does anyone know any websites that show the interior of art schools?
i have a graphic design assignment to re-do the outside area of the lift at our arts school. i need some inspiration so if anyone knows any good websites that show the interior of art schools etc.. i would love to know!
yes, a lot of art school websites have photos of interior as well as exterior spaces on their websites. What exact area they have will be kind of random.
But I don’t understand why you try to limit your vision by designs already found in art schools. I would try to get inspiration from places like a river, a forest, a foundry, a saw mill, a house painter, a cat. Something a bit more unique or something which has a local meaning – are there some local stories, event, symbols you could use? What is the feeling you want people to have when they enter this place?
How do those "high school performing art schools" work?
Are they normal high schools, but just focused on the arts?
Do they learn things like math and reading, etc?
So it’s like going to a private school, minus the sports, etc?
Would you have to go to a normal school too?
Please clarify, I am confused
My daughter will attend Fiorello H. Laguardia High school for Music and Art and the Performing Arts in NYC next year. This is the school that the original movie Fame is about.
Laguardia is a regular high school, with regular classes (math, science, social studies, etc.) and regular clubs. However, the students there take 2 to 3 arts classes a semester, in addition to their academic classes. The school day is an hour longer, and when they graduate, they get a special arts diploma in addition to their NY State regents diploma, if they complete the entire arts curriculum.
Admission is through audition only, and it is very hard to get in!
Check out the website for the school: http://www.laguardiahs.org/
There’s a really fun little movie about the school on the home page, btw. Just scroll down to see it. It’s called the Magic of Laguardia. Click on it to see the movie.
Does anyone know about good art schools?
I am doing a college search and I would like to learn about some prestigious art schools. I already know a little about the Rhode Island School of Design and MICA but thats about it. I would like to know about the schools that are known for being great and producing successful artists.
I attended for a very breif time The California Institute of the Arts. It is a great and amazing school. The tuition is a bit much, which is why I could not continue to go. It is the same school Tim Burton went to as well as the creators of Pixar (which I personally know and are great friends of mine.)
I would also suggest not going to any of the Ai schools. I went to two and their program teaches you basics and how to get a cookie cutter job and they have no real soul in teaching you the creative aspects of art. They do not offer nearly enough classes that kept me interested. And I hated all the campuses I went to.
If you are into 3D design, I’d check out SBCC. It’s a community college, but they have one of the best 3D design programs around. Same goes for SMC with Photography and glass blowing.
What are some of the best art schools to go to?
I’m looking for a good art college to go to in the future and i want to know what some of the best schools to go to are?
http://www.artcenter.edu
So, anyone know if art schools in general look for foreign languages on a college application?
So, I’m doing my highschool scheduling. I need a few classes, and I’ve picked art 1 & 2[only ones available for 9th graders] tennis, lifelong fitness, and band for my non-core-classes-or-whatever. But I’d like to know what kind of things art schools look for, because people say most schools love when people have had foreign language classes, but would it count for art school?
Also, how is tennis, if anyones taken it?
Foreign languages are really important to colleges, even art schools. It’s a good idea.
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What are art schools looking for from high school students to have completed in a portfolio.?
I am a high school sophomore looking for help and suggestions as to how i should continue my art education. Good at oil and acrylic painting as well as pencil and graphite.
Went to the art institute, they have schools all over. Plenty of talented people there (though some are a just a joke)… they interview you but you dont need a portfolio but it is a plus if you do have one.
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A Guide to the Most Significant Art Movements of the Past 500 Years
Renaissance
The Renaissance (meaning rebirth) was a cultural movement that started in Italy in the fourteenth century, and spread throughout Europe. In art, the style of painting became highly realistic, and attempted to mimic nature as closely as possible.
- What to look for: a rich three-dimensional perspective, human subjects in proportion (usually wearing robes and making grand gestures), and convincing representation of spaces.
Baroque
The term Baroque is often applied to art of the whole of the seventeenth century, and first half of the eighteenth century. Painters expanded on the naturalistic tradition established during the Renaissance, and extended their subjects to include landscapes, and still life. Baroque painters often set their subjects in vast landscapes, or interiors with extended views through doors, windows, or mirrors.
- What to look for: melodramatic spaces, fat cherubs, light rays and fruit bowls.
Rococo
Rococo was a decorative art that originated in France in the early eighteenth century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and shell-like forms.
- What to look for: paintings of the aristocracy at play, asymmetry to composition, many small-scale ornamental details, and pastel colours.
