Essays on Contemporary Art

Art Business

Art inspired minds of people throughout the entire history of humankind. From the paintings on the walls of caves to beautiful art galleries, people tried to explain and share their thoughts using creativity and talent. My intense interest in Art dates back to my high school years when I took an Art course of higher level in the IB programme, but Art has always been a passion of mine. I was fascinated about the genius of the people who contributed to the history of art leaving their heritage for the next generations. My family always appreciated the value of ...

The first question is to compare and contrast pintings. The first painting is referred to as the Manner of Their Attire and Painting Themselves was created by John White, who was known as an artist, a map maker, and the first British artist in the Americas, and to paint Native Americans. This painting depicted what looked like an elderly Native American male wearing nothing but a cloth around his waist and paint all over his skin. Not only was White the local artist, but he was also the Governor of the Roanoke Colony, which raises question if his depiction ...

Abstract

The birth of art had served humanity in a variety of purposes. And this purpose has changed throughout the course of human history. Humans use art to showcase their religious belief, to express emotions, to depict the beauty of an individual or a particular landscape, to record a significant event and for propaganda. Moreover, the way humans perceive art are constantly changing. Cultural art arises from the need to express emotions and the different aspects of cultures. On the other hand, modern-day contemporary art is inclined to make use of various objects and to combine genres which make the ...

Art & Architecture

Introduction The work of Charles Baudelaire had a significant contribution on the concept of modernism particularly in his essay “The Painter of Modern Life”. Baudelaire’s influence on modernism was constructed from his criticism of art and urban space where he seeks for inherent beauty within the bustling landscape and transitional urban spaces. Before the publication of his work, Paris, France is undergoing a major industrialization phase, which served as a theatre for Baudelaire to redefine the context of modernism conveyed in his controversial verse (Tuman, 2010). The discussion explores the conception of urban modernism including the ways in ...

The Museum of Modern Art

There are multiple not for profit organizations that are established to cater or work for the welfare of society. These organizations are operating in different disciplines to support community promoting creativity and skills. The main idea of the not for profit organization is to assist the society to grow in a progressive manner. It may be through providing broader platform, funding, advisory and other ways to support. Similarly, the organization named MoMA is a not for profit organization that is establish to promote creativity of the citizen. It has provided a platform for the individuals to share their creativity.In ...

Nepali Art currently embraced modernism, in a way that the local culture accepts art ideologies from foreign lands, particularly in Europe (van der Heide 227). Moreover, this new innovation incorporates the traditional Nepali culture, as evidenced in the artworks of the artists from the young generation (“Modern Trends and the Local Traditions” 149). This evidence only proved that it is next to impossible that the local artworks of Nepal can never be separated from its cultural past, despite the introduction of the modern art from other continents. Cultural identity is always been the main reason as to why the ...

The purpose of the paper is to answer the questions of the case study after having the analysis of the case study “Midwestern: Contemporary Art”. The case consists of two parts Part (A) and Part (B). Part (A) contains five questions and part B contains three questions. The paper answers all eight questions in sequential manners.

Part A

Conflicts are the part of the workplace and common in multiple organizations. There are two major types of conflicts include cognitive/task-related conflicts and affective/person-oriented conflicts. Cognitive/task-related conflicts deal with the differences in thoughts, ideas, and opinions. However, affective/person-oriented conflicts include the sense of ...

Many scholars and theorists have been critical about the social concepts and elements of postmodernism. Some individuals such as Noam Chomsky say that postmodernism does not add analytical knowledge; hence, it is meaningless (Mansfield, 44). Timothy Bewes, on the other hand, calls the approach a cynical reaction (Lee, 16). To develop a better understanding of the criticism of modernity, this essay will sieve through different articles and publications. Through this, the paper will develop two sides to the argument, that is, the artists, architects, and thinkers who support the theory and those who do not, to assist in the ...

