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Rainbow serpent by John Mawurndjul, 1991. Musée du quai Branly, Paris. John Mawurndjul (born 1951) is a highly regarded Australian contemporary Indigenous artist.He uses traditional motifs in innovative ways to express spiritual and cultural values, He is especially known for his distinctive and innovative creations based on the traditional cross-hatching style of bark painting technique ...
World art studies is an expression used to define studies in the discipline of art history, which focus on the history of visual arts worldwide, its methodology, concepts and approach. The expression is also used within the academic curricula as title for specific art history courses and schools.
John McHale FRSA (August 19, 1922 – November 2, 1978) was a Scottish artist, art theorist, sociologist and future studies searcher. He was a member of the Independent Group, a British movement (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) that originated pop art which grew out of an interest in American mass culture and post–World War II technologies.
The complete graphic works of John Muafangejo: a catalog raisonné 1968–1987. Struik Winchester, Cape Town 1992. Orde Levinson: The African Dream. Visions of love and sorrow: the Art of John Muafangejo. Thames and Hudson, London 1992. Brenda Danilowitz: John Muafangejo picturing history. In: African arts. vol. 26, no. 2 (1993) pp 46–57, 92 ...
A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures.As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
As a student of fine art, Canadian cartoonist John Atkinson has quite a refined sense of humor. He creates funny illustrations that reference literature, art, and culture. His work thrives on ...
John Stephen Gage, FRSA, FBA (28 June 1938 – 10 February 2012) was an art historian known for his work on the use of colour in art. He was an authority on the work of J. M. W. Turner , about which he wrote three books and edited a collection of the artist's letters.