be considered a transatlantic writer. Firstly I would like to engage with the reoccurring “Great Buddha” which is omnipresent throughout the novel, and presents a key reference point for its readers. Rather than suggest that this is a reference to a religious question, it is in fact a reference to the past and the peace that Afghanistan embraced before the horrors of war. If we take for example, Marcus who is the great pacifist of the novel, he is fantastically described

The Magdalen with a smoking flame is an art piece that was done by George De La Tour in 1640. De La Tour painted this work using oil and paint on a material known as canvas. This painting was created in France then it was moved to the one of the most respected museums of the Los Angeles county Museum of art. The size of the painting is 128cm by 94cm, by looking at this painting the elements that were used are very noticeable the texture in this work gives it a very smooth and rough feel at

my life and with bills just like my parents did. The most important thing to me is that when I become older, I will be content and happy with my life. I had to go through a lot to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I decided to become an art teacher. In high school, I never really knew what I wanted to be when I became older, and all I knew is that I wanted to have a career that would be stable enough without causing me to struggle in life. I looked into different careers that I thought

Introduction: From most of the pieces on display in the early renaissance corridor on the second floor of the museum, Lorenzo Monaco’s “Madonna and Child” caught my eye in very radical manner. A medium-sized tempera piece layered on panel placed right of the second room of the corridor. As stated on the panel below the painting, it was conceived and crafted between the years of 1370-1371 in Florence, Italy during the early renaissance. Against the wishes of the museum I laid my hands upon the painting

The Craft and Hobby Association in 2011, released results of research into the U.S. Craft and Hobby Industry. You may be surprised to learn that the craft and hobbyist's contribution towards this industries net worth is approximately $29 billion, double the $14 billion first reported by Craft Organization Directors Association (CODA) in 2001. A surprising figure to emerge from this research (even to us avid craft enthusiasts) is that over half of U.S. households acknowledged engaging in a craft activity