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GREEK IDEALISTIC VISION OF ART.
  Term Paper ID:30894
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Three periods of Greek art.... More...
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Three periods of Greek art. The Geometric period, the Early Classical period, the Hellenistic period. Art based on the idea of changeless absolutes and ideals. The Geometric Krater as an example of the style of the Geometric period. The severe style of the Classical period. "The Lacoon Group" sculpture of the Hellenistic period; its influence on Renaissance artists.

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The artworks of a given era reflect the formalist, social, and economic realities of the period, exemplifying the prevailing artistic styles and the social and economic structures which influence the arts. Artworks from three periods of Greek art--the Geometric period, the Early Classical period, and the Hellenistic period--show these different concerns and how Greek art developed. Overall, though, art in Greece developed around the central idea of changeless absolutes and ideals, and artists sought to embody the ideal in their work. The Geometric period was an era which produced a good deal of pottery and other geometrically regular works. The Geometric krater from the Dipylon cemetery from the eighth century B.C. (De La Croix, Tansey, and Kirkpatrick 130) exemplifies the style

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PUBLIC ART.
  Term Paper ID:30877
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Compares two views of the way public art functions.... More...
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Compares two views of the way public art functions. Relationship of public art to a society. Why public art often generates controversy. Issues of cultural authority, public opinion, art communication to the public, aesthetics. The agenda of public art. Problem of public art as an aesthetic success, but social failure.

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In their essays on public art, Heather Wainwright and Ruth Slavin offer differing critiques of the ways public art functions in relationship to a society. Public art often generates controversy precisely because it is public art and so gives members of the public a sense of ownership and of veto power. It raises issues many political leaders would prefer not to have to address. It raises questions about the nature of cultural authority in a free society and about not just the function of art but how it is to be shaped and paid for in the public forum. The fact that public art is controversial has contributed to the degree to which various critics and theorists in the art world have discussed the issues raised and tried to reach some consensus on the matter, and Slavin and Wainwright address not simply the controversies raised but the ways in

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GRAPHIC DESIGN.
  Term Paper ID:30809
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The work of Josef Muller-Brockman.... More...
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The work of Josef Muller-Brockman. His contribution to the Swiss design movement of the mid-20th Century. His style and design philosophy. The visual language and typographic style of his use of grid systems in graphic design. The universality of his style. The visual power and impact of his work. His artistic concepts and career.

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Graphic design began with written language and over the centuries evolved into a significant element of communication. Using words and pictures to present ideas visually is a creative as well as a technological process. Historically cultures have presented visual communication in their own styles, reflecting the socio-cultural influences of each and impacting how the graphic designer will solve a particular design problem. Josef Muller-Brockman, a seminal figure in the Swiss design movement of the mid-20th Century, developed a clear, objective, orderly style and design philosophy that made him a theorist as well as a practitioner of graphic design. Rather than employing a style that would reflect only his specific culture, Muller-Brockman sought a universal language,

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ART THERAPY.
  Term Paper ID:30743
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Discusses how art is used to assist integration of personality.... More...
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Discusses how art is used to assist integration of presonality. Variety of practices with different aims. Use of art therapy with physically disabled persons, the mentally ill, temporary injured persons, anorexic patients, cancer patients. Qualifications of art therapists; their techniques. Creative art and working out of conflicts. Artistic expression and self esteem.

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Even though art therapy has been used in some fashion since at least the first half of the twentieth century its range of helpful effects is still only partially explored and therapists constantly invent new ways to use the arts to assist people with physical disabilities and psychological problems. The depth of possibilities inherent in this therapy are expressed by one art therapist who asks that the reader imagine a medicine so powerful that "it could revitalize your spirit, giving you a dose of self-esteem and a joyful purpose in life" while also "induc[ing] deep meditation, allowing you to forget your pain and resolve any fears about the future, thereby boosting your immune system" (Longman, 1994, p. 64). But in many instances there is a lack of knowledge about art therapy--among caregivers as well as among those who could benefit from it. As Ulman (2001) points out, the

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"THE TURKISH BATH."
  Term Paper ID:30711
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Analysis of the Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres oil painting.... More...
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Analysis of the Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres oil painting. Discusses the title and content of the 1859 painting, and its revision in 1863. Representation of women. Frankness of the artist's expression; sexual fantasy. Implied message of painting regarding French colonialism. Art historian Walter Friendlaender's account of the painting. John Berger's "Way of Seeing."