Neo-Classicism
During the Neoclassical period (mid eighteenth century), the work of the Greeks and Romans (pre- Renaissance) became popular again, and paintings depicted historical subjects.
- What to look for: paintings with sharp outlines, cool colours, armour, spears and sandals.
Romanticism
Romanticism is assumed to be in opposition to Neoclassicism, and the term used to refer loosely to a trend in art of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was characterized by the avoidance of classical forms and rules, emphasis on the emotional and spiritual, nostalgia for the grace of past ages, and a fondness for exotic themes.
- What to look for: complex compositions, intense colour, soft outlines and heroic or scantly clad subjects.
Realism (1850 – 1880)
Realism came about in France during the Industrial Revolution. Realist Artists attempted to create objective, accurate, detailed, and unembellished representations of the external world based on the impartial observation of contemporary life. The name Realist refers to their subject matter; humble citizens doing everyday work and previously considered unworthy of representation in high art, rather than mythical heroes, Biblical or classical subjects, and portraits of the rich.
- What to look for: paintings of poor people working.
Pre-Raphaelites (1848)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were a group of young English artists who rebelled against the style of the day that was being taught at the Royal Academy and other art schools. They felt the art was dark and muddy in colour, and the subject matter artificial. They admired the work of the artists of the fifteenth century, and their name, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, honoured the depiction of nature in Italian art before “Raphael”. Pre-Raphaelite artists believed art should have a serious, moral purpose and often filled their work with symbols suggesting deeper meaning. Most of all, they believed in artistic excellence. To give their paintings a lighter, fresher look, they used bright colours and painted on a white canvas, rather than a brown one. While the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lasted less than ten years as a group, other artists carried on with the style, which became broader and more muted in colour.
- What to look for: subjects taken from the Bible, Shakespeare and the legend of King Arthur. Paintings exhibit meticulous detail, intense colours, tight handling of paint and complex compositions. Many works are highly realistic.
Impressionism (1860 – 1900)
The Impressionists were a group of French artists discontent with academic teaching, and who shared approaches, and techniques. They abandoned traditional formal compositions in favour of a more casual and less contrived arrangement of objects within a picture. The identifying feature of their work was an attempt to record a scene accurately, but without the use of traditional muted browns, greys, and greens in favour of a lighter, more brilliant palette. They stopped using greys and blacks for shadows, and used short (visible) brush strokes to produce flecks of unblended pure colours. They cast off literary and anecdotal subjects in favour of candid portrayals of ordinary people (doing regular things in everyday locations), landscapes, and architecture. Indeed, they rejected the role of imagination in the creation of works of art. Their name derives from a criticism of the first “impressionistic” work publicly displayed.
- What to look for: paintings look normal from far away, but close up they are a bit of a mess. Also look for the same the same image painted two or more times under different lighting conditions.
Post-Impressionism (1860 – 1905)
Post-Impressionist were not a cohesive movement, and the style of individual artists vary. Post-Impressionism was simultaneously an extension of Impressionism, and a rejection of its concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour in favour of an emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content. Post-Impressionists continued using vivid colours (e.g. Cézanne painted red grass), thick application of paint, and distinctive and visible brushstrokes.
- What to look for: You see paint first, and the image second.
Abstraction
Abstraction is a generic term for art that does not represent recognizable objects. Abstractionist abandoned art as the imitation of nature in favour of imagery from the imagination and the unconscious. Abstraction comprised a number of different movements, such as Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Expressionism.
- Fauvism (1905 to 1907), as a movement, had no concrete theories. The name derives from the judgment of a critic who referred to the artists disparagingly as “les fauves” (wild beasts). Fauvist artwork is characterized by distorted forms, bold and vivid colours, often applied unmixed, and a spontaneity and roughness of execution. Fauvism was short lived, and most practitioners became Cubists.
What to look for: You may say to yourself, “I could do that.”
- Cubism (1907 to 1914) retreated from traditional perspective in favour of geometric forms. It attempted to achieve the illusion of three-dimensional forms in a different way by showing many aspects of familiar objects all at once from many vantage points to create new combinations.
What to look for: You may ask yourself, “What is it?”
- Futurism(1909) was an Italian movement with the intention to reject tradition ideals, and celebrate the aesthetic generated by the speed and power of the machine, and the energy and restlessness of modern life. Futurists adopted the Cubist technique of depicting several views of an object simultaneously with fragmented planes, and used rhythmic spatial repetitions of the object’s outlines in transit to render movement. Their preferred subjects were machines, and urban crowds. Their palette was more vibrant than the Cubists’.
