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Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait and Journal

It seems to me that this portrait will be of great interest to people who will study my works in the future. This is one of the main goals that I will always try to [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

Paintings of Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin

The artists behind the new movement rejected the notions and styles embraced by their predecessors. Georges Seurat was the first artist to reinvent the use of pigment and color in different paintings.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Napoleonic Portraiture in David’s and Canova’s Art

David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" is a masterpiece because it gives the true picture of Napoleon Bonaparte. Although this was not the case with Napoleon, the painting achieved its purpose because the emperor was always [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Romanticism in Seascape Painting by Jules Dupre

In particular, it is important to examine the stylistic peculiarities of this artwork and the way in which it reflects the cultural trends that emerged in the nineteenth century.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

Authorship Concept in the Film “Django Unchained”

Overall, the concept of authorship is important for discussing the visual elements of this movie, its promotion, and the key ideas that are conveyed to the viewers. In part, this argument can be applied to [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2497

The Film “Boyz N the Hood”: Gun Violence

This essay explores the theme of gun violence in the movie, 'Boyz n the Hood.' The Boyz n the Hood movie is a two-decade movie that reveals some miserable lifestyle that the teenagers of the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1164

Lindy Hop Dance: Development, Events, Figures

Besides, all the aspects of this dance are going to be taken into consideration the movements, the music, and its origin, dressing styles of the performers throughout the years, public perception of this form of [...]
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3036

Picasso’s Guernica and Conrad Bo’s Artworks

For instance, it is possible to compare a modernist artwork and work pertaining to contemporary art to identify the discourse and the way the society has evolved.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 693

Music Band “Mahotella Queens”

The band took South Africa and the whole world by storm during the 1970s. The goal of this paper is to describe the band and its music as world music.
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  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 981

The Bill Shreeve Band and Its Success Factors

The music played in the city varies from one event to the other with local bands specializing in entertaining the various groups of individuals based on the nature of the event.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1372

Chinese Art, Fashion, and Mass Production

Such attitude invokes the lack of individuality creating the mass production products, proving that along with the promotion of the new artists in the world and sharing ideas the large trade and political institutions can [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 492

Contemporary Art at Saatchi Gallery of London

The work states the idea that the "location of the soul was not necessarily in the body", and the focus is not on the man trying to breathe above the water, but on the vivid [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

Hine’s Indianapolis and Kruger’s Help! Photography

Nevertheless, unlike Lewis Hine, Barbara Kruger chooses to combine different media, and in this way, she departs from the canons of the modernist art. Overall, this comparison indicates that the works of Lewis Hine and [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 750

Korean Pop Music and Youth Identity

Korean pop music has become a powerful genre that connects many youths to their counterparts in different parts of the world.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Negro Slaves in the Film “Twelve Years a Slave”

If there was an argument to the contrary, this was brought to a decisive end when Solomon Northup was kidnapped from his home in one of the northern states, and dragged into a life of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Technologies in the Film “2001: A Space Odyssey”

The implication of each scene and the overall storyline cannot be separated from the duality of man and machine: the question of whether man or machine will prevail is a question that continues until the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 16
  • Words: 4647

Frank Zappa’s Life and Music

Nevertheless, his debut album with his band "The Mothers of Invention" is the one that introduced Frank Zappa to the world of popular music.
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  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1679

Development of Studio Recording Technology

The invention of the phonograph record at the end of the nineteenth century, for instance, radically and irrevocably changed the nature of the musical performance.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2103

Paul Simon’s Music Style

The combination of the different musical styles, the different genres, and the mutual impact of the different cultures gives birth to such a notion as world music.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

Film’ Episode Analysis “A Bite of China”

This paper presents a discussion of the meaning of food as a part of culture in China based on a chosen episode from "A Bite of China" series. In the Chinese and the Mongolian cultures [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Nineteenth Century Romanticism

The works of early composers, writers, painters, and poets evolved from the onset, and in the increased quest for perfection, a spirit of romanticism was born.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2761

The Great Exhibition of 1851

The main of them had to do with the ideas of: The presumed natural dominance of the West over the rest of the world.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

