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American History in “Across the Universe” Musical

This is the era, which has brought us: the Vietnam War, the Civil rights movement, hippies, the Beatles, the assassination of John Fritz Gerald Kennedy, The Space Shuttle Program, the assassination of Martin Luther King, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1358

Art in America. Hard Targets—Masculinity and Sport

The transformation of the sport and the physical culture into a public spectacle, which expanded the possibilities in demonstrating masculine images, affected the image of men implementing the ideology of "muscular masculinity".
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2015

Expressionism as a Starting Point in Art Changes

Although the Renaissance period brought tremendous changes in the artistic approaches based upon the traditional art of Greek and Roman statuary, the Expressionist movement of the 1900s instituted a profound rejection of all the traditional [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 3817

Expressionism: A Shift in the Art Approaches

Although as a movement, Expressionism lasted for only a decade, up to 1920, it has been accredited with the explosion of all the innovative ideas of the mid-twentieth century, and the concepts introduced by the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

ATLAS: Matter Structure and Stability

There came a time when people started calculating and observing the relations between mass and energy and the basic matter that may have made particles that in turn make up other things.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 492

The Discourse of New Musicology

It includes the study of a composer's life and works, the developments of styles and genres, the social function of music for a particular group of people, or modes of performance at a particular place [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1023

Perpetuating Racism in “Crash” by Paul Haggis

The movie presumes that people feel bitterness and prejudice towards members of different groups, and helps its viewers see the consequences of such mentalities."Crash" combines the stories of blacks, whites, Koreans, Iranians, Latinos, police, criminals, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Louvre Museum: Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”

The composition is based upon the pyramid of the woman's body, giving the painting a great deal of stability, as well as the organic curvilinear forms of the feminine. The Louvre is so full of [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

Egyptian Exhibit in Metropolitan Museum of Arts

This paper addresses the Egyptian exhibit in the metropolitan museum of arts in New York, and specifically the statue of Demedji and Hennutsen, and relates it to the subject of Egyptian history.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

The Brain and Lifestyle of Mozart

This passion for his craft was the result of the realized potentials as seen first by his father and the environment he was born to at that time.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1298

Music Appreciation. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

At the period of time, the musical styles were generally of the Baroque period and the influence of Mozart's compositions thus generated a whole new style which we now refer to as classical.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 872

Western Civilization: Ancient Greek Theater

However, the modern theater has become more commercialized and has become a potential arena of political, social, and cultural discourses, increasingly involving the masses."Theatre, which had been dominated by the Church for centuries, and then [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 721

“The Life and Times of Bob Marley” by Mikal Gilmore

The main purpose of the article "The Life and Times of Bob Marley" which is written by Mikal Gilmore is to pay tribute to the famous singer, songwriter, and guitarist Bob Marley, who is renowned [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 283

Gillian Pears, Tommy Reynolds and Ryan Widger

This very paper is a response to the three pieces of art of photography, the response to them will include the techniques used by the artists and the major topics they display as well as [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 707

Art in The Epoch of Renaissance

The Epoch of Renaissance emerged on the territory of Italy, becoming the true Rebirth of the national cultural life of the people throughout the whole world.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Social Problems in The Freedom Writers Diary

However, we cannot say that the peculiarities and the problems of public education, especially in the context of racism, were so often explored in the movies.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 729

“Ma Vie En Rose” by Alain Berliner

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 855

Professional Photographers of America

The mission of PPA is defined as "To be the leader in the dissemination of knowledge in the areas of professional business practices and creative image-making, and to define and maintain the industry's standards of [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3064

“The Pursuit of Happyness” by Gabriele Muccino

The movie presents the viewer with all the trials and tribulations that he had to overcome, from a divorce, extreme poverty, and the eventual payoff that he got from his seemingly endless patience and perseverance [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1033

Art at the Renaissance and the Age of Baroque

Renaissance painting, on the one hand, originated from medieval depiction of religious themes and stories as well as from Ancient Greek and Roman patterns of human beauty, freedom and value, clearly demonstrated by the Renaissance [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 946