Paper Introduction:
John Berger's Ways of Seeing makes many suggestions about how to look at works from the great period of Western oil painting (1500-1900). He argues that the traditional ways in which art history looked at painting involved a great deal of mystification, that is, "the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident" (Berger 15-16). In Berger's view mystification involves explanations of the meanings of pictures, the reasons why they were painted, and what they meant to the painters and the owners. Analyses that mystify cover up certain aspects of this art; specifically those related to domination--domination of women by men, of the weak by the powerful, and of the not-rich by the rich. A closer look at one picture demonstrates how careful interrogation of what is in front of the viewer brings out information and possible meanings that are not

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WOMEN IN PREHISTORIC ART.
  Term Paper ID:30681
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Discusses images of women in Paleolithic society.... More...
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Discusses images of women in Paleolithic society. How depictions of women in prehistoric art can determine the traditions and lifestyles of their society. Features of the images found in caves and grottoes and figurines. Women as symbols of fertility, as matriarchs who ruled over their domestic environment. Specific examples.

Paper Introduction:
I. Introduction Since the early discoveries of prehistoric art in the mid-19th century, scholars and archaeologists have sought to determine the functions and the significance of art in Paleolithic society. The uncovering of artistic images in caves and grottoes, along with figurines of various shapes and sizes, provides clues to the lives, culture, language and myths of prehistoric people. The emergence of the aesthetic perception of the prehistoric people from a strictly utilitarian lifestyle also offers evidence of how the human brain has developed over the centuries. In this paper, the depictions of women in prehistoric art will be used to determine the traditions and lifestyles of prehistoric people in Paleolithi

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MARCEL DUCHAMP'S "FOUNTAIN."
  Term Paper ID:30680
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Discusses the artwork and its impact. The historical and cultural context of the time it was exhibited. How it was received by critics and the public. How the piece affected and transformed art. The aesthetic significance of the sculpture. Aesthetic example of modern art. Overview of Duchamp's life and avant-garde art.

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This research examines Marcel Duchamp's artwork Fountain. The research will set forth the historical and cultural context in which the work first presented and then discuss how it was received, its impact on the history of art, and how it affected and transformed art, including the relevance of art criticism of the work to its aesthetic significance. No discussion of Duchamp's art would be complete without reference to the sundry trends and styles of modernism and postmodernism. And no account of Duchamp's Fountain can be considered complete that does not include reference to the manner in which his output as a whole both proceeds and departs from various trends. Indeed, the cultural context for the creation of Fountain as a work of modern art is as important to an understanding of it as is the fact of context as an aesthetic featu

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COMPARISON OF TWO SCULPTURES.
  Term Paper ID:30669
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Works of art of the Egyptians and Greeks in the Hellenic era.... More...
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Works of art of the Egyptians and Greeks in the Hellenic era. Shared characteristics of the two ancient societies. Describes Egyptian statue of "Ranofer," a limestone sculpture of a standing male. Compares it to the Greek "Kouros," a life-sized marble figure of a male youth. Human orientation of Greek art.

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Comparison of Two Sculptures The ancient Egyptians and the Greeks of the Hellenic era shared several important characteristics. Among them were a complex system of gods, each requiring his or her own ritual worship, and a love of the monumental in terms of architecture and selected art forms. As Laurie S. Adams (p. 73) has commented, both groups followed certain canons and conventions in sculpture, leading to creations that were life-sized or larger, monumental and powerful, and firmly rooted within the guiding sociocultural ethos in which they were produced. This report will compare two works of art. The first is an Egyptian statute of Ranofer, a limestone sculpture of a standing male produced in about 2750-2625, B.C. (Gardner, p. 54). The second sculpture to be discussed is known as Kouros, a life-sized figure of a male y

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THE SARPEDON BOY KRATER.
  Term Paper ID:30609
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Analysis of the Greek pottery work.... More...
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Analysis of the Greek pottery work. Attribution of the 515 B.C. pot to the painter Euphronius. Value of the Sarpedon Boy as an example of a subject matched to the pottery vessel's shape. Description of the piece as an example of red-figured painting as a complex set of images.

