Body art

When we mention about graffiti, where do we expect to see it? Probably not in museum. Unlike order arts, the background of graffiti does not gorgeous and magnificent that is why graffiti mostlikely being on streets, under bridges, or on some buildings. Graffiti borns mainly in low – in come areas, so the boundary between art and vandalism is very arachnoid. The debate about graffiti has been going for decade because people do not understand the difference between creation and destruction. In…

stick poked in and out of the skin for hours, and the tattoos were used as representation of the person's family story. As time passed the vessel used to deliver the tattoos changed as well as the trends and meanings. Through it all tattoos remain an art form of self expression, coping with emotional and physical pain, telling your life story, and creating individuality. Using tattooing as a form of self expression differs from males to females. Females tend to…

Feminist Art Movement Women have always been present in male’s most famous art works, but the question was why there were no famous women artists? In male’s art pieces women have always been either sexualized and desirable creatures (such as Monet’s Olympia or GUSTAVE MOREAU’s Dance of Salome)) or traditional role of mothers and housewives (such as Blessed Art thou Among Women by GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER). The feminist art movement began in 19060’s and reflects art made by women about their…

Ever since I was a child, art has played a role in my family. My grandfather being an art teacher intrigued me at a young age and continues to do so. Countless paintings and sculptures are present in my house and they have made me wonder what other art is like, other than my grandfather’s. From my past experiences in art class, I know that pottery is intricate and detailed. However, the actual making and usage of ancient pottery was unfamiliar to me. Throughout my research, I learned that there…

There’s something about realistic art made by a human being’s hands that fascinates me. It can be the quality of the brush strokes versus a photograph, or the realization that an actual human being, just like you, could create something so authentic-looking, so great. The amount of work it takes before you can even start on pencil and paper is huge, especially if your work is basically in another world, underwater. Let’s start with what it is to be an illustrator. An illustrator is someone who…

At the age of 9 on the bus ride home from the art museum, one of my classmates screamed to the top of his lungs, “I DON’T GET IT,” though his cheeks reddened at the sight of everyone looking at him. He began to further explain, “I don’t get why they drew those pictures, or why we should care.” Ms. Gregory was baffled. We could tell she didn’t have a good enough answer for our classmate. When it finally came to her response, she could only say, “Art is a big part of why we are the way we are. It…

are described as “…quietly elegant…”(Hagen, 24) and through the statement “His scenes of sun-struck bodies against verdant backgrounds are certainly idealized, and at times look like shots from old-time nudist magazines…grassy lawns and groves of trees serving as stages that frame the dancers and add meaning to their gestures” (Hagen, 24). This use of gesturing is something shown through Trager’s body of work alongside intriguing facial expressions. His piece, “Michiyo and Dancers: (1988),…

successful or not? Sandro Chia had once felt that in his own right, he was not. Chia wanted to be the rock star of art not just well know. He blamed certain circumstances on others of his ruined reputation and the low value of the work in the art market. But his artwork may not have fit with the shaping of the times and the decline of the short-lived art movement he was associated with. Even, Art dealers said that Chia was not producing masterpieces that others were at the time. Many of these…

Chapter 4 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger is a picture essay. It begins with religious pieces of art, mainly from the thirteenth century. It carries on with work from the 14th, 15th 16th century and so on. The images contain subjects like deceased bodies, children, life, nudity etc. The essay is bringing us through the history of art and what was considered important during those years. The next chapter is about oil paintings. As economies grew so did people’s want for materialistic objects. At…

2015 This art piece is a cigarette ad made in the 1902 by Manuel Orazi. Manuel Orazi was an Italian artist born in 1860 and died in 1934, though little is known of him his art work was liked well enough to be sold to this day. Though his most popular art work an occult calendar called Calendrier Magique published by L’Art Nouveau this picture of he was known for many other lithographic ads such as this one. Nonetheless Orazi uses his heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and art Deco. The art in…