American fine Arts
American Fine Arts 1945-1970
By: Anonymous
PREFACE: Art during the mid-twentieth century contained some of the most important changes art history. These explosive times were counter-balanced with explosive popular culture. More historical events, abrupt changes, and turbulence occurred from th....
Andy Warhol Bio
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh. His mother was Julia Warhol and his father was Andrej Warhol. He was the youngest of the three sons. His original name was Andrew Warhola. His father worked as a construction worker, he unfortanetly died when Andy was only 13 years old, and his mother drew....
Art History
Painting over time has changed a few times. Starting off in the renaissance as one of the only means of art, and the best works of art were very realistic, and a way to portrait people, and then moved to something that was done and looked at differently, but still relevant in modern art. In Post-mo....
Art Museum Collection
Today we will be looking at six different museum pieces from:
Piece one: Classical Greek; a visual art and music piece from Greek society.
Piece two: Roman Empire (visual arts piece).
Piece three: Islamic civilization architecture (a Mosque).
Piece four: Early Chinese civilization visual art....
Christina Aguilera
Christina was born in Staten Island, New York her dad was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother is American ,German, English, Irish and Dutch. Her parents married when her mother was 20 years old and her father 31. She lived with her father and mother until she was 6 or 7 years old. When ....
Claes Oldenburg - pop art
In Claes Oldenburgs essay I am for an art he summarises what he thinks art should be, in over a hundred demands each starting with I am for an art He writes that anything and everything should and can be art. Explaining that in the society he lived in art is only for the bourgeois. Old....
Digital Era: the creation of an encouraging environment for newcomers
Introduction
In the 1980s, David Hockney used the Polaroid process to create a series of large, tessellated pictures assembling multiple perspectives of the same scenery. 20 years later, Barry Frydlender uses Adobe Photoshop software to create an amazing and tightened image showing modern face of....
Fashion In the Music Industry
Clothing and dress are an important part of how popular music functions. Show how certain types of music produce particular styles of dress, using a case study approach.
In this essay I will examine the relationship between music and fashion and discuss how genres of music are accompanied ....
Is graffiti art a direct result of post war advertising?
ABSTRACT
In a cultural landscape of hyper reality, branded lifestyles and 15-minute fame, one's subconscious receives thousands of advertisements a day. It is through this daily diet of propaganda that we shape our minds as we grow up. The desire we feel to make a mark on this world leads us to exc....
Joseph Beuys.. cult figure, icon or deluded fantasist?
JOSEPH BEUYS..CULT FIGURE, ICON OR DELLUDED FANTASIST?
Joseph Beuys plays a major role in art history and can be considered
extremely influential in the post 1945 realms of sculpture and performance
art. He seems to have excelled beyond the title of "artist" to adopt a cult
status and has even....
Living Through God: The Meaning of a Christian
Living Through God: The Meaning of a Christian"Without God, the thinkers of the world will never grasp the meanings of life, origin and destiny”, so the strong spirited young woman remarks about life. Teenagers today appraise their lives through school, work, and friends. Often times, there ....
Louis Armstrong
Im Louis Armstrong, and I' m the best jazz singer ever. Well, maybe not ever, but I sure can play it. I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Who knew that one day my former home would be completely destroyed? Anyway, my childhood by most people was called wretched. My father walked out on....
pop art
(Beginning in 1956 in England, early 1960's USA)
Pop Art has started in England in late 50's and grown in United States in early 60's. Among the Pop Art forerunners are two unique models - prototypes of the modern artists: the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp'....
Robert Rauschenberg's Almanac
Born on October 22nd 1925 in the oil-refining city of Port Arthur, Texas ne Milton Ernest Rauschenberg, he later renamed himself Robert after his Grandfather. Rauschenbergs father was one of the many blue coloured workers in the oil refineries whilst his mother worked as a telephone operator. He fir....
Rosalie Gascoigne and Robert Rauschenberg - Compartive Essay
Comparative Essay - Rosalie Gascoigne and Robert Rauschenberg
Rosalie Gascoigne was one of Australias greatest contemporary artists. Her work is made up of materials that she finds in the environment and she uses ordinary things in order to bring out the beauty in the Australian landscape. Ro....
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Pop art emerged in England around the mid 1950s, and soon after in America. It continued to develop in both countries through the 1960s. The pop artists of this movement shared an interest in popular culture. They borrowed images and objects from everyday life including the ....
Slimness in Modern Art
Examine how the ideal of slimness has been dealt with in the work of one or more artist of your own choice.
In todays society body image and the way people look plays a big part in out social interactions. This has influenced many modern artists, including Jenny Saville a contemporary British p....
Teen Spending Habbits
When it comes to spending money, it is no suprise that the youth of "the land of the free" consumes the largest amount of money. So what exactly is it that we find so compelling and worth spending the cash on, and why is it so hard to save? Find out what presents this challenge, what most of ....