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The Sarpedon Boy Krater of the Euphronius Painter The Ancient Greeks were masters of sculpture and architecture, but they also excelled at painting, particularly in the decorative painting of ceramics used in both daily life and rituals. Over twenty thousand pots have survived to present what Wood, Cole and Gealt (1989) have characterized as an excellent overview not only of the functional uses to which the Greeks put such items, but also of the major philosophical, historical, cultural and religious currents shaping Greek life. This brief report will consider one such work – the Sarpedon Boy Krater, attributed to the painter Euphronius, and made about 515 B.C. The Krater of the Sarpedon Boy is an excellent example of

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"NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE."
  Term Paper ID:30585
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Discusses the controversy surrounding Marcel DuChamp's 1912 painting.... More...
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Discusses the controversy surrounding Marcel DuChamp's 1912 painting. Reaction to the artistically provocative painting and title at New York's 1913 Armory Show. Origins of DuChamp's painting. His ideas and experiments with abstraction and time-lapse photography. Rejection of "Nude" by the Cubists. His impact on American artists, critics and the public.

Paper Introduction:
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) became one of the best known painted images of the twentieth century when it developed into a major focal point for the hilarity and outrage that surrounded the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art. On view in New York, in February and March, the exhibition--which is better known as the Armory Show, after its location--was presented by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS) and assembled chiefly by two of its members, Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, who went to Europe to select the works. When the show opened it proved to be one of the wonders of the age, and a defining moment in the history of American art. The American public, and even the members of the AAPS, had never seen anything like these works, which ranged from Van Gogh and Gauguin to Picasso and Brancusi. Duchamp's painting, with its

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MARCEL DUCHAMP'S "Rrose SELAVY."
  Term Paper ID:30564
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Describes the artist's performance of Rrose Selavy.... More...
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Describes the artist's performance of Rrose Selavy. The Rrose persona. Its network of meanings. Relationship of Rrose to DuChamp's readymades. Commodity aspect of readymades. Postmodernism. Visual portrayal of women. Boundaries of sexual differences. History and ideas of assisted and semi-readymades. Notion of artistic function. Cites specific examples.

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Marcel Duchamp's project is as complex, ambiguous, and rich as anything undertaken by any artist of the twentieth century. One of the most elaborate networks of meaning started by Duchamp derives from his 'performance' of Rrose Selavy, the female personification first used as a signature, mocked up in a series of posed drag photographs by Man Ray, and then persisting as an alter ego for Duchamp in many subsequent projects. The spectacle of a male artist who adopts a female persona and employs 'her' in the titles of various works, as the 'author' of other pieces, and simply as a sort of working fiction in his life raises questions of many kinds. Certainly the eroticization of the communication between artist and spectator, the performative nature of gender, the nature of the patriarchal art system and art history, and the meaning of authorship of works of art are all implicated in

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RENOIR AND SEURAT.
  Term Paper ID:30498
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Compares the two artists.... More...
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Compares the two artists. Their contribution to the new art of 19th Century Impressionism. Contrasts the different styles of Renoir's LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY and Seurat's A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRANDE JATTE. Setting and subject matter of both paintings. Artistic approaches. Use of color and brush stroke.

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Renoir and Seurat: A Comparison Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) and Georges Seurat (1859 – 1891) were contemporaries whose contributions to the “new art” of the late 19th century were of enormous significance. This brief report will compare a single painting by each artist. Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (1991) and Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884- 1886) were painted at roughly the same time, but the two paintings represent very different styles. Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party is set in an open air restaurant on the Island of Chatou; it depicts friends of the painter amusing themselves. According to Michael Wood (p. 248), Renoir was fond of images of the happy side of human life and preferred to paint carefree, joyous subjects. He was also

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NETHERLANDISH PAINTING.
  Term Paper ID:30474
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Examines art in the 15th Century.... More...
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Examines art in the 15th Century. New approach to painting of the Netherlandish painters. Development of the technique of oil painting and various innovations. The visual culture created by the artists. Work of artists Robert Campion, Jan Ven Eyck, Roger van der Weyden, Ven der Goes Gertgen, Bosch.

