485 Search Results for Is Photography an Art
Feminist Art as Evolution Rather Than as a Movement
Feminist art as a named movement evolved in the context of the late 1960's early 1970's political climate. The movement contextually cannot be separated from larger civil rights movements and speci Continue Reading...
The codes appeared on the screen and were read by trained typographers. In 1970, the Merganthaler Linotype VIP became the first phototypesetter to incorporate a minicomputer with programmable software that could be used to process raw text within th Continue Reading...
Such a confrontational strategy represents a subversion of the Modernist paradigm that supposedly views the work of art as being separate from the viewing experience. When dealing with a live human being presented as an "object," however, one is for Continue Reading...
Transformative Art
The artists that I have chosen to spotlight come from three continents and different ethnicities. They are actors, musicians, lyricists, rappers, poets, and comedians. They are also revolutionaries who are using art to transform t Continue Reading...
Artistic 'Techniques'
Art becomes reality. This is my desire, this is my purpose. So this is my creation, my child. The visions of primitive cave paintings dance in my vision as I put the last touches on the backdrop of this set. This abandoned Vict Continue Reading...
City of Ambitions.
Alfred Stieglitz
Modernist Photography
Photogravure
By the early 20th century, photography had established itself as more than a means of documentary evidence. The medium had the potential to convey the artist's impressions as Continue Reading...
Wall, Tapies, and Goldin: Photography and Painting From the Theoretical Perspective of Susan Sontag
The relationship between photography and painting, according to Susan Sontag, is that neither is really "capturing" the world that each attempts to d Continue Reading...
Re-Imagining the Self through PhotographyIntroductionAll photographs captured or maintained by an individual are a form of self-portrait or mirror of memories that reflects instances and individuals sufficiently special to forever be preserved in tim Continue Reading...
Alfred Stieglitz: The Changing Face of Photography
Alfred Stieglitz is considered to be one of the primary early definers of the nature of photographic art. His life and career spanned from 1864 to 1946, encompassing the tail end of the Civil War th Continue Reading...
Dorothy Lange and Documentary Photography
Life is documented daily, whether in newspaper photographs of world events, in feature magazines of faraway places and in photo albums of family snapshots. Essentially, all photography is a documentary of wh Continue Reading...
' Be critical in assessing the content of a photograph and the legitimacy of its sources. The Internet has become notorious for displaying fake and deceptive images. . .Fake photographs that get on the Internet spread like a virus and are difficult t Continue Reading...
Realism, Impressionism, and Nineteenth-Century Photography
The Village Maidens
Artist
Gustave Courbet
Date the Piece was Created
Art Movement and/or Style Media
Realism / Oil Paint
Description and Analysis
This 1852 painting, which sparked th Continue Reading...
Critical Thinking Essay Photography
Examining Photographs: Bias in Photography
A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet, what goes on behind the scene to make that image possible in reality? Photography as a genre is incredibly powerful. On the one Continue Reading...
Disposable Camera
Taking pictures of memorable events and people is a wonderful way capture a moment, and it is widely practiced around the world. Boxes and albums of pictures that take hours to thumb through line the living rooms and coffee tables Continue Reading...
Ed Burtynsky
My immediate response to Burtynsky's work was to think that the artist had managed to find a relevant aesthetic response to the most serious issue of the twenty-first century, which is climate change. The difficulty with climate change Continue Reading...
reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles," Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA will initiate dialogue about the role of Chicano/a culture in the arts of Southern California throughout the past several Continue Reading...
Social Aspects and Impacts of the Arts
It is generally well-agreed that the arts are valuable to society, but their exact value is often debated upon. Having a better understanding of the exact social aspects of the arts, and the precise manner in w Continue Reading...
Chicana/O Art Affects Private and Public Space
Public arts became the most noticeable form of Chicana/o art, starting from the 60's. Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals editors, Eva Cockcroft and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, state that an artwo Continue Reading...
Orson Welles' Film Citizen Kane (1941) on Expression in Film; the Film Industry; and on the Theory of Director as "Auteur"
The expressive meaning of the cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles in 1941, cannot be summed up succi Continue Reading...
