Venice Biennale

Marquell Smith Ms. Burns ART 101 October 2, 2015 Joan Jonas Born in 1936 in New York, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video art and performance. Jonas has worked and is working in installation, video, drawing and sculpture where she has collaborated with dancers and musicians. This has made her realize the work on improvisational which is found in the museum and theater stage. Jonas has managed to link texts from stories of the past with present politics. She emphasizes potent symbols when performing

In this ambitious work, Sarah Thornton opens to doors to the art world and anyone is welcome to enter. The organization of Seven Days in the Art World allows the reader to easily follow Thornton as she experiences the art world from buying, selling, to creating art. Seven Days in the Art World delivers an entertaining account and perspective on the art world. This book is an excellent resource for not only students, educators, and art enthusiasts, but also those who don 't know a thing about the

According to Wikipedia and other sources, Jenny Holzer was born on July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, she is well renown artist and is categorized as an “American conceptual artist ”. Described as a very private person but a very public artist. She uses multiple medias and the list of mediums she uses seem to be growing endlessly. Her work is exhibited globally and was even featured on display in Time Square. She even has a movie that was made about her and her lifetime of body of artwork. The Telegram

While walking in Venice the multiethnicity of the city is everywhere. It’s in the language and in the languages; it’s in the structure itself of the city; it’s in the many cultural events and it’s – of course – in the people. Venice is a seaside town, and like many other popular port cities it has a long history of contacts, trades, relations and exchanges with other cultures and populations. The ones looking out to the Mediterranean sea, like the Balkans but also the “Orients” such as the Ottoman

“How a partial biography could be harmful for a painter? Lorenzo Lotto’s peripatetic career in Vasari’s Lives” (I still need a better title) Why do we read Vasari’s Lives? Surely not for the historical accuracy of the data he provides us nor for his scientific approach to the artist’s biographies. We read what we consider a masterpiece of Italian literature mainly because, instead of concentrating on long tedious enumeration, exegetical and philological details or monotonous galleries of portraits

He was born in Venice and lived from 1554 to August 12, 1612. Gabrieli was an Italian composer which works are mostly sacred. Although mass composition was a secondary importance to Giovanni, he was required to compose religious works by the church during the beginning

The Renaissance Era was a time known as rebirth. Though the renaissance era had many problems, the people during that time period had been able adjust. This era directed people toward the way of better living. It allowed them to further their knowledge and gather ideas. The English Renaissance changed the lives of the people who lived during darker times. This time period motivated many people born during this time to become greater things. During the English Renaissance, people began to study the

Racism and Manipulation In William Shakespeare’s Othello Racism has been an inevitable aspect of human society throughout the centuries, from Elizabethan England to “ Separate but equal," here in The United States not too long ago. Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello, portrays a young, and recently married Moor named Othello. His own demise is initiated by various deceits, such as his lofty new position as the Venetian Republic’s army general. During the time Shakespeare lived there was an overall

yer English 101 Unity High School Here I was, asleep on the plane dreaming of my time in Italy, a place that once used to be apart of my imagination. I dreamt of Milan and the fashion trends that I’ll never quite understand, of Venice and the anxiety-filled gondola ride through the city’s canals, of Florence and the hike up the Pre-Apennine Mountains, and of Rome with its historical sites that most will only see in textbooks. Walking through the airport to the bus, I could already tell that Milan

INTRODUCTION AND BUILDING HISTORY Carlo Scarpa’s approach and theory to designing with existing buildings is an innovation that is relevant to buildings even today. The Castelvecchio museum is one of his greatest projects, and thoroughly reveals his way of working. Scarpas intention was not only to restore an aging building but to do so in a way that creates dialogue between the new and the old. By careful work of demolition and preservation, he literally cuts, shifts and adds elements to the existing