tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90538035705677986902024-02-08T02:53:34.058-08:00gonzalezfineartadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505428162663321851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9053803570567798690.post-75006191996193280372014-03-20T10:22:00.005-07:002014-03-20T10:22:48.618-07:00Minnesota Art Schools - Reviewing Minnesota's Best Art Colleges<div style="text-align: justify;">
Minnesota is a large and beautiful state with a reputation for
personality and creativity. From Garrison Keillor's mythical Lake
Woebegone to the work of Minnesota state natives F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Sinclair Lewis, Judy Garland and Charles Schultz, the state has long
contributed to the arts in the America. Opportunities for creative work
in Minnesota are growing, whether you are interested in becoming an
interior designer, museum curator, advertising art director or fine
artist.</div>
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From its famous 10,000 Lakes to its major urban and
business center in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, Minneapolis provides
creative inspiration. Minneapolis boasts the 11-day long Minneapolis
Fringe Festival, the largest non-juried performing and visual arts
festival in the nation. The state also houses museums, galleries and
design firms. Minnesota offers a variety of settings and institutions
for individuals committed to pursing studies in arts-related careers.</div>
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Minnesota
has four art schools accredited by the National Association of Schools
for Art and Design (NASAD) including two small specialized design
schools: the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, with some 703
enrolled students (est. 1886), and the College of Visual Arts (est.
1948) with an enrollment of 200. Minnesota State University in Mankato
and Minnesota State University in Moorhead both offer Departments of Art
with programs accredited by NASAD as well as by the Council for
Interior Design. Minnesota State and the Minnesota College of Art and
Design also offer distance learning options through their online
programs.</div>
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Minnesota College of Art and Design (MCAD) is located in
Minneapolis, in a neighborhood adjacent to the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts-the Twin Cities pre-eminent art museum, housed in a neo-classical
landmark building designed by McKim, Mead and White in 1915. The College
offers a range of degrees. The Bachelor of Fine Arts program allows
students to choose from 13 different majors in fine art, design and
media. Some the school's more unusual majors include Furniture Design,
Comic Art and a major called Print Paper Book. The BFA program offers a
balance of two-thirds studio classes and one-third liberal arts,
providing a strong pre-professional focus.</div>
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The Minnesota College
of Art and Design also offers a Bachelor of Science degree that centers
on bridging the gap between business executives and creative staff. This
program is recommended for students who are both visual and verbal and
who are interested in applying their analytical and entrepreneurial
skills to working in arts-related fields. Students participate in
internships in art agencies, design firms and web development companies.
The school's Masters of Fine Arts in visual studies follows a
mentor-based approach combining studio work with seminars and
inter-disciplinary experience.</div>
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Minnesota State offers Bachelor of
Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees offering studio specializations
in ceramics, drawing, fibers, graphic design, painting, photography
printmaking and sculpture. Minnesota State offers an alternative for
students looking to study art in the context of a large university with a
range of educational resources.</div>
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Minnesota State Mankato enrolls
14,500 students on its 303 acre campus located 85 miles southwest of
Minneapolis. Similarly, the University Of Minnesota Department Of Art in
Minneapolis offers a Bachelor of Arts Program encompassing training in
studio arts as well as history of art and art criticism. The school's
selective Bachelors in Fine Arts program is available for students
applying at the end of their sophomore year and looking to prepare for a
specialized art career or graduate study.</div>
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Other liberal arts
schools in Minnesota offer bachelor's degrees in art including St. Cloud
State in St. Cloud, where students can choose in emphasis in graphic
design, 3-d media, or integrated media. Independent Arts institutes,
such as the College of Visual Arts, focus on individualized learning an
art-making community and boast an integrated curriculum focused on
preparing students to become professional artists.</div>
adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505428162663321851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9053803570567798690.post-85868610009619995102014-03-20T10:22:00.002-07:002014-03-20T10:22:25.033-07:00Famous Art Galleries<div id="article-content" style="text-align: justify;">
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Art galleries are the perfect settings for exhibiting art,
generally visual art such as paintings, sculptures, and photography.
