Topic: Amelia Earhart General Purpose: To commemorate Specific Purpose: To commemorate Amelia Earhart’s determination, courageousness and groundbreaking achievements. Thesis Statement: Amelia Earhart is known today for her vast accomplishments in the world of aviation as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and beyond. . I. Introduction: A.
Andy Goldsworthy and Antony Gormley are two British sculptors that have created completely opposite material and conceptual practises. Where Goldsworthy makes his works using materials that are only natural, Gormley on the other hand uses his body to create sculptures that adventure the ideas of the human body, the physical space and the viewer’s space. Each artist has responded to interpreting the world around them differently, although each one of their art making has influenced my ideas for my art making. Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor who studied at Bradford College of Art (1974-1975) and Preston Polytechnic (1975-1978). He is a site specific ephemeral sculptor who expresses his love of nature through the use of sustainable site specific materials.
Marin’s highly individual style was a combination from the precedents of Paul Cézanne, German Expressionism, and early Cubism. Unlike O’Keffee who drew largely upon Arthur Wesley Dow, Wassily Kandinsky, Auguste Rodin, Art Noveau Asian Art, and of course Modernism. Throughout his life, Marin's favorite themes were city and nature; he painted only a handful of portraits or still lifes. Marin's grandest paintings approach both city and wilderness with a soaring reverence, often by recording his evolving responses to a new
Calling it Quits Divorce plays a big role in modern day America, and unfortunately divorce rates have continued to increase over the past decade. Divorce is often perceived as a negative topic for obvious reasons such as causing damage to the family, traumatizing the children in the family and other psychological effects it has on people involved. However, both of the two articles I researched discuss divorce and its negative psychological effects; one of the articles differs in that it focuses on the ecological aspects of divorce instead. Jacob Duchaine wrote “An Argument Against Divorce” making claims against divorce and its negativity using biblical references and the stance that “No one takes anything seriously anymore, even marriage”(1).
9 Paranormal Activity 2 Film Analysis Kimberly Kihega ENG225 Instructor Melissa Rigney December 5, 2011 9 Paranormal Activity 2 Film Analysis For years, the film industry has capitalized on America's fascination with the “unknown”, with films from “The Exorsist” to the “Blair Witch Project”. A handful are unbelievably realistic, affecting viewers emotionally and pshyscologically. Most simply never live up to their expectations. The “Paranormal Activity” series arrive at a time when we have become entralled, and disturbed, by poltergeists. Paranormal Activity 2 certainly delivers every promise it has made, capitalizing on our fears of the unknown in the same simplistic fashion as the original.
And then, I will further my research by examining how the masterpiece has been reproduced under different contexts. Fig 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa (1503) The meanings are produced through a complex social relationship that involves at least two elements besides the image itself and its producer: (1) how viewers interpret or experience the image and (2) the context in which an image is seen. (Sturken & Cartwright, 2001, p45) According to Diane Shipley DeCillis, the owner of Southfield gallery, Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art and continues to inspire reproduction, parody, scientific theory, and more. Thus, I think Mona Lisa is the most suitable artwork for me to mediate different meanings produced since the Renaissance until the postmodern world.
Ai Wei Wei and Xu Bing are well known artists that recontextualise their artwork. Having gone through restrictive and difficult times during the Cultural Revolution, these artists that finally have their ‘freedom’ are creating artwork that challenges their traditions and the audiences’ experience. Duchamp is a pivotal point of post modernism. Previously the art world mainly focused on aesthetic and photographic artworks. Recontextualising was a taboo before Duchamp stepped up and put a urinal on display at an exhibition claiming that it was art.
It would therefore be interesting to explore how the different methodologies can be applied to an artwork that was created in a time when such methodologies did not exist. The first task would be to look at what the methodology entails and how it relates (if any relations exist at all) to the chosen work. Formalism Formalism is the approach to art that stretch primarily the aesthetic effects created by the competent points of design. According to Roger Fry art has little or no meaningful connection with either artist who makes it on the culture to which it belongs. (Adams, 1996:16) These points are known as the formal elements and it includes the castings of line, shape, space, colour, light and dark.
What is the relationship between conceptual art and postmodernism? Is it the final phase of modernism or a part of the shift to postmodernism? This essay will firstly discuss the formation of conceptual art in cultural, social and historical context and analyse its development and core attributes; secondly explain how photography developed in that period as a medium and how it is utilised in conceptual art; and lastly explore the interactive relationships among modernism, conceptual art and postmodernism. Conceptual art as a word was firstly used by Henry Flynt in 1961 (Lippard, 1973, p. 258), but there were several pre-historical artists such as Marcel Duchamp and their works pioneered conceptual art territory in as early as 1920’s. It is not until late 1960’s that this movement gained momentum and reached its height.
Although common, the view that the postmodern artist reinvents because he or she has nothing new to say is a mistaken one. Rather, the postmodern era has been characterised by some of the most creative and original ideas in the history of art. The rejection of universal, scientific truth and of the central force of reason, logic and time has meant that art in the postmodern world has come to have a very different form, function and significance. The essay will be addressing the many different ideas behind the Post Modern art movement including its early history, its influences and its transition into an internationally recognised art movement that we still live within today. The essay will then delve deeper into the postmodern movent assessing and overlooking some of the core styles and artists which have lived and still live within Post Modern age.