What to look for: You may ask yourself, “What is it?”
- Dada (1916–1923) was initially a Swiss movement who channelled their revulsion at World War I into an indictment of the values that had brought it about. They were united not by a common style, but a rejection of conventions in art. Through unorthodox techniques, they sought to shock society into self-awareness. The name Dada itself was typical of the movement’s anti-rationalism. Various members of the group are credited with selecting the name for its childish and nonsensical connotations.
What to look for: You could be forgiven for not recognising a Dada exhibit as art (e.g. Duchamp “improved” the Mona Lisa by drawing a moustache on her).
- Surrealism (1924) flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II, and grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, and was similarly a reaction against the “rationalism”. It attempted to join fantasy and everyday reality to form a new reality, and drew on the theories of Sigmund Freud, that the unconscious was the source of the imagination. Many different forms of Surrealism developed, including the realistically painted images of Salvador Dalí.
What to look for: something that simultaneously looks real, and unreal.
- Expressionism: was an art movement of the early twentieth century in which traditional adherence to realism and proportion was replaced completely by distorted colour and form to emphasize and express the intense emotion of the artist.
What to look for: dribbling, drippy paint splattered on the canvas.
John Burton
Why high acceptance rates at some top art schools?
I know that School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Pratt are considered top art schools, but I looked at their acceptance rates and chicago has 81% and Pratt is at 42%. I was expecting at least under 30%. Can someone explain this to me?
My brother graduated from SAIC. I hear it is very difficult to get accepted. He tried three times before he was finally accepted. I don’t know much about Pratt.
What should I look for in martial art schools?
What should I stay away from? And why are some martial art schools really expensive?
This is a GREAT QUESTION, and I write about it extensively on my web site. Here is my general answer:
Choosing a martial art is really a very personal choice. Here are some pointers for finding a good match:
1. Observe some classes: Drop in, unannounced, a few minutes before the regularly-scheduled beginners classes start and ask if you may just sit on the side and quietly watch. Observe how the instructor treats the students, and how the students behave and treat each other. Observe how he teaches them. Does he adapt to their abilities? Is he patient? Is the class as strict or casual as you desire? Do mid-level and advanced students have good techniques, or do they look sloppy?
2. Research the style: Each instructor has minor adaptations on set styles, but do some additional research to make sure that the style of martial art appeals to you. Arts vary significantly in terms of formality, aggression, practical application, fundamental philosophy, and technical emphasis (grappling, striking, grabbing, weapons, etc.). Is the style more for competition, demonstration, physical application, philosophical development? There are many different twists, and "one size doesn’t fit all."
3. Research and compare pricing: Costs vary greatly from region to region and instructor to instructor. Most martial arts quote a low-ball monthly tuition, but have additional costs like testing, annual membership, and equipment. Some push students to volunteer cleaning the gym (or performing other services for the club or instructor). Be sure to add up all of the costs when comparing pricing. Many clubs offer discounts for additional family members or longer term commitments. Recognize that the better the equipment and facilities, the more the classes are going to cost. A useful way to compare prices is to add up the time and all costs that it takes to go from beginner through black belt. You’ll find that the results are all over the map.
4. Avoid long term commitments and lump-sum payments: We urge you to avoid any martial art that requires you to sign an agreement that prohibits you from studying any other art, that locks you into long term financial commitments, or that asks for a large, up-front, lump sum payment. Your first martial art is rarely the one you end up sticking with (unless it is simply the only one available in your area). It is perfectly-reasonable for an art to require you to sign a waiver of liability and to agree not to copy or teach that art without permission. Anything more is not necessarily in your best interest.
5. Black Belt Contracts: Ask to see the testing agreement forms, if there are any, especially for the black belt exam. Many arts have questionable requirements that they don’t tell you about until you are beginning your test for black belt — that is, after you’ve spent years and thousands of dollars in training.
6. Ask to take some free, introductory classes: Even if everything else looks fine, it really isn’t until you’ve spent some time in the classes that you can begin to determine if the art is right for you. Equitable programs will allow you to withdraw from the classes within the first two weeks and receive a full refund of tuition, less any material costs for uniforms, texts, etc. Some might generously let you stay even longer, then pro-rate a refund.
Reasonable instructors will cooperate and welcome these requests and comparisons. If an instructor simply refuses to answer these questions or provide the information, you can rest assured that, even if it is a style you like, the program probably is not a good one.