Basically, art galleries feature a variety of art styles including
contemporary and traditional fine art, glass art, art prints, and
animation art. Art galleries are dedicated to the promotion of emerging
artists. These galleries provide a platform for them to display their
works along with the works of nationally and internationally renowned
artists.</div>
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The U.S. has a wealth of famous art galleries. Many small
towns in the U.S. boast of an art gallery. The High Museum of Art,
Alleged Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gallery of Modern Art, Agora Gallery, Rosalux Gallery, National Portrait
Gallery, The Alaska House Gallery, and Anchorage Museum of History and
Art are some of the famous art galleries in the United States. Today,
there are online art galleries exhibiting original artwork.</div>
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Many
famous art galleries display regional pieces of art such as African art,
American art, Indian art, and European art, along with folk art, modern
and contemporary art, and photography. These galleries collect,
exhibit, and preserve the works of art for the coming generations. Many
famous art galleries strive to entertain and educate their regional,
national, and international audiences. Some famous art galleries
specialize in particular areas such as portraits. A good number of
famous art galleries are owned and operated by government.</div>
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Most
famous art galleries provide an opportunity for visitors to purchase
outstanding artwork. Also, they organize several art-related activities
such as music concerts and poetry readings for children and adults. Art
galleries organize seminars and workshops conducted by renowned artists.
Committed to excellence in both art and service, most famous art
galleries offer you a rich, unforgettable experience.</div>
</div>
adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15505428162663321851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9053803570567798690.post-26050748034591104192014-03-20T10:21:00.001-07:002014-03-20T10:21:47.293-07:00Abstract Arts & Abstract Paintings - A Panoramic Vista Cultivated With Mystery, Thrived on Veracity<div style="text-align: justify;">
FOREWORD</div>
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I remember a while back, when I was faced with a very
pressing situation requiring my instant attention. I was being
interviewed live, on a major television station at prime time, along
with showing a series of my slides in connection to the opening of an
art exhibit. As soon as they wired me up, and situated me on stage, and
only a couple minutes before going live, the very charming gentleman,
who was to interview me, whispered to me the following: "I have no idea
what to ask you, what do you suggest?" I said, no problem, if you ask me
only 3 simple questions, I will handle the rest. He was relieved, and
quickly jotted down the questions. The green light came on, we went on
live, and wrapped up a flawlessly smooth and successful interview. Off
camera, the crew came on the stage with big smiles, and acknowledged
both of us; but they praised the interviewer, for surprising them as an
art connoisseur!</div>
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DEFINING AESTHETICS</div>
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Aesthetics as a set of
principles and branch of philosophy deals with questions concerning
beauty and artistic experiences. As far as our general understanding of
it is concerned it is a highly nebulous field, subjected to tremendous
degree of misinterpretation, particularly in the field of abstract art.
In any field of humanities where less accurately is known about that
field and its principles have not been precisely formulated, the more
authoritarian the field becomes. In the field of arts, with no exact
fundamentals accurately developed, the techniques and approaches are
wide open for the artists to imagine, explore and create their art.</div>
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The
artist is also subjected to the "laws" of commerce, where various
schools of divergent opinions begin to "teach" the artist "how" to be an
artist and paint a certain way, citing the field's critics galore as
she listens with an open jaw in lieu of reason. The "authorities," in
the field of visual arts, most of whom have never painted any paintings
themselves but are very "fluid" and "cultured" by having memorized a few
standard opinions and artistic works and projects of humanitarian
nature, analyze the paintings for the artist every step of the way, each
time the artist presents a piece of her art for a critique, mainly to
discover what's wrong with her art and how she should fix it according
to these "professors's" brand of "expertise."</div>
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I admit to a tad of
generalization here for making a point; but does any of this ring a true
bell for you? Can you think of an artist you know who is or has been on
this ship? I lived and survived through it all, trusting and believing
that there had to be a logical and more nurturing way to free
imaginative impulses so that the artist could paint as freely as he
wanted. Something within me, was telling me, that something was
inherently not quite right with the constructive criticisms that were to
"teach" us how to view our own world of art, through the eyes of the
"critics," excuse me, the professors. I had viewed this "school of
thought" as an authoritarian method of teaching that smothered the
thoughts, emotions, or efforts of the artist, but could not quite
articulate the problem I was sensing at the time. I discovered later,
that this mechanism of controlling thought through teaching, was only
one of the elements in our society, which inherently brings about the
suppression of the arts that stifles the creative impulses of the
artists at the expense of the whole culture.</div>
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Artists are often
"accused" of having their heads up in the clouds, and living within an
unreal world of imagination. This brings about the necessity of taking a
good and thorough look at just how reality bites. Plowing through
several fields of study in search of a tool to measure the aesthetics
and the creation processes can leave us empty handed, until we splurge
