What is an icon? In this case, you’re looking for an artistic hero, creative icon, or arts/historical/cultural institution regarded as a representative symbol of something. You will need to find this artistic hero, creative icon, or arts/historical/cultural institution whose work has dealt consistently with similar themes and displays an aesthetic style that can be easily identified as the work of that particular individual and/or organization.
Find this creative icon to which you have a strong reaction/connection, research their career/history/genesis/impact, and then write a paper stating why you think this person or organization/institution is a creative icon, using both your research and your own personal experience as support.
USE SPECIFIC TERMS. Define the words that scholars have used to define this icon. Also describe the icon in your own specifically defined terms. Is this icon part of a particular artistic movement?
Present your findings.
Write a 750-1500 word paper with a thesis on why this piece of artistic hero, creative, or arts/historical/cultural institution is a cultural icon. Support your thesis with your research and with your personal experience.
**Note that all the questions above are just to inspire research, not to necessarily be included in the paper.
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In the field of arts, there are thousands of icons with cultural, religious, and political significance. The area of fine arts provides students with variety or artwork dated back many centuries ago. An icon is an image or representation of something. An icon carries hidden information or meaning about a certain culture or religious group. In most cases, an icon is a religious work of art in the form of painting and portraits. Most of the icons represent the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic churches, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Orthodox Church among others (Averintsev 124). The common subjects of these icons include angels, saints, Christ, or Mary. The portraits might cover one or two main figures with religious as the center of focus. Icons are cast in curved stones, painted wood, printed papers, metals, and embroidered on a piece of cloth. Most of the traditional and religious icons existed since…. To continue reading, click on the button below.