In addition to all the recent posts involving art pieces that have an element of crime to them, I would like to point out that the occurrence of crime is often a powerful catalyst for moving artworks. This painting by Pablo Picasso, entitled Guernica, was created in response to a
Month: April 2013
In Brad Downey’s art piece he uses a plane to fly a banner with the image of cloud in the sky. He did this piece of art in order to shake people out of their typical ways of thinking. Jeremy Abernathy of the Huffington Post said, he is “throwing an
Are you an aspiring young dancer? Watch out who you work for because every year, thousands of women are promised a dance career in Western Europe but end up being exploited in the sex industry. This video for the Awareness campaign was created by Duval Guillaume Modem and produced by
We touched on this topic while reading 5 Grams, but I pursued it a little further with Bogazianos. The book references Jimmy Iovine, a founder and producer of Interscope Records. He is associated, obviously, with the art of music. But if you know anything about Interscope or Iovine, you know
Going back to our discussion on copyright and the public domain- a folkartist from Vermont is being sued because Chick-fil-A thinks that the slogan he wishes to use to represent his small company is too similar to their own. I hardly think that a small kale company is anywhere near
The PIP company has recently gone through trial concerning its faulty breast implants. Apparently the PIP breast implants were below standards and would actually break apart much more often than other implants. The PIP implants have affected many women across the world, and in fact hundreds of women piled into
I found this article online (posted below), and I thought this was a perfect representation of Art and Crime. This famous artist from Prague painted a Soviet tank pink in 1991. It was the centerpiece of a memorial at Prague’s Kinsky Square for the liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. This
If you have ever taken notice of the sample pictures placed in the variety of frames in your local Target, you will notice that the pictures are generally “picture perfect,” black and white, flawless couples or families embracing each other with their warm impeccable smiles. This idea of capturing “unrealistic”
Groups, including American diplomats, have begun to attempt to eliminate a recent wave of graffiti in ancient Rome. Many Romans are appreciative of groups’ efforts to clean up Rome. However, not every Roman looks down on the graffiti. Some Romans see graffiti as a last attempt to keep tourists from
Leonardo da Vinci, who lived from 1452-1519, is well known for his anatomical sketches of the human body. He would dissect dead human remains and then draw what he saw. Dissection was completely illegal unless one was a physician, which da Vinci was not. It is believed that da Vinci