Art

Sophie Calle was an artist, a French writer, an installer, a photographer as well as a conceptual performer. She places herself in circumstances that reveal her functionality characters which her people adopted. The work of Calle has been distinguished because she used arbitrary situations and almost overdid the French movement of the year 1960s which was known as Oulipo. She puts her living styles in public which creates personal narrative, where she plays a role as the main character and an author....

Comparing two historical periods (Aegan Art is compared to the Ancient Egyptian ) of art there should be noted that they have a lot of in common as well as significant differences and peculiarities due to the local culture are observed. Agean art dates back to the Bronze Age civilization Female figures in Chariot, Tiryns is perfectly representing the tradition of Agean art. The figures are flat (here we could observe similarity to the Ancient Egyptian art tradition they also depicted flat figures,...

Architecture has always been thought of as a great and noble in art history.  Cicero regarded it as one of the liberal arts, that is to say one in which a free man might engage without loss of status (Honour  Fleming, p.88).  Architecture is one of the most notable forms of art because the architect has to strike a balance between beauty and functionality. In this paper, the reader will be given a brief history of the architectural developments from the 13th to the 18th century.  These...

The Cathedral Complex is situated outside the main city of Pisa, in the Field of Miracles or Campo dei Miracoli. Approaching from the west, the Baptistery appears first, followed by the Cathedral or Duomo shaped like a cross (cruciform), the Leaning Bell tower or Campanile and the cemetery or Camposanto to the north. The free standing baptistery and campanile are characteristic to Italian structures. Pisa in the 11th century was a thriving maritime town with a strong navy. Between 1016 and 1062,...

In Ancient Greece, Iliad is one of the most influential literary masterpiece of Homer and it is one of the pedagogy bases in which is also referred to as the correct use of instructive strategies. Iliad and Odyssey brought Greece out of its Dark Age and when they became famous for about 50 years after its initial release, they became one of the most read pieces in Greeks education. The whole world has seen the success of this one of the earliest and greatest epic poems in the Western world.  There...

Charlie Chaplin is undoubtedly one of the few film stars to have attained iconic status, at times even bordering on kitsch, in the last century. Many people the world over have come to know of his trademark attire and walk, and whose work we can trace to that of current comics like Steve Martin and Rowan Atkinson of the Mr. Bean fame. But his pioneering work is not just entertainment but, at most part, a radical and subversive commentary on the social atmosphere during the first half of the 19th...

Art.  It is one of the purest and most significant forms of human communication. Where language often fails us, art can cross divides we sometimes erect due to differences in race, ethnicity, religion and culture.  Specifically, Islamic art, perhaps more than any other, presents a beautiful mirror of a culture and its world view. More than being just representative of a singular religion (as is often the case with Christian art), Islamic art deepens understanding about Muslim culture,...

The two artists papers that I read were Robert Barry, Untitled Statement in Germano Celant, Art Povera (1969) and Gordon Matta-Clark, Gordon Matta-Clark A Retrospective (1982) by Susan Rothenberg. The two artists related to each other in exploring the different possibilities of art form for producing information within a person. In Robert Barry, he explored technology for transmitting energy waves and sound. Matta-Clark experimented, pushing art and expression to its boundaries with the splitting...

Arts Education includes four separate and distinct disciplines dance, music, theatre arts and visual arts - each with its own body of knowledge and skills. The intent of the National Standards for Arts Education along with the standard courses of study in dance, music, theatre arts and visual arts is that a comprehensive understanding of one or more of the arts be accomplished by each student throughout the K-12 program. Arts education benefits both student and society. Involving the whole child...