Associate of Arts

Throughout history art has been used as a platform for artists to express their views, cultural concerns, and or to re-illustrate historical events in a modern scene. Samella S. Lewis used her platform, particularly in her piece entitled "The Preacher" as a medium in which she is applying the story of Jesus in a modern day context. Although the story of Jesus and his twelve disciples have been told for decades, it is often difficult for the preaching’s and teachings of Jesus to be applied in our…

regard from all over the world. Mueck was born in Melbourne, Australia to German parents. His parents were toymakers and Mueck likely started developing his hand-building skills at a young age by helping them with their projects. Without any formal art training, he began his career by making models and puppets as well as voicing and operating puppets for Australian children’s shows. In the early 1980s, Mueck relocated to London where he assisted in several productions by the infamous Jim…

The article “Redemptive popular art: Television and the cultural mandate.” written by C. Christians (1980) gives us three questions that we should judge our films by. The first being, “How does it portray human life, or more strongly, what do they presume about human nature?” (p. 14) most messages of film today usually promote some kind of materialism. If this is what the main message is, then it is not redemptive. The second question is, “What does popular art convey about the created order?”…

over 40 years. Bass started out as a graphic designer in 1938 with a job at Warner Brothers. After six years, Bass left to study at the Art Students League in New York. He attended Brooklyn College and made his money working as a freelance designer. After finishing school Bass took his talents to Los Angeles to start his own design studio called Saul Bass and Associates and began to work in the film industry. Baas was best known for his work in the movie industry. His first big job in the…

Aesthetics as a study of beauty has been the keystone for development of art and architecture, which cuts across philosophical, tactile, intuitive, mathematical and socio-cultural realms. The subjectivity of which, has given rise to innumerable attempts to quantify, measure and theorize aesthetics in art and architecture. To comprehend aesthetics, one needs to understand the changing definition of beauty. Definition of beauty has had cultural variations in the development of human civilization.…

Bill-zhyad amadou Emily Sprouse ART 101 13 October 2015 Art History in Real-Time Art is a human activity involving the intellect and emotions, which results in the creation of works with aesthetic features. It brings together different areas in constant evolution, including sculpture, painting, dance, poetry, cooking, film, printmaking, theater, comics, photography and digital art now. Study the trajectories of digital cultural assets is an entry point to better understand the social data.…

become experts in their field, which prompted them to create such creative pieces of art work. These ideas can only be contributed to creative cognition of insight. Some researchers believe that creative cognition stems from expertise in your particular domain, but there is surmountable evidence surrounding the argument that creative cognition is deeply rooted in insight. “Creative thinking is central to the arts, sciences and everyday life.” (Roger. E Beaty, 2016) The study of creative…

The media has huge power on the way it is able to influence its audience. Although some media can be positive, much the medias influence has negatively affected youth today. In the show Modern Family, it aims to portray a contemporary view of American families. Although most research on body image has focused on white girls and women, body image concerns also affect women of color, specifically among Latinas. The purpose of this paper is to understand how the media creates stereotypes that…

holds a couple of them. The first begins after the minor 7th as a 2/4 ostinato, then later after the third motif is introduced with a bass added to ostinato, following this section a pulsating ostinato can be heard. These three ostinatos tend to associate themselves with Marion’s state of mind during the first third of the film. Using melody to try and match Marion’s state of mind would be near impossible with melody so it’s a good solution. Consequently, the “temptation” is another example…

and to hide it would be the equivalent of hiding themselves from who they are. In today’s popular culture it is widely celebrated and encouraged to be able to express one’s self freely and proudly, and tattoos let people do that through beautiful art. Although a lot of tattoos are copied or repeats of the past, like sailors today getting WW2 tattoos, it still represents who that person is and what they…