Snow Patrol’s Song “You Are All I Have”

Given the fact that nowadays men are taught to be ashamed of their masculinity, it comes as no surprise that "You are all I have" contains motifs that are destructive to men's ego, as the [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860

“Gigi” Musical by Vincente Minnelli

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 648

“Unforgiven” the Movie by Clint Eastwood

His sense of pride is pricked as he struggles not to tell a lie but when he is confronted by the armed men who were informed that he had entered the place with his guns, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1276

“The Crying Game” the Movie by Neil Jordan

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1076

Photography: Brief History of Invention

At that time all images produced were in black and white and eventually all masters of the art came to believe that the only artistic way to record photographic images was in black and white. [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 2010

Visual Art and Photography

Ice Sculpting is truly an art of its own, and even though this style of art is not permanent, unless a person were to place the item into the freezer, this would still be categorized [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 767

Crafts and Fine Arts.

Moreover, to explain the vaguely difference between them, one may give the example of the art work that may be assigned to the both categories: either to the crafts or to the fine art.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism

Minimal art developed mainly in the USA rather than Europe and its impersonality is seen as a reaction against the emotionalism of Abstract Expressionism.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

Analysis of the Movie ‘Everyone’s’ Child’

The movie appealed to the conscience of the people of the world and explained how poverty broke human relations, created vulnerabilities, and seriously affected human society.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 755

Music in Different Eras Analysis

Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" and particularly its Act 3, leave no doubt as to the fact that composer was being heavily influenced by Romanticism, as the theory of musical composition, associated with the process of Europeans [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1273

Juan Diego Florez: Facts About an Opera Singer

His mother was the manager of a pub providing live music for the visitors; it gave an opportunity for the young Juan Diego to get an early experience as a singer.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 562

Milton Glaser’s Poster Review

The design style is certainly appropriate to the communication, as it united the same ideas and the feelings of the different people concerning the heart of the United States of America, the New York City, [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

Art Development Periods and Features

His paintings are characterized by use of light and shade, conveyance of emotional depth and religious background in his works and portraits.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 526

Illustrators Artists and Designers

They have indeed been a great influence in my interest to art and design and have greatly contributed to the economic growth, political and social enhancement of their nations.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Edward Steichen in History of Photography

Edward Steichen is one of the central figures in the history of photos. The astonishing sale charge of the print is, in part, featured to its one-of-a-kind personality and to its curiosity.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 780

Contribution of Modernity to Photography and Film Movements

Modernity in visual arts and cinema is part of the ever-changing world, wherein the establishment of ideas, different people in the world of art participates in experimenting with the forms and styles of art, thus [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1369

Museum Exhibit: Oudry’s Painted Menagerie

Moreover, Clara and the lush exquisite landscape against which she is painted seem to be ideally matching pieces of a huge puzzle: the rhinoceros' jawline smoothly connects to the line of the horizon, and the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 801

Jazz History: The Birth of the Bebop Jazz Era

The musicians paid particular attention to the music, concentrated on the authentic qualities of jazz music and most of the technical aspects that concerned the music.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 664

Evaluation Argument of a Pop-Culture Text and Its Representation

To the young generation, this kind of music with simple words and hard-talking lyrics, the mind-blowing and intricately skillful music, and the imagery portrayed by the rock stars appealed in a personal manner and embodied [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1304

The Influence of Movie Genre on Audience

Derne' S writes that, a research done by Tiffany A Boveland of Loyolla University on the effects of a movie clip on change in love concept showed that, romantic movies did affect people's perceptions and [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Georges de la Tour and Gino Severini Art Review

Starting with biographical studies of Georges de la Tour, we should say that he was born on March 13, 1593 in the town of Vic-upon-Seille, in the part of the independent Duchy of Lorraine.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1993

The ‘Sweet Charity’ Broadway Show

Charity is shown bravely covering for her rogue boyfriend, telling Nickie, Helene and the other colleagues that Charlie had actually tried to save her from falling into the lake, but managed to only 'grab her [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1092

Tracey Moffatt: Australian Artist

Her photography masterpieces are permanently included in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2386

