Pablo Picasso, one of the most dominant and influential artist of the 20th Century once said “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Art can be many things. It can be the most beautiful thing in the entire world, or even as the most horrific. From painting to music, those are all works of art. Art, in my definition is the way we, people tend to express our thoughts and feelings. “Monet's personal Impressionist ability is said to have reached its peak with his Giverny-inspired series of paintings of Water Lilies and these paintings are what most people think of when considering Monet's illustrious career” (Artble, Claude Monet Style and Technique, https://www.artble.com/artists/claude_monet/more_information/style_and_technique ). …show more content…
“Monet's style was key to this movement, as the artist sought to portray color and light in even more ingenious ways. Monet had an “appreciation of a new style, which involved rapid brush strokes and broken color” (Artble, Claude Monet Style and Technique, https://www.artble.com), which I borrowed. I tried to replicate his work The Water Lilies by using his method of painting, the tache. I started by gently dabbing the paintbrush against the canvas, but later on, since I saw empty white spots on the canvas, I decided to just try to fill up the canvas instead. “Krafft planned to follow his father and two of his brothers into the ministry . . . a career in music. [But he] Ultimately chose to pursue his interest in art” (Greenhouse, Wendy, Carl Krafft, https://schwartzcollection.com/ artist/carl-krafft/). Artists usually have to make huge sacrifices, such as time and decisions along the
It is art fulfilling its role in society. It is art that brings the moral issues. It is art that makes us human.
If I were to ask you what is art, and how can one find it? What would you say? Well if it were me being asked those question, I would simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design and it could be found all among us. You may define it differently only because art could be defined in many ways. I could simply say that art to me is a form of a picture; a visual painting or model of some design. Well according to an article written by Shelley Esaak, an art history expert she mentioned that art has a way of stimulating different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. She also mentioned that art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. [1]
Born in Hartford, Kentucky, February, 1861, Charles Courtney Curran is a famed artist best known for his canvases portraying women in various settings. As a result of his the Civil War, Currans family moved to Ohio, eventually settling on the shores of Lake Erie where his Father was employed as a school principal. In 1881 suddenly gaining a new aptitude for art, Curran went to Cincinnati to participate at the McMicken school, later renamed the Fine Arts Academy of Cincinnati. Staying there for only a year, Curran decided to travel to New York to attend the National Academy of Design. Here, he created various pictures of women engaged in a diverse variety of activities along with the piece I will be critiquing, Lotus Lilies.
The short story "The Chrysanthemums" gives insight into the life of its author. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. The locale of the story is of key resemblance to the Salinas in which Steinbeck was born and bread. "Salinas was a typical American small town, [differing] only in location and a few distinctive features" (McCarthy 3). The protagonist of this story, Elisa Allen, also resembles Steinbeck's first wife. "Steinbeck probably based the character of Elisa Allen on his own first wife, Carol Henning Steinbeck. Like Elisa, Carol was a woman of considerable talent and energy who wore 'masculine clothes' and was 'strong, large-boned' and 'handsome rather than pretty'" (Hughes 23). Similar to the time frame in which Steinbeck lived, the theme of the story comes across as being male dominant and the rustic setting allows us to visualize this.
The story commences with Myop skipping outside her house enjoying the beautiful weather and summer air “the air held a keenness that made her nose twitch (Walker)”. For a while Myop continues to play and sing on the farm, just like a young girl would; with absolutely no worries “Nothing exist for her but her song (Walker)”. The causative incident occurs when Myop decides to explore the woods behind her house and ends up discovering “various common but pretty ferns and leaves, an armful of strange blue flowers with velvety ridges and a sweet suds bush (Walker)”. The rising action begins to arise around noon. Here, she has an arm full of her findings and realizes she is far from home when she senses an eerie change in the atmosphere. The climax emerges when she decides to find her way home. Myop suddenly gets her foot caught in something and she bravely pulls her it free, before looking at the demolished face below her. The falling action is revealed when Myop realizes what she stepped on. She detects the rest of the body and finds evidence that suggest the man was lynched to death. At this point she lays her flowers down and Walker introduces the readers to the main theme by concluding the short story with “And summer was over (Walker)”.
