Coffee

When you think of Coffee you think of that warm caffinated drink that people drink to keep themselves awake. But have you ever thought of it being more then that? Coffee can be turned into an art. The ways it can be made and the different tastes is an art but the art I want to talk about is its presentation.

Some artistic coffee shops have started to decorate the top of the coffee like these:

Some places take moviescharacter's and transfer them onto their coffee:

This is the Character Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. A little witch going out on her own.

This kind of art takes time and skill. They pour steamed milk into a shot of espressoto create the pattern. They can also simply just draw in the foam at the top. The Barista, person who serves the espresso, is the one who creates the pattern and it deepends on his experience, skill and the quality of his espresso machine to make the espresso.

you have to have good experience with this art, professionally called Latte art, inorder to do it right. If you get it too much milk the top turns white and if there is not enough it will be a brownish color and with either these you can not create a pattern.

There is also another kind of art using coffe and it is coffee art wallpaper. This art is where you take the coffee and put it on paper to make a picture using the coffee's stain. With either art it looks awesome and takes people who are very talented.

Action Paintings

Action Painting is where the paint is dabbled, splashed, or smeared onto the canvas spontaneously. This kind of painting is sometimes called gestural abstraction. Most Art is carefully applied to the canvas or what ever the art might be, but this special type of art doesn't.

Some of these Painters who are action painters, don't even use brushes. Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese artist, used animals or insects to as his tools to apply the paint. In the bottome picture was one of them. He used a maggot and covered him in paint placed them on the canvas and he watched them crawl around.

Action Painting in itself emphazises the point of the physical act of painting and that, that is the essential part of the artists concern and the end result.

Action Painting was very popluar in the 1940s until the early 1960s. It was mostly a product of World War II because of expressionism when all the quantum mechanics started to arise.

Some of the most well known of these action painters are Jackson Pollock, Jack Tworkov, Franz Cline, Albert Kotin, and many others.




Through these Action Paintings we see the most expression. The Expression and art from the mind.

Art That Kills

Andy Warhol Guns was painted by Andy Warhol with acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas in the 1981 or 1982. In the 80s, Warhol had been painting iconic objects. He described himself as "an American artist who was merely depicting his environment." The gun in this painting was a .32 snub-nosed pistol. This specific gun was once used on him by Valerie Salonas in her assassination attempt on him.

This painting reminds me of the Shooting at Fort Hood. An Army psychiatrist, who was faced with diployment to Iraq, took a gun and shot and killed 13 people and injured another 28. He was taken down by a Sergeant Munley. who gave and recieved many bullet wounds in the process.

Some unidentified people thought it fit the gunmens personality and they could see him doing it. Others, like General George Casey, said it was "a kick in the Gut." These violent actions remind me of this iconic painting.

The Scream

The Scream is an expressionist painting painted by Edvund Munch. The Painting was of a man that was agonized against a blood colored sky of Oslofjord in Oslo, Norway.

Munch did many version of the painting. There was two painted versions, pastel, and lithograph. The Scream has been the center of many art thefts. It was once stolen in 1994 from the National Gallery. It was recovered a little bit later. It was also stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004 but was recovered in 2006. after restoration it was put back on display in 2008.

The original title was german and was Der Schrei der Natur, which means The Scream of Nature. The painting was once was once called The Cry. Munch was inspired by a experience he had when he was with friends crossing the bridge. They were crossing the bridge at sunset and when the sky went red when it set he stopped on the bridge and his friends walked on and he felt like he wanted to scream. He thus came up with his inspiration.

Today it is group into popular culture. This photo is used often in movies, shows, or they would put in someone in the place of The Scream.

The Starry Night

The Starry Night is a painting painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889. This painting is a painting of the scenery from outside the sanitarium room window at night. Interestingly however, Gogh painted it from memory during the day. The Starry Night is refered to as Vincent VAn Gogh's magnum opus. The Starry Night is an 73 cm by 92 cm oil painting. It was done on a large canvas. It was later sketched with a reed pen on paper that was sent to Gogh's brother to see what he thought about the painting along with other works.

The Starry Night was once an inspiration to composer Henri Dutilleux's orchetra works. He was also inspiration for the American Poet, Anne Sexton, who wrote The Starry Night. In addition to those two he also was an inspiration to other composers and singers. The painting was so beautiful to Andrew McMahon, a singer from the 1980s, that he had the painting tatooed onto his arm.

The Painting is now hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York. This Awe-inspiring piece was is and will be hanging for all to see and learn from.

