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Danto’s Theory of Art In Arthur Danto’s essay, “The Artworld”, he explains the integration of materials such as masks and weapons into the artworld and having to shift the criteria by which people judge things as works of art as opposed to merely everyday objects (204). Danto creates an imaginary character named Testadura in order to help demonstrate the points that he makes. This character, Testadura, described by Danto as a “plain speaker and noted philistine” appraises pieces of art in a way that

work of art?  Anyone who has bought art insurance has wondered at some point how it could be that a picture is worth one hundred dollars and another million. A work of art is worth what the buyer is willing to pay. Each original work is a unique piece and the more people want it, the more its price goes up. But it's not as simple as it sounds. In order to evaluate the art correctly, it is necessary to take into account a lot of information, as much academic as of the market of the current art and of

all power, authority, and meaning that was once held by an original work of art has been lost through the mass reproduction of these works that has occurred in recent years. He writes of an entirely bogus religiosity (116-117) that surrounds these art objects and that the meaning of the original work no longer lies in what it uniquely says but in what it uniquely is (117). He claims that because of reproduction, the art of the past no longer exists as it once did (127). Obviously, something created

popularization of graffiti, starting with dissemination of its works in New York City in the early 1980s (346). Since then, graffiti artists have both been banned and cherished, deprived of their work and allowed in art galleries. Thus, another question has been raised: Should graffiti be considered art or a form of communication with aesthetics on a background? This question is addressed in the essay, “Revolution in a Can,” written by Blake Gopnik and first published in the November 2011 edition of Foreign

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

urinal in an art gallery, which was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th Century by 500 artists and forced his audience to think for themselves. Many artists have followed Duchamp, but have had to go to more and more extreme measures to get noticed, hence Chris Burden's Shoot and so on. If Xiao Yu had have put his dead female fetus head in an artwork forty years ago he would have been arrested immediately.

Art History 15 September 2008 Manet's Olympia Artist and people viewing the art work have always had a fascination with the female nude. Even when I was a child my attention was captured by the nude art not because I was a kid and I saw a nude lady , but it forced me to wonder more about why the female nude was so amazing as a tool for art and why this is repeated so many times throughout the centuries. One female nude painting in particular was the subject of controversy and exposed the

references to the study of Art History, even one publicly mentioned by President Barack Obama. Among these references in Zakaria’s novel art history was perceived as frivolous, questionable and waste of a degree, not all quotes but most. I had to understand why the study of art history is how the World took it and why, along with what Zakaria himself deemed it to be and how art history just might help me among my studies. My first observation was that I myself did not know what art history even was and

Magritte oil painted it as a self portrait. Something I questioned during my research, what is surrealism? Merriam-Webster’s definition is, “Surrealism: the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations.” Surrealism’s goal was to release thought, human experience, and language from the cruel boundaries of rationalism (Mann). When looking at this particular

fresco at Khajuraho, allows him to make unexpected, cross-cultural comparisons at every turn. Tracing art history mostly in chronologically across the whole world and exploring connections between different cultures. Furthermore, like the time span runs from the emergence of art-like acts among the hominid ancestors of Homo sapiens to the present. The interpretation of the artworks from the world art, in Mirror of the World, are mapped onto a geo-chronological