The concept of being a global citizen embodies a multitude of characteristics and responsibilities. As a student at New York University in Abu Dhabi, I am a part of a community of people from very diverse backgrounds and as such, I have a responsibility similar to that of a global citizen. In engaging and conversing with people from all over globe, I have gained a wider perspective that changed the way I view the world and developed an understanding and a tolerance for different cultures and traditions. However, as engaging as meeting different nationalities might be, I am still in my own country living in my own comfort zone. Although I live in Dubai and have been able to lead a more independent college lifestyle by living …show more content…
Seeing the art live and studying it in person is a completely different experience than trying to analyze it by looking at its picture offered online or in printed books. The relative size, lighting, perspectives and colors of such art works are very different in real life as opposed to their picture. I am planning on taking an art history / art theory elective to complete my concentration and to be able to have a more engaging experience given that I have access to more museums that showcase a lot of the artworks I study about and find fascinating to the extent that I keep going back to them and reanalyzing them all over again. Given my interest in both science and art alike, I believe New York is the best place to help me bridge the gap between these two disciplines. I see them as essentially interrelated and it is my belief that the world cannot function without either. What would the world be without art? Music? Performance? And all the same, what would it be without research? Technology? Scientific progress? People merely fail to notice
...ssionism and the work they display are different. The texture, balance, and the use of color are unique to their own personality and experiences.
For my research I decided to visit the Smithsonian art museum in Washington dc. The Smithsonian art museum has about 3299 art works on display for viewing. I was able to see many great works of art while the art museum. The trip was eye opening. I was exposed to different art techniques with varying use of contrast and depth. I noted the different brush strokes and drawing styles and how they varied between each artist. After viewing many works of art, I decided to compare Henry O Tanner’s painting “The head of a Jew in Palestine” with Alice Pike Barneys painting, “The head of a Negro Boy”
The compositions that each piece displays is different and prestige in its own right. Flemish panel painters were largely influential and created extraordinary developments in composition. The artwork tends to be very detailed and filled with symbolic meanings from surrounding objects or even coloring. Jan van Eyck was especially credited for paying exceptional attention to detail that creates such a realistic form, the figures seem lifelike. Much of this realistic appearance is due to the medium that was widely used in the North. The use of oil paints and techniques, such as finer detail with smaller brush strokes and layering of oil paints to create a glaze, were used and developed giving the Northern art distinct characteristics and composition. Italian painters created frescos by applying pigments to wet plaster. The result is a dull, flatter color and they were unable to achieve intricate detail. The com...
Just last summer after grade 9, I went to New York City and Philadelphia. They both have amazing art museums: New York has the Museum of Metropolitan Art and Philadelphia has the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Both art museums have beautiful and alluring paintings that I love and it’s evident that these paintings are genuine works of art and that they exemplify what we define as art: something that is beautiful, intricate, bold or simple. I remember seeing the “Irises” painted by Van Gough and the full series of “Poplars” by Monet. Van Gogh emphasizes tones and shadows while Monet depicts his subjects realistically with small, fine, but visible brushstrokes. Their styles are unique and distinguishable and there is a wide range art styles to
An artwork will consist of different elements that artists bring together to create different forms of art from paintings, sculptures, movies and more. These elements make up what a viewer sees and to help them understand. In the painting Twilight in the Wilderness created by Frederic Edwin Church in 1860 on page 106, a landscape depicting a sun setting behind rows of mountains is seen. In this painting, Church used specific elements to draw the viewer’s attention directly to the middle of the painting that consisted of the sun. Church primarily uses contrast to attract attention, but it is the different aspects of contrast that he uses that makes the painting come together. In Twilight in the Wilderness, Church uses color, rhythm, and focal
	I am attending NYU so that I can get a job later in life. I study chemistry and engineering, in the hopes that I can become a chemical engineer.
difference in this painting is that it has brighter colors and takes on more of a feminine
What does it mean to be a citizen? What does it mean to be a part of a country? I believe that being a citizen is much more than just living in the same country for a set number of years. There are several ways that the word "citizen" can be defined. For example, individuals may say that when you do good deeds and make your country a better place you are considered a citizen. When you work hard to donate to your country you are showing that you believe in While there are other individuals believe that being a good citizen means portraying kindness, generosity, a helping hand; what some people may refer to as a servants heart. Of course, different countries will have different interpretations of what citizen is and
Color and composition are important elements to art. Without understanding the basic information of these elements, you tend to just look at a piece of art and not fully understand what the artist is trying to covey. The Garden at Sainte-Adresse was painted by Monet in 1857. It is oil on canvas and is 38 5/8 x 51 1/18 inches. Monet was on vacation with his family, while painting this and even had them pose for the painting. The Autumn Effect at Argenteuil was painted by Monet in 1873. It is oil on canvas and is 21 5/8 x 29 3/8 inches. Monet painted this piece while out on his studio boat, a small boat that had a cover over it so he could paint outside in any weather. Even though, Garden at Sainte-Adresse and Autumn Effect at Argenteuil,
enough for it to be classed as art? To understand this we have to look
Why are you applying to be an Ambassador? What do you hope to get out of this experience?
While I ponder the idea of citizenship, I become aware that I am a citizen of many communities. I find that for each community the idea of citizenship is different. I belong to a school, a family, and a country. Each of these communities tell me how to be a citizen, but the idea of a good citizen is still an abstract concept. At school to be a good citizen you must follow the “Honor Code”. At home, being a good citizen means doing your chores and not talking back. In America, being a good citizen means obeying and supporting your authority while staying politically and socially active in your local community. The pressure of being a good citizen is placed on us by our peers and by those who are of a higher status than us. It
Although a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe one could only tell truly what goes around if he/she her faces it. I object the idea of taking pictures of the artwork. When I was at the museum it was hard for me to take a picture of the Interior. The colors would not appear the same as compare to how they actually were in person. I could not even get the details of the artwork in the picture. Before visiting the museum, when I looked up the images for the painting I could not really tell artists truly feeling behind the work of art. Even though artistic elements such as composition, form etc were available in an image of a painting; the image altered the paint color, the skill and style with the medium, and our perception of reality. We can not depict the genuine identity of an artwork from it 's digital image or print. In essence, this made me realize how a person needs to see an artwork in person to really know what it looks
Op Art has specific techniques. They used perspective and juxtaposition of color to achieve effective optical illusions. The color may be chromatic (hues) or achromatic (black, white, or gray), or bold, complementary and high-contrast for a full visual experience for the viewer. .
Global citizenship is a term used to describe the effects of globalization, -the information and communication technology age, and its effects on the interrelatedness of individuals cutting across the different countries of the world in terms of communication, doing business, sharing ideas, thus making the world a global village.