The Mona Lisa: Famous Art

The Mona Lisa is a famous oil painting, painted by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci painted it during the Italian Renaissance during the years 1503 to 1506 give or take. It is a painting of a women who as described as having a mysterious expression. Her stature is what has caused it so much fascination. It was once stolen and then recovered from the Louvre. Hardly any other artworks have ever been so studied as the Mona Lisa.

It was said that da Vinci never finished it, but is thought that da Vinci continued painting it and finished it right before he died. It had traveled throughout France before it was finally noticed, appreciated, and associated with feminine charm in the mid-19th century. The Mona Lisa was a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. He named it Mona Lisa because the word Monna was a contraction of Madonna, a respectful form of address to someone similar to how we call some women ma’am or madam. So, he called it Mona Lisa for Lisa del Giocondo’s husband.

This spectacular painting is now put up on display in a special frame. It is also cleaned and touched-up in order to preserve it. The painting is being displayed in the museum's Salle des États. It is in a purpose-built, climate-controlled enclosure behind bullet-proof glass and is seen by millions at the Louvre each year. The painting is currently worth $700 million dollars.

The Art of Expression

Expression is defined as an indication of feeling, spirit, character, etc., as on the face, in the voice, or in artistic execution. It is an art that not all people have a grasp on and not all people know how to do it on perpose and not just naturally. In drama, actors use Expression to help the audience know how they are feeling and make the play, musical, or movie better. Without the art of Expression the world would be very boring. Can you imagine if everyone looked bored when they talked or if everyone was always hyper? It would be very tedious.

Expression is an everyday art that people take for granted. Expression is an art that is a natural beauty.

The Art of Person

A person has two kinds of arts. There is the art of personality and the art of physical appearance.

A person can be beautiful in how they act, and how their personality is. A person who is nice, kind, generous, and considerate has an inner beauty. A person who is mean, disrespectful, rude, and selfish looks ugly and acts ugly. People tend to be drawn to a beautiful person either inner or outer beauty and beauty is art. All the time, people assess people by their outer beauty and want to hang out with them because the outer beautiful people are more popular. The inner beautiful person takes longer to see. People are assessed by the outer, a fast assessment. What we need to do is as the old saying goes, stop and smell the roses but in this case, stop and look at the art.

The Art of Poetry

One definition of the word poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. Poetry is a form of expression just like any other art form. Poetry is used by poets to express what they feel or what they are experiencing.

Words, especially in poetry, are beautiful. When they are spoken in just the right way, they make the picture in your mind very beautiful. They can be awe inspiring words that paint pictures.

Poetry is an art of words. It has always been art and it will always be an art.

The Art of Dance

Dance is defined as an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. Dance is an art that is the beauty of movement. Movement especially of the body.



Dance is an expression just like other forms of art. It takes the emotions and movement to show the beauty of it.

Art of Space

For the past week or two, I have been working on space in art. There are two kinds of space: positive and negative. Mostly I have been working with Negative space for those past two weeks and it is very interesting. We did art that concerns the space that is not solid around an object or objects. We drew that negative space and "doodled" init to make the poaitive space we didn't draw stand out.

Before that we had worked on positive space where we drew shoes with detail. We then made that space stand out by drawing texture around the poitive space. The dark colors of the texture made the black and white of the positive space stand out.

Space in itself helps form art to make things beautiful and adds depth. Space is an art.

The Art of Photography

Photography is an amazing form of art. When you are the photographer, you choose a form of natural beauty to take a picture of. If you are a child's photographer, you choose to take pictures of the beauty in children. Their sweet smiles and cute faces. If you are a landscape photographer, you take the beauty from what God gave us through nature. Their are so many different subjects to take pictures of what you take pictures of can lead to meaning in the art.

There is also the colors of the Photograph that is part of the art. It could hint at what the hidden meaning can be. It can just be what makes something in ordinary life more beautiful and make us see what beauty we see every day.

Photographers are artists. Their paintbrush is their camera, their canvas is picture paper, and their subject is the world.

Art in All Forms

In the Webster's Dictionary, art is defined as the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects. From this definition, you can conclude that art can be anything of some form of beauty. It can range from music to illustrations, literature to movement. The phrase "a work of art" can be used for more then what most people use it for now a days. It can be used to describe a good book, a well sung song, or even a photograph or movie.


Most people now a days think of art as a visual display of color, depth, creativity, etc. People think of it as visual pictures, drawings or sculptures that don't use words. When they think of music or dance, it is as there own category instead of one of myriads of subcategories of one huge category.


So I close to you today with this: Art is beauty, it comes in all forms.