The exhibition that requires our attention is the one at the Sculpture Center named is In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New. Considering the somewhat large name and the game of words in it one would expect to find something exceptional despite the negation at the end of the name. However, this is turns out to be a reference to a lecture made by Freud, where he states that the creative process only facilitates the regrouping of already existing elements into a new perception. Despite the high level of expectation this exhibition did not deliver. Most importantly as it ...

Artists in various fields and media have often drawn inspiration from their fellow artists who work in different formats. For example, writers have often been influenced by music; and movies have often been based on novels or plays. In the 20th century, however, there was a very close alliance between writers and visual artists, both in American and in Europe. Modernist painters often developed friendships with modernist writers and poets, and modernist poets often used modern paintings as an inspiration for their poems. This trend continued in the second half of the twentieth century, as the post-modern or Beat ...

The essay discusses three artworks by a contemporary artist who is living today and compares them to classic Surrealist artworks. The contemporary artist chosen for this essay and carrying elements of the surreal in his work is Mohammad Zaza, who is a Syrian artist. Three artworks of Zaza are chosen for analysis in the paper, namely, “The shell”, “Face of the Machine” and “Mind”. Surrealism as another art form that embraced chaos and the irrational. The Surrealists tried to unlock the imagination of the mind, rejecting rationalism and realism. The focus here was to tap the unconscious mind. It ...

Culture

Contemporary art is an art that offers current and fresh point of view and perspective, and usually utilize new techniques as well as new media. Current wave of contemporary Chinese art is because of negative influence of government and institute. There are many contributors in China who have played an effectual role in improving the condition of society and also condition of art world in China. Chinese culture’s landscape has been continuously shaped by search and achievement of power. However, in an effort to ensure maintenance of power, and getting control over Chinese contemporary art production after culture ...

11th of May 2016

Chinese Contemporary Art. Art Galleries.

Introduction

The emergence of art galleries of contemporary art in China of the XX century, and their rapid growth was due to strong public interest in the arts, new creative trends and evidence of qualitative changes in the perception of contemporary art by the audience. This modern audience with its subtle psychological systems and the pursuit of individual forms of creative empathy brought to life and established art galleries in the cultural space of China. There were no fundamental theoretical developments in the history of the gallery business and the organization of art galleries in ...

Use of Language in the Contemporary Arts

In contemporary art, the ways and methods of artists in expressing their thought go beyond the mere replica of objects made as subjects for their art works. There are modern artists that explore various modes of expressionism. There are those who use the combination of words and letters in their works to give a message to their audience. Various artists practice the distinct combination of letters and figures and employment of words as part of the features of their practices in art. The use of words and letters in their artworks is also associated with the sense of authorship, ...

05th of May 2016

Among the outstanding architectural masterpieces of the XX century the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao definitely stands out. This is not only because of its blatant deconstruction, but also the value it is to the city, as a museum and an architectural piece. Frank Gehry made his masterpiece as contemporary as possible. To such extent that even critics lament about his novel style and vision of architecture. In Spain, hardly anyone can be surprised by whimsical architectural forms, bearing in mind the works of Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona. However, Frank Gehry seems to have outwitted the latter. What he created, ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

Introduction

Aesthetic music is important in providing listeners with the unique experience that makes them enjoy the rhythm and harmonization of songs. Many people are interested in listening to music that has the ability to present the beauty and human enjoyment desired by fans (Bowman 2). Music needs to fulfil emotional needs of listeners and create the aesthetic valuation in terms of tone, tempos, the taste and judgement (Davis 61). The fact that music has the ability to affect emotions and intellectual capacity of the society means that artists ought to compose and perform songs that offer unique exposure while ...

The Château de Versailles has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for more than 30 years and is an example of classical 18th-century French art. French kings who lived there have only added glory to the site, expanding and transforming it over the years. Today, the château has acquired a new role, and many of the château’s rooms are used as Museum of the History of France. The Palace of Versailles has been a public institution since 1995. It works under the direction of the ministry of culture and communication and has independent administrative ...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (McNeese, 2006, p.105) Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the main representatives of the 20th century art, and the co-founder along with Georges Braque of Cubism. With significant contribution to the formation and development of modern and contemporary art, Picasso is one of the most prominent artists of the previous century, an artistic mastermind who managed to ...

