Public art

Perception in art represents the relation between the artwork and observing eye of the audience and how it affected his current state. It is the framework where we can link the art and the individual opinion about it. Perception depends mainly on the status if observation and evaluation of the art. There is not a universal perception that we could refer to, however, many variant parameters, including political, social, cultural, gender and racial. These parameters affect how we see art and what…

of the Golden Gate Bridge, acting as if they were Dimas and Gestas-but with a Mexican stereotype. The main aim behind this work of art was to protest against the immigration politics that were put in place and to draw public audiences to this issue. Again we see in Guillermo’s work Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit London, him trying to address the…

America. In Karen Mary Davalos novel, “Exhibiting Mestizaje,” she states that, “Yet they did not take the public museum as their guide; not only did they lack the money and the trained staff, they focused on those subjects denied by the public museum’s homogenized narrative and history of the United States” (Davalos 60). Mexican American art institutions presented topics and other artwork that public museums did not accept. They did this to gain authority for subjects that were previously…

and whole rooms and/or wings of the museum dedicated to them. This layout of the museum helped me understand that History, like many other fields of study, is made up of various parts or events which all cohesively blend together to help the general public have…

The Art Museum as Ritual is an article written by Carol Duncan that questions the role and function of public museums. In this article, Duncan shows his dissatisfaction with the way museums use objects of art to come up with particular political meanings aimed at achieving a certain purpose. According to her, some nations came up with western style museums to be perceived as having desirable diplomatic or political allies. This essay summarizes the main ideas in the article by Carol Duncan,…

Art is influenced by everything around it, it comes as a direct result of the cultural sphere it occurs within. The Italian group of painters known as the Macchiaioli are no different from this rule, during the nineteenth-century they took outside influences to create a new esthetic that reflected their personal ideals. Although how independently this new esthetic came about, and who influenced them directly can varied. Depending on the point of view of the author writing on the Macchiaioli,…

In order to answer this question, a background setting of the period of time in which Baudelaire lived must be acknowledged. Baudelaire critiqued art in the mid 19th century where two opposed ideological worlds and value systems of art and society were formed: The Bohemia and the Bourgeois. These two groups in society were present in a period known as modernity. Calinescu describes these two value systems in his book called ‘The five faces of modernity’. The Bourgeois view of modernity was…

Education for Democracy”, brings attention to how “the current focus on education as a form of career training fails to teach students the skills necessary to participate in the political process” (61). Liberal arts schools aim to strengthen a student’s range of knowledge through the studies of arts and humanities. Such an education would provide a student with the resources required to think critically about the world, specifically politics. Since the government acts on behalf of the people,…

in Los Angeles, California. The Getty is an open to the public museum that showcases paintings from all over the world from many different time periods. The museum also features sculptures, drawings, decorative arts, and even manuscripts. While at The Getty, there was much art to observe, but I had settled on three distinct pieces of art. All of the pieces of art were Italian and were created before the 1500s. The titles of the pieces of art are Branchini Madonna, Martyrdom of Pope-Saint Caius,…

certainly come in the world of art, going from Realism to Impressionism to Post-Impressionism. To begin, a Realist would be an artist…