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Furnished Room in the Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota

The evaluation of the room will help to understand what kind of innovations may be required and why the owners of the room as well as the building itself want to redecorate the construction.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2560

Deriving Meanings in the Works of Art

In order for one to be able to understand such a work, he/she should also have an understanding of the ways in which an artist may visually present the ideas he/she has in his/her piece [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

Recent Modern Art Exhibition: Projects 89

Art exhibitions are the places, which will be interesting to people of any age and any gender any time."A natural effect of the Museum exhibition will be to lead the public to enquire why it [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Visual and Performing Arts in Canada

This paper discusses not only the essence of visual and performing arts but also focuses on the activities of popular Canadian artists and their ideas, evaluates the history of the Canadian art, and explains the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Role of Modern Art Museum

From the above we can say that the modern art museum acts as memory banks for all events and objects in the society which is of great utility to the members of a given social [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1720

Caribbean Art History

Caribbean art history is an integral part of Caribbean history that offers important insight into the unique cultural aspect of the Caribbean people and their way of life.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Art History – Mona Lisa

The woman's smile, often described as enigmatic, is the most intriguing aspect of the painting and it is also the subject of much speculation. The smile of the seated woman is the hallmark of this [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Othello and Desdemona: Emotional Strangers

Unaware of what is happening, Desdemona continues to show her fierce devotion to her husband which both blinds her to the truth of Othello's murderous emotions and feeds them.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1243

Identity, Ideology, and Design

Thus, as Vial introduces the difference in identity understanding referring to various kinds of notions, the identity of a human being is his/her unique personality, the identity of an object is its style, while the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2568

African American Theater

Black people in America have basically subdued several forms of subjugation in the community and this can be attributed to the African American Theater.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

Modern Theatre and Film Industry

The modern theatre and film industry have helped familiarize people with the reality of the world, emotions people go through and happy, as well as sad situations. One of these is the way gender and [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Emperor Xiaowen and His Court

What it means is that, along with referring to the mural 'Emperor Xiaowen and His Court' in terms of art, we can also refer to as the art-related tool of an ideological indoctrination.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Art Gallery with Ko-Kutani

The name Ko-Kutani originated from the Japanese area of Kutani, which is situated on the west coast of the main island, Honshu in the region of Kaga.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

There is a definite connection between the characters and the audience, as people are able to relate to the pain and confusion of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 630

Illustration’ Evolution in 20th Century

There was, however, an increase in publications of novels that needed illustrations in form of drawings and paintings. Notable works by Avati are in the field of paperback illustration.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

Contemporary Graffiti as Political Art

Banksy's graffiti art work is still considered as one of the best way of protesting against the government in order to remove the CCTV cameras from the cities or to use those cameras in proper [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

American Art Creation Importance

If the European and American context are combined to have a hybrid work of art, there will be disjoin in message communicated.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

The Art Institute of Chicago

The lions are placed in such a way that one is on the southern side while the other is on the northern side of the gate.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1644

Reformation and Development of the Arts

The reformation occurred as a result of conflicts between the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the Bible. A major contributor to the spread of reformation was the existence of the printing press that [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 812

Jusepe de Ribera’s Paintings

The subject matter is part of a series of portraits of philosophers that Ribera completed for the Prince of Lichtenstein. This painting shows the skill of the artist in portraying a human face and form [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 656

Fine art in advertising

This is meant to make the process of getting art for sets a faster process. In all these uses, art and architecture add a positive and powerful set of signals for the viewer/consumer.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1678

Transformation of the Ancient Greece Art

At first, it is necessary to examine the sculptural works which belong to the archaic period of the Greek culture. The techniques that one can see in the sculptures of the Archaic Period were rejected.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Kiki Smith’s Life and Artworks

Most of her art work especially in her early years in her career revolved around the topic of death. To her, this is a passion and she gives the best.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Richard Koboyashi: farmer with Cabbages

Koboyashi informed them that he was a good man and that very many people in the country knew him."He was told that I am very good at planting cabbages and he wants to make me [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1081

Photography Art in 20th Century

In its turn, this reflected the fact that during the course of the 20th century's initial phase, the classical conventions of physics have been thoroughly revised, due to the emergence of the Theory of Relativity.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

Packaging Visual Communication

The choice of a color for painting to obtain desired shapes in the image depends on the culture of the target audience and the meaning of the intended message.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus is a famous painting produced in the year 1863 by a French painter Alexandre Cabanel. This paper analyses the painting The Birth of Venus and gives a brief background of its [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 243

