What Is Art? Essays

What is art? Art can be represented through the use of anything from a painting to a photograph. In my mind art is the inside of the creator’s brain. It is a visual of what I am thinking, who I am, my views, my dreams, and my interests all complied into different works. My reasoning behind this is because even if I primarily enjoy drawing fashion sketches I believe you can feel my emotions through my work. Whether I am drawing an all black article of clothing representing my feeling of being sad

Art is not a solid specific topic, on the contrary it is multiplex and undefinable. There is no precise justification when it comes to art. Art is what one interprets and composed of two subdivisions: meaningful and non-meaningful art. It is up to the person to identify if a painting or object has meaning, or if it is just something pleasant and enjoyable that one likes to contemplate. Meaningful art is what art critics considers to be art, the complex pieces that people can excrete emotions from

about the things they were doing or to ignore others when they're doing what they love, for example, playing video games, reading, cooking but, my passion is art. I know you're thinking why art? It's so dull and unexciting it may seem monotonous and simple but, you don't know the many phenomena that can be discovered or designed in the world of art like survival lessons, portraits, and various master creations. What is art? Art is a diverse range of exercises in producing optical, audible or displaying

What Is Art? “We are rapidly approaching the point where everything is art and, therefore, nothing is art.” These words by Margo Buccini represent an idea that many art experts have about the way art is seen nowadays. The definition of art is becoming broader and broader, with things like graffiti, street performances, interior design and even some advertising starting to be seen as artworks. But are these things really art? Some say yes, others say no. While this might seem a never-ending debate

What is “high art” and what does mean?This question left me pondering on the word I began to think what I thought “High art” was.I couldn't think of anything that I could genuinely say was high art.My taste of the arts is pretty linear I like what I like and I don’t like what I don’t like. The beliefs that I held in art was that all art was equal you could say “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” and I would agree with you 100%.So instead of wrecking my my mind about what's good and what's not

thereof, resulting in beautiful works of art, architecture, literature, film and other media for which human beings can boast their accomplishments, knowledge, and feelings about a specific event or in general. Art such as sculpture, painting, and drawing has long since been praised as the ultimate mirror into the soul, conveying multiple messages that no mere words can express realistically, but this is all too confining and stifling for the field as a whole. Art is the creation of anything that reaches

What was Art like in Ancient China? - Zehra Ahmed Ancient China created many types of beautiful artwork. In Ancient China there were lots of different dynasties, that had different styles. Chinese Philosophy and Religion had a huge impact on art and arts different subjects. Art includes: Silk, how it was discovered, and made Writing Paper Lacquer Terracotta Army Porcelain “The three perfections” (Calligraphy, Poetry, and painting) How was silk discovered? Silk was accidentally discovered

The documentary What Makes Art Valuable? highlights the top ten most expensive works of art. Alastair Sooke delves into what makes these paintings so valuable and the motives of the buyers to spend tens of millions of dollars on a single painting. Throughout the film, Sooke emphasis that the selling price of a painting in auction is not an accurate representation of how good a painting is. Arne Glimcher, an art dealer shown in the documentary, says, “The whole thing of art and money is ridiculous

Merton, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” It is this transcendental aspect that art provides that allows one to enter into a sphere of thought, which is unattainable by any other means. This sphere of thought grants the ability to see beyond one’s self and view life from another perspective. While it may be argued that the art present in Christian churches is more “Christian” than the others, this mentality is the result of a deficiency in understanding what the purpose

Jacob Lawrence’s art about the Great Migration. The Great Migration was one of the biggest movements where, African Americans migrated from the Southern states to the North, West, and Midwest states from 1910s until the 1970s in America. There were about 6 million African Americans that were a part of the Great Migration. Jacob Lawrence was trying to give a perspective about the Great Migration in his art that other people were not viewing the Great Migration from. In Jacob Lawrence’s art, he showed before

What is a liberal arts education? The answer to this question varies from person to person. Historically, a liberal arts education meant being knowledgeable in what was known as the trivium, during the Greco-Roman era, and the quadrivium, during medieval times. This consisted of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. Now, a liberal arts education consists of having a basic understanding of multiple subjects across four generally accepted fields, which are humanities

The Death of Liberal Arts Response The value for a complete, effective education has decreased over the years. Important courses in liberal arts have been eliminated from a numerous amount of collages causing their students to be less prepared for the working world. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 where it’s characters live in a dystopian society that does not value books at all they in fact are burned due to the threat it holds relates to the death of liberal arts in today’s society. This supports

strong meanings, and impact on people. He said the trip to Palestine was “the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers.” How does Banksy convey his political message, and which impact does it have on the people who are watching his art? Banksy created nine paintings on Israel`s west bank barrier, one of these painting is the “Balloon Debate”, that was painted in August 2005. This location is important because it is painted on the 684 kilo meters long separation wall, that separates

9, Section 1 The Odyssey/O’ Brother Where Art Thou? Essay Although they seem like two completely unrelated stories with no references between them, The Odyssey and O’ Brother Where Art Thou? are very much alike, as they have similar characters who have the same determined, selfish, and loving personalities and learn the importance of loyalty throughout their respective journeys. To a reader who doesn’t have experience with The Odyssey, O’ Brother Where Art Thou? understandably seems dissimilar to

time. Nostalgia is no longer about the lost, but about the found. The tension between the times, the past and the present and sets of sentimental values seem to have faded, it is no longer a matter of the heart. The tension is now found more in the art of collecting and ‘re-creating’ the past. The past is not directly inhabited but is available all around the nostalgic

Art and its topics are getting broader and broader and it has became a great inspiration for an artist to express his point of view. There are so many forms of art like paintings, drawings, sculptures and so on and there are so many kinds of art such as landscape art, still life art, portrait art, nude art and more. Among hundreds of topics, unclothed body is one of the greatest topic that inspires artists of all time. So what is nude art? Nude art is a piece of art work, of any kind, that content

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “One Art”, is a villanelle about the speaker being unable to find things that are important to them, and what the speaker thinks of these happenings. At first glance one might assume this poem is about simply misplacing or forgetting these belongings, but in reality, Bishop uses repetition, imagery, and structure to show that the action of constantly losing things can be easily let go after it’s done so many times, yet emotions that come with it are still painful, every time

security. However, what bothered me most of all at that particular moment was the fact that my head felt like it

editors were reluctant to print atrocity pictures. Why not print them? That's what that was about.” (Nora Ephron Boston Photographs 1) Ephron explains that Death happens to be life's main event. Not necessarily that death is beautiful but death is interesting and unpredictable. while Ephron explains this portion of the essay in a very casual manner in order for readers of various levels to follow along and listen to what Ephron has to say about photojournalism. Reading this there are no words or

who had been introduced to art educators by Wilson. Holz was a child that was expose to the ideas and ways of believing of Wilson. Holz was a child when he was studied by Wilson who compared the child abilities of drawing in school art and play art. Also Holz culture was involved within the study. J.C Holz was one of those child who was special and could revel plenty of information, that could help others understand more about all the relationships and aspects between art and the child. J.C’s motivations