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Importance of Visual Art, 2002.
Examining how art can benefit both students and teachers alike when incorporated into a school curriculum.
922 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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This paper discuses the importance of visual arts in a school's curriculum and focuses on the benefits of introducing visual art in student?s elementary education curriculum. This paper not only focuses on the importance of visual art experience through student?s point of view but also through the teacher?s perspective. This paper emphasizes on how the experience of art make a student a better and more responsible individual of a society.
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"Till the eighteenth century the word art was broadly used in such a way that it reflected all forms of human skills and all the things which men were able to produce by skilled workmanship. Art is the imaginative and dexterous explication of experience in an aesthetic form, and throughout history it has played a crucial role in men?s attempts to master and enjoy their surrounding and to liberate themselves."
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Visual Arts, 2002.
A study of visual arts and the artist Salvador Dali and his contributions to surrealism.
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper provides a brief bio of Salvador Dali, his life, and works. It looks at the important contribution he made to the surrealism era of art. It looks at the significance of his work and painting and the depth of study needed to understand the true meaning of his work.
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"The artists of the Surrealist movement researched and studied the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, determined to explore ways in which to express their art through the world of dreams and the unconscious. Some expressed their art in the abstract tradition, others, in the symbolic tradition. Although, surrealism and certain forms of abstract art share similar origins, they diverge on interpretation of what those origins mean to the aesthetic of art (History pg). The accumulation of knowledge is the root, the basis, to push beyond the frontiers into the unknown. Dali was one artist whose approach to art during the Twentieth Century used that accumulated knowledge, built upon it and mastered it (History pg)."
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Art and Pop Art, 2002.
A comparative analysis of art with pop art using the works of Andy Warhol and Leonardo Da Vinci.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This discusses art and pop art, and distinguishes between the two by noting the characteristics of each form. As examples of each, two works of Andy Warhol are compared and contrasted to Da Vinci's "Last Supper" and Rembrandt's "Syndic of the Clothmaker's Guild.
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The "Art" of Art Forgery, 2002.
Shows that forgery is more than just a copying process, involving complex techniques found in art.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 155.95
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This paper examines the skill involved in producing 'true' forgeries within the world of art. It is stressed that the forger is to be seen as an artist, in that he or she must sometimes enter the mind of the original artist, master his or her techniques,and otherwise execute works that can withstand the expert eye. Forgery is a normal aspect of the art world.
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Visual Literacy in Higher Education, 2008.
This paper explores the impact and importance of both visual literacy and technology in the high school and other educational levels.
2,989 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 26 sources, APA, AU$ 128.95
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The paper examines the literature to determine the meaning of visual education and its importance as well as the way that it impacts on higher education in terms of teaching styles, material and its outcomes. The paper also explores the way that visual literacy affects the developments and creation of school curriculum. The paper concludes that visual literacy is something that is becoming increasingly important and cannot be avoided. The paper asserts, therefore, that visual literacy should be included but not to the extent that the curriculum will become overly "tecnnologized" and older forms of teaching and learning will be lost.
Outline:
Introduction
The Meaning and Importance of Visual Education
The Impact on Higher Education and Employment
Curriculum Development
Conclusion
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"The contemporary learning and experiential environment is highly visual. Students are exposed to Web sites, television and a plethora of other sources of image and visual data. This increase in the pervasiveness of the visual aspect in our daily lives has also changed the meaning of being literate. As Ron Bleed states in an article entitled Visual Literacy in Higher Education, "The Literacy of the 21st century will increasingly rely not only on text and words but also on digital images and sounds" (Bleed R. 2005)."
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Art Education, 1996.
Criticizes lack of art instruction & examines alternative curricula, theories, methods & benefits from teaching visual art & art history.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 104.95
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"The decline in arts education in American schools is due largely to incomprehension regarding the role this branch of learning plays in the intellectual and educational development of children. Knowing and learning in art are different from these same activities in other areas. This idea is slowly penetrating the education field -- and as the idea of many different kinds of 'intelligences' takes root it becomes clear that they are served by different disciplines. But the problem is not limited to the general public. There is also a great deal of confusion, even among arts educators, over such basic questions as what is to be taught, who is to teach it, and whether children acquire skills from it that have broader relevance. Research in art education is slowly developing a new rationale for its existence on the basis of evolving ideas in developmental and educational..."
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The Black Arts Movement, 2008.
Explores today's black arts movement, which includes music, stage, film, television, literature and the visual arts.
2,310 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 104.95
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This paper explains that the black arts movement is an extension of the Harlem renaissance period. The author points out the contributions of black persons to different genres or mediums of the arts in an overall social context. The author also stresses the impact of the black arts movement on all artists, regardless of color, and to the general culture to the extent that today the lines between white and black performers has been successfully blended.
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"It was a well known fact that, by the time many young black men reached their early twenties, they had been arrested or came of age during incarceration. Rap reflected this, not just in the music, but in the music labels that were born to promote the industry: Death Row Records; Jive Records, Def Jam; Quannum Projects. All depicted labels that told the contemporary black story, and it wasn't a pretty a story. Black community, who had supported and marched with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., finally began speaking out against the violence message in rap aimed towards black women."