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The art of the Netherlandish region in the fifteenth century constitutes one of the most important moments in Western art history. Yet, for various reasons, the art of this period has persistently been seen largely from the perspective of its relationship to contemporary art in Italy. A review of the accomplishments of the Netherlandish painters demonstrates, however, that their work was not important primarily in relation to the art of other regions. This great flourishing of painting had its beginnings in the courtly art of the International Gothic style that flourished at the Burgundian court. The poorly documented artists of the early part of the century, such as Robert Campin and the Master of Flémalle, influenced the great generation of van Eyck and van der Weyden. These artists in turn were the source of the new approach to painting that thrived

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ART AS A CULTURAL SYSTEM.
  Term Paper ID:30344
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Analysis of art as an intellectual and emotional aesthetic response.... More...
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Analysis of art as an intellectual and emtoional aeathetic response. Discusses Clifford Geertz's theory of art forms and their cultural context. The meaning perceived in aesthetic form and objects. Applies Geertz's framework to Abstract Expressionism as it developed in the post-World War II period. Limitations of Geertz's theory. Critical views of Clement Greenberg and Lucie-Smith.

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Clifford Geertz (1983) has proposed a theory of art as a cultural system in which the response to aesthetics is both intellectual and emotional, or rooted in one’s feelings. These feelings in turn are seen as rooted in culture, itself manifested in the varied expressions of religion, morality, science, commerce, technology, politics, amusements, law, and even in the societal organization of everyday practical existence. Geertz (1983, p. 96) argues that talk about art tends to move beyond the technical and even the spiritualization of the technical and is directed to “placing it within the context of these other expressions of human purpose and the pattern of experience they collectively explain.” Art, therefore, is very much a product, expression, symbol, and commentary upon the artist and the society in which the

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CONTEMPORARY ART.
  Term Paper ID:30284
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Discuses relationship to audience and society.... More...
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Discusses relationship to audience and society. Art since 1945; radical changes, franmentation, multimedia unifications. Varying styles. Experimentation and consolidation & re-assessment leading to a pluralism of art styles. Post World War II societal changes. Postmodern world. Social plouralism & artists' engagement with their audience. Conventions. Innovations.

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CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ITS AUDIENCE AND SOCIETY The picture of the arts since 1945 is extremely complex with trends toward fragmentation on one the side and multimedia unifications on the other. Radical changes have come about in science, technology, politics, economics, and the arts. Social relativity and the pluralistic society are replacing absolute values and uniformity; and artists are working in styles that vary from wide-ranging freedom to strict formalism, from imaginative abstraction to stark realism, from detached objectivity to passionate expressionistic involvement.

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REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN ART.
  Term Paper ID:30152
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Examines how depictions of women throughout history illustrate the roles of women in various groups.... More...
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Examines how depictions of women throughout history illustrate the roles of women in various groups. Focuses on Paleolithic, Egyptian & Indian art. Venus sculptures. Reductioin of female figure to its reproductive function. Lower status depicted in size of female figure. Female deities as representatives of power & protector of society, not just fertility objects.

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In many cultures throughout history, depictions of women in art were far less common than representations of men. When women are shown in art the form of representation offers some clues as to the roles of women in the various groups. In the examples considered here two so-called Venus figures from Paleolithic art, two Egyptian "portraits" of women and girls of the highest class, and two goddess sculptures from India offer some insight into the ways women were perceived in these societies. They do not, however, offer more than a slight indication--especially in the Paleolithic and Indian examples--of the ways women functioned in everyday life, although it is possible to infer some things from these works of art. Two Paleolithic sculptures of women are of the type that have been designated "Venus" figures because they are presumed to

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ART DIRECTOR SAUL BASS.
  Term Paper ID:30147
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Discusses the life and career of graphic artist Bass.... More...
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Discusses the life and career of graphic artist Bass. His graphic designs. His film work including GOODFELLAS, CAPE FEAR, CARMEN JONES, WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and other noteworthy movies. His many achievements & awards. His own productions of short films. Work on Corporate design programs. Sample of Bass' film & business designs.

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Born in New York in 1920, after the end of World War I, Saul Bass grew up during a time in history when the world was going through massive changes. Women had just been granted the right to vote and Margaret Sanger was getting ready to launch the National Birth Control League (United States History, 1999). With the economic boom of the 1920s tumbling into the Great Depression of the 1930s, Bass was still fortunate enough to be able to study art under Howard Trafton at the Art Students League from 1936 to 1939. After World War II he continued his studies under Gyorgy Kepes at Brooklyn College, New York from 1944 – 1945 (Contemporary Designers, 1997). In 1946, Bass moved to Los Angeles and started his company Saul Bass and Associates. Although he did mostly graphic design at the time, by 1954, about the time of the Civil Rights

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CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ITS AUDIENCE AND SOCIETY.
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Discusses the arts since 1945. Wide-ranging styles of artists. Innovative and creative breakthroughs. Emergence of concept of social relativity and a pluralistic society. How the Postmodern world and plurality have redefined the role of the artist. Pluralism of art styles reflecting society. The New Realism as a cumulative creative systhesis. The pluralistic way contemporary artists engage in with their audience.

