Art Essay Examples and Topics. Page 39

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Philadelphia Art Museum Expansion

The solution of the Department of the Urban Outreach encouraged the museum to define the approaches to serve diverse needs of community.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1682

Slaughterhouse-Five Movie Analysis

There is a lot of activity in the life of the main character, starting from the time he was born right when he envisioned his death at the hands of a hired assassin.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

What is Eating Gilbert Grape

Based on the actions of Gilbert, the audience identifies that what is "eating him" is the dilemma of how to balance his desires with the needs of his family.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 636

Non-Linear Structure Film and Unity of the Film Story

In fact, one of the many advantages of the movie is that it does not shove its ethical dilemmas into the viewer's face quite on the opposite, the ethical lesson is offered to the audience [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 849

The Description of Nature in Jack Dykinga’ Photographs

There are several aspects of these photographs that I would like to discuss, namely the interplay of light and shadow and structured space. This is the main lesson that I learned from the works of [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Jack Dykinga’s Outdoor Photography

The works of Jack Dykinga have longed appealed to because this photographer is always able to emphasize the beauty of nature by paying attention to color patterns and space.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt

However, this passage is a complete opposite of the happenings in the movie "Set it Off" that highlights the plight of women in a competitive society.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1382

Classical and Modern Music

To understand the connection between music performance and the epoch, it is possible to consider a concert in the late eighteenth century and a concert of hip-hop music in the early twenty-first century.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter

The plot focuses on the sinister plan of the vampire world to take of the control over the Untied States and, therefore, Lincoln decides to liberate Americans from the vampire's dominance and eliminate their influence.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

The Artwork Manicurated by Judi Werthein

Two years after her project received nation-wide recognition, Werthein was able to design sneakers that were distributed to all the people living in Tijuana and others were sold in some of the boutiques located in [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 615

Dance Education and Culture

The important elements under discussion for all the dance styles analyzed include, the progression, the uniqueness in steps and the relevance of the knowledge gained to the student.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 18
  • Words: 4956

Role of the Subtext

Subtext is the specific technique when the background information about the character or the events is told as the part of the dialogues, the part of the movie.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

Who is Devi, Hindu Goddess?

She is perceived as the mother of the universe. The dissimilar forms which the goddess uses to manifest herself to the people are signs of her divinity.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 615

Photography’s Impact on Society

The pictures taken from scenes of dying soldiers in the American civil war are some of the reasons that evoked strong emotions, which led to the end of the war.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1657

Critique Erin Brockovich Movie

The movie involved six actors and became the best movie in the same year, a fact that brought speculations that the movie industry was going to gain more profits in the years that were to [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Matua, Abelam and Baining People’s Masks

In its turn, the design of Abelam mask appears to be subliminal of its creator's deep-seated anxieties as to what he or she perceived as the 'power of eyes' hence, the unnaturally enlarged eyes, featured [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1164

Linguistics in Opera and Libretto

The application encompasses the use of morphology, syntax as well as the phonology in the composition of words. In this paper, the author is going to look at the use of linguistics in opera.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2200

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Technique Evolution

A different approach can be observed in Van Gogh's painting; the artist uses energetic brushstrokes with tones of thick paint, and, unlike the Impressionistic method, the artist emphasizes the geometric forms of the objects with [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1382

Napoleon Bonaparte in his study

He was just about to hang the breeches back in the closet, when he noticed that there was a big stain on the back-side of the left leg.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

How Does the Makeup Help to Define the Character

For example, a well-known movie "Dorian Gray" tells to the audience the story of the lovely young man Dorian Gray who comes to London, as now he is rich; he has got a huge inheritance [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Wolf Creek: Movie Analysis

The aforementioned classes of aggression are important determinants of the aggressor and the target of aggression. In the film, Mick Taylor decapitates his victims, and this is a physical form of extreme aggression.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1942

Demystifying Chinese Art and Its Relation to Culture

In addition, the artworks may provide insights into the life of the royal society of the ancient Chinese dynasties. Therefore, the study of the ancient Chinese paintings would help in determining the aesthetic values and [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1937

Arts of China: Tomb of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan Jade Suits

Besides, resting on these facts, it is possible to assume that the analysis of artworks created in China can help to obtain the vision of the main tendencies of its society, concepts of beauty and [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1701

Serenissima Trend: Spring-Summer 2016

The purpose of this trend is to represent the new side of beauty. The combination of purple and silver may be realized in closing and accessories.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593

John Adams – Composer in 20th Century

In this respect, the uniqueness of the musical pieces introduced by Adams consists in unusual synergy of various sciences, approaches, and styles that are typical for the post-modern era in the twentieth century.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1670

Primary Source Reflection – a Steel Pan

It is argued that the popularity of this instrument increased in the 1930s because it was highly attributed to the strong drumming culture that was characteristic of the immigrants who were sold to Trinidad and [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1014

Chinese Landscape Painting

The book provides a detailed history of Chinese landscape painting. In addition, the book tries to provide interpretation of various Chinese landscape paintings.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 297

Globalization and Cultural Background

In fact, in response to his hometown Quanzhou, Cai asserted that he wanted to mine the small elements of his culture and then present them to the world so the world can understand China better.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2933