“Weiwei, you know, we treat you like this not because you are a bad guy. It is just that you have too much influence on people” “Come to think who made me this influential. Read into the history of any hero; the hero does not become a hero, unless there is a monster”. Ai Weiwei has long gone beyond the definition of “Chinese artist”. Back in the 1980s, when he was a part of the “Starts” movement, he openly criticized the Chinese government. Because of his constant issues with authorities, Ai Weiwei balances the pressures to be both a ...

Introduction

While the political avant-garde of modernist movement had a celebration of dissidence and proceeded to advocate a revolution of art and contemporary life, postmodern art delightfully exist in a world that shows the pluralism of atheistic manner and way of play. Art hardly ever functions on a critical level: the political prospect becomes separate from contemporary art functions. Postmodern art turns to represent not only the consumer society that we live but also a privileged commodity. In the 1960s, "committed" art had turned to be the pillar if artistic postmodernism. Gender issues, class, and race become central particularly following ...

Collaboration and Collectivity have become central methods of advancing contemporary art. Artists associations, groups, networks, partnerships, and coalitions are terms often mentioned in light of contemporary art. As such, collaboration and collectivity become generic names used when an artist chooses not to work alone, but to come together and co-work with other artists. The collaboration may also entail an artist cooperating with members of a certain community as they all work to realize the objectives of a given project. The slight difference between cooperation and participation comes in the extent of the controls between the parties involved. The collaboration ...

Rubbish in Design

INTRODUCTION The question of rubbish in design has assumed increasing significance in recent years. The late modernity in artistic expression, particularly in design, has made a strong case of incorporating everyday elements into different artistic expressions including, most notably, painting, sculpture, photography and installations. In so doing, artistic expression has metamorphosed from a rather distanced engagement in "mundane" (made into loftier expressions by professional artistic design) into an actual immersion into day-to-day actualities in order to render "real" objects in different kaleidoscopic representations, particularly in still and video installations. The emergence of rubbish (assuming "rubbish" is disposable objects ridded ...

Who would have ever imagined, in their wildest dreams that a simple splatter of paint, a solid coat of one single colour painted on a canvas, or even an infant like sketch that would take 10 seconds to complete, would in the right hands sell for millions and millions of dollars? Is this even possible in today’s vast and sweeping art market? It most certainly is, and records for highest priced artworks sold over the last century continue to be broken to this very day. However it is our intention to explore specifically as to why such simple ...

Modernist movement was the catalyst that opened new ways of interpreting art as a tool for political and social discourse reflecting the rise of ideas and improvisation of imagery/performance through the use of contemporary materials available at that time. The term ‘modernist’ ubiquitously dominated the art critiques from the past decades in an attempt to explain the society’s rejection of the traditional iconography of the previous movements. With the advent of rapid industrialization spurred the growth of ideas that defined the social and political landscape of the 20th century. This changes brought by the modernist ideals revolutionized the ...

Georgia O’Keeffe remains one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century because of her bold art. She grew up in Wisconsin and studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and learned the techniques of traditional realist painting under Luis Mora. William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox (About Georgia O’Keeffe 2016). Her distinct flowers, theatrical cityscapes, glowing landscapes, and images of bones against the blunt desert sky are original contributions to American Modernism. O'Keeffe played an essential role in the development of American modernism and helped flourish its relationship to avante garde movements (Georgia O’ ...

Introduction

Current Problem: Contemporary art is the work of post-modernist artists, which mirror the contemporary society and culture. Area of Focus: This paper focuses on the contemporary art movements that have emerged since its emergence in the late 1960s. Thesis Statement: Contemporary art aims at exploring different materials with the aim of expressing specific ideas about postmodern life (Waters, 2010). Investigating the different schools and styles of contemporary art that have existed since the late 1960s to the present day will result in a better understanding of how different periods and events influence artists.

