For early civilizations from Egypt, the Middle and Near East, and Crete, an architectural statement was their system of tombs, temples, or palaces, which varied over time due to changes in architectural styles. From the exterior, they appear strongly built, however, on the inside they had a layout of many open spaces that ranged in size. A larger number of concealed closed room-like spaces appeared claustrophobic. Moreover, in Egypt, the cult of the dead believed the more rooms you had...
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Several photographers have photographed home and family life. Their styles range from the cinematic, staged, conceptual views of home, like Gregory Crewdson's 'Cathedral of the Pines' (2014) and Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Brian in the Kitchen' (1988), Tina Barney's family snapshots 'Theatre of Manners' (1997), showing the life of wealthy Americans, in an intimate, informal way, through to Richard Billingham's 'Ray's a Laugh' (2000), which documents a raw, chaotic image of his family life in a flat in the Midlands, using a...
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In Bell Hooks’ essay “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life” from Art On My Mind: Visual Politics, Hooks breaks down the importance of photography within black life and why this activity should be continued to preserve black culture. Hook’s main argument throughout her writing is that photography is powerful in creating meaning because cameras allow black people to effectively combine image-making, resistance struggle, and pleasure. She uses anecdotes from her life and broadens the issue to a cultural discussion...
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Architecture’s output is a delicious recipe served on a plate that has different materials, colors, textures, purposes, and content. You simply can't separate any of these ingredients. The purpose of architecture is not to create a monument to help elect someone or to get them on a front cover page. It is about imagining a space, visualizing form, blending it with nature, inculcating light and shadows, using new techniques, and bringing it into existence. Architecture is called the mother of...
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The garden is an attempt to create an earthy paradise, a slice of the beauty that will be presented to those of who follow the doctrines and principles laid out by the Prophet Muhammad. The marriage of the Islamic Garden and architecture is through its earthly relationship to symbolize the divine: Islam is a monotheistic religion that operates on units and equilibriums, mathematical ratios that represent the unity and the oneness of God. In this essay, I want to explore...
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Nature can be seen emerging in architecture right from the beginning in ancient Egypt. Natural elements inspired forms, seen in tombs carved into mountains, and use of local materials; mud brick made of the clay from the river Nile. These are examples of the ancient concept of vernacular architecture. Ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations developed their thoughts on natural forms and human bodies and interpreted them into geometry. They proportioned their structures, such as temples and shrines, using basic shapes....
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Introduction Energy-efficient homes reduce unnecessary energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and demands for non-renewable resources. They simultaneously provide healthier living conditions and offer homeowners significant money savings over conventional homes. Many factors can comprise residential energy efficiency, and both new and existing homes can be improved with energy-efficient strategies and products. Energy Efficient Home Features: Orientation The main orientation of my house will be northern facing as will my windows; to allow for solar heat to reach the inside of...
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Our environment speaks to us. The space we live and work in has vibes that affect our functioning as individuals. “Buildings are not simply visual objects. Buildings speak - and on topics which can readily be discerned. They speak of democracy or aristocracy, openness or arrogance, welcome or threat, a sympathy for the future or harkening of the past” (De Botton 2006, as cited in, The semiotics of entering: beauty, empathy and belonging in Reggio Emilia, pp. 208-209). Children learn...
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I was given a project that pleased me to design a Wakaf gazebo. Waqf is a place to relax. Waqf gazebo to beautify the yard as well. In this case, some call it a gazebo and some call it waka. Gazebos used in the garden or in the yard of a residence evoke and create an atmosphere of relaxation and comfort. The gazebo can be used as a place to socialize with the family while drinking tea. It can also...
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Le Corbusier is a famous Swiss-French architect, writer, designer, urban planner, painter, and the successful pioneer of modern architecture who was born on 6 October 1887 and died on 47 August 1965 (aged 77). Le Corbusier formulated Les 5 Points d' une architecture nouvelle in 1926 delivering the concept of the five points of architecture and why it is consequential and necessary to be applied to buildings. These five points included the pilots elevating the mass of the building off...
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Like humans, art too has evolved over the centuries. To what it used to be, to what it is. Often, artists who are in the vanguard of their culture, when express new ideas or what appears to be a new idea, a large number of people do not accept them. Only a small number of people accept them. They want to experience their work, feel it, understand it, or even simply enjoy it. And this has been seen throughout history....
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Free speech on college campuses has been a problem that varies around the United States. The problem with the excluding of free speech on campus has resulted in protests, students having to transfer to different colleges, teachers losing their job, and censorship of T-shirts and newspapers. America’s premier editorial cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, effectively uses pathos and ethos to discuss the challenges of free speech on college campuses. Additionally, Michael Ramirez appeals to pathos in his cartoon by graphically showing a...
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On January 12, 2017, the first ‘Nasty Women’ art exhibition opened in the Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. The exhibition featured over 700 female artists' pieces on a 12-foot tall tower of block letters that spelled out N-A-S-T-Y W-O-M-E-N. A Trump voodoo doll, a photo of well-manicured middle fingers, a painting of flaming high heels, and hundreds of representations of vaginas were on display, all for sale at $100 or less. There were reportedly more than 2,200 people who attended...
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Everything conventional is not always purposive, and not everything ancient is ineffectual. This essay is an attempt to articulate the blind side of architecture and its influence that goes much beyond the apparent level of design efficiency and user-friendly systems. Perception is a corridor beyond which lies the boundless experience of existence, and architecture is a manifestation of one’s potential assisting in enhancing the perception. With such an enormous possibility we have reduced its prominence to ergonomics and sustainability. Today...
