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Interactive Design of Museum Exhibitions

Furthermore, the process of learning is also at the core of every exhibition as museums usually provide much information about the authors of art pieces and the history of art itself.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2302

Mystery Compositions in Church Music

It is necessary to mention the meter of the present composition, which serves to create the same effect. It is the effect of harmony in the world.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 416

Reality in Paintings of 16th-21st Centuries

Raphael's Saint Michael Overwhelming the Demon is one of his works which is a part of the Louvre's collection. The work is a great representative of the art of the nineteenth century's realism.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1173

“American in Paris” a Musicals by George Gershwin

It is an integrated musical in the sense that both songs and dances are merged perfectly well alongside with a story that gives it a fine and appealing taste to the public. Although the film [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 406

“Guys and Dolls” a Musical Film by Samuel Goldwyn

Although the film starts with familiar song and entertaining dances, most of the songs are not recognized by the audience, for instance, "Tonight Luck Be lady Tonight", I were a Bell" do not entertain the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 272

Career of Teaching Art

Many people recognize and think of art as a business, with very few noting the importance of teaching art itself as a more important business and a career worth to be chosen.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1173

“Wall-E” and “Avatar” Films Comparison

The climax part comes in when EVE succeeds in putting the plant inside the machine and brings all the humans back to earth, and when EVE manages to repair Wall-E and brings Wall-E back to [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1206

The Movie “Lion’s Den” by Pablo Trapero

In Lion's Den, Trapero acts as a representative of the latter category of filmmakers, as he is focused on narrating the story of the main character and not on making the viewer experience certain emotions [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3362

Crisis Management in the Film “Apollo 13”

However, it was also a success, as, despite major damage to the spaceship, all astronauts returned to the Earth in safety. The film shows that the crew and the team worked hard to develop ways [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 322

“The Life and Times of Sun Ra” by John Szwed

In this paper, the focus will be placed on exploring Szwed's analysis of Sun Ra's personal and musical characteristics, the artist's biography and his contribution to jazz as a whole.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1719

“The Seventh Seal” as a Self-Realization Movie

Although The Seventh Seal incorporates the elements of tricking death, which would, later on, become rather cliched tropes, the underlying message of studying one's fears and limitations allows delving into the study of the human [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

A View from the Bridge by Miler

The play is based on a real story that happened in the fifties of the last century. This is a tragic story about love and jealousy, friendship and betrayal.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1038

Zhuang Huan’s “Poppy Fields” in Modern Chinese Art

Zhang Huan disclosed the meaning of his art, and particularly, of this series in several interviews declaring that these "paintings represent the hallucination of happiness and the hallucination of fear and loneliness in this life [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1365

Perspectives on Photography

In his essay, John Berger states that the war in Vietnam was one of the most influential transformations of the world.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1404

Sam Peckinpah and the Western Genre

This essay will explore the defining characteristics of Peckinpah's films that affected the development of the Western genre in the future.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1908

The American Movie Industry Since 1949

This drastic switch was brought by the change to the studio system and the rise of television, Doherty says: "Since the 1950s, moviemakers have been forced to narrow their focus and attract the one group [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1987

American and International Cinema and Film Studies

Therefore, the standards of the classical film industry, designed for the films to be profitable, were just as relevant in the post-classical era as they were in the 1950s.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1093

Ideas in Neo-Expressionism and Contemporary Art

The insights of identity can be seen in the artworks of many contemporary artists. The majority of them try to reveal their philosophical views and attract the public's attention to those issues they consider to [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

Chinese Fifth Generation: New Wave and Art Cinema

The Fifth G films depart from the Chinese visual arts and the fashion of film narration that prevailed in the domestic market before, yet it is possible to say that the movie discourse of that [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2087

Sioux Culture in the “Dances with Wolves” Film

In "Dances with Wolves", one of the most obvious non-verbal cues that occurred in the communication between the American soldier, Lieutenant Dunbar, and the representatives of the Sioux tribe was the greeting.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 674