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CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ITS AUDIENCE AND SOCIETY The picture of the arts since 1945 is extremely complex with trends toward fragmentation on one the side and multimedia unifications on the other. Radical changes have come about in science, technology, politics, economics, and the arts. Social relativity and the pluralistic society are replacing absolute values and uniformity; and artists are working in styles that vary from wide-ranging freedom to strict formalism, from imaginative abstraction to stark realism, from detached objectivity to passionate expressionistic involvement. All this has shown that no one approach, solution, attitude, technique, or

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FEMINIST ART AND THE AVANT-GARDE.
  Term Paper ID:29921
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Discusses emergence of radical feminist art & militant feminist artists of the 1970s.... More...
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Discusses emergence of radical feminist art & militant feminist artists of the 1970s. Work of Nancy Ellison, Alice Baber, Judy Chicago. Significant exhibitions including (Women Choose Women. Erotic Art by Women. Sexual Politics). Response & confrontation of the new avant-garde art. Major themes of 1970s feminist art. Political and aesthetic aspects.

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Feminist Art and the Avant-Garde It has been noted that the artist-driven nature of radical art exhibitions that reigned by the late 1960s, when museum and gallery curators were increasingly usurping the role of the impresario, museums themselves were replacing galleries as venues, and formerly subversive artists were becoming “tamed” by a “society of mass consumption" (Altshuler, p. 220). While this statement is undoubtedly true, it is also true that with the emergence of radical feminist art and militant feminist artists in the 1970s, a new spirit of the avant-garde was born. The story of the avant-garde has typically been one of “mutual support among a community and reception of art by a public, all participants enmeshed in systems of personal and economic relations (Altshuler, p. 8).

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EXPRESSIONISM.
  Term Paper ID:29755
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Artistic movement in the early 20th Century.... More...
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Artistic movement in the early 20th Century. Discusses the concerns, subject matter and motivations of Expressionism as a reaction to Impressionism. Comparison between the two movements: Expressionist concern with inner feelings of the artists. Impressionist concern with external experiences. Artistic aims. Work of Kandinsky, Blue Rider artists, Die Brucke.

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As an artistic movement, the original form of Expressionism encompassed all progressive movements from Fauvism and Cubism to Futurism and early abstract works. In its later form, Expressionism denoted the artistic movement that reached its peak in the early part of the 20th Century, primarily in Germany (Dictionary of 20th Century Art). This paper will describe the concerns, subject matter and motivations of Expressionism as an artistic movement, and compare it with other aesthetic positions such as Impressionism. Expressionism may be viewed as a reaction to Impressionism. The Impressionistic movement itself was a reaction to the rigid academic conventions of the Salon. The concern of the Impressionists—Monet, Renoir, Manet, Morisot,

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THE ART OF PUPPETRY.
  Term Paper ID:29754
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Puppets and puppeteers as mainstays of human culture and entertainment.... More...
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Puppets and puppeteers as mainstays of human culture and entertainment. Puppets throughout history, from ancient Greeks to Native Americans to the present. Variety of forms in different countries. Survival of puppetry throughout history. How puppets work. Technical dimensions of the art of puppetry. American puppets such as Howdy Doody, Charlie McCarthy.

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The Art of Puppetry An Overview Puppets come in all shapes and sizes and there are a variety of forms of puppetry. A general definition of a puppet is a “figure whose movements are controlled by another through strings, rods, or hand movements” (Copp, 2002, 1). There are shadow puppets, string puppets, glove or hand puppets and rod puppets. Each type of puppet dictates a unique form of puppetry. String puppets commonly called marionettes are jointed figures most often controlled by strings from above, while hand or rod puppets are most often controlled by the puppeteer from underneath the figure. Puppets and puppetry have long fascinated man and been a part of his culture. Greek accounts of fifth century BC refer to figures operated by str

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"THE SCREAM."
  Term Paper ID:29744
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Analysis of Edward Munch's 1893 Expressionist painting.... More...
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Analysis of Edward Munch's 1893 Expressionist painting. Elements of modernist and postmodernist art. Its reproduction in contemporary society. Context of the image on canvas. The painting as representative of Munch's own melancholy and intensely emotional inner life. Perspective of the viewer. Theories of art.

