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Ancient Works of Art: Historical Analysis

The presence of the ankh in her hand, a symbol of life, helps to illustrate this aspect of her character, indicating she held the power of life and death in her hands.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2380

Greek Art: Sculpture of Poseidon and Statue of Dionysus

The artistic masterpieces that are being created during the course of this period promote the concept of existential harmony because, in them, the ideals of physical beauty are organically combined with the ideals of intellectual [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 716

“The Breakfast Club“ by John Hughes Review

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 747

“The Devil Wears Prada” by Mike Goodridge

Unlike the notes of the authors of other reviews on this movie, for example: "The Devil Wears Prada may not be top of the wish list for a lot of blokes looking for a night [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 678

Comic Books vs. Marvel Movies

The feature is that the story is already fully visualized, and the movie director is both restricted by the fiction images, and on the other hand does not have to bend the fantasy and think [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 538

“The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” by Wes Anderson

The dialogue between the narrative that constitutes the bulk of the movie indicates that expeditions are only a form while human relations are the main focus of this film The main limitation and a negative [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1150

High Renaissance in the 16th Century

The development of the High Renaissance art in the 16th century in the three Italian cities that are rightfully considered to be the places where Renaissance was born Florence, Rome, and Venice is one of [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2369

Horses in Art: Deborah Butterfield and Patricia Crane

Actually, the variety of the roles, that animals play in human life is often represented in the art by both children and adults, and it is necessary to mention, that the creativity process of children [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 537

French Revolution and the European Music

For instance many of the ideas of democracy taken for granted in many parts of the world today like the freedom and impartiality of individuals, the importance of written establishments in supervision of a country, [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1253

Artist Bibliography on Elizabeth Catlett

Although she went to the university to study printing she has stated in her earlier interviews that she changed to painting because of the influence of James A Porter.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1341

Value of Films Brokeback Mountain and Happy Together

Comparing Wang Kai-wai's "Happy Together" and Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" clearly state the social, political,cultural or cinematic relevance of the chosen place and period or value.it should also include and overview of other films representing [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3004

Maya Deren: Experimental Film and Artistic Identity

The current research paper deals with the analysis of interconnections between experimental current in cinematograph and artistic subjectivity of directors, scenarists and other people who are engaged in the creative process of film-making.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1519

Tutankhamun Statue and “Portrait of A Man” Comparison

With reference to Egyptian sculpture, this paper will try to compare and contrast the Portrait of a Man with the statue of Tutankhamun with regards to materials used, size, color, meanings behind the works, as [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1570

The Weeping (Melting) Earth

The melting of the cool clue mountains and ice caps by the fire created through the inactions of the humans the world over, actually shows that the earth is weeping and lamenting the activities of [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2318

“Venus and Adonis” by Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was the greatest exponent of the baroque paintings and the most renowned painter of the Northern Europe. Both of these paintings deserve to hold their exclusive place in the history of art [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 973

Peter Max: Life and the History of the Technicolor Style

He also painted several posters for the inauguration ceremony of the President Bill Clinton and also got an opportunity to be invited at White House for painting of the historical moment of the day - [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3377

Modern Art: Nature, Life Man and Abstract Exhibition

The theme for the exhibition is 'Nature, Life Man and Abstract' on how various artists have attempted to depict nature, life, man in the abstract form. Featured in this exhibit is one of the works [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1680

Real America in the “Coming Home” Movie

The film has targeted the widest possible audience in firstly condemning the Vietnam War, secondly in being a love story and thirdly in recording the polarization Vietnam prompted in the people in regard to coming [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Pheidias Art Work in Cultural Context

Thus, we find that the works of Pheidias were the result of the genius in him and the contribution made to the art by the culture of the period.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1999

Music, Its Definition and Evolution

It is in a romantic era when different types and functions of music were developed, followed by 20th-century music, where there was an increase in music listening and the emergence of new technology which made [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1213

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

Site Specific Arts: Sculptures Through Pictures

This piece of art was the result of the Environmental Workshop Class that Hamrol taught in CalArts, and the process of its creation involved his students and friends: "We spent the better part of the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 658

New Approaches to Music Marketing

While this transition sounds a delightful one, the music industry is finding it increasingly difficult to adapt to the evolutionary changes in the way music is being streamed, stored, listened and propagated, creating problems for [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3729

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

Film Criticism and Its Aspects

In the end, it becomes an analysis of all the elements of the film which contribute to the initial experience of the film which matters.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2683

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

General History of Graphic Design: Arts and Crafts Movement

They believed that the key principle of craftsmanship is that the person must derive pleasure from his work Thus we may arrive at the conclusion that the representatives of this movement attempted to equate art [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 512

Architectural History and Theory: Modernity and Modernism

The lifts ought not to be longer but be hidden away like tapeworms in the position of stairwells, also the stairwells themselves, made ineffective, must be eliminated, and the lifts should scale the length of [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 928

British Romanticism and Its Origins

It was partially a rebellion against aristocratic social and political standards of the Age of Enlightenment and a response against the scientific explanation of nature and was exemplified most powerfully in the visual arts, music, [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 515

“Glassworks” by Louis Comfort Tiffany

The public's interest in Tiffany's glassworks revived in the mid-fifties of the 20th. Tiffany occasionally splattered colors onto his windows to augment the effects of certain elements in the window's design.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 656

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

Saul Bass Poster for Hitchcock’s Vertigo Analysis

The fundamental focus of any advertisement, particularly a movie poster, is to communicate with the audience and reveal the properties of the product in an interesting and creative manner.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

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

Features of Art from the Egyptian Period

Besides, the daily journey of the sun with alternating day and night had an influence on the Ancient Egyptian beliefs of death and life after death. First, the pyramids were considered the diadem of architecture [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1806

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

Genetic Control in Film “Gattaca” by Andrew Noccol

The Genetic Control theory is so radiantly forwarded that more than involving in the story proceedings, the viewers, are made to realize the changes in the attitude shown to a normally born and a genetically [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 714

Atta Kim: Presentation of a Photographer

While many techniques Atta uses are not new, in some context the works of Atta can be considered as a philosophical opinion that was visualized using photography.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 590

“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

Gallery of Joy: Chagall, Kandinsky, and Miro

They handled color quite differently, and their methods of creating shapes and shadows are unique to each artist to the point that each artist's work is easily identified from its unique treatment of the shape [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1434

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

Creation of Sculpture. Subtractive and Additive Processes.

The acknowledgement of the additive and subtractive processes of sculpture working is necessary condition in the creation of the sculpture; therefore it would be relevant to describe the technical skills, the physical and expressive possibilities [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

The Genre of Science Fiction in Movies

In this paper we will analyse "The War of the Worlds", "Star Wars" and "The Fifth Element", as movies that reflect the genre of science fiction being transformed from something that used to help people [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2508

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

Chinese Politics. “To Live” Movie by Zhang Yimou

The movie, 'To Live' begins just before the Communist takeover of China and the opening scenes are almost in stark contrast to the approaching storm of revolution, which the country is soon to be swooped [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 710

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

Modern Art Directions Analysis

The new art of the 20th century is a variety of sections and directions. The creativity of separate representatives of the avant-garde does not fit at all in the frameworks of any art currents.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 743

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

New Wave in East Asian Cinema

Initially, the cinema was consisting of documentaries which sooner caused the people to lose interest but with the advent of the new wave in the Asian cinema, the young directors focused on modern issues and [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 665

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

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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 [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

The Pregnant Form as Art Form

However, with the advent of Christianity and the vilification of the female form, it became necessary to hide the woman's body, especially the 'grotesque' form of the pregnant woman.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2562

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