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Humanities, Sciences Must Be United -- For Our Collective Success, Carla Poindexter
Humanities, Sciences Must Be United -- For Our Collective Success, Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
When Pablo Picasso presented his first cubist paintings to the world, even most educated people thought them hideous and irrational, yet his peers saw them to be ingenious.
Can We Own Art? Or Just Be Its Legal Guardian?, Carla Poindexter
Can We Own Art? Or Just Be Its Legal Guardian?, Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
How can we effectively teach students to be professional artists at a time when some of society’s economic values are so unrealistic? It is true the high-end art market is thriving, but the contemporary art community is arguing whether such outrageous public auctions and private sales are good or bad for art.
Art Is Always A Series Of Questions To Contemplate, Not Solve, Carla Poindexter
Art Is Always A Series Of Questions To Contemplate, Not Solve, Carla Poindexter
UCF Forum
Why do people value a painting or drawing? An elementary-school student I know recently answered: “Because when we look at art we can see how the artist felt about things.”
Canvassing Generations: Art Through Postmemory, Julianne Norton
Canvassing Generations: Art Through Postmemory, Julianne Norton
Holster Scholar Projects
Investigated the legitimacy if postmemory, its relationship with art, and completed a creative project addressing the four generations of artists leading to the Norton family. What is postmemory? How does artwork allow for the conceptualization of memory? The research supported the existence of postmemory and led to an increased understanding, analyzing, and recreation of artwork from each of the previous four generations. This artwork served as a tangible form of my own postmemory.
Art And Space: Impacting The Workplace, Erin V. Mccool
Art And Space: Impacting The Workplace, Erin V. Mccool
Senior Honors Theses
Art in its various forms and applications has always been a part of the human experience. Art can be intrusive, thought provoking, or simply beautiful. Although art comes in many different styles and forms, art continues to capture our imagination. The purposes of this thesis are to discover how art affects human activity in the workplace as well as the qualities that make artwork in the workplace successful. Based on the findings of this study, artwork will be created for the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence at Liberty University in order to create a lively, creative environment. By …
All Night Silence: Live Experimental Sound In New Zealand Public Art Galleries, Su Ballard
All Night Silence: Live Experimental Sound In New Zealand Public Art Galleries, Su Ballard
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
Since the late 19th century there have been issues with the presentation and reception of sound and music in New Zealand public art galleries. During the first New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1889-1890 there were numerous musical events designed to prove New Zealand's position culturally and socially on the world stage. Audience members would spend the day traipsing around the enormous pavilions of the exhibition pausing to engage in a performance before blundering out to the next event. This mobile audience knew something about the relationship between music and art. Art was silent, static and contained within the …
Media Art: Mediality And Art Generally, Brogan S. Bunt
Media Art: Mediality And Art Generally, Brogan S. Bunt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The wide ranging, trans-disciplinary interest in technological media suggests the possibility of a new discipline concerned with the history, implications and practice of mediation. Within this context, the field of media art gains a new sense of coherence and identity. Given the lingering tension between media art and mainstream contemporary art, this may lead the latter to assert its disciplinary autonomy. This paper argues against such a move. Media art is better positioned as an integral strand within contemporary art and, more particularly, as a key space of creative enquiry and practice within a generally conceived contemporary art education.