The Critic

Should graffiti be banned and graffiti artists be prosecuted? This and a variety of related questions have been increasingly perplexing society as a result of the 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

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

INVESTIGATE A RANGE OF ARTWORKS THAT HAVE SHOCKED OR CONFRONTED AN AUDIENCE As values have changed with modern and postmodern thought, artists have set to create more shocking and confronting work to distinguish themselves from the rest. Marcel Duchamp was perhaps the first to push the boundaries with his Fountain, a 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

INTRODUCTION Zomato is a multinational restaurant discovering service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It currently offers in depth data of 1.4 million restaurants from over 22 countries on its website www.zomato.com and the mobile app. It features restaurant information like scanned menu, photos, ratings and reviews on its website and app. HISTORY While working at Bain & Company, Deepinder and Pankaj observed that it was very time consuming for the employees to line up and

Mariah Theis Phil-202 Professor C. Williams 4 Dec. 2013 Nature of Art Philosopher Arthur Danto, author of “The Artworld,” an artistic criticism, states that “to see something as art requires something that the eye cannot descry—an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an artworld” (201). Artistic theory, according to Danto, requires the presence of a subject, style, rhetorical ellipses, and that of historical context. Danto is capable of developing this view on art with

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

Reproduction Reproduction of art is something that has been done throughout history. As technology advances, so does the way that people reproduce art. From early ages to current times the reproduction of art has had a varying opinion as to whether it should or should not be done. Some groups believe that art should be kept in a small elite community. They are the ones who believe art should not be reproduced and spread throughout the world. On the other hand, there are those who believe art is meant

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

For project two I decided to attend the Norton Simon Museum. Some time ago I had seen a friend share several pictures through social media, it consisted of a beautiful garden and distinct art work. After going back and forth in conversation she informed me it was a museum located in Pasadena. At the time I never took the initiative to go despite how intrigued I was through simple pictures however, I moved from Pomona to Pasadena and decided since we had the project coming up it was the perfect occasion

3. What determines the value of a 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