Background

Transition from modern to contemporary art: ...

The contemporary art itself means an art that has been created in the post- WWII period. It appeared after the modern art, which started emerging in the pre-war cubist painting as a way of silencing the hostility (Kraus). However, it has come through a hard process of its establishing, starting from the 1900ies and this process continues till nowadays. The contemporary art may be defined as a philosophical art, which has no shape, which has no rules. It is a type of art, which asks – “What is art?”; however, it still remains as a self-defying kind of art. (Dumbadze, ...

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

Introduction

It is in ones desire to go skydiving and hope that the parachute pulls, but still questioning its possibilities. It is in ones desire to drive a car much too fast to control but believing one is fully capable of not necessarily cheating death. It is ones desire to drink a large amount of alcohol, knowingly, all at once. It is the death drive, the instinct towards chaos. Primarily it can be said that throughout the entirety of this essay we will explore many different ways in which death has been, and can ...

Biography:

Creating a visual language with simple yet stunning white and black pictures seems to flow easy in the works of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Born in 1948 (Tokyo, Japan) he has proved to be a multi-faceted artist who is equally good in painting, installation and architecture apart from photography. His photography tries to capture the time and preserve it for the viewer. He has also explored several other themes such as empiricism, and metaphysics. In his works he tries to bridge the gap between what exists to a layman and how it can be transformed with a picture when laid in ...

It is possible to claim that the theories of Katharsis and Rasa are the different sides of one coin. In some instances it is possible to encounter with an opinion that they are the representatives of the Western and Eastern thought. According to the researchers, “Rasa and Katharsis constitute the ends of theatrical presentation and both appear to answer a basic need of a contrafactual poetic: to express that meaning in terms intrinsic to the work (Gerow 264). Moreover, both concepts involve a vital component that responds to the audience that in some cases tend to define the entire ...

Art today finds itself under the attack of the consumer society, which approaches it with the same lack of curtesy as it grants consumer goods. This may seem to create a loss of value for art which has become easy to reproduce. While in the past, art was removed from the everyday context, and only the privileged few had access to it, today, it is not only more easily accessible, but even the poorest people can afford to have their walls decorated with reproduced versions of paintings by famous artists. Being able to access it so easily, art loses ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles holds treasures that are priceless. The Museum is located at 250 South Grand Avenue. The exhibit in the museum does not just contain aesthetic grandeur, but it also embeds the history and expression of humanity throughout time. The MOCA stands out on its own in the way it reveals the works of art of various artists. Upon exploring the interiors of the spacious museum, it can be seen that the arts contain modernist artworks. There are works from John Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barbara Kasten, Harry Callahan, Elizabeth Murray, and many ...

Response to Second article

“Grids” is an article that Rosalind Krauss wrote in 1979 and it explores the perspective that the grid has resisted development over the years. The author suggests that the grid is the fundamental structure or modernist art (Krauss, 1979). He also explores the idea that the grid is a representation of the modernity of contemporary art, both temporally and spatially. Krauss traces the history of the grid from the under painting to abstract, thereby exploring the grid that entails the universal and ignores the physical (Krauss, 1979). Krauss maintains that the grid illustrates the “modernity” of contemporary art in ...

Introduction

This paper attempts to establish the impact of CSR on brand image. CSR has grown over the years, and many corporate companies have adopted it to create positive public relations and consequently improve their profits. The paper contains the methodology used to collect data, both primary and secondary. The literature review provides material on previous research was done and its implications. The article also provides a section on findings related to CSR and brand imaging. Besides, it makes recommendations for future studies and corporate work regarding CSR (Liu, He, Tang, & Liu, 2014).

Research Questions

Is there a relationship between CSR and ...