Gordon Parks, an American Photographer

After the death of his mother in 1926, Parks was forced to move to Minneapolis, where he made a living by affiliating himself with a number of odd jobs, such as the job of a [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2226

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Picasso – 1907

From a certain perspective, it can be assumed that the lack the of expression on the face of the subjects of the sculpture is related to their strangely clothed and unclothed state.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Photography: Jimmy Nelson’s Piece of Art

According to Nelson, the Maasai are part of the few tribes in the world that are quickly fading due to civilization and the increasing need for the world to form a global community.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1468

Modern, Modernism, and Modernization

Modern, modernism, and modernization are the notions which may be easily defined in human mind, it means that one can understand what modern, modernism, and modernization mean, however, when it comes to formulation of the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

“Lion Panel” in Chauvet Cave

The drawing could be painted onto the wall of the cave with the help of the reed brush. The artist could wish to perpetuate the beauty of the world.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

A Sculpture as a Three Dimensional Visual Art

The main setback in this process is that if a lot of material is removed, the design might not come out the way it was expected because it is a subtraction process.
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  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 844

The Peculiarities of Degenerate Art

The main feature which combined all these pieces was their development as the examples of the modern art which did not follow the principles of the Nazi ideology and, thus, such art was considered as [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

Fu Baoshi as One of the Most Famous Chinese Artists

Fu Baoshi is one of the most famous Chinese artists who contributed greatly into the development of the national art. One of his works reveals aspirations of Chinese people who lived in the middle of [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Edward Ruscha’s exhibition at the Denver art museum

This piece of work is inspired by the works of Jack Kerouac novel published in 1957 that was critical in defining the Beat Generation and it is a limited edition of Ruscha's artistic version of [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

The Art of Children Theater

In this case theater is of more benefit to the adults as opposed to the children. Children as well as adults in theater can be able to express their view about the politics of a [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1355

“David” by Donatello

This sculpture is based on the story of David and Goliath as it appears in the bible. The first "David" sculpture was commissioned in the beginning of the 1400s by a cathedral in Florence.
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  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

Anne Truitt: An American Minimalist Sculptor

And the only reason I need the gravity is to set the color so it will move the way we do on our feet"[13] One of Anne Truitt's popular exhibitions was in Danese Gallery, New [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2106

A Manmade Christmas Tree

The lines used by the artist are obscure, but the shape of the work of art resembles a conventional form of a Christmas tree.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 569

Graffiti as a Complex Social Interaction Problem

However, graffiti is vandalism and requires the authorization of the property owner. Moreover, graffiti reduces the value of properties and costs the citizens a lot of money in cleaning it up.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 529

Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics

The setting for the original presentation occurs in the nineteenth century, essentially displaying the existing elements of the time. The timing of the presentation necessitated the change as majority of the characters, presented in the [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Comparison between Nefertiti and Shabti Sennedjem

The portrait has an elegant bust, which means that it may have be comparing to a flower, which is still on its stalk that is slender, but is embroidered by the weight of the crown [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1388

Views on Chromophobia by David Batchelor

The point Batchelor was putting across is that in order to communicate using colors, it is imperative that the artists in question go the extra mile to excavate the meaning and all aspects of color, [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Export to World Project: Formalism in Art

In export to world, the form of the virtual object is of the main importance. In export to world, the real life object is usually forced to correspond point to point to the virtual object.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 612

Photoshop Beauty in Modern Society

In the case of modern day photographers the use of extensive photoshopping in order to change the appearance of models can be likened to the actions of history's artists in that their very survival depends [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1546

Georg Baselitz’s Orange Eater

These changes in the individual's views of arts and artistic works explain the different generations of arts that have been witnessed in the recent past.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2036

Analysis of Art Works in De Young Museum

The combination of lines conveys the required feeling of movement and defines the two-dimensional shape and form of the image that were inherent to the art of the 19th century.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1415

Art and Human Values

The context of art and technology is well typified by the association between the work, the artist, the audience, and the surrounding.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

Tillich theory of art

Inspired by the theological mindset and thinking he interrogates the concept of depth in narratives and similar art works and constructs a hypothesis that great art reflects a conscious awareness of the problem associated with [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2354

The Baroque Period of Art

In essence, the church played a major role in spreading baroque architecture because it was used as the vessel for conveying the emerging trends to the public.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 730

Art and Aesthetics: Art in Public Space

Public art is important to public art specialists, bodies that commission art performances, curators as well as the entire art world with much emphasis being given to collaborations, the specificity of the site of performance [...]
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  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2199