Film Analysis: Korean War Films

One way of looking at the movie it to examine it in the context of its historical period and attempt to discern its unique aspects, the fact is the movie is set within an era [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1778

Sound and Space: Sonic Experience

The existence of sound in the world is crucial to the creation of perception and presence that determine the shape of the world.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 17
  • Words: 4397

Illustration of Major Themes in Movies

Initially, the movie included the Chinese as the villains, but had to change and include the Koreans due to negative reception the movie got in China.
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2472

The Story of Pu Yi in “The Last Emperor”

There is a vista at the beginning of the movie when Pu Yi, sat on the Dragon Throne, attended by his subjects, and he jumped anxiously from his position and ran in the direction of [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1091

Color Management and Profile Specifications

It is acknowledged that the closed-loop color method is quite easy to implement as it presupposes that the digital color is a preserve of the high-end systems hence it is quite easy to get the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 592

Modern Ceramic Art: Beatrice Wood and Bernard Leach

She was widely exposed to art and yearned to run away to France which charted the direction of her life as she thwarted her mother plans for "coming out" into the society and leading a [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5327

The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer

The relationships lead to termination of the development and prosperity of female painters as they take the roles of a wife and mother. The society perceives women artists and their conditions in the art industry [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1153

R&B and Hip-Hop Effect Western Music

The music that Michael Jackson released was not based on gender but was based on truth and hope to the people and this gave him a lot of influence in the community reason being that [...]
  • Subjects: Singers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2015

Can Art Change How We Think About Refugees?

The group had identified that the refugees used art to negotiate their way of becoming part and parcel of the indigenous people of the new home, despite the varying degrees of prejudice and exclusion that [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3102

Analysis: “Blue Velvet” by David Lynch

One of the scenes which disorient is the one in the car. Even when the men get out of the car, the space is still closed as Jeffrey is in a tight circle of men [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 356

The Concept of Place in the Movie “Safe”

The function of mirrors contribute greatly to the understanding of the concepts of space and place in the movie because this reflecting objects that we can see in the bedroom of main characters reflect the [...]
  • Subjects: Action Films
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2517

New Ways of Showing/Seeing Violence

The staging of the film in a suburban setting of Los Angeles was very relevant because of the crime and violence history of the place.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

Kiwi Music Cultural Event in New Zealand

The application of the audience-focused model to designing the commercial, incorporation of the elements aimed at evoking the imagery processes in the consumers and increasing the speech rates is expected to enhance the effectiveness of [...]
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

Yayi jia: Ritual Wine Vessel

In fact, it can even be said that the Yayi jia is nothing more than an older and smaller version of its counterparts seen in a variety of ancient Chinese tombs and temples.
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2486

Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson

Thus, the author of the film is trying to say that the war topsy-turned the lives of people and changed their priorities.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 855

Europa Europa: Film Studies

Europa Europa is a 1990 movie outlining the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a Jew who lived in Germany during the reign of Hitler and managed to survive the persecutions of the Nazis.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 849

“Devil in a Blue Dress” By Carl Franklin

The movie falls under the Neo-noir category as it is set in the classic era between 1940 and 1950 and has the characteristic neo-noir theme of a major African American character that is faced with [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Weegee and Goldin’s Photography

This paper compares Weegee and Goldin's photography to address the connection between the middle years of the twentieth century, when photography began to expose realities in life, and the modern distrustful era.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1740

“Christ before Pilate” by Luca Giordano

The other use of symbolism occurs in the "spear" and presence of the soldiers. The painter uses the images of Pilate and Christ to send a new message to the audience.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1442

Art through History

As a matter of fact, the century witnessed the beginning of radical changes in the field of art. One of the major theories in the work of art was romanticism which developed in the 19th [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1409

Neolithic Pottery and Art Culture

The second category of Neolithic artifacts encompassed jade carvings and pottery originating from the eastern seaboard and the lower side of the Yangzi River towards the southern direction.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1439

Contemporary Art in China

However, the fruits of the struggles are worth the effort, if the current fame and reputation of China as a beacon of contemporary art is anything to go by.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2803

Representation of Ethnic Groups in Museums

To me, the museums did a good job in dispelling stereotypes and I believe that the groups represented in the museums are perceived more favorably as a result of the exhibitions.
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  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

History of Disaster Films

This is the fundamental difference between the disaster films of 1950s and the present day films that are more of hybrid genre. The historical events captured in disaster films showed how a disaster happened and [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2646

Brian Gillis, Novak and Huang Yong Ping

I was very interested in his discussion of printing as a revolutionary technology, and the new applications of printing to creating three dimensional items.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 776

Fight Against the Demonization in «Malcolm X»

In light of critics' remarks in the book "The mistakes of Malcolm X", the director went beyond propaganda and told the story of a society changer. In this instance, the signifier refers to the negative [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1252

Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas and Clarinet Quintet

It is obvious that the time of music composition and the peculiarities of the personal condition impact the music outcome. The first movement begins with the strings and clarinet appears only in the middle of [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1144