Global Warming: “An Inconvenient Truth” by D. Guggenheim

It is natural to feel overwhelmed by the intricacies and complexities of the many environmental problems confronting society and by the belief that an individual is at the mercy of all the variables that threaten [...]
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Predynastic Egyptian Pottery

The pottery of the Badarian period was made without the use of a potter's wheel, and it was usually the woman who turned out the pottery.
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

Self-Portraiture: Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas

In this photo, she touches on her general theme as an artist of relating herself to the 'common people.' She is completely vulnerable and undisguised from her audience.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3436

History of Pop Music in the Early 20th Century

Jansen has given a detailed analysis of the musical and the particular song and he suggests that the sheet music and the performance reveal a combination of different types of ragtime music.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2053

Instrumental Scottish Music: Scottish Fiddling

While the fiddle and the violin are the same instruments, the music that is played on them, as well as the style of playing, are vastly different one being characterized by the folk music of [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1976

Lieder of Mozart and Influence on Future Composers

In the lieder, the vocal line and the piano accompaniment are of equal musical significance and these songs are considered to be among the finest of all art songs.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1165

Terra-Cotta Army: Organizational Power of Qin Dynasty

After the museum, it seemed to be one of the marvelous art museums of the world."Life-size terracotta figures of warriors and horses arranged in battle formations are the star features at the museum.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1135

Friday Night Lights: Book vs. Movie

The deep involvement of the residents with the team and the winning-is-everything attitude is a theme common to the book and movie.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 698

Enlightenment and Romanticism: Comparison

In the wake up of the feminist and historicist takes to pieces of the older Romanticism, particularly Bloom's "creative thinker corporation" and the Wordsworth-centered verse of consciousness and the natural world, one has to inquire [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1388

Rock as a Part of Music Art

The history and the origins of that music show that the seditious features of rock were caused by various factors. First of all, to define the harm of rock music, we need to get acquainted [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1361

“The Terminator”: Aspects of the Movie

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1377

Isamu Noguchi and Ceramics in Japan

Japan is one of those areas of the world that never wholly abandoned its appreciation and exploration into the art of ceramics."Nowhere is there as great an appreciation for the potter's art as in Japan.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1525

Value of Art in the Life of the Average Person

That's the uniqueness of a painting compared to the other art forms. Apart from that, as the inquisitive person that I am, I find art to be very mysterious and fascinating.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 880

Transformation of America in Three Movies Comparison

In fact, the abundance of comments and the close depictions of the characters point to the fact that they have plenty of time to get to know one another better because of the boredom of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 888

Significant Career of Bill Murray

Both Lost in Translation and Broken Flowers feature Murray in a dramatic role infused with some innate sadness and sense of loss and, unlike many of his less successful colleagues, Murray's talent with the genre [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1250

Haggis’ Screen Adaptation of Ballard’s “Crash”

While comparing the adaptation with the original novel, first of all it is necessary to mention, that inspite of the similarity of main ideas in the movie and in the novel, the dissimilarity of authors' [...]
  • Subjects: Action Films
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1593

Jewish Film as a Part of the Movie Industry

During the last generation the term has acquired a central position in psychological and social theory due, perhaps, to greater awareness of the dislocations in the relationship between individual and society that characterize the process [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2991

American Film Genres: Rambo and Male Body

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1567

“I Served the King of England” by Bohumil Hrabal

For Ditie therefore to attain his dreams, he has to have knowledge to be the best of what he wanted. The story of Ditie's had become more interesting with his meeting the girl in his [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1987

The Genius and Mysterious Leonardo Da Vinci

The techniques that Da Vinci used in his paintings showed his careful studies in anatomy, lighting, and in the juxtaposition of elements in a painting.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1424

Eastern and Southern African Art: Pottery

The commoner particles in the clay also acted to contain reduction within the bodies of the wares for the period of cooling, which was carried out gradually to reduce the risk of thermal stress and [...]
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1081

Roy Lichtenstein: The Art and Influence

It is quite twisting to consider that Lichtenstein was called the master of the stereotype side by side as the most sophisticated of the major Pop artists in terms of his analysis of visual convention [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1535