The Gothic Architectural Style

Most of the sculptures from in this style were influenced by the Romanesque style which was widely used at the beginning of the 11th century.
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

The Last Moments of Saint Mary Magdalene

The setting of the first scene in the frame is a place of worship, probably a whole church or a section in a church. There is evidence to this in the presentation of priests in [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1538

Art in Public Spaces

The following essay examines a piece of public art and the space it is found in order to discuss art, beauty and the purpose of public art.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1350

Colour composition and Polarised Light

The outcome of such polarization is that the light gets in through a medium is not the same as the one that comes out on the end side of the medium.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1356

The Concept of Time

The symbolism of the picture is obvious, it shows that time endless and limited at the same time. The concept of time is one of the central concepts in art.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 610

Rococo and Neoclassical Art

However with the advent of the neoclassical art period in the mid 18th century, balance and symmetry was emphasized as a reaction to rococo art designs.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1267

The Concept of High Renaissance

The three geniuses of the Renaissance, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rafael, were the cornerstones of the new era, the era when the boundaries between the art and life began to vanish.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Concept and History of Cubism

Cubism reflected all that had gone before in art, but also reflected the 'interesting' technological and social trends of its era, as attested by each of the commentators in Section IIB.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

Principles of Art Covered in Reading

The rest of the reading is devoted to the historical study of art, bringing students to better comprehending of art in the context of time and place.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

The Renaissance in Europe

The whole reason behind the renaissance artists was the representation of nature in their work where the standards were however deviated into the reflection of the human beings as the central focus.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Hung Liu and Alice Neal

In contrast, Liu is also attached to disclosing people's fates and their role in culture and history but through the use of drip techniques. Like Neel, Hung is also attached to the power of relations [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

Photographer – Robert Frank

This element is evidenced by Rodeo which was taken in 1954 in New York city because one can not identify the face of the guy who is leaning on the dustbin but since Robert's photos [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1001

Goals and Achievements of Impressionism

For an artist's work to be exhibited at the salon it had to be evaluated by the salon officials to establish if it conformed to the elements of art and design and those that were [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 638

Parthenon in Athens

The damage of the temple made some people to steal the artifacts that used to be housed in the temple. Frieze was used to decorate the exterior walls of the temple and also illustrate the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 881

The Uniqueness of Extraordinary Dali

Dali used the technique of Pointillism to depict the landscape in the background. Of course, one of the most famous paintings by Dali is The Persistence of Memory.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 561

Post Modern Art

Numerous happenings in the fields of art, philosophy, science, music, and critical theory explain the meaning of post-modernism. Post-modernism is the same as modern art due to the production of new pieces.
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  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1145

The Raft of the Medusa versus the Gulf Stream

The painting of The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault, a French painter emotionally portrays the survival and hardships experiences of the passengers in a raft, who survived the sinking of the French ship, [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

La Grande Odalisque by Ingres analysis

The subject matter of the painting is the odalisque, a concubine of a rich man in the East. Wallowing in luxury and waiting for her master to come is the only sense of her life.
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  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

One Holy Image By Two Great Artists

One of the most important themes in the western art is religion, and one of the most inspiring images for may be each of the greatest artists has been the Virgin Mary.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 844

Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack

The location of the Byzantine empire both in the east and in the west provided for the specific marriage of different traditions in Byzantine art.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 24
  • Words: 6668

Photojournalist: Mark M. Hancock

His presence is evident in numerous magazines and newspapers across the world especially in the editorial sections. In the background of the photograph is the lovely scenery of green vegetation and a blue sky.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 650

Relational Aesthetics: No Limits and Restrictions

The meaning of a certain piece of art is shared collectively by the society in relational aesthetics, and it is not limited to the space of individual perception and idea.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Form and Content: Leonardo Da Vinci & Claude Monet

What accounts for the earlier mentioned qualitative subtlety of this particular painting is that, while working on it, Da Vinci took a practical advantage of the artistic technique of a linear perspective, which in turn [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

Museum of the Original Art Show

On the whole, this book can be of some interest to parents with toddlers. It seems that this book can of great interest to children of pre-school age, especially girls.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 536

Evolution of Photography: Trying to Seize the Moment

In his book A Concise History of Photography, Helmut Gernsheim takes the reader onto a time travel, explaining the origins of photography and telling about the opportunities that photography offers.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 418

How an Artwork Represents Visual Elements

The combination of linear and curved lines, mainly monochromatic red color and asymmetry of the composition are the visual elements and principles of design which allow an artist to represent the chaos and beauty of [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574