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Reuniting the Sculptures of Parthenon

This way, the British museum would retain the right of ownership and control over the sculptures, and by doing so the marbles of Parthenon could be again reunited, as the British artifacts would be displayed [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 676

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

George Straight: Music Legend

I would never have the chance to know how and why Goerge Straight thinks like this when it comes to his music, hence by being him for a single day, I would be able to [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

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

The Pregnant Form as Modern 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: 3
  • Words: 2046

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

World is an AI: Main Philosophy of the ‘Matrix’

It has come to be recognized as the "brain in a vat" proposal, and one leading presentation of the idea is offered by the philosopher Jonathan Dancy: "You can not know that you are not [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1312

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

Visual Perspective in Renaissance Art

Murray has argued that perspective allowed the illiterate and the literate to visualize a picture and created a pictorial space that unified the beholder with the image.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1372

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

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

Foundations of Modern Art: Getty Museum

Jacques-Louis David's excellent masterpiece of the young lovers Telemachus and Eucharis was created at the dawn of the artist's life when the defeat of Napoleon and the return of the monarchy in France forced him [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 618

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

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

The History of Incas’ Art

Below the king were four officials, called apos, each in charge of one of the quarters. Each governor was under the orders of the apo of the quarter in which his province lay.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1902

The Question of Globalization, Power and Representation

However, as everybody else feel the impact of Chinese products penetrating even the poorest and most remote areas of third world countries and English become the language that must, power and representation seem to still [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3019

Bluegrass Music in US Immigrants

The people who started migrating into America and the music that was brought with them was said to have paved the way for the beginning of bluegrass music.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 806

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

Art Pilgrimage in the Sixteenth Century

Acts of patronage occurred within the larger context of the 'artistic process.' During the 16th century, culturally significant body postures and gestures, themes, and even social values were emphasized by artists tied to a society's [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 683

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

David Lynch – an American Filmmaker

The video for the analysis is the conversation with David Lynch - an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 404

“Roger & Me” by Michael Moore Review

The following two takes on Roger & Me deal not only with the film and the surrounding controversy, but also with some of the esthetic and political issues it raises, from the perspective of two [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 647

Madamoiselle Riviere. A Portrait. 1805; Louvre, Paris.

The painting, Mademoiselle Riviere, was painted in 1805 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres while he was living in France. A good example of his work was the Valpincon Bather that he painted in 1808.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 512

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

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

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

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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.
  • 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

The Dramatic Effect of Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”

Hartman tells the recruits that Chaplain Charlie preaches how 'the free world' would overcome the evil forces of Communism with the 'aid of God and a few marines,' adding that God has a 'hard-on' for [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 623

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

Gender and the Musical Canon by Marcia Citron

Gender and the Musical Canon is a timely and engaging read, and was one of the publications which at their time were a sign of profound and welcome change within the field of musicology.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3280

“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

Meaning of Musical Ekphrasis

This means that arts developed closely connected and nowadays, more and more pieces of art are being created not by a single kind of art but by the combination of them that provides the reader [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1268

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

Vivaldi’s Venice: Music and Theatre in 18th Century

We are going to study the working path of the famous Venetian composer and one of the prominent violinists of his time, Antonio Vivaldi, and the influence that historical events of that time had on [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

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

Is There Such a Thing as Impressionism in Music?

The title of the cycle may also call into play the very process of reflecting and mirroring, both the "reflection" of moods in colors or sounds and a person's mirroring in social interaction, including feedback [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1185

“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

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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.
  • 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 History. Michelangelo’s David Restoration

Hundreds of attempts are having been made by restorers and art historians to come to an agreement on the extent to which the works of art should be restored and the way how it should [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 360

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

Jenny Holzer as a Contemporary Artist

Although she lives and works in New York, her work is known throughout the country for its biting reflections on political issues of the day, coupled with her blatant attempt to involve the average consumer [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 508

Art Appreciation: External Influences on Art

The end of sixteen century saw various manifestations of the rise of the scientific revolution. Later is made up of the social and economic conditions of the people." The art and its manifestations are steeped [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 793

Albrecht Durer: The Renaissance Mind Mirrored in Art

The free Imperial city of Nuremberg was at the height of prosperity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries during which period there was also great progress in the realms of arts and science.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1317

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

German Expressionism and Fauvism

The paintings portraying the mores and morals of pre-war Berlin are the exciting script of a soul fascinated by the temptations of the metropolis, and each stroke of the brush conveys nervous tension and emotional [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

City Music Reflected in Urban Processes & Places

The film from the point of view of the artist showed clips of conversations, interviews, meeting of friends, formation of musical groups, or an incomplete musical performance stressing the social nature of the event.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2264

How Pop Radio Programming Defines the Music

Issues for consideration in this paper will include inquiry and the argument on details, commentary and conclusions about the nature of the music programmed; a statement of methods and purpose in the listening; connections made [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1554

Jan Van Eyck’s “Ghent Altarpiece” Artwork Analysis

There's a picture of female - which is actually Eva; there's male which is Adam; there are the members of the church the leaders and the followers; there's the activities conducted inside and outside the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 611

A Matter of Life and Death Compositional Elements

Through the usage of color scheme, props, and the setting of the last mise en scene, A Matter of Life and Death facilitated the propagandist message of Anglo-American understanding within the pursuit of individual happiness.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 447