Essays on Contemporary Art

I remember the first time I saw Andy Warhol’s artworks was about ten years ago at an exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan. At that time, I was not a big fan of Andy Warhol and I didn’t understand why all the works that only show some…

Contemporary literature is literature written after World War II through the current day. Products of contemporary literature mirror and reflect a society’s social and/or political perspectives, which the authors show through pragmatic characters and life-like connections to current events. When we talk about contemporary literature…

Intoduction Graffiti, is simple terms is any form of writing or drawing made on a wall or some sort of surface, usually as a form of artistic expression, without permission and within public view. It ranges from the simplest words painted in walls to detailed…

On October 11, 2018, I discovered an amazing world of art, called Tampa Museum of Art located in downtown Tampa, Florida area. The museum offered different exhibits including; The Classical World, Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING, Kiss and tell by Wolfgang Flad, Laura with Bun…

There was always this one question I dreaded the most when asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” I was asked this question since I was young and even now. This one question would bring so much anxiety to me; people…

Ars Nova is a musical style that flourished in France and Burgundian Low Countries in the Middle ages between the period 1310s till about 1400. It is translated “New Art”. During this time, the mode, time and pronation of music began to shift. Time signatures…

Influence is a great and undermining device against the individuals who are powerless. It can influence one’s choices among great and insidious, covering judgment and jading the inner voice. It assumes the basic job of a ghastly lowlife, an undetectable peril to the hero in…

Over thousands of years, many disciplines have utilized ancient to contemporary art in several different ways to benefit people in their everyday life and circumstances. One place contemporary art can benefit an individual in the very reality of their life in the here and now,…

This research is the first research made on promoting cultural exchange and diplomacy of South Korea in Hong Kong, in particular with the annual focused event, Festive Korea, making it significant to be the first step in the study. It is believed to be useful…

Contemporary art and design are in an era where “every new idea is just a mash up or a remix of one or more previous ideas”. Indeed, rather than being the death of creativity, remixing allows individuals to reinterpret the original meaning of an artwork…

The modern representation of the garbage that comes in and out of humans mouths. In Philip Guston’s painting “Painters Forms II” laid out with oil on canvas (75 X 108 inches) with images of a big open mouth and teeth, what looks like soles of…

Photorealism which can also be identified as Superrealism, Hyperrealism, New Realism, or Sharp Focus Realism, is a type of art that incorporates graphic media, drawing, and paintings in which the artist replicates a photograph onto a canvas to make it as realistically as possible. The…

In this essay I will be discussing a variety of topics all regards to two specific pieces of art. The two pieces of art I will be writing about were created by two different artists. The first painting is named Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi’s,…

Humans have been creating art since the beginning of time. Sometimes they knew they were being artistic; other times they were just creating things they liked, recording information using drawings, or creating pottery and tools to make work easier. Art has been created on cave…

In Modern art, the experience within American development is expressed, felt and experienced in various ways. The American experience shows the way art replicates the aesthetics, national events and reflections, trends, and theories. In many exhibits, American visual art is one of the only remaining…