Design "The Web is so overloaded with clutter and information, brand becomes an important differentiator." What is the role of brand on the Web' It's huge. The wonderful thing about the Web is that anybody can create a website. The terrible thing about the Web is that anybody can have a website, and does. The Web is so overloaded with clutter and information, brand becomes an impo

Felix de Weldon Felix deWeldon 1907-2003 "The Michaelangelo of the 20th Century"s A Glimpse of His Extraordinary Life Felix W. de Weldon was born in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria on April 12, 1907 the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. Like all Viennese families before World War I, the de Weldon family was dominated by a love of music. In and around Vienna were the

Bailamos Bailamos Vibrant self-expression, disciplined training, and execution of intense choreography is all part of the art of Latin Dance. Dancing allows individuals to express themselves through free movement of their bodies. Latin Dance is a unique form that allows for this movement in an emotional and sultry way. The movie Dance With Me shows the competitive nature of this st

Sarah Clayton I visited the Fitchburg Art Museum on October 22, 2004, this was the second time that I’ve visited this museum and I actually decided to write about the piece that I discovered upon my last visit to the museum. I don’t have a very broad knowledge of art. I do appreciate it when I see it but I never pursued it anymore than I did probably due to the fact of my own artistic

Comparsion Of War Paintings The two pictures express the experience of war in completely different ways. Although both pictures represent a deep underlying meaning of war, Picasso’s Guernica interprets war in a very abstract and symbolic way. Lee Teter’s painting Reflection is a realism painting. Both paintings reflect human values and beliefs. Guernica is set in a dull black, white a

Ben Still Life Yale Center for British Art Ben Nicholson Still-life (Newlyo) When seeing this painting it truly reminded me of my work this semester. Where I have been experimenting with colors and shapes, trying to make them bounce of each other. In Bens painting the colors and style were very similar. They both were bright in color but in Ben’s painting he had more structure and

Culture Wars Culture Wars While I, as an artist, feel that the debate over Serrano’s “Piss Christ” and Mapplethorpe’s “The Perfect Moment” exhibit is ridiculous, I can appreciate the need for debate in our society. A world where everyone agrees with everyone else, while impossible, would be incredibly frustrating to live in. As a whole our society thrives on debate. This is why we hav

Adams Ansel Adams: An American Icon Ansel Adams was a monumental photographer who set a precedent for those who followed him years after. I. During the 1920s a type of soft- focus style was extremely popular. A. Adam’s earlier photographs portrayed this style, as at this time he was just getting started on his photography career. B. Photos that Adams produced in the 1920s would

Art Art The Arts play a large role in the expression of inner thoughts and beauty in my life. From dance and music to abstract art our concept of life is shown through the various ways in which we interpret it. We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. The arts allow us to be as specifi

Henry Moore Henry Moore Essay Henry Moore’s art career was at the base of a period of Modernism- avant-garde art produced by those who challenged the tradition, simply stated, within this period of art: the new path will be found. His main focus encompassed the realm of the human figure. Two related themes, which he said were his constant concern, mother and child and reclining woman

Diego Rivera I found "Flower Vendor" on the website. However, I can't think of anything Rivera would be thinking while painting this portrait. Perhaps, the Significance, or what it meant to him had something to do with love. I don't Know, but the smile on the woman's face makes her seem happy with what she's Doing. I notice she's giving some of the flowers to the little girl

Nan Goldin Nan Goldin’s contribution to the epidemic of AIDS has been her friends. Through her visual diary of photography, she gives a human face to AIDS. Known as the “gay cancer” upon its widespread discovery, many of Goldin’s friends or members of her extended family (that she refers to lovingly as her tribe), were afflicted by this unforgiving disease. One of the

How To Encourage Creative Freedom And Discovery In A Class Of Five Year Old How to Encourage Creative Freedom and Discovery in a Class of Five Year Old For five year old children there drawings are stages of pictures that I can agree upon because five year old children in a whole draws pictures on things they like and feelings they are having. In reading the positive and negative sug

Batchen Historians of photography generally credit Niepce, Talbot and Deguerre as the inventors of this movement and technology. Geoffrey Batchen’s essay titled, Burning With Desire: The Conception of Photography, investigates the debates that encompass these historical issues. Batchen refers to the development of photography as being, “the greatest mystery”. In uncovering the mystery s

