Art has enabled people to express emotions, ideas, and aesthetic experiences for thousands of years. Through art people have been able to tell entire stories, convey messages, and incorporate things that are truly meaningful to them. The artistic creation known as the music video is also used to convey such messages. However not all music videos are necessary videos. In Kanye West’s “moving painting” known as “Power” West and his director use a number of different symbols, props, and images of artistic and historical significance to create an art piece based on the theme of power. By assessing and analyzing West’s video it can be concluded that such a take on creating a moving painting over a music video is not only innovative, but also pushes to the limits the traditional take on most modern day music videos. Music videos have tended to be used to always convey a message or convince those of the public to purchase an album or music from the particular artist in the video. The inspiration from these videos are far and wide, but often represent the type of personality or persona of the artist. In this particular video West, never wanted the video to be a music video. Amos Barshad a columnist who interviewed with Marco Brambila who helped direct the music video reports that West never thought he was creating a video. In fact Barshad records that, “according to Kanye, it's not a video ... it's a painting" (Barshad). The video opens up with a narrow shot of West and then expands to show his surroundings and a number of angel like and evil looking women. Arguably it appears as though the video may also be inspired by one of the world greatest painters as Yami Yenigun of National Public Radio claims that, “West video seems inspired by M... ... middle of paper ... ...ion of power. The element of power itself soon just becomes another part in the method of revelation where the actual source of power is slowly revealed to the viewer unbeknownst to them right before their eyes. Works Cited Adams, Laurie. A History of Western Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994. Print. Barshad, Amos. "Vulture Talks to Marco Brambilla, the Director of Kanye's 'Power' Video." Vulture. N.p., 5 Aug. 2010. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Cheney, Alexandra. "The Wall Street Journal." Speakeasy RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2014. Daily, Urban Staff. "Kanye West’s New Video Draws Inspiration From Greek Legend." The Urban Daily RSS. N.p., Aug. 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2014. Staff. "Deconstructing Kanye West's 'Power' Video - The Week." The Week. N.p., 6 Aug. 2010. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. "Symbols of the Video." The Vigilant Citizen RSS. N.p., Aug. 2010. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
Some of these animations add visuals when a complex idea is being described, such as the idea of the ‘lemon dance” or the ‘rubber room’ in New York. Guggenheim also takes the idea of tenure and uses these techniques to twist tenure into somethi...
People usually expect to see paintings and sculptures in Art Galleries. Imagine the surprise one finds when they are presented with a man stitching his face into a bizarre caricature, or connected to a machine which controls the artist’s body. These shocking pieces of performance art come under the broad umbrella that is Postmodernism. Emphasis on meaning and shock value has replaced traditional skills and aesthetic values evident in the earlier Modernist movements.
The Resurrection was made by Francesco Buoneri, known as Cecco del Caravaggio around 1619-20. The oil on canvas painting was commission by a Tuscan ambassador. Its new permeant home is in the Art Institute in Chicago. I chose to look at this painting for many different reason. The Resurrection is an amazing painting that through basic size, composition, and theme that captured my attention.
Art made with video is not the type of artwork that comes to mind when a museum is mentioned. Combining video with sculpture is a very unique form of art that a few have explored successfully, such as Tony Oursler. Oursler has taken art into another realm with video that could not have been thought imaginable as he brings his sculptures to life and gives them personality while touching on topics that are considered part of people’s private lives and human behavior. The Reserve Channel is available. Sitting and observing one of Oursler’s sculptures evokes a different experience in comparison to looking at an inanimate sculpture or two-dimensional artwork.
Today I will be describing my design for a music video set in ancient Sumer. My video will depict elements from the Hymns of Inanna and the video of “Blurred Lines.” These two elements will allow a reflection of the cultural metanarrative and the sexual script of ancient Sumer. The video will play out between two gods and a priestess. My video will have four main sections that will breakdown what the video consists of and how it all comes together. These sections will be my main characters, setting, imagery, and lastly the theme of the video. There will be subsections that serve to only expand on each of my main sections and to give clarity to them.
Georges Seurat used the pointillism approach and the use of color to make his painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, be as lifelike as possible. Seurat worked two years on this painting, preparing it woth at least twenty drawings and forty color sketched. In these preliminary drawings he analyzed, in detail every color relationship and every aspect of pictorial space. La Grande Jatte was like an experiment that involved perspective depth, the broad landscape planes of color and light, and the way shadows were used. Everything tends to come back to the surface of the picture, to emphasize and reiterate the two dimensional plane of which it was painted on. Also important worth mentioning is the way Seurat used and created the figures in the painting.