The Photography Gallery in Melbourne

The photos are mounted on glass and owing to the fact that the setting is indoor, a lot of lighting is applied to prevent any darkness.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 502

The “Wrecking Ball” Song by Miley Cyrus

Officially, "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus is the success of a beautiful voice and a charismatic performance, scientifically it is a brainworm with many layers designed to penetrate human brain on the unconscious level.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1140

“The Gold Rush” a Film by Charlie Chaplin

The immigration to the USA with the desire to get a better life may also be connected with the movie, even though people did not search for the gold there.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

Japanese American National Museum

The authors of the museum comprise of the staff, consultants, and scholars who put emphasis on multi-ethnic partnership in the process of planning and safeguarding of the museum.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2560

Who Are Protagonists in Film Bamboozled (2000)?

In essence, the essay will identify the protagonist, give reasons why the identified character is a protagonist, and detail evidence from the movie, which support the character of the actor.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1406

“As Good As It Gets” a Film by James Brooks

At a particular point, he offers money for the medication of Carol's son in return for her usual service at the restaurant that leads to the fact that the two arrange a date.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1397

Art History of Nineteenth Century

Each of the boats is under the control of a standing person, but their identities are indistinct because of the mist, the morning dusk, and the distance between the viewer and the subjects.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

African Art and Lega’s People Legacy

As Bravmann explains, the culture of the Lega society blends the elements of the colonial Bwamis and the elements of other African cultures: "it is through initiation into Bwami, and through the gradual movement through [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1657

The New Hollywood Cinema Development

The changes have led to the emergence of new business models in the industry. The location of the major filmmaking companies in New York City remains a historical fact, which led to the development of [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 895

Expressionism as an Art Form

The given way to look at expressionist art both broadens the definition and narrows it down in that it stretches the concept to the idea of art being used as a tool for creating the [...]
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  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

“Death of Socrates” a Painting by Jacques-Louis David

The scenes of the prison and the emotions of the students in this picture refer to the memories of the abandoned attempts of reform in France, especially the 1787 dissolution of the Assembly of Notables.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

“Le Grand Voyage” a Movie by Ismaël Ferroukhi

A lot of the movie shows the road trip and how the father and his son communicate. The element that reinforces the scenes and the theme of the movie is the way the camera is [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 867

Films Comparison: Inch’Allah Dimanche and Slumdog Millionaire

Nacify claims that the perspective followed by accented filmmakers is similar to that of Third Cinema theorists, except for the modifications made by the former to address specific aesthetic and thematic concerns pertaining to transnational [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2070

The Hunger Games: Time and Space in the Movie

The major themes of the story is that people can sometimes get more of what they bargained for in helping someone, that the reality of the world is very perceptive and individual, and that fiction [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 992

“Taken” a Film by Luc Besson

The scene where Bryan arrives at the card game of the kidnappers and demands money is filled with sounds that prepare the viewer for something to happen.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

Street Art as a Political Protest

Street art is a traditional means of communication it is utilised by a cross-section of collectives and the state to inform and persuade.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

Robert Wilson: Artist and His Beliefs

It is possible to say that by examining these qualities, one can better appreciate the achievements of Robert Wilson. This is one of the challenges Robert Wilson is ready to face.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Film Studies: “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola

Some of them, as listed and explained below, include; The business touch to every aspect as distinguished from a personal perspective, the difference in the worlds of men and women then, and the difference that [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1565

Mise-en-scenes in the Film “Amadeus”

In fact, very often, the characteristics of a particular mise-en-scene are being defined by the nature of a director's approach to editing.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1729

The Invention of Cinema at the End of the XIX Century

First attempt to introduce the idea of moving pictures traces back to middle of the seventeenth century, when Athanasius Kircher "who projected crude hand-painted images of the Devil...on the wall of a darkened chamber by [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1950

Mesoamerican Ethnography in the Movie ‘Apocalypto’

However, this was disputed as there was the suggestion that the depiction of an object through another medium could not be held as evidence of the original existence of the object, and this led to [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1783

