Examples of Public Works of Art Project in the following topics:
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- A patron of the arts is a person who pays for or commissions works of art.
- A patron of the arts is a person who pays for or commissions works of art, and commonly refers to the support that kings and popes provided to painters, sculptors, musicians, and poets.
- Since ancient times, patronage of the arts has been important to the development of many artistic movements, works, and styles.
- Art patronage has also been important for art associated with various religious groups, especially the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, both of which have sponsored numerous schools and specific works of art and architecture.
- Both private and public granting bodies exist for artists, and require minimal endorsement, though it is generally required that their patronage of a specific project be publicly known.
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- Earthworks is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.
- Land Art, also known as Earthworks (coined by the artist Robert Smithson) or Earth art, is an art movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.
- Land art was inspired by Minimal art and Conceptual art but also by modern movements such as De Stijl, Cubism and the work of Constantin Brancusi and Joseph Beuys.
- Exponents of land art rejected the museum and gallery setting and developed monumental landscape projects which were beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculptures and the commercial art market.
- Perhaps the most well-known artist who worked in the genre of Land Art was the American artist Robert Smithson, whose 1968 essay "The Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" provided a critical framework for the movement as a reaction to the disengagement of Modernism from social issues as represented by the critic Clement Greenberg.
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- Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as a part of the creative process.
- Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative process.
- Digitized text, raw audio, and video recordings are usually not considered digital art on their own, but can be part of larger digital art projects.
- Some resemble video installations, particularly large scale works involving projections and live video capture.
- The well-known photographer Jeff Wall often uses digital photography to create his works thereby classifying them as a form of digital art, exemplifying the exceptionally wide-reaching nature of the term itself.
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- Numerous controversies have arisen from the use of tax dollars to fund art that can be seen as "controversial," such as the work of Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1980s .
- In Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts funds the projects of artists in much the same way as the NEA, but allots more funding to the arts based on population.
- In addition to the Canada Council, the provincial and municipal branches of the Canadian government also award grants to artists and arts organizations for a variety of arts-based projects and activities.
- Project grants are intended to cover the immediate costs of a project as well as the living expenses of the artist for the duration of the project.
- In Europe, similar arms of the government exist to award grants to working artists.
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- Emerging forms of feminism and feminist art of the time was particularly influential to activist art.
- The notion that personal revelation through art can be a political tool, guided activist art in its study of public dimensions and private experience.
- Grounded by strategies rooted in the real world, projects in conceptual art demanded viewer participation and were exhibited outside of the traditional and exclusive space of the art gallery, thus making the work accessible to the public.
- Similarly, collaborative methods of execution and expertise drawn from outside the art world are often employed in activist art so as to attain its goals for community and public participation.
- In 1990 the group designed a billboard featuring Mona Lisa that was placed along the West Side Highway and was supported by the New York City public art fund.
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- Video art is a type of art relying on moving pictures and comprising of video and/or audio data.
- Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as new technology began to become available outside corporate broadcasting for the production of moving image work.
- Single-channel works are much closer to the conventional idea of television in that a video is screened, projected or shown as a single image.
- Installation video is the most common form of video art today.
- Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that showcased video games as moving image art works.
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- In the visual arts, a theme is a broad idea or a message conveyed by a work, such as a painting, photograph or sculpture.
- Deep thematic content is not required in a visual work; however, some observers would say that all visual work inherently projects some kind of outlook on life that can be taken as a theme, regardless of whether or not this is the intent of the author.
- Simply having a repeating pattern or motif does not necessarily mean that that motif is the theme of the work of art, as the theme could be much broader.
- Bulls and snakes, both religious symbols, featured prominently in many works of art, as do other non-religious animals .
- Motifs are often thematic, but do not necessarily encompass the overall theme of a work of art.
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- Installation art describes three-dimensional work that is often site-specific, and designed to transform the perception of a space.
- Installation as an art form describes three-dimensional work that is often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.
- Generally the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior works are sometimes called 'land art'.
- Allan Kaprow used the term "Environment" in 1958 to describe his transformed indoor spaces which later joined such terms as 'project art' and 'temporary art. '
- For instance, interactive installation frequently involves getting the audience to directly participate with the work of art, or the piece to respond to the audience in some way .
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- Street art is an umbrella term defining forms of visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.
- Street art can be a powerful platform for reaching the public and a potent form of political expression for the oppressed.
- In addition to their print work, they also create kinetic sculptures, street theater performances, punk rock and techno music.
- Taring Padi regularly run workshops at their studio and undertake collaborative projects with communities and national and international art and political groups.
- Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as Contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians.
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- The following are some well-known bodies or groups of licenses that work to propagate openly sourced works.
- The GNU Project mass-collaboration free-software project started in 1983 at MIT.
- The GNU Project gave rise to the General Public License (GNU GPL) for software and the Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) for other works, which guarantees users the freedoms to use, study, share (copy), and modify the work.
- Individual authors can also declare their work to be in the public domain.
- The Free Art License is of French origin; in French, its name is "License ARt Libre."