Urban Society and Humanism in Renaissance Art

The role of education and literacy was significant as well because many people were able to spread the opinions of these individuals and make everyone believe that the art of Renaissance was the best.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

Ancient Egyptian Culture and Society

Vizier, who was the second powerful man after the king and the next person to the king, was in charge of legal matters and at the same time the commander of the police.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Comedy of Errors: Drama of Human Identity

It is possible to assume that the choice of the rhythm was mainly defined by the overall duration of the performance and the genre of Shakespeare's composition.
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

The Whitney, David Zwirner’s and Pierogi Galleries

To understand the impression which the exhibited art objects and the overall atmosphere of the Whitney have on the public, it is important to discuss its location, collection, and marketing.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1624

Cold War Korea in “Joint Security Area” Movie

Both people and soldiers were taught that the other side is the enemy without a clear understanding of the true nature of the ideological conflict."The ideological training they had received to hate and to kill [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 522

Artistic Representation of Nature

One of the main qualities of visual art is that it allows people to get in touch with the surrounding physical reality through the perceptual lenses of another person's mind hence, making it possible for [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1648

Hollywood Cinema Research and Its Challenges

Since the range of genres is broad, I think to focus on the issue of male and female spectatorship and evaluate the selected stereotypes in the given context.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1138

Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Genocide Presentation

In terms of the educational objective, I aimed to learn the aspects and details of the Holocaust through the artifacts, objects, and things that belonged to people experiencing these events' atrocities.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 641

Virginia Holocaust Museum Trip and Experience

I wanted to make sure that I could listen to myself and truly feel what the Holocaust was for humanity and is for me. I felt outraged that someone could think they had the right [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

Virginia Holocaust Museum Field: Trip Reflection

I must admit that the very fact of listening to the voice of somebody who went through the horrors of the Holocaust proved to be at least as revealing as all of the artifacts and [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 592

Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ Marketing Challenges

The primary challenge facing the MFA is the gradual decrease in the number of visitors. Since the MFA is a museum, it presents interest to the two groups of customers: local and tourist visitors.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

“Daisy” a Film by Andrew Lau

The plot and cinematography maintain a somber tone that genuinely reflects the dark world of the protagonists but is cleverly contrasted with the sentimental symbolism of a daisy flower.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 500

Jeff Wall’s Reinterpretation of Famous Paintings

He gives hints for the viewers to see that the location is not real and it cannot be found in anyone's house. In this way, it seems that the woman is making a photo of [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2214

Homosexuality in “Laura” and “Brokeback Mountain”

1 It may seem that the representation of Waldo embodies the features of sexual perversion and decadence, as expressed by the sexual intercourse of the young men with the older man along with the unusual [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 847

The Film “Chilsu and Mansu”

Rapid industrialization and modernization of South Korea resulted in the class divide and evident social dysfunction as communication became broken down, and the working class was isolated."Tribulations of two young men, symbols of the minjung, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 510

Music in the Mathematics, Finance and Economics

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Basically, learning music and different accompanying instruments depends on the ability of an individual to understand concepts such as ratios and fractions, which are significant in the fields of mathematics and financial economics.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1440

Art Exhibitions and the Impact that They Leave

The specified approach toward representing the idea of beauty, in general, and the female body, in particular, seems quite legitimate seeing that Carolee Schneemann has been known as the pioneer in the study of subjectivity [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2229

Etihad Museum: All You Need to Know

The museum is the visitors pavilion, and the museum is underground. The museum looks at the time period of the unification of the United Arab Emirates.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1558

The History of War Photography

The purpose of this report is to identify basic trends in the development of war photography and determine the conceptual, stylistic, and technical changes observed in the course of its formation.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2235

Films: The City of Life and Death and Schindler’s List

The former picture focuses on the Nanking massacre an unprecedented act of violence against civilians in one of the Chinese settlements by Japanese soldiers occupying the city, while the latter movie is a biographical and [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1700