Lost in Political Philosophy

This is evidenced in naming of the movie's characters and profiling of the episodes which serve as an encouragement to the viewers to appreciate the philosophical themes in it.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1659

Filmmaking History of the USA

Blockbuster films refer to the big budget films that hinge their success on the identity of the stars in the films as well as the advertisements surrounding the release of the films for extended periods [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2778

The Grass Dance Cultural Importance

Historians believe that the Grass Dance emerged during the early years of The Reservation Period among the warrior societies. This explains that the movement of the dance was meaningful to the natives.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1085

Claude Monet: Life and Art Contribution

At the age of 11, he joined an art school and began to develop his art career until he became a professional artist, who left a legacy in the world of art.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1384

Music Video “Mockingbird” by Eminem

Considering family as one of the aspects of American culture, the music video Mockingbird by Eminem perfectly reflects the situation in the US society.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 298

Race Identity Evaluation in the Film “Malcolm X”

Considering the points at which Omi's work crosses the plot of the movie and marking the differences between the two, one can track the slightest implementations of racism in the modern American society, which is [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1927

Ballets: “Carmen” and “In the Upper Room”

The ability of the dance to captivate and touch the viewer's heart is striking and overwhelming in this particular performance."Carmen" impressed with the contrasts and breathtaking professionalism, and "In the Upper Room" made the viewers [...]
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620

Shaun Gladwell’s Art: Materials And Techniques

Gladwell appears to be one of the modern artists whose skills have broken from the past in terms of specialization and application of both materials and skills, especially due to the digitalization of his methods [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1642

Modern Music Development in the USA

The current rock music has experienced metamorphosis and has the characteristics of disco in term of explicit content and glorification of satanic regalia.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 609

Zombies and Special Effects in “World War Z” Movie

An intriguing and tense movie, the World War Z is definitely worth checking out at least for the sake of the special effects that, much to the audience's surprise, were pretty well integrated, even though [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 344

The Silent Film “Metropolis”

The film is very significant in the history of film because it represents the golden age of the silent film era.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2238

Sand Animation Works by Kseniya Simonova

The show of a sand artist includes a video that allows the audience to see the process of the creation of the piece; it also is accompanied by special music, and, of course, the art [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

The Legendary Opera “Parsifal” by Wilhelm Richard Wagner

The creation of Parsifal, the last and most considerable dramatic work of Wagner, lasted from 1857 to 1882, embracing the last third of the composer's life, and thus absorbing his most mature and thoughtful ideas.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1487

Dystopian Future in the “Blade Runner” Film

The foremost aspect of how the urban landscape is being represented in Blade Runner is that the director made a deliberate point in accentuating the perceptual unfriendliness of the environment, in the foreground of which [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 749

Film Studies: “The Shawshank Redemption”

This identifies well with the parole board as the crime was committed in is youth and that he has accepted his mistakes and is changed for the better when he talks of not being able [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Los Angeles and Seattle’ Music in 80-90s

This paper explores life in South Central Los Angeles and Seattle in the late eighties and in the early nineties based on musical productions in the sub-genres of Gangsta Rap, and Grunge.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1692

Chinese Cinematography: “I Love Beijing” by Ning Ying

The scene of the meeting responds to developing the idea of the people's interactions and gender opposition in relation to the changing urban life, and it is characterized by rather long shots and by the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 815

Islamic Art: The Pilgrim Bottle and Nasrid Plasterwork

The chronological history in the development of Islamic art has been featured both in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum through various displays of scientific instruments, metalwork, calligraphic decoration, and glass mosque [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 939

Film Studies: “The Mark of Zorro” by Fred Niblo

Fred Niblo's The Mark of Zorro can be well discussed, as one of the most outstanding examples of the classical editing technique's successful deployment, because the manner in which the director went about connecting film's [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2508

A History of the World in the 100 Objects Exhibition

For 100 days of the exhibition, the exhibition enables the people visiting to have first hand experience of how human beings and the world evolved and shaped each other over the years.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1663