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Rococo and Baroque Art, 2007.
This paper discusses the evolution of eighteenth century visual arts.
2,024 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 94.95
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The paper analyzes the evolution of baroque art into the Rococo style of the 18th century. The paper examines the Baroque works of Annabale Carracci and Caravaggio and contrasts them to the work of Rococo artist Antoine Watteau. The paper shows how art evolved into a style that reflected government and new political ideologies in the Age of Diversity.
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"The Rococo period as logically been constructed through the humanism and classical values instilled within the Baroque period. The rococo period in Europe reflects the ideological aims of visual art, which became manifest during the time of Voltaire, Rousseau and the American Revolution. Although the American visual arts did not reflect the extravagance of the monarchical pomp of the French courts, it is clear that Rousseau and Voltaire were struggling for a new type of liberation in within what might be called "the Age of Diversity". To truly understand the innovations in style for the Rococo period, one must evaluate the reasons why this form of visual design became realized in the 18th century. Certainly, the Baroque period was a continuation of the logic and reasoning that was instilled in the Age of Enlightenment--via classical design and visual art representations. In this manner, the Baroque period must be compared and contrasted with Rococo art to realize the impact of the highly stylized visual arts that emerged within the 18th century."
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E. H. Gombrich's "Art and Illusion", 2000.
Approaches the questions from Gombrich's book on whether the visual arts render a true picture of what we see, either in themselves or the world they represent.
1,770 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 83.95
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"E. H. Gombrich offers a plausible explanation or answer to these questions. He accomplishes this task by examining the visual arts within the framework of the 'history of art'. By pulling together the theories and methodologies from the disciplines of philosophy, science, and psychology, Gombrich puts together an in-depth study that traverses the history of art creation by and for humans from prehistoric times to the middle of the twentieth century with a strong emphasis on the visual art of the Western world, especially the era of classical Greek antiquity and the era of the Renaissance. "
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Art of Italian Renaissance, 1991.
This paper compares four works of visual art: "Saint John the Baptist" by Donatello & "Moses" by Michelangelo (sculptures); "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci and"The School of Athens" by Raphael (paintings).
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 7 sources, AU$ 127.95
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"This paper will investigate and describe the similarities and differences in four works of visual art from the Italian Renaissance. The works in question include two sculptures: Saint John the Baptist by Donatello, and Moses by Michelangelo. In addition, two paintings will be discussed: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, and The School of Athens by Raphael.
The Renaissance period was in direct contrast to the medieval period which preceded it. In the earlier period, the symbols of the Catholic Church were the most important elements to be found in the visual arts. In the Renaissance period, this factor began to give way to a growing sense of humanism. Thus, the typical Renaissance artist held that "man was not so much the humble observer of God's greatness as the proud expression of God himself, his natural heir on earth". This new attitude ... "
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Art, Sex, and Freedom of Expression in Asian Art, 2008.
An analysis of sex and sexuality in contemporary Asian art.
1,332 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 64.95
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This paper explores the expressions of sex and sexuality in the contemporary art of three Asian nations: Japan, China, and South Korea. The paper also looks at public and critical reactions to such works of art, in order to gain insight into the role sex and sexual art play in Asian cultures. The paper then points out that to a Western viewer, images of sex in contemporary Asian art are often shocking in their explicitness or sheer strangeness. The paper explains that once we begin to understand the context in which it has emerged, the representation of sex in contemporary Asian art is analogous to our own in the Western world. The paper concludes that sex is clearly a universal area of interest for artists from all over the world. While some nations, such as the Japanese, are free to explore the subject in all its glorious, perverse, and occasionally horrific detail, other nations punish their artists for making the most minor transgressions.
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"In Japanese art, what comes across as shocking to an American audience does not necessarily seem so to the Japanese themselves. This is because the Japanese do not carry the burden of Christian guilt, nor have they been influenced by the Puritan ideals that continue to surface in American discourse. Indeed, the Japanese have a much more open attitude towards sex than any other nation in Asia. Sex in art, however, is often used to challenge accepted modes of discourse in Japanese culture, and is thus considered to be a tool of dissent. This is particularly true for Japanese women artists who wish to challenge the Confucianist idea of women as submissive beings."
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Influences of Ancient Egyptian Art on Ancient Greek Art, 2005.
A paper on how Egyptian art influenced Greek artists.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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This paper provides a discussion of the long tradition of the influence of ancient Egyptian art on ancient Greek artists. The paper looks at how the art of both are affected by their societies' world views. The paper discusses the primary functions of Egyptian art and the different style of Greek art, particularly in relation to depiction of figures.
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"This paper compares ancient Egyptian art with ancient Greek art and considers the ways in which the Greeks were influenced by Egyptian art. Egypt established a long and enduring artistic tradition. Greek art drew heavily on that background, using many of the same kinds of subjects and incorporating many similar symbols but then reinterpreted them through very different eyes and a strikingly different cultural perception. Both visions continue to have a profound impact on artists in modern cultures from their representation of everyday life to the varied..."
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Art Found: The Database as an Alternative Art Space for New Media, 2001.
