Ingeborg Romano Professor L. Musgrave Art Gone Bad: Ethics & Politics September 15 2016 The Innocent Eye Test by Mark Tansey "The Innocent Eye Test" is an oil on canvas painting created in 1981 by Mark Tansey. The work is currently in Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. The author of this piece of art is a Californian born in 1949. Mark Tansey was immersed in the world of art since an early age. The main influences came from his family that had a history of artists belonging to it. In the 1970s, his main influence becomes René Magritte's eight methods, from which he starts searching for ways of illustrating contradictions as motivation for a painting. From this, Tansey understands that representations are necessary bridges between symbols and meanings. This author's paintings …show more content…
The political side which emerges from the use of humor, irony, and attack against an unqualified and unskilled art community, particularly in the context of contemporary politics. The picture makes fun of the arrogance and presumption of the art critics as the author wants to show that art analysts cannot determine and judge the beauty, aesthetic, and meaning of a picture without the opinion of the cow. The artistic value is the second point of view. This raises the question "Can this be considered a piece of art?". Personally, I think that this is art since art is the expression of an idea born of a human. Art can be more or less abstract or real, beautiful or ugly, and the ways to represent this idea are endless, not only a painting, but also literature, sculpture, poetry, movie, or photography. I would say that art is the concretization of an idea, not the idea itself. Tansey's art work here represents the definition of art, because it embodies an important thought, historical time, influence, and even a message. Art is hence certainly subjective, but it has something objective to making it eternal in
John Gardner has used Grendel as an argument proclaiming that art is really cultural propaganda, a lie to improve human existence, and the creator of rational order in our world. Art, however, is not any of the ideas mentioned above. Art is the human effort to escape the deadening effects of our contrived environments and the principle way for us to maintain our humanity.
Politics is an ongoing controversial discussion; Everyone has the right to participate and indulge in the political movement. Although chaotic at times, it is extremely important and crucial to our future. With that being said, it is important to note that various cartoon artists take pride in replicating important issue through their art. Artist appeal to their audience by using logical fallacies, ethos, and by emphasizing or pointing out important messages within their artwork. Doug MacGregor, a political cartoon artist, had the honor to form a part of the 2016 elections by displaying his ideas in a political cartoon. The cartoon titled “It Takes Brains to be President” by MacGregor alludes to social media and political knowledge using symbolism.
According to the Oxford dictionary, Art is an expression or application of human creative skill and imagination producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. (oxforddictionaries.com). In the area of the Arts, it seems that knowledge is attained through a holistic lens, where its approach towards knowledge emphasizes the whole of an artwork rather than their constituent parts (simplyphyschology.com). Art can be accessible since the audience is able to experience it directly, with the help of our senses. As viewer we enjoy aesthetic pleasure, which involves an appreciation of the contents in relation to vehicles or supports. (Levinson, 1996) In fact, according to Jerrold Levinson’s ‘The Pleasures of Aesthetics’
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
This investigation will examine a few key works by the anonymous female artist group known in popular culture as the Guerrilla Girls. In this essay, it will reveal several prominent themes within the group's works that uncover the racial and gender inequalities in politics, art and pop culture with the use of humor. These collaborating artists work and operate with a variety of mediums, their works display a strong message concerned with activism connected by humor allowing the Guerrilla Girls to communicate and resonate a more powerful message to the viewer. The ways in which this collaborating group has employed many questions and facts against the hierarchy and historical ideologies which have exploited women and their roles in art. This investigation will allow the reader to identify three areas in which the Guerrilla Girls apply certain forms of humor to transform society’s view on the prominent issue of gender in the art world.
...riginators may have led Kruger to the style of art that she still produces to this day. It is easy to see that both artists, though from different times and places, share similar ideas and techniques about political issues
This article will discuss the influence of visual art on politics from two parts of visual arts , which are political photography and poster propaganda, through the unique social and historical stage of Nazi Germany. Additionally, it emphasizes the ideology, Nazis in Nazi Germany inflamed the political sentiment of the masses and took the visual art as their important instrument of political propaganda, while Nazi party used visual art on anti-society and war which is worth warning and criticizing for later generation. Despite an emphasis on the ideology, this article will conclude with significant application for the long-term impact of Nazi
In my view, art is the representation and transmission of thought. It is the representation of the thoughts or experiences of an artist, created to transmit and subsequently evoke the same thoughts or experiences vicariously in an audience, via the artist’s creation. I believe art is based on the fact that people, through their own perceptions, can experience the same thoughts or feelings as the artist. I...
One of the examples is the “Stampede” cow, near the historic Water Tower. This cow achieves an incredible much in terms of promoting the city and is a true example of a public art figure that celebrates the city’s diversity of events. This cow is painted with images of Chicago’s celebrations, such as the “Taste of Chicago”, the “Venetian Night” and the air show. It is mostly delightful to see a smile on little children’s faces as well as the faces of adults.
In order to familiarise myself with the above topic, I have invested much time reading vast selection of the portraiture art themes with aim to get acquainted with the knowledge and the language used in this particular subject. It was very challenging and entertaining to read comprehensive range of various critiques and analysis of the world best paintings stretching from ancient classic to contemporary western image. Developing understanding of the diverse art expressions and social and political influences tha...
If I were to ask you what is art, and how can one find it? What would you say? Well if it were me being asked those question, I would simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design and it could be found all among us. You may define it differently only because art could be defined in many ways. I could simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design. Well according to an article written by Shelley Esaak, an art history expert she mentioned that art has a way of stimulating different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. She also mentioned that art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. [1]
Just as other works that reflect art, pieces in the category of fine arts serve the important message of passing certain messages or portraying a special feeling towards a particular person, function or activity. At times due to the nature of a particular work, it can become so valuable that its viewers cannot place a price on it. It is not the nature or texture of an art that qualifies it, but the appreciation by those who look at it (Lewis & Lewis, 2008).
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.
Clive Bell theorizes art in terms of a theory known as Formalism. Formalism is based upon a relatively simple line of logic. All art produces in the viewer an emotion. This emotion is not different but the same for all people in that it is known as the Aesthetic Emotion. There must be a factor common to all works of art that produces in the viewer a state of Aesthetic Emotion thus defining the works as art. This common factor is form. Formalism defines artworks as that which has significant form. Significant form is a term used by Bell to describe forms that are arranged by some unknown and mysterious laws. Thus, all art must contain not merely form, but significant form. Under Formalism, art is appreciated not for its expression but instead for the forms of its components. Examples of these forms include lines, curves, shapes, and colors. Abstract art, twentieth century, or modern art such as color field painting or the works of Mondrian, are examples of art that are not representative and thus are most lik...
“ All works of art…have some common quality” which is a purpose and a unique idea (Dean 29). The motivation behind art is that it gives the author “the ability to show and tell” the emotions behind the piece (Wallach 2). They can express their thoughts and ideas through a work of art to either get their point across or to get the audience to react. The next important part for something to be considered art is that it has to be original. It has to be an idea or concept that the artist came up with on his or her own. This is imperative because anyone can copy what someone else did but only an artist can create something new.