Figurative art

Human form for many years has been discussed and always been a common subject of visual art. The earliest known representations of the human body come from Europe and date to between 25,000 and 12,000 years ago. Current attitudes recognize the beauty and artistry in these objects and make the initial categories of classification obsolete. The objects are now all grouped together as ‘Human Form in Art’. They display enormous diversity in materials, techniques, function, beliefs, and notions of beauty

Art and Religion: The Universal Emotion of the Dutch Golden Age Amanda Suzzi University of Arizona Art and Religion: The Universal Emotion of the Dutch Golden Age Art and religion are two concepts that are intertwined through several different reasons from human emotion to historical and contemporary politics. While it is possible to talk at length about how art affects religion and religion affects art, the most convincing arguments come from examining the art itself. The following response paper

histories reside, studios where work is created, and her home where she nurtures her thoughts. Since the mid 1970s, O’Neal has created a body of work that is often difficult to categorize as she employs diverse processes and materials in service to her art practice. She draws on memories of growing up in the South to parents who

Visual art has been highly appreciated and has become popular since the second half of the nineteenth century, during which the public gradually get familiar with the visual art and its applications. In the late nineteenth century, when artists began to utilize distinctive materials and various techniques on their work, there are a lot of innovative works done by masters whose names have been marked ever since. Their stories passed down through generations. Henri Michaux is one of the most well-known

one could remain sane without using a liberal amount of imagination, only a few of us can materialise our fantasies. The Vyses, ever optimistic, exhibited one hundred and sixty pieces of stoneware pottery. Nell Vyse had the difficult task of teaming Art with Science, to produce extravagant and delicate glazes in a variety of hues. It was the Vyses’ complete control of the atmosphere within the kiln chamber produced such subtle glazes as the blues and purples Chüns, the varied greens of the Celadon

of Innocents. Everything was calm at the table until Poussin said in a drunken rage “I believe my art is better than all of yours’ because I show the true drama between men.” Turner replied “your art only shows the pity drama between men, while I show the drama between nature to create a message to the viewer.” Agnes butted in and said “even though I don’t convey drama, I use the earth to create my art.” As Agnes finished her rebuttal to the blunt statements of the drama queens in the group Xia rebuttable

Laura Aguilar, Nature Self Portrait #4, 1996 gelatin silver print on paper and David Wojnarovicz, Untitled (One day this kid…) 1990/2012 letterpress, reveal in the contemporary art world dry intellectual concerns above all others, both works are at once playful, peaceful and provocative. In fact, fundamentally our response to art is, so often, but not always, emotional. Both of masterpieces connect with people causing queer emotions, they are both different from and similar to what anyone else might

embellished painting measuring 20 x 30 inches. In this essay I will be analysing this piece and looking into the context of the painting. I also want to find out where Anna Razumovskaya finds her inspiration for her art. When I saw it inspired me because Anna Razumovskaya a figurative painter, born during the height of the cold war and exposed to two different worlds, the sophistication and femininity of her mother, who was a fashion conscious person, mixed with the rigid communist regime. Her mother

In the early 1900’s both realism and abstractionism formed important parts of America’s artistic culture. The goal of the artistic movement of Realism is accuracy and truth without illustrating subject matter in an idealized manner. The goal of Abstractionism is an almost opposite achievement in illustration. An accurate reproduction of the subject matter is not important; the artist’s rendering of the subject matter is expressed by relaying a core characteristic with emotions and feelings by

to lose impetus, many artists across the world, especially in America and Europe, began to embrace performance art. In that context, Marina Abramovic’s work is typical of the ritualistic strain in 1960s performance art, often involves putting herself in grave danger and performing lengthy, harmful routine that result in her being burnt or cut, or enduring some privation. She view her art almost as a sacrificial and religious rite, performed by herself for a congregation of viewers; the physical ordeals