Art? I walked through the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in search of a conversation. As I wandered I saw many spectacular works of art but I was looking for something more than beauty, I was looking for an emotion, something that couldn't be explained in words. I wanted to be provoked to que...

Modern art is a unique creation all it's own, and since its beginnings, there have been two very distinct groups: the Formalists and the Avant-Garde. The Formalist group believes in the literal representation of the artwork. They value the form used, whether it be how the colors are stressed or th...

Though the backbone of art was formed by academics that graduated classical artists, some of the most influential artists broke away from such academies to change the rules. Impressionists, led by Claude Monet, formed a group of artists originally rejected from the academies to paint in their own ...

My best friend's mother had a string of abusive boyfriends. Some of whom I met, most of whom I only heard whispered about at two o'clock in the morning on weekends. I was thirteen before I questioned it; fourteen before I thought about trying to understand it. She was a smart woman, compl...

The Northwest College of Art There are two parts of life I believe everyone is entitled to: the right to be yourself, and the right to an education. At school we learn more than what is written in a textbook; we learn to interact with our peers, we learn how to behave in certain situations, an...

Hunger is a term that is often defined as the physical feeling for the need to eat. However, the Hunger Artist in Kafka's A Hunger Artist places a different, more complex meaning to this word, making the Hunger Artist's name rather ironic. The hunger of the Hunger Artist is not for food. As describe...

Gangs I'd like you to take a journey with me, would you please close your eyes and imagine yourself cruising along the streets of Oakland. You are driving and the light just turned yellow, you stop at the stoplight. You see a little kid walking towards you, while he crosses the...