What does the term New Media mean and how has it affected the study of Art History during its growth in the last six years? New Media means many things to many people but simply put, it’s an open to semi-open community for interactive dialog and relationships. “[New] media […] is increasingly more a site of coordination, because groups that see or hear or watch or listen to something [that “something” in particular to this essay, is Art History] can now gather.” (Shirky) The New Media has become a type of social communications tool, used in the ever-evolving world of the Internet. New Media in its most popular form, Social Media became embedded in our culture sometime within the last six years. It has changed academia in numerous and varied ways, enough so that many universities have added the study of New Media to their disciplinary offerings. New Media has sanctioned a place within the Internet to establish a community of sorts that transcends geographic as well as academic boundaries that allows members of different types of social groups with certain interests to connect, collaborate and create. Through the lens of the academic discipline that studies the development of the visual arts, known as the study of Art History, we will focus on how New Media has lifted the curtain on this once somewhat obscure world of academia and carried it through into the world of modern technology.
At one time, the only means for a perspective student interested in studying Art History to become familiar with the various aspects of the discipline was to aggressively search library catalogs for sparse and scattered information that may or may not really delve deep enough into the matter. This is because; the truly illuminating information as w...
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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”
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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.
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My goal for this paper is to give a practical critique and defense of what I have learned in my time as a Studio Art Major. During my time here I have learned that Pensacola Christian college’s definition of art “art is the organized visual expression of ideas or feelings” and the four parts of Biblosophy: cannon, communication, client, and creativity. Along with Biblosophy I have studied Dr. Frances Schaeffer 's criteria for art, seeing how the technical, and the major and minor messages in artwork. All of these principles are great but they do need to be refined.
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One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.
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Conversely, upon investigating the artwork’s factual information such as the painting’s context, the artist’s background, the genre and the school or movement associated with the painting, it is possible to obtain knowledge that combines objective information and subjective opinion, confirming that some degree of objectivity, albeit with our ‘cultural imprint’, is possible as an art observer.
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The impact that new media has on society is apparent though various community based forums, user oriented video hosting websites, and user managed blogs. People are straying from more traditional forms of information and resort to using new media technologies as a source of reliable information. The increase in usage of new media plays a pivotal part in shaping the society of this century. The evolution of social media websites brought forth a negative outcome. Social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have become a normal occurrence to find associates or coworkers on. A major transition from traditional forms of information to new media is the creation of video hosting websites such as YouTube. These video hosting websites caused an increase of regular people reporting on headlining events and as a result causing a surge of unreliable information for the viewers. Viewers overlook more traditional forms of information reported by actual journalist and take in fictional instead of factual information. The advancement of new media is detrimental for society in every way.
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