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“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

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 Planning and Process

Burtynsky's use of images as metaphors to depict the dilemma of the heavy industrialization due to which nature and earth suffer heavily is a prominent theme which I have used in the creation of the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1041

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

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

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

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

The Sculptures from the Nepal

The sculptures worked in stone, metal wood and terracotta Many prominent pieces of art during the malla period were made by different artists one is the Achalla Destroyer of Evil made in the period early [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

“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

Ferdinand Hodler’s “The Chosen One” Painting

The boy is confronting the remnants of the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden, as is shown through the presence of the small snake and the walled 'garden' while the landscape behind him [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 961

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

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Drama Film

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 898

Transition from Opera Seria to Mozartean Opera

The major problem in the opera seria was rather due to the structured forms of all ingredients of the music and it was difficult to achieve much contrast in the music.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2879

Audience’s Doubts: “A Perfect Murder” by Andrew Davis

Michael Douglas a cold, multimillionaire whose value is diminishing plays as Steven Taylor and is husband to youthful Gwyneth Paltrow and their marriage does not work well and this leads to Gwyneth having an extramarital [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 482

Zoltán Kodály: The Famous Composer

He grew to be a teacher of music and an accomplished composer. He made it his personal goal to improve the quality of music education for children in Hungary.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 937

18th Century Music Comparative Analysis

An interest in the development of theaters was caused by the widening of opera as the theater was considered to be a link between the opera genre and the musical sphere.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1176

Beyoncé’s Career Retrospective and Recommendations

Therefore, the shift to the digital market was considerable, and companies tried to gain success in that sphere. However, despite all of these apprehensions, the album was likely to prove a real surprise and a [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1125

“Patton” (1970): The World at War

He wants to land his troops at Palermo, a city on the Northwest corner of the island then drive to Messina, the gateway to Italy located at the Northeast of Sicily while British Field Marshal [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 756

John Milton Cage: Life and Creative Heritage

Due to the fact that the music was supposed to create the atmosphere of a Bacchanalia, Cage attempted to adjust percussion and other music instruments to the dance and began to put metal objects on [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2231

Ancient Art. Tarantine Grave Relief and Kouros

Arts of the antique world refers to the lots of types of art that were in the backgrounds of ancient societies, such as those of antique China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 501

Can Film Be Non-Narrative: Discussion

These include communicativeness, the measure in which the narrative divulges knowledge, and the depth of the knowledge divulged, in other words, the degree to which the viewer is informed about the inner life of the [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3030

Frida: The Biography of The Legendary Mexican Artist

The plot revolves around two prominent events in Frida's life - the trolley car accident in 1929 that breaks her back and dooms her to a life of excruciating pain, and her marriage to Diego [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 499

“Tokyo Story” Movie by Ozu Yasujiro

Yasujiro is also remembered for the unlikely revelations that may well leave the viewer a little derailed, eventually paints a nuance that deepens the emotional impact of the material.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1013

“Batman Begins” Film by Christopher Nolen

In 2005, director Christopher Nolen was successful in reintroducing the apotheosis of Batman to the modern world with his film "Batman Begins" This film depicts the birth of the god-like figure known as Batman.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 265

Johann Sebastian Bach: Context and Reception

Manuscript copies of Bach's music are manuscripts in the hand of someone other than Bach or, to put it another way, manuscripts in the hand of a copyist instead of the composer.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 3648

Art and Music: Benefits to Society

The residence is not so much a house as it is a man-made outgrowth of nature, perfectly in tune with its surroundings, able to take part in the daily occurrences of the river and thoughtful [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1265

Kandinsky’s and Mondrian’s Abstraction Works

All through history, there have been many different styles of art utilizing an abstracting approach but abstract art was established in the early 20th century as artists began creating works of art lacking any apparent [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616
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