Maya Lin is a Chinese American who was born in Athens, Ohio in October 5, 1959. She is known for artistic skills in building and designing landscape and sculptures, but one of her far most impressive artworks that was made by her is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial It was built according to her design in Washington DC in 1981when she was 21. Viewing the world through the perspective of her background and culture made her truly capture the essence of nature and inspired Maya Lin’s artistic skill and style.  Before Maya Lin became one of America’s most recognized artists; she as raised by cultivated and artistic parents, whose influence changed her life. Maya Lin’s mother, Julia Change Lin, was a professor of literature at Ohio University and a poet. Her late father, Henry Huan Lin was a ceramicist and the dean of fine at Ohio University. Maya Lin’s parents were Chinese immigrants that fled from their homeland and settled in America in 1948. Maya Lin personal life and hobbies involve in...

Louise Bourgeois, Paris View. (1994) This painting that Bourgeois created just prior to her illustration on the Venice Biennale in 1993. Named after Paris review, which was an arts magazine established in 1953, the artist has converted and reproduced the original drawing on a bigger scale in raise-ground. compelling in her every day drawing practice, many of Bourgeois’ abstract works use the theme of circles, strains and points. This painting is specific in that the artist has added white heavy handed to emphasize the power and concentric motion of the shapes she used. At some point of the lead-up to the biennale, Bourgeois become substantially interviewed, photographed and filmed via the media. She got overwhelmed, the artist described her psychological...

Yasmeen Ayoub 10/15/17 The 20th century was a time of rapid artistic change and development and when traditional concepts were challenged. The role of the artist, the relationship between representation and significance, and the growing relevance of largely visual images were considered and redefined. One of the most famous and influential biographer in the 20 th century is Walker Evans. Evans was born on November 3,1903. He was most famous and known for his work for the farm security administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the great depression. His work and crystal clear  photographs of American life between the world wars had also made him famous. Those elegant photographs inspired a great generation or artists.  Evans was physically small in size and was not so tall; which was an advantage that allowed him to take photographs before anyone noticed or saw him. he looked for some thing extra than the esthetic or the industrial factors of ph...

Yasmeen Ayoub 10/18/2017 assignment #3 Impressionism and Post-impressionism  ~Both impressionism and post-impressionism refer to influential artistic movements arising in the late 19th century that utilized new techniques, style and technology. At the turn of the 19th-century, Europe began to approach a modern age that presented scientific, religious, political, social, economic issues. It also presented influence in modern thinking that questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change. In 1874, a group of French based artists sought to gain independents from academy doctrines and romantic ideals. They began to create a new style that focused on expressing artistry. Impressionism focused on what the eyes actually see, rather than what the mind visualizes. Impressionism is also based on the object, captures the true nature of landscape and also uses colors to created a rich effect to the painting. The paintin...

Yasmeen Ayoub 10/11/17 HUA101. 1301 Prof. Joan Harmon                         Assignment #3; Baroque art VS. Renaissance art Baroque art and Renaissance artwork are two varieties of artwork among which a key distinction can be discerned. Baroque art refers to a form of artwork that turned into originated in Rome. Baroque artwork became famous for its complex and contradictory nature as well as its ability to awaken emotion. Renaissance art changed into a mixed impact of nature, classical learning, and individuality of guy. The important thing distinction among those two bureaucracy is that at the same time as Baroque art is characterized by using ornate information, Renaissance art is characterized by using the fusion of Christianity and science if you want to create realism through art. The first painting “Madonna and Child” was created during the Re...