Conceptual art

The art museum that I was able to visit is called the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. This is a fairly small museum. It exhibited a peaceful ambiance. The arts it included were mostly paintings. Overall, I was not impressed with the museum. The museum displayed artists with a lot of bright colors that really jumped out at you. I personally prefer classical art over contemporary art. I feel that classical art has more of a calming feel to it. I also really like art from the Hellenistic…

The internet is full of a wide variety of digital interactive art and the artwork that stood out the most was Andy Deck, Glyphti (2001-2006). Glyphiti is an image composed of many smaller glyphs that an artist from any part of the world can manipulate. The base of the website seems to be fairly easy and the instructions was self-explanatory. However, there are some co-determined factors that the creator has limited for the artist. These limitations are what make glyphti so original and is able…

The progression of time has witnessed profound changes to the depiction of the women in the artistic sphere. Art can be seen as a mechanism for exploring many representations of the female form. Grace Cossington Smith’s The Sock Knitter (1915), celebrated as the first post-impressionist painting to be exhibited in Australia, Frederic Leighton’s idealized characterization of a reclining female figure in Cymon and Iphigenia (1884) and Henry Moore’s sculptural rendering Reclining Figure: Angles are…

growing popularity, is that his art did not follow current social issues that shaped the time. In the 1980’s and 90’s was a decade of change in the art world. There was a rise in cultural inequalities that was expressed with different medium and style. Along with this, there was the growing media exposure and the technology of the Internet (Allenchey). Lots of changes of social issues and media technical developments that Chia’s artwork did not confront. The art world at the time was…

development of an illustration that is adequately objective to limit individual interpretation. The associative and optical relationships developed between the various typographical materials through rendering enables the poster to achieve synthetic, conceptual and visual continuity . Consistent with Hollis, the different sizes, positions and weights that Jan Tschichild employed in various letters contributed in giving more voice to text…

Arts curriculum in early childhood education overall is the opportunity to let children use their imaginations, and to let them succeed to the best of their abilities. As schools become more advanced, many children are seeing the potential of some form of art education, and what it can do for them in the future. For many kids today, the arts establish a foundation beyond everyday learning. The two most common types of arts curriculum is visual arts and performing arts, with a focus in music,…

Art is a form of expression and communication using virtual languages. Every artwork has content which can tell the viewers an important message or concept. In The Dallas Art Museum, there are several types of art collected from all over the world that is able to showcase different conceptual themes such as sexuality and gender role of women in society. Since gender role and sexuality is a universal theme, many artworks from the museum exhibits this message. For example, analyzing the art work…

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia to two military parents with close ties to the communist regime. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, initially wanting to be a painter, but, wanting to explore the creation of art without material objects, she eventually decided to focus on performance art. She has often used her body as her subject and medium throughout her career, testing the limits of the human body’s endurance and putting herself in extreme pain, exhaustion, and…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

Zandra Rhodes was born in 1940 in Kent. Her mother was a fitter for the Paris fashion house ‘Worth’, and then later a lecturer at Medway College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Rhodes’ mother was a big influence on her as she went on to study printed textile design at the Royal College of Art. After her graduation in 1964, Rhodes’ designs were considered too outrageous for the traditional British manufacturers so she began to make her own clothes using her designs. Throughout her…