However only as individuals can we really determine our own definitions of art; it is subjective to each individual to understand their own meanings and interpretations. Leo Tolstoy says it best “Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetic physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man’s emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward safety of individuals and of humanity.” There will always be art, however it is only appreciated if it is understood, and accessible to
The chrysanthemums is a story about a lady named Elisa, who is trapped and enclosed in a small world that she cannot escape from and that is her Husband’s ranch. Since she was a woman in 1930’s, she could not do much because women were believed not to be strong. She would spend her time planting chrysanthemums, and cleaning the ranch because she could not do anything else. That is the way she would relieve herself, but mostly with the chrysanthemum, and I will talk about the symbolism of the chrysanthemums. First, she did not have any children, and we know that most women’s dream is to have children, and she felt alone. Second, the chrysanthemums represents her femininity and soul. Third, it also symbolized how she wanted to put her mind on something, before she got bored, those flowers represent her only imagination of freedom.
In “The Chrysanthemums”, a short story by John Steinbeck, a woman named Elisa has an unfavorable encounter with a traveling repairman who takes advantage of Elisa’s charity to make a sale. As the plot progresses Elisa changes, and the eventual evolution in her understanding of her place in society is foreshadowed. Initially Elisa is seen tending to her garden with great devotion such that she is seen as capable and strong. Based on the fact that Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” was published in 1938, one can surmise that Steinbeck created Elisa to reflect the women of the time period. Elisa is faced with limits that she cannot overcome, such as limited choices in employment and a stigmatization of women that opt to take up interests considered
Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Jackson Pollock does an amazing job creating art. Pollock’s works are not as big as some of the other artists like Monet’s paintings but his works are still large enough to engulf the viewer.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, art is “human expression of objects by painting, etc” (10). The words “human experience” adds meaning to art. Artists reveal their inner thoughts and feelings through their work. When we study a painting by Salvador Dali, the strange objects and the surrealist background portrays the eccentricity of the painter. Some ideas cannot be explained verbally. They can only be shown via a medium. We can get across what is in our minds or our hearts by a stroke of a brush, a drop of paint, a row of words, or something else. But to express ourselves, we do not need to limit what we call art.
Art is an expression of feelings, body language, and culture produced by humans. Art can be expressed in many different ways, and in many different forms from time to time! You’d be amazed with the different types of skilled work artists come up with each day and it’s all just someone, one person expressing how they feel or what they believe. One form of art that I find very interesting is Fauvism.
...ns something when it imitates nature and delivers facts of history or culture. Art is the exploration of what it is to be alive, to be human and struggling to understand one’s role within society and identity in general. By stretching the limits of what is acceptable, the artist questions preconceived ideas of what is ugly and beautiful, important and unimportant. These ideas in art and society are influenced by the emergence of new technologies that expand human understanding. Since technology improves and human understanding is bolstered by these theories (both philosophical and scientific), then art will always have a place. The artist’s place is to criticize and express the tendencies and attitudes of himself and of society. Even if those feelings are marginalized, their expression makes the audience aware of them, and begs them to ask questions of themselves.
The beauty of a portrait, the adventure of a saga, the delicacy of a porcelain vase, the emotion of a symphony – all forms of art, all forms of expression. Art, as Oscar Wilde explains it, is the “most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known” (Wilde, The Soul of a Man Under Socialism). Art allows one to express themselves through a thousand mediums, using all five senses. It allows words that are not meant to be spoken, to be expressed, and ideas not meant to be thought, imagined. Perhaps the most prevalent form of art in today's society is literature, as is the most direct form of art.
Art can be defined in many ways by an individual. One can say that any creative output by a person is considered art. Others contend that art must conform to a societal standard and the basis of the creation should be understood by most intellectual people. For example, some contend that computer-generated images, such as fractals, are not art due to the large role played by a computer. E.O. Wilson states “the exclusive role of the arts is to intensify aesthetic and emotional response. Works of art communicate feeling directly from mind to mind, with no intent to explain why the impact occurs” (218). A simple definition may be that art is the physical expression of the ideals formed by the mind.
Human’s have always struggled to express themselves. Art, is considered by many to be the ultimate form of human expression. Many assume that art has a definition, but this is not the case. Art, it can be said, is “in the eye of the beholder.” This simply means that what you consider art, someone else would not. Art is part of a person’s internal emotions, which signifies why different people see art as different things. Every type of culture and era presents distinctive and unique characteristics. Different cultures all have different views of what art can, and would be, causing art itself to be universally renowned throughout the world.