Examples of Liberal arts in the following topics:
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- The main foundation of the school was liberal studies.
- Liberal arts were viewed as the key to freedom, which allowed humans to achieve their goals and reach their full potential.
- Liberal studies included philosophy, history, rhetoric, letters, mathematics, poetry, music and astronomy.
- A painting symbolizing the liberal arts, depicting individuals representing the seven areas of liberal arts study, all circling around Plato and Socrates.
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- Though the group was dissolved in 1956, it was profoundly influential in changing the idiom of Indian art.
- After the economic liberalization of the country that occurred during that decade, Indian art began to introduce new concepts and to work both within and outside of previous academic traditions.
- The India Art Fair, previously known as the India Art Summit, is an Indian modern and contemporary art fair held annually in New Delhi.
- First held in 2008, it is India's largest art fair and includes paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, prints, drawings, and video art.
- Over the years, the fair has showcased Indian modernists (including those from the Progressive Artists' Group), Indian diaspora artists, contemporary Indian art, international artists, and art from the subcontinent.
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- Northern Vietnamese art and architecture was highly influenced by over a century of Chinese domination.
- Vietnamese art and architecture has a long, rich history and has been shaped by the interaction of local customs with foreign cultures.
- Unlike the Champa art of southern and central Vietnam, the art of Northern Vietnam was strongly influenced by Chinese domination (2nd century BCE—10th century CE) and reflected Confucian and Mahayana Buddhist traditions.
- During the millennium of Chinese domination (111 BCE to 939 CE), artists in the north of Vietnam began to apply newly-learned Chinese techniques to art, specifically ceramics, in conjunction with art created using traditional indigenous methods, including advanced bronze-casting.
- Consequently, the art of this period was heavily influenced by the Ming Dynasty, a process which continued even after the liberation of Vietnam by the Lê Dynasty (1428 - 1788).
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- Abstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement.
- New York replaced Paris as the new center of the art world.
- To some extent, Pollock realized that the journey toward making a work of art was as important as the work of art itself.
- Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.
- His move away from easel painting and conventionality was a liberating signal to the artists of his era and to all that came after.
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- Process art is concerned with actual creation and how actions can be defined as art, seeing the expression of the artistic process as more significant than the art that is created by the process.
- Process art often focuses on motivation, intent, and the rationale, with art viewed as a creative journey or process rather than needing to lead to a traditional fine art object destination.
- The process art movement began in the U.S. and Europe in the mid-1960s.
- The Guggenheim Museum states that Robert Morris in 1968 had a groundbreaking exhibition and essay defining the movement, with the museum's website stating: "Process artists were involved in issues attendant to the body, random occurrences, improvisation, and the liberating qualities of nontraditional materials such as wax, felt, and latex.
- Like the live immediacy of performance art, process art is focused on the creative journey instead of a traditional fine art destination.
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- Feminist and intersectional sentiments in art have always existed in opposition to the white, patriarchal foundations and current realities of western art markets and art history.
- Feminism in art has always sought to change the reception of contemporary art and bring visibility to women within art history and practice.
- The program was different than a standard art class.
- Miriam Schapiro, co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism towards a more intersectional concept of our reality.
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- Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict aspects of modernism or emerged in its aftermath.
- The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the production and reception of contemporary art.
- It also sought to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice.
- Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism.
- Miriam Schapiro, co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts;
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- The Empire style refers to art created under the rule of Napoleon that was intended to idealize the French Empire.
- The Empire style, considered by many to be the second phase of Neoclassicism, is an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, and the decorative arts which lasted until about 1830.
- The style was considered to have "liberated" and "enlightened" architecture just as Napoleon "liberated" the people of Europe with his Napoleonic Code.
- Discuss the emphasis Napoleon placed on nationalism when supporting the arts
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- The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts and was famous for its functionalist approach to design.
- Nonetheless, the school was founded on the idea of "total" creativity, or "gesamtkunstwerk", in which all arts would be brought together.
- Germany's defeat in World War I, the fall of the German monarchy, and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimar Republic allowed an upsurge in artistic experimentation.
- One of the main objectives of the Bauhaus was to unify art, craft, and technology, and this approach was incorporated into the curriculum of the Bauhaus.
- Describe Bauhaus design principles and their impact on modern art, architecture, and design
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- The art of the Kamakura period reflected the introduction of the Pure Land School of Buddhism, which depicted the Amidha Buddha.
- This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: (1) the Amidist Pure Land schools, promulgated by evangelists such as Genshin and articulated by monks such as Hōnen, which emphasize salvation through faith in Amitabha and remain the largest Buddhist sect in Japan (and throughout Asia); and (2) the more philosophical Zen schools, promulgated by monks such as Eisai and Dogen, which emphasize liberation through the insight of meditation, were adopted equally by the upper classes, and had a profound impact on Japanese culture.
- The Kamakura period favored a more realistic and naturalistic art that is exemplified by the sculpture of the Kei School.
- Compare and contrast the art of the Pure Land, Zen, and Kei schools of the Kamakura period.