Countdown to zero Distinctive

Countdown to zero

Distinctive indigenous art components include Oceanic Arts, that is, the visual arts of the southern and northwestern Pacific Islands. Rivers, lakes, and seas were once the great highways of the world, and much art shows water as a backdrop to everyday life. Royal barges are painted on the walls of Egyptian tombs dating to 1360 Ships and ports appear on medieval manuscripts and Renaissance frescoes. The brilliant Renaissance painter, sculptor, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci 1452 1519 was fascinated by water, which he described as vetturale di natura the vehicle of nature. He drew it in detail, studied it closely, was in awe of its power he had witnessed terrible floods and storms, and designed complex canal systems and locks. A tradition of Dutch marine artists dates back to the seventeenth century, and led to the proliferation of professional marine artists in Britain. Of the French seascape painters, arguably the most significant was Claude Monet 1840-1926, whose oil-sketch Impression: Sunrise 1874, portraying The riverboat era was romanticized by various painters in the nineteenth century. This print by Currier and Ives shows a Mississippi riverboat loading logs. the harbor at Le Havre, gave its name to the Impressionist movement he founded. Monet went on to paint beach and river scenes in France and England. The nineteenth-century Romantic tradition emphasized bold, dramatic paintings of nature for example, seascapes by the English painter J. Turner 1775 1851, or dramatic events such as Th odore G ricault s The Raft of the Medusa 1819 and its portrayal of despairing shipwrecked sailors. The Hudson River School 1835 1870 housed the first great school of American landscape painters, who produced romantic and naturalistic renderings of the landscape of the Hudson River Valley and beyond. Earthworks or land arts, dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, are works in which natural elements are directly employed or the landscape rearranged and the resulting artwork tempered by exposure to the elements. Robert Smithson s Spiral Jetty 1970, a huge rock and salt crystal spiral countdown to zero in the midst of Utah s Great Salt Lake, is no longer visible beneath the rising waters. The water world provides inspiration for folk countdown to zero art produced by mostly self-trained artists or for the preservation of traditional ethnic cultures including functional and decorative hand-carved wildfowl and fish decoys, decorated sea chests, scrimshaw s, ship s figureheads, and nautical ornaments. In America, the zenith of traditional folk art flourished in the nineteenth century prior to the rise of industrialization, but a rich contemporary tradition continues of naive, outsider, and memory artists. Traditional Vietnamese water-puppet performances continue a rich and ancient folk art theatre tradition, in which the puppeteers stand behind a screen in water up to their waists, with the floating bamboo water-puppet theatre occupying the middle of a pond. The arts encompass the environment of sight, word, and sound. The aesthetics of sight and sound come together architecturally in decorative water fountains and in Frank Lloyd Wright s famous house Fallingwater. Popular everyday art involving water can find expression in unlikely places, such as elevated water towers. Even a fire hydrant can become a painter s palette, as evidenced during a community-sponsored event in Oldenberg, Indiana. Just as the arts recognize a visual landscape, the modern soundscape is the creative concern of This networking and resource information project focuses in part on human-induced environmental impacts on the oceans, and emphasizes the art of soundscape production creative interpretations of the sounding world. Ecological concern is also the driving force behind Musicians United to Save the Environment.