Sustainability
"We're victims of our own success. Money doesn't help creativity. We try to live modestly and don't have any assistants," expresses Tim Noble. Both British artists, Tim Noble and Sue Webster are popular, familiar artists. Noble and Webster are recognized for their distinctive art called silhouette or shadow art. Their punk and style moves are more than artistic. They not only create these efficient shadows, but use sustainable art. Meaning that they use a variety of recycled materials, that otherwise would be wasted. These artists use recycled trash like metal, broken tools, discarded wood, as well as gold jewelry and animals. Try donating one of your broken jewelry pieces to them and see it be molded in their next spectacular work of art. Anything they find is used to make their pièce de résistance or masterwork. This idea or concept is called sustainable living. Sustainable living has affected many artists around the world, by creating art it helps raise awareness, raise money and touches many of our frail hearts. Sustainable art not only helps people around the world, but it helps economically. For example, we all use paper bags, paper bags are made out of wood and wood makes paper. So if we recycle the paper bags we will not waste any more paper and we won't cut down trees. Sustainable living is very important for our system. Both professional artists, Tim Noble and Sue Webster gather sustainable "supplies" to create distinguishable silhouettes which display something that is surprising and powerful.
Sustainability is "the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance." Sustainability is roughly like the three R's of recyc...
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Anything from a police man leaning on a wall that gets lost in the crowd on busy days to a cleaning lady next to a garbage can. Duane creates life like art pieces that you can lose the fact that they are fake. The amount of detail along with the expressions on the figures’ faces tells the tale. The spectator creates a relationship to the piece because its the familiar look or feeling they receive from the experience. Duane uses the figures’ as they are portrayed to accomplish an everyday ordinary person moreover with that technique displays the ability to relate the viewers to the art
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Despite the selective nature of Muniz’s portraits, Walker’s representation of the process offers a captivating insight into the world of garbage and those who live in
I must admit when were given this aesthetics assignment, I figured it would be a piece of cake. I was wrong because I had to find a piece that kept my attention and left me in awe. In the lectures earlier, we discussed what we thought was beauty was and the ideas bought up were original, universal and captivating. I agree with the ideas brought up, but what about crafty, colorful and eye catching. My ideas mentioned of beauty all came to my mind when I walked into the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Midtown and noticed the contemporary piece, Abandoned Places by Nick Gentry. Nick Gentry, British artist from London, is best known for his floppy disk painting, which places emphasis on Abandoned Places is a mixed media piece that consists of oil and used computer disks on wood. His newest works are composed by layering collages of x-rays and film negatives between sheets of plexi-glass backlit by LED strips. With sensitivity of the use of x-rays and the gratitude towards people sharing them with him, he’s also elected to donate ten percent of the show’s sales to the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation.
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Those who argue that street art is nothing more than graffiti that violates personal property do not characterize it as a valuable art form. These critics argue that some places cannot afford to keep the property clean; if it gets really bad, the whole building will have to be painted, and that is expensive (O’Lear). Unwanted artwork will cause economic problems with removing the art from illegally used canvases such as building, billboards, and sidewalks. Critics also uphold that there are numerous outlets that people could use that are more tasteful and less destructive. (O’Lear). Turkey Stremmel, the co-owner of Stremmel Gallery, suggests that there are other ways to create the murals artists plaster on street surfaces. Artis...
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‘Night at the Museum' is an American fantasy-comedy film produced in 2006 that was based off the children's book of the same name written by Milan Trenc. It tells the story of Larry Daley, unemployed and divorced, who accepts the job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History where he soon realises that all the exhibits in the museum come to life after the sun sets. With the help of President Theodore ‘Teddy' Roosevelt, Larry is able to overcome the complete chaos that enfolds the museum and become an idol in his son's eyes. Through the manipulation of camera shot types, camera angles and lighting during the scene where Larry reveals the contents of the sarcophagus, an air of mystery was able to be conveyed successfully to the audience.
Sustainability is an issue that everyone should be concerned about. If the planet Earth is going to exist, as we know it, everyone should wake up and do their part to help achieve a greater level of sustainability. In my English 101 class we learned about the issue of sustainability. Many different topics were discussed and researched throughout the course of the semester. Overall, I think that the sustainability project has been a learning and enlightening experience for everyone in this class. Many more things can be done next semester, since the groundwork has been laid to continue this project for time to come.
Sustainability is when something can be used and not be depleted, destroyed, or damaged past recovery. As we work to live sustainably, we are in effect making use of our resources in a fashion that doesn't eliminate them, and doesn't harm their source. Our resources come from the environment around us and we need to make sure that it is not harmed as we use it. According to the EPA, sustainability stems from a single principle that "Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment” (Sustainability Information). Considering this, it's obvious why we need to make sure we live sustainably and do not damage the source of our resources, our environment.
There is no doubt that human activity is having a significant impact on our environment. These environmental impacts include depleting our natural resources, air and water pollution, climate change, destruction of habitats, and loss of biodiversity. Because of these growing concerns, we need to learn how to live sustainably. Living sustainably will allow us to conserve our limited resources more wisely so they will be available for future generations (Withgott & Brennan, 2011, Chapter 1).
Trash invades our world, and we can stop it by recycling. The movie Waste Land, tells the story of an artist named Vik. Vik goes to Rio to visit the people that work at the landfill. He believes that only bad and nasty people work at the landfill, however; Vik meets the pickers, the people that gather recyclables at the landfill. Vik bonds with the pickers, and he wants to sell his art to make better lives for the pickers. During the course of the movie, Vik’s perspective of the pickers changes, and a sense of ethos forms between himself and the pickers.
“Sustainable Development: At its heart, sustainable development is the simple idea of ensuring a good quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. It is about living within the carrying capacity of the environment so that how we live, work and enjoy leisure activities, which do not harm or put undue pressures on the environment. It is about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to have a decent education, a quality environment that they take pride in, good health and a decent job (n.p, 2014)”
Environmental sustainability is making decisions and taking actions in the interest of protecting the natural world, preserving the capability of the environment to support human life and ensuring that humans use the environment in a way that does not harm the environment. It also questions how economic development affects our environment vice versa.
Sustainability simply defined to me as balancing act between the development of sustainability is necessary for both planet Earth and humans to survive. This is reinforced in the World Commission on Environment and Development report (1987) that sustainable development must meet the needs of the present without compromising the well-being of future generations”. The Earth Charter Organization widened the idea of sustainability to respect for a culture of peace, universal human rights, nature, and economic justice (What is sustainability?, n.d.).