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Despite the lack of response I knew I had to create something related to the male body, so I started to draw freely without any concerns regarding the outcome. With the Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art exhibition in mind I sketched a few naked male figures until I eventually ended up with a big, muscular cartoon man rendered in my own style – the way I see and appreciate the male form is translated in the way I draw. It was then that I decided to turn it into an action figure, mainly

The Value in Understanding Art Pablo Picasso once said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up” (“10 famous Quotes”). Picasso was trying to express how too many people give up on art and often think it is one sided like a painting. One acceptable episode of rekindling art as an adult is in a moment Picasso, Maar and Oppenheim were at a cafe for lunch in Paris. Picasso was sitting at the table with his girlfriend and then noticed Oppenheim's fur covered

and evaluate how Duchamp’s exhibition of readymade objects changed the status and value of artistic authorship. Readymade is a term devised by Marcel Duchamp in 1915 to label manufactured objects remote from their practical setting and raised to the prestige of art by the action of an artist’s choice and label. Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter and sculptor. His work is linked with Dadaism and conceptual art, a movement that examined suppositions of what art must be, and in what way it

Singapore’s media sector has posted a combined growth rate of 6.8 per cent between year 1997 and 2008. The following year, the media industry has provided $2.3 billion returns to the nation’s economy as well as $6.4 billion revenue in value added. The media industry has employed about 66,000 employees. Industries such as television broadcast and production, film, publishing and printing, interactive and digital media and music make up the media sector in Singapore. The Media Development Authority

clothed, watches her two companions in awe. While at first glance, a spectator would assume that Antemann’s work is nothing more than an explicit commentary and American “attempt” at European porcelain, Antemann’s work reflects a broader context of art pottery with multi-continental influences. Heavily inspired by eighteenth-century forms of Meissen porcelain figurines, Antemann’s work recontextualizes the medium into a pastiche of European and American aesthetic that comments on historical and contemporary

This essay will look into the New Zealand artist Rita Angus and how her piece of art, ‘Rutu, portrays the theme of New Zealand women identity. The first paragraph explores the historical account of the artist Rita Angus and her artwork ‘Rutu. The second section of the essay discusses New Zealand women identity while the third paragraph will look at how New Zealand women identity is expressed through the artwork. Henrietta Catherine Angus mainly known as Rita Angus, was born 12 March 1908 in Hastings

to be the center of attention. Dali is widely known around the world for creating the surrealistic style of art. His art raises questions as to what was he thinking when he created this? Dali’s most famous piece is The Persistence of Memory. In which you would get many interpretations as to what it meant. Dali enjoyed the many opinions and questions that were brought up due to his art. One of the more interesting quotes that I think his life was lived by was, “The secret to my influence has

Chapter Five Photographic Art Images. There are many books, fine art prints, articles in journals and magazines about architectural photography by some excellent photographers, emphasising architecture’s visual strength, design and conceptual quality, without which there would be no challenges for the photographer to attempt to capture in the first instance. Architectural photography has an immense capacity to stimulate the wonder of the man-made world in a virtuoso manner. The intrinsic worth

The visual world can be described in many ways, but its most fundamental properties seem to be these: It is extended in distance and modified in depth; it is upright, stable, and without boundaries; it is coloured, shadowed, illuminated, and textured; it is composed of surface, edges, shapes, and interspaces; finally and most importantly of all, it is filled with things which have a meaning. ( Gibson,1950, Pg 3) And to capture such visual world one needs a surface which is illuminated: whether as

The art world is a forever changing system, with new ideas and concepts constantly emerging. Marcel Duchamp, working in a world where art was focused heavily on pleasing the eye, is seen to emerge with a new idea that aimed to challenge this ‘retinal’ approach that was expected of art during this time. Duchamp would call this new approach ‘the readymade’.
This essay will discuss how Duchamp used the readymade, specifically his 1913 piece Bicycle Wheel, to move away from the focus on the visual and