Quentin Tarantino’s Life and Influence on Modern Cinema

In meeting Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged Tarantino to write a film which then became the Reservoir Dogs, a dialogue-driven heist movie that is said to have set the tone for Tarantino's [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2046

My Journey Through Liberal Arts

Art is one of the main forms of liberal arts which influences the perception of the world and understanding of its beauty, allows a person to adapt to the new environment, and develops critical thinking [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3624

Chopin: Musician Who Had Effect Romanticism Music

At the beginning of the musical period known as Romanticism Frederic Chopin was born in Poland. The piano was his chosen instrument and one that he mastered at a very young age.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 927

B.Britten’s Music Impact on Composers Political Beliefs

War Requiem by Britten is a composition of great prettiness and strength; it is as well the mature production of his personalization procedure an explanation, submission, and dispute to institutions and nations dedicated to aggression. [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2200

The Evolution of Music: Brief Review

After the Classical Music era {1750-1820}, music evolved into the Early Romantic Music era {1820-1850}, the Late Romantic Music era {1850-1900}, the Modern Music era {1900-1945} and the Contemporary Music era {1945-2000}.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 801

Impacts and Key Concepts of Impressionism

The Impressionists rejected this norm and took the act of painting out into the world, as they felt they could use the effects of changing sunlight and capture the transient light in their work by [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1546

American Pop Art Culture Review

Pop art depicts the details of everyday life in which people derive most of their visual language in what they perceive to be the real world of entertainment, leisure, and media advertisements.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1661

Bela Bartok Life and “Concerto for Orchestra”

This mixture of the styles will always remain a peculiar feature of the composer's works that we will talk about in the present paper; this is a zest of his works and at the same [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3130

Paris Exposition Internationale 1937

The light-hearted days of the liberated 1920's had come to an abrupt end in the United States, with the Wall-Street Crash in 1929; the first sound film was produced; the rise of Freudian psychology and [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 17
  • Words: 4471

Snapshot vs. Fine-Art Photography in Digital Age

The scale of distribution of everyday photography is associated with the improvement of photographic technology and the spread of electronic and digital technologies, making exploring snapshot photography particularly relevant. To analyse the functions of snapshot [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2455

Picasso: Surrealistic Master of the Monsters

Picasso is one of the most enigmatic artists of all time, not so much for what he produced but for the quantity and hard work he has churned out of his ripe old age, estimated [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1319

Gustav Theodore Holst and His Music

His art is ill-suited to the sort of subjects that appealed to Verdi, but he is more often mysterious than mystical; and the more forbidding or abstract his theme the stronger his brush.'Saturn, the Bringer [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1103

The Wild Boar Hunting Experience

Not the most pleasant experience in the world, rubbing mud and whatever other kind of natural goo I could find in various strategic spots on my body, but I did the best I could and [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1165

The Client by Joel Schumacher Review

Mark sneaked up and crawled on his stomach to reach and pull the hose from the exhaust to stop the man in the car from dying.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2262

Famous American Photographers

His contributions to photography were challenged as it displayed most of the cultural and aesthetic conventions that were ahead of his time and did not fit in with the dominant notions of the kind of [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

David Lynch’s Films Audiovisual Study

This paper explores the aesthetic importance, artistic style and appeal as well as other aspects of David Lynch's three films Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Inland Empire basing on Michel Chion's ideas and perspectives as well [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 45
  • Words: 16556

The Age of Romanticism and Its Factors

Characteristics of the genre identified by Welleck include a "revolt against the principles of neo-classicism criticism, the rediscovery of older English literature, the turn toward subjectivity and the worship of external nature slowly prepared during [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1246

“Pans Labyrinth” by Guillermo del Toro

In order to properly describe the technical setting that includes the color palette and set design for the movie Pan's Labyrinth, it is necessary to understand the most about the film why such set design [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

Steven Spielberg’s Contribution in Movie Industry

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1436

Women’s Roles in Early Musicals

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1001

Communicating Mood in Film Production

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582
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