“Attack on the Iron Coast” a Film by Paul Wendkos

The proliferation of global events that compose true-life stories triggered the move towards the improvement of the movie and film industries, immediately after the global events of the last world war that saw the American [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2737

Horror Film Studies: “Nosferatu”

The emergence of Nosferatu on the deck of the ship and the one in which one of the characters is shown against a range of crosses in a cemetery are the scenes chosen for the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Plein-Air Painting: History and Factors

A number of researchers attribute Plein-Air painting to a number of inventions made in the 19th century. The French impressionists were a group of artists from the 19th century who studied the impact of light [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 1142

Music Role in Personal and Social Identities

Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to answer the question 'How does music contribute to personal and social identities?' In answering this question, the paper will develop a comprehensive analysis of a number of [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2063

The Ars Antiqua Music Concept

Ars Antiqua is a Latin word describing ancient art from 1100 to 1300 in some parts of France even though the exact infiltration of the usage of the word in other places has not been [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2210

“Penelope” by Mark Palansky

Yet, the family curse deprives the heroine of the possibility to interact with the outer world because of pig-disorder on her face.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

Gender in Film: “Penelope” by Mark Palansky

Thus, the purpose of this mid-term paper is to apply the concepts learning within the course to the message of the movie Penelope basing on the analysis and discussion of the scene from the movie.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

Censorship and the Arts in the United States

The article titled "Censorship versus Freedom of Expression in the Arts" by Chiang and Posner expresses concerns that the government may illegitimately censor art to avoid corruption of morals and avoid subversion of politics.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1411

Artworks Comparison: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Tribute Money

Though the Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a fresco created by Picasso, was created in an entirely different epoch than Masaccio's Tribute Money was, the two artworks still share a range of stylistic, compositional and conceptual similarities, [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 878

Chinatown’ by Roman Polanski Film Analysis

In many cases, the authors attempt to highlight the flaws of the community. To some degree, this complexity of the narrative is important for creating the sense of disorientation.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

The Basic Critical Theory for Photography

According to Berger, images depend on the way of seeing of the person who has taken them. Berger insists that 'publicity images' and 'advertising images' have the same meanings.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 500

Pablo Picasso’s Painting Artworks

To understand the variety and importance of Pablo Picasso's contribution to the world art, it is necessary to focus on analyzing such artist's famous works as Boy with a Pipe, Guernica, and The Weeping Woman.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1087

Harry Potter Movies in Concentric Circles Model

The center of the model is the most important notion which influences a great number of other issues and leads to the appearance of new layers which could be compared with the ripples on the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1709

Racial Issues in “Crash” by Paul Haggis

The sheer representation of the two characters compared to the others reflects a measure of racial bigotry. The film propagates the assumptions that the whites are peaceful while the blacks have a high propensity to [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Musicians: Guitarist Jimmy Page

Page was the leader of the Led Zeppelin Band. Despite that, he learned most of the unique recording styles while he was a session musician; it is at Led Zeppelin, where Page employed them.
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  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Bundling and Distribution of Digitized Music Over the Internet

One of the approaches analysed the impacts of fluctuating the percentage of the customers liking specific items and the package. The second approach analysed the impacts of fluctuating the set prices of the items and [...]
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1510

Social Inequalities in HBO’s “The Wire”

Using examples of D'Angelo's communication with his followers the paper demonstrates that the inequalities of the inner-city Baltimore showed in The Wire are deeply rooted in the minds of the representatives of lower class who [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 731

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyk: Artwork Evaluation

In order to successfully conduct a criticism of an artwork, it is required to conduct a thorough investigation of the culture that surrounds the work and look at it from the perspective of cultural values [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1411

Swan Lake Choreographed by Matthew Bourne

The first meeting of the Prince and the Swan gives new insights into the story of great love. It is necessary to note that the choreography of the excerpt is sophisticated and appealing.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

The Flaw by David Sington Documentary

In the documentary, Sington narrates about the events that led to the global financial crisis experienced in the year 2008. Based on this, I believe that it is important to analyze the root causes of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 819