Art and Film

US photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (pictured here in 1934) was part of the Dadaist "cinema pur" film movement, which influenced the development of art film.



An art film (also called “art cinema”, “art movie”" or “art house film”) is typically a serious, noncommercial, independently made film or a foreign language film that may have these qualities, but may have been made by a major company in its home territory and achieved popular success. It may thus be aimed at a niche audience, rather than a mass audience, or the use of subtitles in foreign language films may limit audience appeal.

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FAV artist

My favorite music artist is India Irie because i love her voice. She sing about things that are important.

Film is art!

THE COLOR PURPLE
The Color Purple is a very sad and somewhat disturbing movie that focuses mainly on the struggles between gender, class, and race. I really enjoyed this movie. I liked how even though it was very sad and conflicting, there still was comic relief where the audience could relax and enjoy the humor of the characters. One of the biggest issues, if not the biggest, was the issue of class struggle in the film.

Fashion is culture because...

Culture is demonstrated through behaviors, beliefs, and other aspects of human thought that are transmitted through generations and individually expressed. “Sociologists aggress that many aspects of our culture are expressed and transmitted through art, music, and clothing fashions.” The lifestyle changes and works of art that influence a culture as a whole are known as popular culture. Popular culture is what defines the current trends and up to date clothing styles that are “in”. Conforming to these trends is what is considered “fashionable” and “modern”. These trends are created by designers and implemented by what celebrities and models wear. And although this is what is considered “popular” to our culture as a whole it does not mean that if you chose not to become a slave to popular fashion that you can not still express your own personal cultural identity through fashion. Fashion and what we wear defines who we are and what we value as an individual. Every time we buy a piece of clothing and put it together in an outfit that we wear, we are making a fashion statement and demonstrating our own cultural identity. We may not choose to identify with pop culture but we are still defining ourselves as a person.

Public Art

Public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. The term is especially significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a particular working practice, often with implications of site specificity, community involvement and collaboration. The term is sometimes also applied to include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings.

Poetry Slam

LIFE IS FINE
I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.

But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator
Sixteen floors above the ground.
I thought about my baby
And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!
I stood there and I cried!
If it hadn't a-been so high
I might've jumped and died.

But it was High up there! It was high!

So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

Langston Hughes