Art Degrees
Some art schools prefer applicants to demonstrate evidence of having studied art at an earlier stage of education, and some fine arts degrees will ask to see a portfolio of work. In all cases, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate a keen interest and passion for the subject, as well as explaining why you’ve chosen the specific course in question. Interested in comparing artistic movements from different historic periods and cultures? The cultural context often reduces to the artist's techniques and intentions, in which case analysis proceeds along lines similar to formalism and intentionalism. However, in other cases historical and material conditions may predominate, such as religious and philosophical convictions, sociopolitical and economic structures, or even climate and geography. The history of 20th-century art is a narrative of endless possibilities and the search for new standards, each being torn down in succession by the next. Thus the parameters of Impressionism, Exp