As India and Pakistan celebrate 75 years of independence, we look at how Art Newsists and cultural institutions are commemorating the act of partition that brought them into being—and how it continues to affect the art world today. As Brazil celebrates 200 years of independence, we survey the past two centuries of Brazilian art, the museums and artists that have shaped its legacy and the political forces influencing its future. 16 global production facilities in 5 different countries running 24 hours per day… And the world’s hardest working staff running the show from Santa Monica, California.
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The nature of art has been described by philosopher Richard Wollheim as “one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture”. Art has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another.
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Ironically, one of the leading theorists from this school, Stanley Fish, was himself trained by New Critics. Fish criticizes Wimsatt and Beardsley in his 1970 essay “Literature in the Reader”. While similar to art for political change, subversive or deconstructivist art may seek to question aspects of society without any specific political goal.
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This can’t miss event is the first opportunity to acquire the finest works from the emerging, cutting-edge, contemporary and modern art movements prior to the fairs’ opening to the public the following day. Internationally renowned contemporary Mexican artist Sergio Hernández brings his works of art to the US for his first solo museum exhibition in the country. A recently completed series of five mixed-media paintings on gold leaf debuts to the public for the first time as part of this exhibition. Since 1896, the Carnegie International, North America’s longest-running exhibition of international contemporary art, has provided an overview of how art and artists respond to the critical questions of the times.
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Humanity is already doing enough to tarnish its precious inheritance. The activists’ stated rationale—that they are calling out the public for caring more about art than the climate—is just as awkward. If you and I were standing next to, say, a tranquilized horse, and you punched the horse, I would probably say, “Stop punching that horse! It would be highly irregular for you to respond, “Why do you care about this horse more than climate change? ” The answer is, I do care about climate change, but right now you are punching the horse.
Art has long been controversial, that is to say disliked by some viewers, for a wide variety of reasons, though most pre-modern controversies are dimly recorded, or completely lost to a modern view. Iconoclasm is the destruction of art that is disliked for a variety of reasons, including religious ones. Aniconism is a general dislike of either all figurative images, or often just religious ones, and has been a thread in many major religions. It has been a crucial factor in the history of Islamic art, where depictions of Muhammad remain especially controversial. Much art has been disliked purely because it depicted or otherwise stood for unpopular rulers, parties or other groups. Artistic conventions have often been conservative and taken very seriously by art critics, though often much less so by a wider public.