Conclusion

My topic was about beauty in art, and for this purpose I decided to draw a landscape at first. In doing so, I used water soluble crayons, water, hard sheet of paper and a little bit of imagination. I had previously watch videos about drawing and the use of water color. I started by drawing with a sharp pencil. Then, added the colors and with a bit of water, expended the color to create shape, and motion. The choice of a landscape was in correlation with nature which is relevant to my essay. I got inspired by African painting that I have in my room and the project took a whole new direction. It turned out to be a story that shows the beautiful and colorful country side world (Africa) compared to the modern and developed city, without nature (USA). My response to that change was passive for I just follow my impulse. At the end I realized that nature does present beauty especially combined with color. I planned on adding more animation to the second drawing but that emptiness also represented lack of wild life, in USA, and lack of technology in Africa. Apart from letting my imagination roll, everything went as planned and I hope it produced the same effect on you as well.

My art project

Essay body

Wendy Steiner, in her book “Venus in Exile” portrays how beauty has changed over time. From being related to the female body to being an object of disgust, she is persuaded that the change is leading towards the destruction of beauty. In the text she presents a beautiful art as “flesh-and-blood existence, freed of individual interest, become ideal, pure, almost godlike in our consciousness.” An article appeared in The Telegraph from Broadcaster Matthew Collings defines the 10 qualities that make art beautiful as nature, simplicity, surprise, surrounding, unity, spontaneity, transformation, animation, pattern, and selection.

Literature review

Piero Della Francesca’s Pregnant Madonna

Rewrite - Introduction: Beauty in Art

My paper is about the notion of beauty in art and the question I will be discussing is: what criteria make an artwork reflect beauty? This may help us understand and appreciate beautiful artwork.

Beauty being a concept that differs from individuals, periods, cultures, and context makes its distinction in art very challenging. However, in the culture section of the British newspaper, The Telegraph, I found an article which presents ten qualities that makes an art beautiful. Reading the article and “Venus in Exile” I realized that beauty in art has evolved over time and is not only “in the eye of the beholder”. Paintings such as Piero Della Francesca’s Pregnant Madonna, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Robert Rauschenberg’s Charlene will be used in my paper to illustrate some criteria of beauty in art.

I have chosen to make a painting for my art project representing a landscape. This is relevant to the topic I am writing for it is going to reflect some criteria of beauty and design.

Beauty in Arts

BEAUTY is considered as a controversial concept because the criteria that define it are relative to individuals, cultures, periods and contexts.

Art 1301 fridays - Parfait Desire Coulibaly

The world of art is made of artists talented in different ways. They represent the world in angles they understand it and use words or images to show it. It is usual to hear people saying that images speak louder than words. In the next sentences, we will be talking about description and meaning. By comparing two images, we will make our way from the remarkable artwork and better understand its meaning.