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Gustave Caillebotte, Parisian-born and raised impressionist painter created the work Paris Street, Rainy Day in 1877. He was enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts), which was a very traditional art school, alongside other significant impressionist painters such as Monet, later whom he featured the work of alongside Paris Street, Rainy Day in one of his organized impressionist showcases in 1877. His studies mainly focussed on classical ideas, rather than his personal interest in modernism which lead...
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Photography is both advanced and limited by the mechanical technology used to capture an image. This link between technology and photography means we see images evolve and give new perspectives as we advance industrially. For Example, Benjamin observes how new artistic technologies allow us to create previously inconceivable effects, ‘The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is...
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The following essay is about my dream of becoming a successful graphic designer which is something that I have to accomplish. Also, this essay mentions the most important information related to this field, all the courses that I have to take, and the requirements that I have to meet to become what I have always wanted to be. All of us at some point in our lives have heard demotivating phrases that make us believe that we will not achieve...
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Have you ever been passionate or dedicated about anything? The renowned photographer Gordon Parks got a chance to cover the boxing champion, Muhammad Ali for the Life magazine in 1966. The photographer Gordon Parks had taken close-ups of Muhammad Ali, revealing his courtesy and charm. Gordon Parks' photograph titled 'Muhammad Ali Trains in Hyde Park, London, England, 1966', three trees through which sun’s rays pass with a foggy background with bushes. It is a black-and-white photograph. Muhammad Ali was in...
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I think the relationship in Seurat’s work, between the project to “restore painting’s cultural significance,” and the “mass culture” that he sought to address is the demonstration of alienation in his paintings of society. This theme greatly connects with two paintings by Georges Seurat, which are A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte, 1884-6. Oil on canvas and Chahut 1889-90, Oil on canvas. Seurat’s painting of the Grande Jatte shows women, men, and children from all classes...
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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who lived between 1853 and 1890. He was a disturbed artist who battled mental illness. In his ten-year career, he created around 900 paintings. He went to Paris to learn Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism. Due to his deteriorating mental condition, he hacked off a portion of his ear. He voluntarily entered an asylum after this incident and received treatment. He was allowed to take a chaperoned walk outside and paint in a separate studio...
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Healthcare design is complex and is based on new medical technologies and architecture. In the past, patients have longer hospital stay as compared to today. Leading healthcare practitioners and architectural firms highlighted the need for better implementation of new technologies and an effective approach to design for better patient outcomes and well-being. Evidence-Based and Experience-Based Design Evidence-based design as a concept originated in the 1970s with basic research methods. In 1978, the Planetree model was established. Planetree is a non-profit...
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Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer who was born on June 26, 1929, in a town called the Bronx, which is situated in America, in New York City. Milton Glaser was aged 91 when he sadly passed away on June 26, 2020. Milton Glaser started making his art in the USA. He produced some of his artwork in the city of New York in a studio called Push Pin Studios. Then he decided to make a public action design...
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‘A Happy Pandemic’ is a satirical political cartoon drawn by cartoonist Mike Luckovich regarding the coronavirus epidemic. Released on the 27th of February 2020 in the AJC newspaper, the cartoon is in response to the Covid-19 epidemic and American President Donald Trump’s behavior regarding the situation. The cartoon displays how the president poorly reacted to the coronavirus epidemic in terms of solutions press releases and general behavior. During this Covid-19 epidemic, the president was expected to bring unity in America...
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Frank Lloyd Wright, throughout his career, viewed nature as a spiritual reference, yet despite this intense admiration for these natural surroundings, there are at times clashes between the way he valued nature and his actual work. Though Wright's architectural approach required a harmonious relationship with nature, it contradicted his admiration for new technologies such as the car, which harmed the varying environments he sought to build within. To evaluate this contradiction to his work, a dive into his philosophy which...
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Portraiture has changed drastically over hundreds of years and influenced the way view and create it. There have been many eras of art throughout history that have slowly evolved into what we now recognize as a portrait. The earliest forms of portraits dated back to the era of Ancient Egypt, about 5000 years ago. Portraiture was created for religious and funerary purposes, as the ancient Egyptians believed that it would help them in the afterlife and immortalize them. Many of...
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Surrealism is an art movement that took place in Paris in the early 1920s, becoming more popular between the First World War and the Second World War. Dadaism is a movement prior to Surrealism and occurred as a response to the brutality of the war. However, Surrealism is less aggressive and almost playful in the sense that it can be interpreted in many ways. While Surrealism has been around since the 1920s in the form of art pieces, it became...
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A roller coaster is an elevated railway (as in an amusement park) constructed with sharp curves and steep inclines on which cars roll (Merriam-Webster). Some of the goals of the designers are: using physics to increase the thrill of the ride, e.g., by increasing ‘airtime’ to safe levels, making the ride more comfortable by reducing lateral force acting on the rider and minimizing energy loss by friction for efficient rides. A roller coaster is a perfect example of physics at...
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In the artwork Joy of Life b Henri Matisse, he was a Frenchman that was exploring the expressive potential of color and its relation to form. Then there is the artwork by Van Gogh's The Night Café that is an oil painting that depicts the interior of the café but its title is inscribed lower right beneath the signature. Matisse often painted landscapes in the south of France during the summer and worked up ideas developed there into larger compositions...
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Introduction (200 words) A visual arts essay is a scholarly piece that explores various aspects of the visual arts, a broad field encompassing diverse forms of human expression. This genre of essay goes beyond simply describing or critiquing a work of art. Instead, it delves into deeper analysis, exploring the underlying themes, contextual relevance, technical aspects, and aesthetics of the artwork. It also probes the artist's intentions, societal influences, and the overall impact on viewers or the art world at...
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