Tiziano Vecellio. Pieta 1575 Page 88 in the Art Appreciation Textbook Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice Tiziano Vecellio’s painting of the Titian was known as one of his greatest paintings and it was also one of his last as he died one year after it was finished. The painting was created in 1575 in Venice when a major plague was going around and Titian […]
The English language as a colonial legacy; looking at Zimbabwean artist Moffat Takadiwa As a youngster growing up in Zimbabwe I used to question why my Shona friends had common English words as first names such as “Patience, Mistake, Gift.” This grew to more than just a speculation and developed into a career looking into how colonial influence has deeply embedded itself in society […]
Medusa by Michelangelo Caravaggio Michelangelo Caravaggio’s painting Medusa caught my attention when I was researching this assignment. The exact date of when the Medusa was painted is unclear but it is presumably 1597 or 1598 (The Art History). It was so different from Caravaggio’s other paintings but it still had that Caravaggio effect to it. The thing that made it more impressive than his other […]
Walter Benjamin argues, “that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art” (1999: 223). In or after the ‘age of mechanical reproduction’, are notions of artistic originality and authenticity still relevant? Refer to the ideas of Walter Benjamin and either Melissa Gronlund or J. A. Walker to support your discussion. Before we discuss whether authenticity in […]
Artist: Rebecca Horn. Title/Date: Blue Monday Strip, 1993. Materials: Typewriters, ink, metal, and motors. Dimensions: 192 1/8 x 137 inches. Site: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Provenance: Gift of the artist. Introduction to Blue Monday Strip by Rebecca Horn The work of Rebecca Horn is appealing to many in the art world. To me, it is appealing in ways that I, as a fellow artist, find […]
It is agreed that the Renaissance was a period of great art and architectural feats and ingenuity, during which artists looked back to the classical art of Greece and Rome from which to draw inspiration. This influence can easily be seen in the many paintings and sculpture that came out of the Renaissance. However, the conservative nature of the period, the subject matter, and the […]
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1277-1337) was a Florentine painter who is widely celebrated as one of the most revolutionary and influential artists in the Trecento Italy. The 16th century art historian Giorgio Vasari praises Giotto’s gifted artistic talent, intellectual acumen, and pictorial precision: “He became such an excellent imitator of Nature that he completely banished that crude Greek style and revived the modern and excellent […]
How is expressionism defined? By the concept behind the paintings of this movement or can you really define a movement that was based on freedom and self expression. Expressionism was a cultural movement grown within a number of different art forms including poetry, literature and painting. The word expressionism is the main piece of information best describing the theme of the movement, the word expression […]
The legacy of the Harlem Renaissance is that it redefined how America and the world, viewed the African-American population. The migration of Southern Blacks to the North changed the image of the African-American from rural, undereducated peasants to one of urban, cosmopolitan sophistication. This new identity led to a greater social consciousness; African-Americans became players on the world stage, expanding intellectual and social contacts internationally. […]
A work is “created” when it is prepared over a period of time, the portion of it that has been fixed at any particular time constitutes the work as of that time, and where the work has been prepared in different versions, each version constitutes a separate. (copyright.gov). A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works art reproduction in which […]
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