A different perception for databases and their potential.
3,010 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 128.95
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This paper covers many complex ideas relating to the way that we view databases in our culture. It proposes that the database will be the canvas of the future for artistic and cultural exploration. This paper also includes many references from leading scholars in the field.
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"Hail, hail to the menu driven computer interfaces that we have come to expect. These well made navigational systems of logical menus and clearly written labels, three button mice and ergonomic keyboards give us one of the most important technologies of our time the human computer interface (HCI). The HCI and the Graphical User interface (GUI) have been thought about and redefined as every new piece of computer hardware and software have been created. (The terms HCI and GUI will be used interchangeably as we are addressing the notion of interface.) The creation of the HCI has now mostly become the task of the new media artist. This becomes a very limiting constraint on the artist when the interface is the only element of a new media object that has any hope of becoming seen as a relevant area to create art. There are at least two other clearly definable media objects, the data and the database. I will focus here on the database. It is my contention is that a new media art piece can consist solely of a database without the need for the involvement of an interface. "
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Absolutism Through Versailles, 2002.
This essay examines how King Louis XIV used visual arts within the palace of Versailles to establish the primacy of the French monarch.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 10 sources, AU$ 67.95
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This paper looks at how King Louis XIV of France used the remodeling of his magnificent palace at Versailles, and the visual art in the palace, as a propaganda tool. The author discusses Louis' constant campaign for absolute power as a divine ruler. The paper pays close attention to the architecture at Versailles.
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"King Louis XIV used visual arts within the palace of Versailles to establish the primacy of the French monarch. Louis XIV wanted to legitimatize his form of strict absolutism through art. The pinnacle of this propaganda campaign was the remodeling of the ch?teau of Versailles into a palace. He and his artists made specific choices to flaunt his wealth and give the king credibility. The gardens, grand staircase, hall of mirrors and salons parade with grandeur and thick allegorical comparisons between the Gods and Louis. The propaganda was effective in targeting its three intended audiences to the degree that later monarchs and artists mimicked it. "
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African Rock Art, 2008.
Looks at African rock art as true art.
1,545 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 73.95
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This paper argues that African rock art is both art and ethnographic records, created by hunter-gatherers, herders and later farming communities five or six thousand years B.C. The paper relates that rock art includes rock engravings (petroglyphs) and rock paintings (pictographs) depicting comparable themes and images but traditionally present a limited number of details and human figures. The paper describes the techniques used in creating the art and contends that African rock art is art because art is in the perception of an individual. The paper includes color pictures, map and graphs.
Table of Contents:
This is Art?
Ethnographic Records
This is Art
Rock Art Links
The Rock Art Research Institute's Perceptions
This is Art!
Complicated Pictures?
Perceptions
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"Ethnographic records or rock art, created by hunter-gatherers, herders, and/or later farming communities, is displayed in the majority of Africa countries. Southern African rock-art, however, traditionally records experiences reflecting the belief systems and rituals of the indigenous people of their particular region. Although a minimum of 14,000 sites are currently on record, more exist, not yet formally recorded and projected to exceed 50,000 sites in the Southern African region."
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The Arts, 2002.
A discussion of the role of the arts in contemporary society.
2,408 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 107.95
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This paper examines the role of the arts which comprise of the disciplines of the visual arts, music, theater and dance in society and particularly education today. It shows how the arts not only impart a sense of beauty and vitality to the lives of human beings, but how they can also equip students with the necessary skills to flourish in the real world.
Outline and summary:
Introduction
Role of the arts in contemporary society; the recent resurgence of interest in the arts in schools; positive reasons for incorporating arts as mandatory courses in public schools.
Discussion on the significance of arts in society
Impact on human beings and society; historical significance of the artists? legacy.
Historical background of the role of arts in:
Society
The rise of interest in culture after World War II, leading to the division of America: one that is culturally conscious and one that is not.
Schools
The rise and fall of progressive education; attempts by the Clinton Administration to introduce the arts into public schools; gradual restoration of music programs all over America.
Discussion of the question: should arts be considered mandatory courses for public schools?
Pros
Cognitive abilities; imaginative skills; life skills; multiculturalism; improvement in students? academic performance and behavior; becoming a whole human being.
Cons
Positive results in research need to be proven; arts should not always be incorporated in other subjects; lack of funding.
Recommendations for bringing arts courses into public schools: collaboration between arts organizations and with schools; providing high quality education with well-trained teachers; innovative programs between schools and museums
Conclusions: The potential of the arts for improving education and thus our society. Lists briefly the advantages of arts education.
From the Paper
"Throughout history, many artists have been inspired by the world around them to create their works. Their accomplishments are not limited to the exclusive realm of the arts. Cave painters studied the anatomy and movement of the animals they drew. The pyramids built by the Egyptians were created with the accuracy of mathematics (Unsworth 56). Furthermore, The Impressionists? quest for color as reflected light mirrored the scientific discovery of the nature of light rays (Unsworth 56). Altogether, the rich legacy of all the artists provides contemporary generations with a vibrant representation of the human world and inspires us to continue their great work (York 274)."
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