Theater of Corruption in “Syriana” by Stephen Gaghan

The aim of this paper is to explore the overlapping of oil and politics in the context of the movie. In scene 20 when discussing the negotiations of the prince's brother with American lawyers, Woodman [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2024

German Expressionism in Cinema

The universal style of expressionist films was the manner in which the audience connected and related with the inner experiences of the characters.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1939

Schindler’s List Film Analysis Essay

There is even more to the film in this regard along with exposing the unsightly aspects of how the Nazis proceeded to implement the 'final solution' of the 'Jewish problem' during the WW2, Schindler's List [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 855

Film Analysis “What If Marx Was Right?”

The film outlines the relation between industrial revolution, the price for commodities, alienation, the lengths of the working day and capitalism.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 510

Sports and Education: “Coach Carter”

The film Coach Carter illuminates the story of a school basketball team and their coach, Ken Carter. As it is demonstrated in the film Coach Carter, this type of structured activities actually helps students excel [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 844

The Role of Music in the Film “Lolita”

Besides, Kubrick performed a great task of deciphering the polysemantic code of writing and then, encoding the same message using the means that the movie disposes of the picture, the speech, and the music.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1561

“The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo

In addition, the viewer also observes the work of the guerrillas, the organization of the underground, and the very scenario of the revolution, which almost turned into a civil war not on the scale of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 875

George Frideric Handel: Life and Contribution

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The ultimate message of these commemorations and many other works written on the subject of Handel's career in England is that the composer's contribution to the country's culture was inestimable2.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

“Are Genres Stable?” by Rick Altman

The author briefly describes the previous developments in the interpretation of genres and poses the questions on the permanence, coherence, difference, and change in the area.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 755

The Changing Nature of the Music Industry

One of the most important technological innovations of the twentieth century was the creation of the World Wide Web, a global network of servers that allows users to access information via the Internet.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1107

Rock’n’Roll: Musical Genre of the Twentieth Century

Being quite intense, the guitar solo in the middle of the song introduces the energy of rock and roll and also helps to express the disappointment in love, one of the key themes in rock [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1491

Sanity Theme in “The Walking Dead”

In a post-apocalyptic community that Kirkman created in The Walking Dead, the readers get to have an insight into human behavior by exploring how people unravel, or how they react in the face of death [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3400

Chinese Ceramics: Historical Research

The following is an ewer related to the Song Dynasty and created between 11thC and 12thC in Hebei province 1: That period of China was very intense and devoted to improving the quality of the [...]
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

Violence in Western Movie Genre

The Western movie genre, the main characteristics of which are guns, horses, and cactuses, presents violence that also relates to women and minorities and affects their portrayal in various films. To sum it up, the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Norton Simon Museum Exhibition

Rubens' Meleager and Atalanta and the Hunt of the Calydonian Boar is among the highlights of the museum's collection of European paintings.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Western and Eastern Pop Art Differences

For this reason, the modern age with its great dependence on money and consumer character of society gives rise to a question of whether there is a significant difference between western and eastern pop art [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 821

Urban Layer in the Film “The Inception”

Just like the movie, the phenomenon of the city layer is complicated to apprehend from the first reading, as long hours of thorough reflections are needed to become aware of the ideas mentioned both in [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Music’s Role in Culture

Music and Youth Culture by Dan Laughey is a book entirely dedicated to the role and functions of music in the youth culture.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 728

“Christmas in August” a Movie by Hur Jin-Ho

However, the heavy-handed emotional and dramatic elements in the genre create a sort of stereotype around the films and the expectations that the audiences have.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 511

South Korea Film Melodrama

The country itself was healing from the traumatic experiences of the war and evolving its perceptions of gender, culture, and politics.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

“High Plains Drifter” a Film by Clint Eastwood

The tension rises as the men of the town plot to kill the stranger to take the control back; however, he survives, killing them and the three outlaws towards the end of the film.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 667

