Art within an art
Essay on consumption experience of commercial art
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Achala Sathyanarayana - 5 March 2017
“I imagine a masterpiece trapped within the clutches of my empty canvas, i paint to liberate it.” -Zi Peng. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”- Pablo Picasso. Art to me has always been something that is used to make a place beautiful or just fill up spaces on a blank wall. Looking at a piece of artwork, always made me wonder the Artist’s inspiration behind the work because being a creatively handicapped person myself, I cannot imagine the colossal amount of creativity and commitment that the artist required to complete the piece. There is saying that art is not what you see but what
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First being the fact that I didn't know enough about ‘experiencing’ art. Second not knowing what to expect since I had never visited an art gallery before. I visited two commercial art galleries located at Old Hill Street Police Station. The first art gallery was the ReDot Fine Art Gallery. This gallery was completely dedicated to Australian & Indigenous Contemporary Art. Being the first ever art gallery I have ever visited, there were two things I was considering when I looked at the artwork, did I enjoy it and did it make me want to buy or possess it. Being honest, the artworks or paintings displayed were good but it didn't wow me which was what I was expecting. All the artwork displayed were by Australian artists and was very similar in appearance. This made me wonder if culture influences an artist’s creativity. This gallery made me realise that there is more to art than just decorative …show more content…
He believes in the balancing and harmonious effect of Jade, a stone which has held special attention throughout mankind and especially to the Chinese art, culture and history. Hence it is the “material muse” of his paintings. This made it clear to me that culture does, in fact, have an impact on the artist or his art work. The Jade series hyper-realistically captures the subject of his art. His art work showcases the traditional and modern culture combined together which he refers to as art within an art. His vibrant work of art is interesting as well as contradictory. At first glance, the featured subject is things we are all familiar with; a grenade, a coke bottle, a dog etc. but when we look closely, within these ordinary things is traditional Chinese art. Zi Peng has magnificently juxtaposed the concept of modern and tradition through this art series and using jade to do it has made these art pieces even more surreal. Further, upon careful inspection of the jade subjects, you can notice the mastery in the brushwork in the Chinese
Fenimore Cooper. His Country and His Art, The State University of New York College at Oneonta, Hugh C. MacDougall, Ed. 21 Nov. 2001 <http://www.Oneonta.edu/external/cooper/articles/1999suny-zhang.html>
Aboriginal art is widely associated with the primitive and primordial nature of the Australian Indigenous culture. However, as it has become more popular globally, one must consider the authenticity of the Aboriginal art sold on the contemporary market. Eric Michaels essay, ‘Bad Aboriginal Art’ (Michaels, 1988) exposes his concerns with how we define certain art as being genuinely ‘Aboriginal’ and questions what external influences exploit and influence the validity and authenticity of Aboriginal art. The essay summons readers to question what they identify with Australian culture and whether or not White Australians have disordered the meaning of Indigenous art.
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
For majority of people, cruising through a fine arts museum or gallery is nothing short of browsing through a textbook and failing to grasping knowledge of the content. A casual activity and check off ones list of to-dos, sometimes done just for the appearance it offers. Of that majority, one might look at a painting for a long while before connecting the uncommunicated dots from gallery label. But for the small remaining others, a trip to an art exhibition is a journey through emotions and feelings rendered by the artists of the particular works of art. Leo Tolstoy deems this to be the appropriate response to “true art” in his What is Art?, published in 1897. Tolstoy responds to the
Culture is defined as “the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time” (Merriam-Webster). Around the world, each country has its own designated culture where people either honor or rebel against it. In China, the Chinese view their culture as different from many. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese activist born in 1957, is known as the most dangerous man to many in China. He is know to rebel against the Chinese culture, which brought many struggles upon him. Ai Weiwei’s cultural rebellion includes being very critical towards the Chinese government and being outspoken towards human rights. He “has [even] characterized his increasingly dangerous jousting with the Chinese government as a kind of performance art” (The New York Times). He communicates his messages through his blogs, social media accounts, and most importantly his artwork. Weiwei is well known for his Tate Exhibition with the porcelain sunflower seeds, his work with the Bird’s Nest Stadium in China, and the 2008 earthquake in China. Ai Weiwei both honors and criticizes his culture through his work with traditional urns, the Bird’s Nest Stadium, and sunflower seeds.
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.