The significance of Rebecca Gilman emanates from the dynamics in the contemporary art to highlight the questions of diversity. According to Hans, Kotte and Saro (p.112), Rebecca Gilman 1996the Glory of Living, ignited the prosperous partnership between the director and the writers. This gave the playwright a niche of entrenching the theme of gender and equality in contemporary art. From a feminist perspective, Rebecca Gilman collaborated with Goodman to initiate the production of proactive hard-hitting spinning in the Butter that premiered in the Goodman Studio. The work of Rebecca Gilman portrays the notion of equality that many playwrights have ...

Synesthesia is an event by which the prompting of one sense group gives stimulation to a sensation in another group. The term synesthesia according to Campen and Froger (2008), comes from the Greek terms syn that means together and aesthesis which means to perceive.1 At present, the most popular and widely known form of synesthesia is the hearing of vowels or music in color. Campen and Froger (2008) also add that the different types of synesthesia such as the sense of smell is stimulated by one or more senses such as hearing and sight.2 Color Synesthesia for one is ...

Scholars of Australian art agree that Australian art has undergone several transformations. Australian art in the pre-colonial era were characterized by the practices of the natives, later on the coming of the colonialist led to introduction of art associated with their culture.

‘Australian contemporary art scene is divided into Australian and Aboriginal

art respectively. This is a divide originating from the colonization of Australia that began in the 1770’s, and hence, resulting in an Australian art descending from a so-called Western art practice consisting of works of art created in compliance with Western traditions (Persson 2011, 13).

Towards the end 1910, Australian art experienced massive changes ...

Thomas Kneubühler was born in Solothurn, Switzerland. However, he has been living in Canada as from 2000. Thomas completed a Master's degree in Studio Arts in 2003 at Concordia University, Montréal. His works often focus on social issues and the effect of technology to people's lives. He has had his work showcased in many exhibitions in Europe and North America. The most recent was at the Québec Triennial 2011 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Thomas is a photographer whose works often focus on various dimensions of daily modern living. He works at sensitizing the ...

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in

Introduction People often associate art with beauty such that art forms appeal to the audience because of their aesthetic qualities. Nonetheless, as we explore various theories, concepts, and approaches in art design, we discover that beauty is diverse. As the famous saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which means that the standard and quality of beauty differs based on varying constructs and views of beauty. The conflict and exchange between perfection and imperfection, for instance, illustrates the variability of beauty as a construct in art design (Bailey & Peoples, 2010). Beauty is not merely a creation or ...

2014 Frieze Art Fair: Yoshimoto Nara from Japan to the Great Britain Japan is a country that has undergone an extraordinary (for more than a century) and a strong modernization following the Western model: it has, now, reached a unique style which seem to be quite eclectic. Japanese culture surprisingly developed more and more its visual culture in a strong and characteristic way. Passing through different artistic styles, contemporary Japanese artists want to be recognized for their true nature and not for old stereotypes. No surprises, therefore, that the recent animations works of Hayao Miyazaki are exported all over the world with great success, leaving ...

The City

This work is aimed at a broad analysis of the relationship between the everyday life and post-modernism and contemporary art. The purpose of this work is to identify the impact of the post-modernism and the contemporary art on the everyday life of society and vice versa. Before considering in what way Postmodernism and Contemporary Art fins a situation in the everyday life of society, it is necessary to begin with an analysis of the very concepts of "post-modernism" and "contemporary art". Postmodernism is a complex, multidimensional, and intensively developing movement of the modern philosophical and socio-humanitarian thought of the West, a kind ...

Yayoi Kusami Japanese artist is one of the most celebrated artist in Japan and worldwide. Her worlds were built on one ideology and that revolved around her such that has at most times or all times used art to convey a message. Much of Kusama’s work is attributed to her decision to leave her mother country Japan for New York since she considered that the political and social climate within Japan was limiting her ability to explore art and artwork. Over the years, she has been able to build a career and an identity with much of her work depicted ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most influential Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Born in the year 1957 to an intellectual poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei spent his childhood in the hinterlands, firstly, in the bitterly cold lands of Heilongjiang, and then in the western Xinjiang province of China. In Weiwei’s childhood, living conditions were very harsh and education was non-existent. However, Weiwei grew up within the Cultural Revolution studying criticism and the political works of various famous personalities, such as Mao, Lenin, Karl Marx and many others . By the end of the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s ...