Humanism In Antigone And Art According to the dictionary humanism is a system of thought that centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth. Relating to this definition, Ancient Greece and their people proved they could express humanism throughout their lives, especially in art. Great pieces of art, such a sculptures, paintings, murals and even the written art continue to exe

Painting Comparision Jeffery’s Poppies and Wish upon a Shooting Star are two paintings which are similar but still have many differences. Both were on display at the Downtown Arts Center in Lexington. Both pieces of artwork are examples of fine art. They were not intended to be functional and I believe the artists had formal training in art. Both paintings were approximately the same

Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect,

Digital Versus the Darkroom For decades photographers have spent hours hunching over enlargers making every possible aspect of their work into the perfect print. Burning, dodging, setting filters and using dozens of pieces of printing paper to show the world as they see it. As we prepared for the millennium, digital cameras made their way into the art of photography wit

Photo Hunt From 1979 to present there have been many famous photographers, but there are three who really stick out: Jerry Uelsmann, Freeman Patterson, and Annie Slivovitz. These three photographers had very distinct photography and viewed photography as more than pictures but as pigments of emotions and feelings. These photographers are very famous for their pictures and one photographe

My Byzantine Mosaic Make Your Own Byzantine Mosaic There are a lot of forms of art in the world, and art can just be just about anything depending on the viewer. Art can be from a painting of the Mona Lisa to a pile of sticks, depending on how you look at it. In just a few steps and procedures you will have your very own Byzantine Mosaic. So get ready to make some art. For this ar

Jocob Lawrence African American Artist Jacob Lawrence’s work entitled “Tombstones” With the Harlem Scene and culture as the primary source of encouragement, Jacob Lawrence possessed a profound understanding of black history that is not normally included in textbooks. Lawrence made exposing the reality of black history through art his life quest. His original intention was to pro

Ansel Adams The show commemorates the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of America’s most popular and beloved photographers. For those die-hard Adams enthusiasts, this show is unique and should not be missed. Szarkowski’s vision of Adams is a personal one; it seeks to demonstrate why Adams is not only a great photographer and avid environmentalist, but also why he is

Art Since I was young I have had the pleasure of going to many different art rich environments. I have been able to experience different cuisines, theatre, movies, and art. For this I have my parents to thank, if not for them then I would not understand the world as I do now. It pleases me to know that I have seen things that many have not, or did not get to see. Among the many places, I

On The Standard Of Taste On the standard of taste, David Hume describes an aesthetic judgment as not really a judgment at all, but a matter of sentiment upon the basis of being agreeable and/ or pleasurable. This sentiment is always real, and has a reference to nothing beyond its own self, so we are not making plain judgments about the quality of something (257). Taste is based on a

Art Art The Arts play a large role in the expression of inner thoughts and beauty in my life. From dance and music to abstract art our concept of life is shown through the various ways in which we interpret it. We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities. The arts allow us to be as specific

Man and Machine Visual Analysis Paper For this assignment I chose to do the paper on Man and Machine. This is a painting that was a huge mural that was located in the Detroit Institute of Art. In the early 1930’s, Edsel Ford hired Diego Rivera to paint tis massive mural on the marble walls. Man and Machine shows a factory and the hard-working men that work in it everyday. In t

Aesthetics Aesthetics: Playing a Big Role In today’s American society, aesthetics is the main topic on every graphic designers mind. The dictionary defines it as “Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste”, or “A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste”. Aesthetics is remaking commerce, culture, and consciousness according to Virginia Postrel, an ec

Is Primitive Art, Art' Primitive art is art. It is a different type of art. There are a lot of aspects about the cultures of these people that are unknown. Through the artifacts that have been left behind, we can start to see their world through a possible human perspective, and realize that they weren’t just cavemen running around in Flintstone type outfits hitting each other with cl

Harlem Renaissance I may have heard Zora Neale Hurston or Bessie Smith from Professor Brockington in class before but I didn’t know of Georgia Douglas Johnson' Augusta Savage' Nella Larsen' These and dozens more were women of the Harlem Renaissance, which I’m going to talk about in my report. It was the early twentieth century, and the world had already changed tremendously compared to

Beauty And The Beast The Story as a Skeleton Ring around the rosies, a pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes, we all fall down. To modern society this seems like a nonsensical children’s rhyme, instead of a rhyme about the Black Death and horrors that it held for society at that time. Without knowledge of the origins of the rhyme, it is just that. The same goes for stories and fairy tal