An Artist of the Floating World

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    Unusual Art Recycled trash is just as amazing as fine art. Many artists including Marcel Duchamp doubted what could be used to create wonderful art in the 1900s. Artwork’s value depends on how an artist’s looks at his art. Trash, nature, and everyday items can be created to make loved and fascinating art. Many times people have used discarded items for their art. Patchwork quilts are created from scraps, rags, and remnants that a person finds in the trash. Quilters then combine the

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    Alberto Savinio was born in Athens, Greece in 1891. He grew up to be a musician, writer, and artist. For a while, he stayed in Greece to study music. When their father died, he and Giorgio de Chirico, his brother, moved to Monaco and soon after to Paris. Savinio came into contact with artist such as Apollinaire, Picasso, Blaise Cendrars, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, and Max Jacob in Paris. He was not only influenced by them, but also Carlo Carra, and Guiseppe De Pisis. Carra and Pisis were the

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    Art 100 Museum Paper

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    major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative art objects. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848, shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting traditional approaches to painting. Combining scientific precision, an innovative approach to subject matter, and brilliant, clear colors, Pre-Raphaelitism was Britain's first avant-garde art movement. Queen

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    The Sistine Chapel

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    ceiling was painted blue and covered with golden stars. The walls were adorned with frescoes by different artists, such as Pietro Perugino, who painted Christ delivering the keys to St. Peter there in 1482. The ceiling program, which was probably formulated with the help of a theologian from the Vatican, is centered around several scenes from the Old Testament beginning with the Creation of the World and ending at the story of Noah and the Flood. The public first saw Michelangelo's frescoes on the vaulted

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    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. Michelangelo was a sculptor, painter who was born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, Italy. He’s family mean of living was due to a banking business. Michelangelo didn’t show interest in the family’s business or school in general. What makes Michelangelo special, is that he was the first artist to be recognized during his life, not post death, including his biography was published when he was

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    Masuji Ono Imperialism

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    The narrator of An Artist of the Floating World is none other than Masuji Ono. A once renowned Japanese artist with somewhat high prestige, he retires into a small town in Japan after the Second World War (the novel is during 1948-1949), where he lives in the previous home of a wealthy noble that he attained through an “eccentric procedure”. While preparing for his youngest daughter’s marriage arrangements (her second time for the first one fell through), he begins to acknowledge that some of his

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    Artists during the Renaissance period were very creative with their masterpiece. Any creation that shows beauty and mystery is a form of art. From painting portraits of beautiful scenery on canvas, to sculpting a marble statue of gods, and enhancing beautiful architect. During the Early Renaissance period through the High Renaissance period, artists painted biblical figures to mythical stories, such as Hans Baldung Grien art of the Witches’ Sabbath, which was created out of a panel of wood. His work

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    Color Polka Dots

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    as furniture were multiple color polka dots with fluorescent glow-in-the-dark paint. The author once again made used of the distinct color while manipulating lights, to create infinite pattern on a smooth color surface. The dots can be observed as floating in the air, while defying the space within the room and still defining it. Kusama illuminated the room only with ultraviolet fluorescent light; thus, the stickers appeared without any sense of depth, which then is stuck in the viewer’s eyes to create

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    force for trade with them. Which soon they adapt to westernize themselves to imperialism until after the second world war. Beside all that, they were very gift in creating arts that were very inspiring, woodblock. As it had begun in china when buddhist missionaries brought it them. It features illustrating image and text, even when it’s black and white. But it can have colors that artist made in separate block. take an example how they made it, from the image that feature figures in a gesture, with

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    looming alienation during the opening of his music career. Bowie describes the feeling of estrangement and hones in on the cynical way one sees the world after pulling away from everyone and everything. He does this through descriptive metaphors describing the sensation of floating alone above the earth. Through the eyes of someone who sees the world as being a cold, sorrowful place. Bowie suggests that once one is “sitting alone in a tin can,” or alone one’s mind and reality, that it’s impossible

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