These paintings are being compared and analyzed together because they show the standard of what constitute art at that period. Unlike Gentileschi’s previous works, The Annunciation is free from heavy influence of Caravaggio’s style which employs theatrical and irregular composition. Oftentimes this composition is seen as dramatic and in monumental composition. However, at the time when Gentileschi is doing the said painting, he is beginning to develop his own style, away from Caravaggio’s approach. In this work, the painting still shows the lyrical gestures and the sense of involvement with the scene although the figures are ...

Introduction

The invention of the camera in the latter part of the 18th century became the pathway to create a new style of art called photography. Photography is the art of drawing using the light, a scientific process that relies in lenses to create a reflection of the images onto the paper. Since the invention of the camera, photography became even more popular because it is versatile and fast compared to painting. Photography became the avant-garde of the early twentieth century art not only in the United States but to the whole world as well. Photographers and artists often incorporate several themes inspired ...

[Class Title]

The world is full of symbols and images that, in one way or another, impact our visual experience. However, most of these images and symbols are not original creation but rather a reflection of past cultures that have influenced contemporary art. The ancient Egyptians, for example, are well known for their pyramids. These pyramids primarily serve as a graveyard as well as a grave monument for pharaohs and their families. Ancient Egyptians believe that after death, their pharaohs would traverse the underworld. For the same reason, the pyramids were built because of the belief that the deceased need sustenance even ...

Voluptuous Mors

It is a matter of prominent curves running through a black veil that flows beneath them. A game between the lights and the angles. Seven models position themselves to form a skull as the artist stands on the side with an alarmed gaze. Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, partners with photographer Philippe Halsman to create a surrealist human skull (1951). The image depicts Dali standing next to the models with an "enfreaked gaze” as Ann Millett would write. He is looking at the possible third spectator, implying that there is something in the image that should be looked at awareness, if not caution. This ...

Stephanie Dotson is currently based in California. She decided to settle in the area since her work, as a professor, requires her to be near the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California. The place is also home to several young artist, which derives their inspiration from the weather and landscape. Dotson earned her BFA degree in Kansas City Art Institute in 2000 while majoring in printmaking. She continued her studies and finished her Master’s degree in Fine Arts major in printmaking at the University of Georgia in Athens. Aside from being an artist and printmaker, she earns a living by ...

The ways in which contemporary art addresses the identities of individuals within society and how contemporary art itself addresses these questions of identity is important in that it helps to communicate effectively the viewpoints of various aspects of life for many different individuals. This idea represents the intent of the artists to express a certain mood or feeling that they are presented with in their own lives. These expressive intentions can be seen as a fully developed narrative that is representative of a very particular instance of being that the artist wished to capture. The idea of identity is fundamentally rooted ...

Value and judgment in contemporary art

The matters concerning value and judgment are among the recently intensified debates in criticism of art. The criticism of art suffered collective failures in nerve as the styles and names are booming and busting within the increasing rapidity. A discourse trafficking the value judgments is risking being co-opted into serving consumers. Conversely, it can even serve as outright as the consumer’s guide to the contemporary art market. In this market, critical discourse and commerce frequently seem to be comparative to each other. The value judgment and contemporary Art Criticism comprises the transcripts of the discussions, and the available ...

Site-specific installation artworks can promote appreciation of contemporary art

This study seeks to determine how site-specific installation of artworks promotes appreciation of contemporary art. The study will focus on the following artists and their artwork: Richard Serra’s ‘Tilted Arc’, Anish Kapoor’s ‘Cloud Gate’, and Rachel Whiteread’s Judenplatz Vienna 'Holocaust Memorial’. Site-specific installation artworks by Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread promote appreciation of contemporary art. This project seeks to showcase some of the artworks of these artists. The artworks under study are the examples of public art. Thus, the public view them and give their feedback on the artworks displayed. Depending on how ...

