What is Art? Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was
an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neoexpressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
Andy Warhol
was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening , photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Keith Allen Haring
(May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Haring's work grew to iconic popularity from his exuberant spontaneous drawings in New York City subways – chalk outlines on blank black advertising-space backgrounds – depicting radiant babies, flying saucers, and deified dogs.
Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" (a term he preferred instead of "sculptures") but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation and artist's books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965.
Jim Joe
remains anonymous but is known for his poetic scrawlings that can be found throughout NYC. Though no one knows his true identity, he has been featured in exhibitions at MoMa, The Hole, and The Toronto Art Gallery, among others. Jim Joe's main inspiration is Marcel Duchamp, though his artworks are mainly cryptic messages. The surfaces upon which he chooses to write can be considered found art. He usually signs his work with his name and the year.
Brian Donnelly (
born 1974) known professionally as KAWS, is an American pop artist and designer. His work includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs, some dating back to the beginning of his career in the 1990s,initially painted in 2D and later realized in 3D. Some of his characters are his own creation whilst others are reworked versions of existing icons. As he grew older, his influences came from traditional life painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Klaus Oldenberg, and Chuck Close
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Kirsten Nicole Delfino AGE: 18 BIRTHDAY: February 04, 2000 WHAT IS ART?: Art is a form of expressing style in a more creative and complex way. MOTTO IN LIFE: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
NAME: Paul Joshua Louise Alvarez AGE: 17 BIRTHDAY: August 9, 2000 WHAT IS ART?: Art is a mixed of skills and imagination that an artist wants to express. MOTTO IN LIFE: I figure life is a gift and I don’t intend of wasting it.
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