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Modernism, Postmodernism and Munch’s “The Scream” Edward Munch’s painting “The Scream” (1893) appears to fit both within definitions of modernist and postmodernist art, particularly given its reproduction in contemporary society. However, an analysis of such definitions followed by a review of the way in which the contemporary viewer interacts with the image of “The Scream” actually suggests that Munch’s painting is, in fact, modern and our reproductions of it are merely postmodern renderings of an inherently unrepresentable image. Martin Jay points out in “Scopic Regimes of Modernity” that Western culture uniquely privileges the visual (Jay, 3). He argues that what he terms “Cartesian perspectivalism” has been the dominant visual model of the modern era. Jay traces the privileging of linear perspective, “as divine lux rather than perceived

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SEXUAL DISPLAY OF WOMEN.
  Term Paper ID:29738
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Analysis of two paintings depicting female nudes. Eugene Delacroix's "Death of Sardanapolus" (1826), & Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d-Avignon" (1907). Similarity of their approach as representing something new in artistic terms. Artistic interplay of time and space. Delacroix's use of male sexual fantasy. Picasso's formulation of Cubist ideas; subject matter of prostitutes.

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Eugène Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus (1826) and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) were painted only eighty years apart and demonstrate the immense changes that had taken place in painting in that span of time. Curiously, however, they display a remarkable similarity in their approach to subject matter which may not be immediately apparent. Both of these paintings represented something new in artistic terms. Delacroix drew on his imaginative faculty for fantasy in a swirling, boldly painted, brilliantly colored composition that used space as expressively as other elements. Picasso's early formulation of Cubist ideas, on the other hand, sought to represent an interplay of time and space rather than a more traditional replication of the real world. But both painters used the female nude as the key element in their works; an

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"THE EPHRAIM HUBBARD FOSTER FAMILY."
  Term Paper ID:29736
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Analysis of the 1825 Ralph E. W. Earl oil painting on mattress ticking.... More...
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Analysis of the 1825 Ralph E. W. Earl oil painting on mattress ticking. Earl's style. His skill as an accomplished portraitist. Discusses the formal composition of the painting; variations, motifs, horizontal and vertical segments. Contends success of picture lies in Earl's compositional means rather than the naturalism of his space and figures.

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The Ephraim Hubbard Foster Family is an oil painting, on mattress ticking, by Ralph E. W. Earl (1785-1838) dated circa 1825. The painting is in the collection of the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville and was a gift of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Jr. Earl was the son of an even more accomplished itinerant portrait painter who was also named Ralph Earl (1751-1801). The younger man was best known for his portraits of President Andrew Jackson, and he later married the President's niece. This group portrait is of a type common since the Renaissance but has a number of features, such as the unusual position of the girl on the window sill that display Earl's individual creativity. The painting is of a type frequently commissioned by wealthy families, eager to show both their wealth and their appreciation of the finer things in life.

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THE MEANING OF ART.
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Individual responses to art. Aesthetic value. Artistic meanings, designative and embodied. Discusses views of two art critics. Danto's emphasis on artistic intention as primary agency of meaning. Hickey's emphasis on the experience of the completed artwork. Example of Raphael's "Transfiguration." Artistic traditions and beauty.

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When Danto considers the dominant aesthetic measure of art to be the artist's intention or thought and Hickey considers it as the complement of value judgments that the viewer of art brings to the enterprise of response to the work, one effect of their respective approaches to understanding what constitutes art and why is to set up a seemingly intractable dialectic. The intractability is all the more intense because each critic develops his argument by reaching back as far as the Renaissance to identify attributes of its visual-arts culture that support the conclusion he draws. Danto (51-2) valorizes the intent that the artist Raphael brought to his Transfiguration as the explanation for the choices made--irrespective of the admiration that Hegel or the contempt that the pre-Raphaelites might have brought to analysis of the same

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WOMEN ARTISTS.
  Term Paper ID:29697
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Emergence of feminist themes in work of women artists. Discusses period from 1950s to the present. Thesis is that feminist themes were employed to challenge stereotypes of women's role, women's place, and women's artistic expression. Examines the work of four women artists--Judy Chicago, Janine Antoni, Barbara Kruger, and Carrie Mae Weems. The female iconography.

