Figurative art

Do you ever wonder why the literate arts are called art? Expression is the first thing that comes to mind for me. People use the literate arts to be expressive. It is used as a way of communication. Some types of literature can be used to express feelings. Or it can be used to escape from reality. Art is an expression. What do the authors freire, Pratt, Rodriguez, and Miller have to say about the literate arts? Pablo Freire talks about the problem solving method vs the banking concept in his essay

Every piece of art in Modernism period falls into two sections. It is either known as being a Geometrical Abstraction or Expressionism. In terms of art, most of the Early Modernism art fell into Geometrical Abstraction and the art of High Modernism fell into Expressionism. During the period of Early Modernism, the artists were truly experimenting with new features of geometric shapes to express symbolism and used what was going on in the economic world for inspiration. Some movements that distributed

of the everyday reality in the unconventional way. At the same time, the word “artistic” implies the connection to any form of art: drawing, painting, sculpture and so on. All together, the artistic genius is viewed by me as the complex of the intrinsic qualities, which finds its obvious embodiment in the creative work. Therefore, by creating the particular piece of art, the maker is intended to transmit the specific idea to the general public, which presupposes both the instruction and entertainment

I recently visited the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art on Sept 2, 2017. My husband also came with me to share this experience. I first noticed upon arriving there that the outside grounds of the building are kept beautifully. I was eager to go inside. Some pics upon arrival at Lauren Roger Museum. After entering the main doors, I was greeted by a gentleman named David who was very friendly and polite. The first room we visited was the Native American Basket Gallery which held was numerous woven

importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms. C. Jabez Hughes had a dramatic and enduring impact on the processes, as well as the categorization, of different forms of photography. He divided photograph into three different categories: mechanical photography, art photography, and high-art photography. The first type, Mechanical, shows photographs with the literal and exact depiction, and represents items photographed exactly as they appear. Art photography, the second category

1980’s and early 1990’s two groups emerged within the Houston art scene. On one side of the spectrum you had the Houston Gorilla Girls who based themselves off of the global movement of Guerilla Girls, which had started in New York City. These girls strutted around in gorilla suits, in order to protect their identities, and fought for the rights of not only women artists but artists of color as well. They took out “hits” on many popular art galleries and even museums around Houston that they felt did

ART ESSAY - 1,456 Words Throughout history artists have explored their own emotions and unique experiences through self portrait painting. Since the renaissance artists have used the self portraits to create a visual diary of their life and their development over time. Rembrandt is one of the most renowned portrait painters from the baroque period and created over 100 self portraits charting a 40 year period of his life. Similarly post impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh used self portraiture

American Gothic: Historical Versus Controversial Why do so many artists recreate such similar compositions to that of the painting, “American Gothic” one may ask? A painting of who viewers perceive to be a farming couple, positioned in front of their white farmhouse may not seem like anything special, but perhaps it is the familiarity among viewers that make reinterpretations of the original so successful. Some may even argue that this very painting by Iowan artist Wood Grant is as familiar to Americans

not the type of guy that hangs around art galleries or for the matter, even looks at pictures in a book. I really like the bright colors and jazzy looking saxophone on the sidewalk and started looking for more. That’s how the conversation start on what is art, what is not, and just what is graffiti? Most people think of graffiti as vandalism or the defacing of private property by wild teenagers with spray cans. I had never really thought about graffiti or art for that matter until I found myself defending

by: Leonardo Da Vinci. For the painting’s composition, Leonardo placed several figures in a basic pyramidal arrangement.The placement of figures in this way reflected the typical approach taken by other Renaissance artists working in the pictorial arts, such as Lorenzo Ghiberti in his competition panel for the bronze doors of the Florence baptistery, and Masaccio in the Holy Trinity fresco in the side chapel of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Second it’s the Madonna of the Rock, by: Parmigianino