So the questions become, does art impact culture or does culture impact art? Art and culture are not simple; the relationship between the two is rather abstract, which communicates an intellectual union. For example, art reflects the economic state of a union and the reason behind why the art was created may have been a result of the society or culture in which the art was created. Art motivates or lifts people up in the same way a song can lift spirits or change one’s attitude. In “Patterns of Culture” Ruth Bendicts discusses that in order to understand a culture, one must be able to understand it and look at it as a whole. Specifically, if a person can understand a culture and appreciate why societies do certain things, then this could lead them to gain more value for that culture. In the same way, this relates to art because culture shapes the wealth and symbolism of that era. The impact of art is widely treasured around the world shaping and reflecting on the works from the past such as the Taj Mahal, and the Sistine chapel. If it weren’t for the mutual appreciation between cultures, then art would not be as widely appreciated
Hung Liu is successful in creating a juxtaposing image that tells a story about the many aspects of her Chinese origins. According to the painting, not all life in China is surrounded by beauty and elegance, like many believe it to be based on the traditional historical customs. Liu makes her point using a brilliant yet subtle progression, moving from the ideal to reality. Making use of the various principles and elements of art in her work creates a careful visual composition that benefit and support the painting’s achievements as a whole. This oil painting, being approximately 13 years old now, will hold a special place in Chinese history for the rest of its existence. The ideas Hung Liu portrays in Interregnum may help reform a social movement in the country by making her viewers socially aware of the cruel conditions the Chinese are facing under Communist rule, and this is all made possible through the assimilation of the principles and
?Any work of art owes its existence to the people and culture from which it has emerged. It has a functional and historical relationship with that culture.? Michael W. Conner, PhD#
Throughout the film ancient China’s profound history and glorious culture has displayed through various cultural elements. The martial arts, writing system, architecture all together gives an image of the Chinese culture. The developments and advanced techniques have shaped the country and stabilized the society. China has accomplished some of the greatest achievements of mankind. It had also made significant contribution to the development of advanced systems around the world. Chinese culture is very unique. All the elements presented in the film have truly strengthened my understanding of the Chinese
(pg. 209) Overall, the book describes the soul purpose of art to provide love, sorrow, warmth, depth and happiness to the soul and heart. The monetary wing is also very important because many of the owners had to sell the painting; no matter how much they treasured the painting, they still had to sell it because of monetary problems to keep them on their “feet.” Elevated feelings toward emotional values may be difficult to let go of. Susan Vreeland’s ravishing novel reveals the true owner, tracing proprietors from the present to the past.
His inspiration came from the freedom of expression found in art during the 50s, 60s, and 70s and events such as the Berlin wall demolition and the Iran-Contra hearing in the media. He believed that he could bring change to china by exposing the injustice and abuse that the population underwent without being able to speak up, he used social media (Twitter) and photography to document majority of his work; the people loved his work because he wanted to say what everyone else was not allowed to, do what he wasn’t
..., he acknowledges and reinterprets traditional Chinese art in his works. This is his mode of expression via shanshui tradition, and his ways of thinking, viewing and perceiving are infiltrated by the literati ethos. He works in the computer with his countless digital photographs, he creates virtual city landscape, combining the countless small format snapshots in a way that imitate the characteristic structure and composition of the classical shanshui. In his works, we can see that it always visualizes how China is developing and illustrates the consequences of modernization, globalization and the destruction of China’s ecological equilibrium caused by the speedy growth of its megacities over the past few decades. Yang said, “ The media… is not important, no matter what method you use to create, to maintain the creative spirit of the ancients is the most import.”1
Traditional Chinese art is deeply rooted in its philosophy, encompassing Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian schools of thought. The goal of many traditional Chinese landscape artists, as described by Professor To Cho Yee of Michigan-Ann Arbor, is to “reveal the highest harmony between man and nature” through a balance of likeness and unlikeness (Ho). This metaphysical philosophy borrowed art as a vehicle to search for the truth or the “dao”, which is the path to enlightenment. As early as the 5th century, scholar artists such as Su Shi (1037-1101) of the Song dynasty realized that to create likeness, one must understand the object beyond its superficial state and instead capture the spirit of nature; only then can a point of harmony with nature
In times, we often see things, but we don't really capture what is beyond it. In some cases, there are people who are artistic and are prone to see what other's cannot visualize. Every individual has a talent which can be expressed and processed differently. Something you see can mean entirely divergent things to someone else;for example, some may see thing's that may seem simple, but in the eyes of an artist, it can be perceived with a whole new definition, dimension, and a potentially new discovery. As a photographer, my view of the world, can be skewed towards looking at everyday objects as potential art, but it wasn't always like that.