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Sociological Obstacles for Modern Women in Western Society: Perspectives of Selected Women Artists I. Introduction The purpose of this descriptive research project is to analyze the emergence of feminist themes in women artists’ work, beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present day. The thesis to be addressed in the project is that women artists, though always present and influential in the visual arts, began as of the 1950s to incorporate into their work a number of feminist themes designed to challenge patriarchal stereotypes of women’s role, women’s place, and women’s artistic expression. Despite numerous well-documented obstacles to women’s artistic advancement and recognition, a group of innovative modern and pos

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MODERNIST ARTISTS.
  Term Paper ID:29647
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Analysis of two French artists. Aesthetic strategies used by both. Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette" and Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." Seurat's pointillism style. Duchamps's work in experimental forms. The technique and vision of both artists. Characteristics shared by Duchamp and Seurat.

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Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon On the Island of La Grande Jette” and “Nude Descending a Staircase” by Marcel Duchamp Among the many art historians and theorists who have made an attempt to determine the means and methods by which the artistic term “modernism” is developed, is Sandro Bocola (1999) in The Art of Modernism: Art, Culture and Society from Goya to the Present Day, which concludes that “modernism” is a trend in art that rejected “historicism” and “classicism” and became an art that “mirrors the scientific revolution. The trailblazing discoveries of psychoanalysis and the new physics, the effect of technological and industrial progress, (44). In the terms of macro-history that spans the centuries of art, “Modern” art usually refers to a period that typically

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MODERNISM IN ART.
  Term Paper ID:29639
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Artistic responses to social change. Early abstract painting as an individualistic, spiritual response to industrialization, urbanization and mass culture. Development of modernism in art after the 1913 Armory Show. Examines several works by American artist Marsden Hartley. Influence of Kandinsky, French symbolist art, ideas of American Transcendentalists and French philosopher Henry Bergson.

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Modernism in the arts was, in large part, a response to social change in the industrialized world and early abstract painting was an aspect of modernism that emphasized spirituality in art and the individual nature of the artist's expression. Although much of the modernist artistic response originated in Europe a few American artists, such as Marsden Hartley, were among the earliest of those who worked in abstract modes. The ready response of Hartley and a few of his compatriots was based on their prior interest in the relationship between painterly expression, the spiritual concerns of Transcendentalism and other philosophical and religious movements, and the artists' own experiences and emotions. This inward-turning tendency resulted from their perception of the tensions of modern life generated by industrialization, urbanization, and mass culture. From the

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FRENCH PAINTING.
  Term Paper ID:29559
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The two styles of the 18th Century. The Rococo, its rejection and return to models of antiquity. The ascendancy of women in 18th Century art. Influence of economic and political factors. Return to smaller paintings. Popularity of portrait painting. Artists Watteau and Fragonard and French Rococo style.

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Following the death of Louis XIV a general reaction occurred to offset the austerity that had characterized the final years of his rule. This change created a new sense of feeling and expression among painters of the day. More specifically, the younger painters of the time tended to pursue the direction that their own feelings and emotions would take them as opposed to the constraint and restriction of artistic freedom that had prevailed prior to this time. The patron as well began to experience a new sense of freedom that permitted them to explore the limits of their own taste and artistic passions (Faniel 11). French painting during the eighteenth century is generally divided into two phases. The rococo, or first phase, dominates the first half of the century. The latter portion of the century is characterized by subjects and forms modeled on antiq

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M.C. ESCHER.
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The artist's sources of inspiration. Effects of perception and illusion in his prints. Contends that a solid mathematical analyses of space and place underpin his creations. Escher's awareness and knowledge of geometry and logic. Analysis of Escher's drawings. Shift in his work after 1935; complex architectural mazes of his drawings.

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Perception and Illusion in the Prints of M.C Escher Arnold Berleant (p. 194), in commenting on the work of M.C. Escher, stated that “arts that tend to reach toward what lies outside are exemplified by...optical art (including the visually magnetic art of Escher).” Such art forms and works, says Berleant (p. 195), offer “entrance to new regions of sensibility and awareness” and introduce questions regarding the “kinds of sensory and conscious experience that are germane to the arts and how and what they signify.” In the case of the substantial body of work created by Maurits Cornelius Escher, inspiration drawn from mathematical ideas including structures such as the plane and projective geometry are important in focusing the viewer’s perceptions and creating illusions (Goode, p. 39). This brief essay will examine the effects and sources of percept

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