Art

Art affects each and everybodys emotions, thoughts and ideas thus in our day today life we cannot afford to ignore art (Paul Gaultier 2004). Art includes drama, music, sculpture painting among others and in one way or another they are used to show the creativity of the artist, entertain the audience and some times for commercial purposes. Art in Australia is getting international recognition though it is getting affected by culture change. The current art in Australia is using new techniques, using...

In 2005, the married collaborators known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed 7,503 gates draped in saffron-colored nylon along the pathways of New Yorks Central Park. The artistic intentions of the project, whatever artistic theory might have prompted the installation, seemed vague, even when considered in light of the artists own explanations. In a 2010 interview, Christo explained that his work is an interpretation of landscape and architecture (Newman).  Disregarding any notion that a...

1.What incorrect assumptions about the subject matter and meaning of Pieter Breugel the Elders peasant painting does Svetlana Alpers argue previous art historicans have maid when describing the artistic aims of these works Previous historicans, especially those of the nineteenth (19th) century, assumed Pieter Breugels art to be depicting moral sins.  For one, they have accused Breugels  Wedding Dance  to have displayed human lust   the foreground illustrating the  abandoning...

Palmyra is a city that is situated in the desert of Syria, famously known as the bride of the desert. Palmyra is a Greek term for the city Tadmor, which implies a palm tree. The remains of the city tell a lot about its history, and most importantly, its artistic history. In the ancient times, it was a city of great importance to the people of Syria. The people of Palmyra always built many large scale monuments, funeral arts being one of them, simply to honor the deceased. The funeral arts were made...

Romare Beardens art, methods as well as the materials he used were similar in terms of them being multilayered and complexity the possessed. Each of the pieces of objects employed in his body of work requires meticulous observation in order to capture the several facets it possesses. In his art career that spanned across four decades, he dealt with a wide array of media that included water and oil based paintings, monotypes, assemblage sculpturing (just one) and edition prints. However, collage...

The world over people have constantly visited the Monalisa painting which currently hangs in the Louvre.  What is it about this painting that people seem to flock to it just to see it  Other than just being a painting hang in the Louvre, the Monalisa has dominated other media and surfaced in works that represent other genres.  No other painting has ever had the amount of celebrity that the Mona Lisa has. (DePaula)  The Monalisa is even a statistic as when overstockArt.com, released...