Furthermore, the defiant and different poses of each model allows for uniqueness of each model, showing their individual personalities and dispositions. In "Cyborg Hybrids" the montage structure is different than that in "Useless Beauty." While "Use Continue Reading...
educational developments favor the integration and personalization of curriculum; current research supports these movements. Such advocates believe that mathematics, natural sciences, art, music, and language, although traditionally presented as dis Continue Reading...
Olmec
Although scientists found artifacts and art objects of the Olmecs; until this century they did not know about the existence of the Olmecs. Most of the objects which were made by this community were associated with other civilizations, such as Continue Reading...
MUSIC AND CENSORSHIP the FIRST AMENDMENT U.S. Constitution: Congress make law respecting establishment religion, prohibiting free exercise thereof; abridging freedom speech, press; people peaceably assemble, petition Government a redress grievances. Continue Reading...
Dadaism in the Modern World
The Danger of Definitions: Dadaism and its Modern Manifestations
Though there have been countless movements and representations of rejections of convention in the history of modern art in many cases these standards were Continue Reading...
" Photography may not, as Susan Sontag has claimed, symbolically reduce its subjects to "corpses,"
(Guimond 18)
It should also be pointed out this is to often not a specifically intentional attempt at disguise, but rather forms part of the cultural Continue Reading...
Mathematics
George Cantor
The purpose of the paper is to develop a concept of the connection between mathematics and society from a historical perspective. Specifically, it will discuss the subject, what George Cantor accomplished for mathematics a Continue Reading...
International style of architecture was a major style that emerged, and rose in popularity, in the 1920s and 1930s. The term "International Style" stems from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson written to record an Inter Continue Reading...
Africans had poor health care in the 1950s
There is much that still remains swept under the proverbial carpet about America's treatment to its African immigrants. One of the chapters, little known and often left untold has only recently started to Continue Reading...
While these principles are likely equally true within both operational management and business marketing management, the nature of the tasks encompassed by the latter provide greater opportunity to incorporate the element of improving employees' jo Continue Reading...
Art After 1980
What is art? That question has been dissected and examined from every perspective for millennia. When the concept of modern art is brought up, the immediate impression is a large canvas with solid-colored geometrical shapes that is su Continue Reading...
Art
Impressionism was a radical departure from previous forms of painting. It is a style that in a sense was a response to the change in technology, the invention and growth of photography (Soltes, "From Realism to Impressionism"). Photographs offer Continue Reading...
Art -- Graphic Arts
Auto Desk Maya 3D Graphic Camera Functions
3D computer graphics is a key element to animation. Animation is an important type of media that has progressed for approximately a century. Animation is a form of art and media that re Continue Reading...
He began with very fuzzy looking works of light and sun, then began to paint more sharply drawn works, especially of women. His earliest works have urban subjects. They are typical "Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and Continue Reading...
art and influences of African-American artist Faith Ringgold.
FAITH RINGGOLD
Ringgold was born in New York City on October 8, 1930. She grew up in Harlem. Her mother, Willi Posey Jones, was a fashion designer, and when Ringgold was young, she spen Continue Reading...
Art in Fresno
For my observation, I decided to visit the Fall Community ArtReach exhibit at the UC Center in Fresno. This exhibit featured new mixed-media paintings by Fresno artists Shannon Bickford, as well as others. ArtReach started on Septembe Continue Reading...
women artists," feminists have reflexively responded by trying to find great women artists from the past who were undiscovered or to emphasize little-regarded female artists from past artistic movements dominated by men. However, this can create the Continue Reading...
Woman Seated in Her Bath exemplifies Bonnard's work and his approach to art as an everyday experience. The lithograph has features of graphic art, as it resembles the reductionist forms on late 19th century posters. Graphic art is by definition art Continue Reading...
This was ultimately Ligon's ambition, to create a response to some of the more pressing issues that he has faced in his life and those that are close to him or that he admires.
Other works that Ligon has created have significantly different themes. Continue Reading...
Alfred Stieglitz and Minor White - Art of Photography
Alfred Stieglitz and Minor White are both important figures in the art of photography. Their efforts have contributed greatly to the growth of photography as a recognized art form. Individually, Continue Reading...