Rivera’s “Marisol” Drama on the Stage

Rivera looked at the troubles of homelessness, social disorder and inequality, as well as identity loss, from a poetic point of view and placed them in the setting of apocalyptic New York, in the world [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 675

“Foxfinder” Theatrical Production by Dawn King

The lighting of the stage was remarkably balanced to represent a farmhouse and the intentions of the playwright. The conversation between the couple and the government agent represented the interaction between the state and the [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

“Gee” Song by Girls’ Generation

One of the most famous Pop Music groups is the Girls' Generation. However, in the major K-Pop band, Girls' Generation hit song, "Gee," the girls dance along to the song in shorts that reveal their [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 295

Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia

The main goal of the program is to reduce and avoid defacement caused by graffiti in the city. Stopping graffiti is not the utmost solution to the threat of defacement in a city.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

Modernity of Gustave Courbet and Eduardo Manet

Because of this, most of Gustave's paintings done in the 1860s, are known for ushering in the era of modernism. In the Origin of the World, there was an image of a nude female showing [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

Edvard Munch’s Inspirations and Approach

His art bears a distinctive imprint of psychological anguish and often resorts to the controversial themes related to sexuality, illness, and the origins of the supernatural.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Drama Scene in the “Hancock” Movie

Although the key scene of the movie, in which Ray, one of the side characters, reveals to Hancock the reason for his unpopularity is rather straightforward in its message, the underlying ambiguity of the tone [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1200

Inas El Degheidi’s Life History and Impact on Art

This paper makes a retrospective study on the life, background, and lifestyle of this filmmaker as well as her contributions to the advancements of performance arts and to the fight against gender discrimination and sexual [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2043

Film Theory and Social Media Intersection

The second point of intersection that unites the domains of film and social media is the approach to the involvement of the observers.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1718

“10 Things I Hate About You” by Gil Junger

This is a great lesson to her and any other youth who may fall in the trap of such destructive boys. Joey is a bad boy and would not treat her with the dignity she [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 711

Surfing in Raymond Pettibon’s Paintings

In this paper, two surf-centered works by Pettibon will be analyzed to clarify how the chosen artist sees life, discovers the processes that make people happy and satisfied, and discusses the issues that matter today."The [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2222

“Kundun” Biographical Drama by Martin Scorsese

The story begins with the search for the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama: it turns out to be a farmer's child who passed the candidate test and now must move to Potala Palace to [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 866

Country Music Legend: George Strait

The professional career of George Strait as the country music performer started in 1981 with his first song that became one the hits of that time, "Unwound".
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

“The Rendezvous” a Video by Rob Cantor

In the theoretical framework of the functionalist approach, it is also reasonable to suggest that the best way to eliminate some negative features of the modern society is to understand what function they perform and [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art’s Exhibitions

In terms of mission, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal is dedicated to revealing to the world the crucial position that the present-day art holds in the community.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1217

Oriental and Western Ceramics

The second subject is the copy of the Portland Vase made by Josiah Wedgwood at the end of the 18th century.
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

“Gasland” a Movie by Josh Fox

It is the problem of the antagonism of the interests of industries and the nation. It is not a new conflict, but the fact that the gas industry got exempt from the duty of protecting [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 638

Music Influence on Feeling Movie Scenes

It is the culmination of the movie, as it sets the foundation for further developments and the conflict resolution between the antagonist and protagonist.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1154

Recognition of Art in Saudi Arabia

The press usually highlights the issue as the triumph of liberty and human right to expression every time an exhibition takes place in Saudi Arabia, or a Saudi Arabian artist participates in the international event.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2037

The Film “Tyson”: Heavyweight Boxer’s Life

Mike Tyson is one of the legends of the sports world who has made glorious and notorious things inside and outside the ring. The first scenes of the movie reveal the hardships of the future [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 833

The Film “Rear Window” by Alfred Hitchcock

The relationship between the visual participant-interactive or represented- in this film is realized by elements defined as vectors or processes which correspond to a group of action in the surprise of fear.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1381