The artefact that I have chosen to discuss in this thesis is a Tame Impala music video for their single “Let It Happen” which was released in August 2015. Music videos are also one of the most common modern day music advertisements and are also an expression of kinship between modern day technology and design. Music videos have become so popular in our modern culture so when they subsequently involve an enormous amount of surrealism references,
Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask is a big bird-figure mask from late nineteenth century made by Kwakwaka’wakw tribe. Black is a broad color over the entire mask. Red and white are used partially around its eyes, mouth, nose, and beak. Its beak and mouth are made to be opened, and this leads us to the important fact in both formal analysis and historical or cultural understanding: Transformation theme. Keeping that in mind, I would like to state formal analysis that I concluded from the artwork itself without connecting to cultural background. Then I would go further analysis relating artistic features to social, historical, and cultural background and figure out what this art meant to those people.
Thomas Merton once said “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” What is art? Art contain ways for people to express themselves through different means. One can sculpt, paint or draw; it really depends on how the person wants to express himself/herself. When people think of art, they tend to think of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo or even Leonardo da Vinci. Yes, these long established artists paved the way, but art contains so much more. Art can include so many meanings and as a whole continues to evolve. Bill Viola portrays the way that art can change through time and with technology. Bill Viola helped discover video art. He received a Bachelor in Fine Art from the University of Syracuse in 1973. He knew art contained ways for him to express himself through different outlets. His art demonstrates different aspects of life and experiences. He primarily focuses on experiences such as life, death and even how one perceives different events. He takes different experiences and displays the art through video. The works that demonstrate his views the most include Isolde's ascension - The shape of light in the space after death 2005, Passage into Night 2005 and Earth, Air, Fire, Water 2014.
Degenerate art is not bad art; it was just labeled that by the German government. In 1937, an exhibition of over six hundred works labeled Degenerate Art opened in Munich, Germany, right next door to an exhibit of its opposite, Great German Art. The purpose of Degenerate Art was to showcase art with subjects and styles that disobeyed Adolf Hitler’s standards of art, which targeted most modern, avant-garde art that seemingly attacked the purity of the German people. Hitler understood that art was going to play a large role in building his ideal nation, as culture is a major cornerstone in any lasting society. That being said, modern movements, such as Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Dadaism, made up most of the Degenerate Art exhibit because it was a perceived as a threat to German morality. In addition to artistic movements, iconic figures, such as Christ, are found in Degenerate Art. Research has failed to provide an exact reason why images of Christ had been put on display to be ridiculed, but one could assume that the power that Christ had on people threatened Adolf Hitler’s power. Some of the subjects that Hitler saw as Great German Art were works that displayed peasants engaged in their labors, women as mothers, landscapes of Germany, soldiers, workers, and not to forget, images of Germany’s beloved leader. The Degenerate Art exhibition was constructed to parallel an exhibition of Great German Art, which opened at the same time. However, with over two million visitors, the Degenerate Art exhibition nearly quadrupled the number of attendance of its opposite. Due to the outstanding numbers in attendance, the exhibits then became mobile and traveled to various locations throughout Germany. Once the ex...
displayed throughout the many outlets of the media. From music to dance, art to acting
In existential thought it is often questioned who decides what is right and what is wrong. Our everyday beliefs based on the assumption that not everything we are told may be true. This questioning has given light to the subjective perspective. This means that there is a lack of a singular view that is entirely devoid of predetermined values. These predetermined values are instilled upon society by various sources such as family to the media. On a societal level this has given rise to the philosophy of social hype. The idea of hype lies in society as the valuation of something purely off someone or some group of people valuing it. Hype has become one of the main driving forces behind what society considers to be good art and how successful artists can become while being the main component that leads to a wide spread belief, followed by its integration into subjective views. Its presence in the art world propagates trends, fads, and limits what we find to be good art. Our subjective outlook on art is powered by society’s feedback upon itself. The art world, high and low, is exploited by this social construction. Even when objective critique is the goal subjective remnants can still seep through and influence an opinion. Subjective thought in the art world has been self perpetuated through regulated museums, idolization of the author, and general social construction because of hype.
In cultures all over the world, music can be seen encompassing many aspects of life for many individuals. It is a form of mass communication that"speaks directly to society as a cultural form", and often reflects a collection and pattern of personal experiences (King 19). Music is so influential because it communicates on three different levels: the physical, emotional, and cognitive. Not only does it operate in a nondiscursive way, by affecting the physiological mode of the body, causing one to move and dance, but it also encourages one to think. This paper will explore music as a form of protest; showing how a political message, in general form, is presented through music. Protest music addresses the social, political, and economic conditions of the times and often speaks directly to the listener's experience (King 20). In the following pages, a general comparison will be made between the evolution and effects of the blues, jazz, reggae music, and hip-hop, with a focus on reggae and hip-hop.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.