The title of the article is Visual art performance versus contemporary performance. The author of this article is Andy Horwitz. The article was published on November 2011in the periodical called CULTUREBOT. The article focuses on the differences between the two types of performances with the aspect of time-based art around the origins in dance and theater as the reference point. The author of this article is motivated by lack of knowledge of the visual art curators about the contemporary art performance when promoting it. As a point of departure, the primary difference between visual arts and contemporary performance is ...

- Introduction This study seeks to determine how site-specific installation of artworks promotes appreciation of contemporary art. The study will focus on the following artists and their artworks: Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread. - Outline

Thesis

Site-specific installation artworks by Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, and Rachel Whiteread promote appreciation of contemporary art. This project seeks to showcase some of the artworks of these artists. The public shall then view them and give their feedback on the artworks displayed. Depending on how appealing a given artwork is, it is likely to influence how the consumers of contemporary art ...

How Does Contemporary Art in Asia Relate to that in Oceania?

Introduction Exhibitions of art pieces are mediums of communication through which artists explore different perspectives in the society for the enlightenment of people. This paper presents the review of a temporary exhibition that relates the traditional and contemporary art in the Philippines as envisioned in the work of Ronald Ventura, a Filipino. This artist is one of the most influential artists in Southeast Asia. His work is compared to that of fifty traditional works from different collections in Musée du quai Branly located in Paris. The exhibition not only relates arts from those two geographical blocs, but also examines ...

Compare and contrast paper of ‘Forest in the Night’ by John Feodorov, and ‘The Sky space’ by James Turrell

Artwork is an expression mode either employed in invoking or depicted certain messages, feelings or relations to contemporary living. In this regard, art is a common accessory to religion and adorns most religious places as a symbol of the faith the adherents follow. Its use was widespread in the past, taking from the high renaissance period for instance where art was used in Christian temples depict various aspects of the Christian faith such as the last supper. Some of these artworks are highly regarded in modern times with the last supper, by Leonardo da Vinci for instance being one of the ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

Introduction

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) located in Sydney, Australia. The museum is dedicated to the exhibition, collection and interpretation of contemporary art pieces from Australia and other continents. The museum was the brainchild of John Power, an Australian expatriate. John’s intention was to educate and inform the Australian public on contemporary visual forms of art (MCA 2013, 1). The Museum of Contemporary Art was officially opened in November 1991 (MCA 2013, 1). The exhibitions are housed in the former Maritime Service Board building at Circular Quay at the periphery of the Sydney Harbor. The state government ...

The artist

Christian Paul Kunsch was born in Hagen in the North German state of Westphalia. He is primarily a husband and father but is also a photographer and Taoist for good measure, also describing himself as ‘European’ on his website. His work which is chiefly in black and white is basically inspired by the work of Bernard Plossu, Francoise Nunez, Henri Cartier Bresson and Lucien Herve. However he claims other influences such as the music of Radiohead, Thom Yorke and Max Richter. Another source of inspiration is Wim Wenders, the film director whose movie, ‘Wings of Desire’ is an important part of ...

“Brazil: Crime and Poverty and How to solve it?” By Eduardo Scuratovski De Gasperi-dated November 26th 2013

This article unveils the social and economic aspect of Brazil. First, the author of the articles explains how the country was hit by the 2008 world’s economic depression. According to Gasperi, Brazil survived this economic crisis as the government and other stakeholders implemented effective strategies to end it. International bodies such as World Bank and IMF revealed that Brazil is the 7th largest and biggest economy in the world with a GDP of approximately $2.4 trillion. This unveils the fact that Brazil’s economy is improving as well as advancing at a remarkable pace. Despite the fact that the economy ...