Modern Approaches to Creating of the Artwork

The technological peculiarities of the installation are characterized by the fact that the author uses a projection screen and a room with four specific zones for producing of the effect of interacting with the characters [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1769

Ruth St. Denis’s Biography

Denis was born in 1879 in New Jersey to Ruth Emma Denis who was a physician by training. She intended to translate her understanding of the "Indian culture and mythology to the American dance stage [...]
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Rapid Progress of YouTube

The level of the competition among these sites depends on the question of the popularity of Google resources and YouTube among the users.
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  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 615

Pre-Concert Talk About Johann Sebastian Bach

During each of these periods, Bach created more and more captivating works and amazed people with his abilities to choose the best things in the world and represent them by means of music."It was in [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2201

Post-Classical Hollywood

Some films of the Hollywood renaissance are characterized partly by breaches of the continuity editing regime of classical Hollywood, inspired largely by thee films of the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 18
  • Words: 5267

Media Art Film Studies: Avant Garde

Either way, it was the film manifestos, which dictated the comprehension of experimental films as well as the avant-garde films. In addition, the manifestos comprised of the initial film theories, which were existent within the [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 18
  • Words: 4974

Zeitgeist Spirit in “The Internship” Movie

This revolution has brought about workplace day-care programs, extended paternity leaves, recreational facilities in the workplace, additional employee freedom, and giving employees access to free stuff."The Internship" is able to capture the Zeitgeist spirit of [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1139

Relations Between Clothes, The Body And Sexuality

Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church recognize how Field's authorial presence is inextricably embedded in the "look" of the program, both in terms of the way the show is styled and in the way the audience [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 16
  • Words: 4630

Electronic Music (Within the 20th Century Art Music Tradition)

This paper seeks to look into the electronic music within the 20th century art music tradition, which uses musical instruments that have to be connected electrically and use of electronic music technology The 20th century [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1593

Descartes Goes to Hollywood

Throughout the article, the use of cyborgs in films is used as a tool of analysis by the author. The conflict of the body and the mind is also the main theme in most cyborg [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

The song “Simple Gifts”

In 1950, the song was used for the second time in an orchestra performance. He was appointed to lead members of the sect in Maine.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Genre: Science Fiction Dystopia

The western genre is the most common movie genre used to highlight the dominance and development of both American and European cultures and economies to the rest of the world.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1739

Popular Street Artists

In an effort to discredit the Bank of England, Banksy satirically replaced the words 'Bank of England' with 'Banksy of England.' During the Notting Hill Carnival, a certain individual dished out the fake money to [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1365

The painting “Planting Chrysanthemums”

In the case of "Planting Chrysanthemums" a heavier shading style on the lines of the painting is eschewed in favor of a lighter and more delicate appearance in the formation of the lines and the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

The Taxi Driver and the Dance With Wolves Films

In the film Dance with Wolves, the director seems to be unable to convey the poetry and philosophical inclinations of the colonial masters and the natives of India.
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 815

Baritone Voice as Primo Uomo in Mozart’s Operas

In spite of all changes and additions by famous musicians to the role and the definition of the term primo uomo, the 18th century introduces primo uomo as the only worthwhile male leading singer of [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2750

‘Double Suicide’ – By Shinoda Masahiro

Being one of the four foremost innovative Japanese directors of the modern wave of movie and film stylization developed between the 1950s and 1960s, Shinoda maintained the major concepts of the story to ensure that [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1128

“Thunderheart” by Michael Apted

By examining the life of a Native-American reservation, the authors can give the viewers in-depth insights into the difficulties experienced by the residents of this town.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1097

“Before Sunset”: Paris Is Still the City of Love

Some people may say that the city is an ordinary urban settlement which is no different from the rest of the cities in the world, but such film as Before Sunset proves that there is [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

Art influences Culture: Romanticism & Realism

In addition, the paper also highlights issues of the time and influences of the later works on the art world. Realism presented events of the society as they happened in reality.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

Political Cartoon on Health Care Reform in the United States

The cartoonist portrays the factors influencing the pace of the healthcare reform process in the United States. The cartoonist demonstrates the parties involved in the healthcare reform bound to suffer from the pace of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

Chicano Music and Lyrics

They are characterized by the deviant bowing, and the active strumming is a distinctive feature of the ensemble parts with references to guitars as it is used to emphasize the final parts of the music [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

A Critical Analysis of la Zola

The segregation is based on the perception that the poor are a threat to the property and life of the rich people.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1688

Gender Propagation in Titanic Miniseries

In spite of the film indicating that the people travelling in the Titanic are divided based on their social status, the film goes ahead to show a high level of interaction among the different classes [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2679

An Exploration in Perspective Drawing

Figure 2.points and lines The mathematics used in perspective drawing includes a one point, two point, and three point perspective. 0], and the center point is cp= [6.0, 5.0, 2.
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  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 490

“Shrek” as a Popular Broadway Show

The musical "Shrek" is very much different from the animated films and the difference is not a positive one. It is known that the actor is really a person but it is possible to get [...]
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  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Effective Narration in Literature

Through this careful placement of information in the novel, the narrator was able to convey information about the constrained relationship with his family.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861
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