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L’art européen : Un héritage intemporel qui capture les cœurs et les esprits
Le continent européen réunit sans nul doute les œuvres d’art les plus connues, témoins de l’histoire artistique occidentale. Les capitales culturelles et leurs musées emblématiques renferment tableaux, sculptures ou encore objets d’art créés par les plus grands artistes, représentatifs de la culture européenne.
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European Art: A Timeless Legacy Capturing Hearts and Minds
The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture.
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L’Art Noir Compte
Le texte ci-dessous est l’extrait du livre Les Arts de l’Afrique noire: écrit par Maurice Delafosse, publié par Parkstone International. Il est incontestable que le sens artistique est très développé dans la race noire. C’est là une vérité que le comte de Gobineau lui-même n’hésitait pas à reconnaître. Toutefois, il ne l’est pas à un même degré dans tous les arts et, presque partout où il se manifeste, c’est surtout dans le sens de l’effet décoratif ou celui de l’impression produite, plutôt que dans le sens de la beauté plastique, de la grâce ou de la perfection de l’ensemble. Figurations Humaines Et Dieux Pour bien apprécier la valeur artistique de ces divers objets,…
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Black Art Matters
Since the discovery of African art at the end of the nineteenth century during the colonial expositions it has been a limitless source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually recreated these artworks.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
As much as elders tell young children to dismiss name-calling or bad words, words possess a stronger meaning than most people care to admit. A photograph may be worth 1,000 words, but can a word not also invite 1,000 ideas or influence 1,000 images? Art is subjective to the viewer’s personal history, and language is supposed to be agreed upon by the general audience, with dictionaries giving precise definitions to every word. But neither Merriam nor Webster can anticipate the insurgence of connotative meaning that can ultimately redefine a word in a specific culture. The importance of language and its relationship to art is currently being examined at the Tate…
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Learning from Africa
Africa has long been a source of fascination for people from the West. From Cy Endfield’s 1964 classic film Zulu starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker, to Disney’s The Lion King, from Elton John crooning The Circle of Life, to Shakira’s foot-tapping World Cup anthem This Time for Africa*, the land of our origins still maintains a deep hold over our thoughts and is firmly embedded into our culture. When we look at Africa, we see a myriad of possibilities, destinations, languages, cultures, politics, wildlife, levels of wealth and poverty, violence and peace, landscapes, and geography.
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Catching Up With the Kachina
You are in a remote area of north-eastern Arizona. Amidst the hot and arid landscape, you encounter a people. The remnants of a Native American Pueblo People: the Hopi. As you learn more about their way of life, their past, their culture, and their beliefs, you gather round and listen carefully to their stories. This is how you hear about the Kachina for the first time.
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Chicago and Picasso
I have to admit, I’ve had a bit of a crush on Chicago for a long time. Not because it’s cold or windy, or for any of its sports teams. I’m not a fan of deep dish pizza; hot dogs gross me out for the most part. Al Capone is pretty big to speak of, I suppose, but mob ‘outfits’ strike me as excessive and silly. One positive note thus far: I’ve heard amazing things about O’Hare International. Oh, and since the Chicago Fire of 1871, the city rightfully boasts superior urban planning. So what is it that has me perpetually itching to check out this mid-western city for an…
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Titien et la gloire de la culture anglaise ?
La National Gallery de Londres présente en ce moment une exposition reliant la série des Métamorphoses de Titien, peintes pour Philippe II d’Espagne, à l’art contemporain anglais. En cette période de jeux olympiques en Angleterre, le but est bien sûr de glorifier la création culturelle anglaise. Des peintres contemporains, danseurs et poètes anglais ont la chance d’être présents dans la National Gallery. Mais pourquoi Titien ? Quel est le lien entre son travail, en Italie, au xvie siècle, et la création actuelle anglo-saxonne ? Je dirais spontanément : aucun. Pourquoi ne pas aller jusqu’au bout de leur démarche et avoir choisi un artiste anglais comme Hogarth ou Turner ? Le thème des Métamorphoses n’a…
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Titian: not overthrown by the Olympians
The National Gallery is exhibiting three of Titians most famous paintings from his Metamorphosis series, as well as reactions to it by contemporary artists, poets and choreographers, as part of the Cultural Olympiad, a “summer”-long festival in the UK celebrating Britain’s cultural landscape. Nowhere does it say that the events, acts, performances and exhibitions of this Cultural Olympiad are for British self-promotion, but with a bouncy castle Stonehenge and 37 Shakespeare plays performed in 37 languages, not to mention the patriotic opening ceremony, you have to assume that promoting Britain and her diverse cultural landscape is indeed the aim of the Games. I was surprised, then, to see that…
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