into the field of philosophy to examine our thoughts and reasoning.</div>
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THE ART OF THINKING AND REASONING</div>
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Thinking
and reasoning is a social activity for most people. They require the
engagement of external forces as the individual is as much a part of
society as the society is a part of the individual. From the moment of
birth, the social labyrinth of customs, beliefs, languages, values,
religions, politics, and other traditional ideas are all well positioned
to mold the child into the image of those who the child is surrounded
with, and it is thoroughly based upon faith and belief. So masterfully
the operation is instilled into the society as social heredity that even
science has often mistaken it as being genetic.</div>
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English
philosopher and author Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and another English
philosopher and mathematician Issac Newton (1642-1727), and others have
developed ways of thinking and reasoning that requires a fact in order
to be proven must be measured, sensed or experienced. And when we thrust
this into the realm of mind and spirit we find our willingness reduced
in accepting facts based upon faith or belief.</div>
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For this reason, in
appreciating life, and creating anything within it such as art, looking
for answers and solutions exterior to our own sentient qualities,
intellects or experiences is to lose concept of our own truth, values
and individuality. And the artist, very often, bears the brunt of this
philosophy of "independent thinking" and frequently subjected to
criticism by those who have a firm grip on the traditions of status quo.</div>
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But
the artist moves on, knowing where the roots of criticism lie, and
reasons that people who resort to "criticism" operate in the absence of
true understanding, and since no knowledge can exist in the absence of
understanding, there we arrive at the presence of "ignorance." Thus,
knowing the basis and the mechanism behind criticism, often serves as a
tremendous source of empowerment and consolation for the artist to
continue with his art on the grounds of certainty and knowledge of her
art and transcend through the highest echelons of culture called:
aesthetics!</div>
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Bacon had come to the conclusion that no field of
study by itself is sufficient in the absence of another form of
discipline exterior to it to align and coordinate it in the direction of
its goal. We can elaborate further that it is not possible to walk a
path aright in the absence of defining its destination. Therefore, to
stay clear off the grounds of myths, mysticism and superficial
approaches, we can take a look and see how the arts can be best served
by defining its goal under the broad umbrella of philosophy that
embraces all the arts, sciences and humanities.</div>
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Just as it is
impossible to have a full view of a countryside by sitting on one of its
boulders under a tree, every field of endeavor, to be fully understood,
must be viewed and analyzed from a ground much higher than where it
germinates. Thus, in the field of visual art's, we cannot look at an
abstract painting's isolated data out of context without a consideration
of its existence within the scope of a life that contains the art.
Bacon say, that would be to use a candle to light a room that is
illuminated with daylight.</div>
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ART IS COMMUNICATION</div>
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We all enjoy
and desire a pleasant conversation with our associates, friends and
family. But when we look, and inspect our environment, we notice that
the great majority of our population, have difficulty with
communication. A two way communication takes place, when we can freely
initiate our thoughts or ideas to one another, acknowledge each other
and continue this interaction, back and forth, by continuing with the
sharing of our thoughts and ideas, very much similar to a friendly game
of tennis; where the return of the ball, is dependent upon the quality
of the serve.</div>
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There are times when we notice a break in
communication, when either one of the parties, in its turn, fails to
acknowledge and originate a thought or an impulse back, to continue with
the conversation, or to bring about an optimum conclusion.</div>
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The
people having these difficulties with origination, are generally
accustomed to prepackaged amusements, such as a weather disaster, or an
incident or story relayed by a coworker. They get very low on
originating communication on their own, inspired by their own
imagination; and they become somewhat vexed, when faced with an
"imaginative conversationalist." This is either through their upbringing
and cultural environment, or their education.</div>
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Origination is very
important to bring about a communication. To this degree, these people
communicate mainly regarding subjects that are handed to them by
external sources. They see a news story, they talk about it; they get a
call about a family affair, they talk about it. They wait for an
exterior circumstance to bring about an interaction, otherwise they do
not engage by "creating" a communication. They either have a
compulsively irresistible urge toward doing something, or inhibited and
behave awkward and unnatural in communicating. If they manage to engage,
they often turn sharply, towards derailment of the dialogue, and bring
about a good degree of resentment, ill will and unwanted conclusions.</div>
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The
people who do not originate, or do not engage imaginatively, are
inherently dependent upon others to give them primal reasons to engage
in a conversation; this is due to being endowed with very little
imagination. As a result, we can conclude, that a pleasant and engaging
conversation, requires the participation of two imaginative minds, with
similar endowment of creative impulses, to mutually create the art of
communication.</div>
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