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The Theory of Art Development by Nikolaus Pevsner

Because of the considerable pause in the art development in the Victorian period, Pevsner assumes that such artists as Morris, Gropius, etc.were called to put an end to the period of cultural "stagnation" of the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1362

“Fight Club” by Fincher David

It is possible to say that this person advocates the values of a hunter-gather society which tends to be simpler and more egalitarian, at least from economic point of view. In this way they attempt [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Oil-Paper Umbrella: An Ancient Surviving Craft

In this case, the real and intrinsic nature of art is being consumed perhaps by emerging modern art in spite of the fact that traditional forms of drawings and paintings are still valued in many [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2175

Visual Art: Ownership and Copyright

Today, visual art has become easy to make, available and cheaper because of the invention of a camera. The rhythm and the harmony of art work contribute greatly to the supremacy of an image.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 735

What Dreams May Come

The wife Annie was not able to continue with her life after the loss of her children and her husband. This shows the effects of love and death in a family.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

Thomas Nast’s Life and Legacy

He was widely known as a political commentator, and through his work, Nast managed to impact significantly on political arena. For instance, his work as an artist contributed to the success of Abraham Lincoln's election [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 537

Art for the Sake of Art: The Spring Has Come

Because of the context underlying his stunning Primavera, one of the most well-known pictures of his, the grandeur of the artwork increases several times, filling it with the mystery and the magnificence of the ancient [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1211

Movie and Drama. A Few Good Men

Although the play version is more engaging than the movie, it lacks the glamour and flamboyance brought by the lighting and effects.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Film Viewer Opinion Paper

These actors help to make characters in a film and when they blend with them, they are able to create a great film which comes out real to the audience.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

The Full Monty Film

These attributes makes the film to have a distinct taste and tone that resonates with the plot and theme of the film.
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Family Structure Analysis via Film – Kramer vs. Kramer

Key to the socialization process is the family unit which is the cornerstone and basic/indelible institution of any civilization. A hidden imbalance existed in the Kramer home and Joanna's leaving brought this imbalance to the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 665

Andy Warhol: A Pop Art Icon

In the year 1963, under the help of Gerard Malanga, an instructor and a mentor, Warhol initiated his own studio where he expounded the art of film making.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

Art Gallery’s Weak Points and Merits

It is recommended that the pieces of works that are presented in this gallery be accompanied by some wordings for explanations.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 959

Film “The Imitation of Life” by Sirk Douglas

One of the widows is white while the other is a black but her daughter has a light skin as opposed to that of her mother and therefore, the light-skinned daughter imitates the life of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2480

The Immense Artistic Talent of Kao Ninga

The Minamoto rule witnessed a lot of resistance from the Taira clan but this was finally defeated in the later years of the 11th century.
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  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2118

Digitization and Convergence of Music Industry

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent and Graham Vickery note that the relationship between the artist and the record company is usually contractual which normally last for a limited period of time or number of records depending on the [...]
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

The Significance of the Prison Films

The storylines of the films that fall into the film noir category of the period were mainly inspired by the criminal outcrops that arose in the United States in the period after the Depression.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2731

Music in Opera: Susan McClary’s “Carmen”

Although music is the sphere where the words cease to exist and where only the melody has the enchanting force that wins over the hearts of the audience, there is the chance to combine the [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 971

American Film Industry and Modern Audio Visual Style

Since 1944, Ampex has been a leading pioneer in the visual information age with having assisted in the development of digital image processing, and high-performance digital storage.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 520

The Nunsense story by Dan Goggin

According to Tamswitmark the chief characters in the story are: The Reverend Mother The reverend mother is known as Sister Mary Regina and is assumed to have answered the call to be a nun after [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3272

The Lion in Winter (1968) by Anthony Harvey

The Lion in Winter unfolds the events of 12th century, covering countries like England and France, both of which differ politically thus explaining the reason for the difference in the political opinions of Henry and [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1349

Critical Aspects of Film Die Hard

For example, at the beginning of a scene where the character of officer McClane is being shown arriving to L.A.on the plane, viewers get to be exposed to the sight of McClane clutching to seat's [...]
  • Subjects: Action Films
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1679

Marcel Duchamp’s Invention of ‘The Readymade’

In his invention of readymade art, Duchamp based his artwork on the belief that creative art was not made from the perspective of the artist but from the point of view of the spectator who [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1658

History of Symphony Orchestra

Before we dig deep into the history of symphony orchestra, it is important to understand that in the early years of the evolution of orchestra music, there was a lot of accretion of orchestra music; [...]
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1603

West Coast Jazz: History and Evolution

This essay seeks to analyze the development of West Coast jazz as well as to evaluate the appropriateness of the names allotted to this genre of music.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2151

Role of the Orchestra in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle

In this essay, the role of orchestra in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle is discussed from the perspective of the plot of the opera and of from that of musical conjuncture of the discussed period.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1673

History of the Orchestra in the 19th & 20th Century

This paper reviews the major developments of the symphony orchestra in the 19th and 20th century, with particular emphasis on the addition of certain instruments and the removal of others, as well as the influence [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2003

Paul Anderson’s “Magnolia” Film

This papers aim is to give an introductory review to the filmmaker himself, and the film Magnolia Paul Anderson produced Magnolia in 1999, "a movie too good to be missed"..
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 572

The Development of Various Forms of Visual Art

This paper looks at three articles on the development of various forms of visual art and the various perspectives reflected in the articles. In conclusion, as society changes, the various forms of art also change.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

Sony BMG Music Entertainment

The formation of Sony BMG Music Entertainment was born out of the 2004 perilous merger between Sony Corporation of America and BMG Music Group.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Music Harmony Studying

Harmony is the opposite of melody since the latter is taken as the horizontal characteristic of music while the former is taken as the vertical characteristic of music.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 809

Longford: Response to the Film

Besides, he vehemently objects to the idea of retributive justice, in other words, the idea that the key purpose of a penal system is to punish the criminal.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 586

Different ways to approach the definition of art

Therefore other than the definition of art being related to the great skills of the artisan, the aesthetic value of the resulting product gives art another definition.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Music in Times of Conflict

The Public Safety Act and the Criminal Amendment Act which were signed in 1953 enabled the government to declare the state of emergency.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1096

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather

Partially illuminating only the face of this character and leaving the rest of the scene in shadow, the filmmaker focuses spectators' attention on the speaker and creates the atmosphere of intimacy and secrecy.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 972

The Concept of Film Noir

Other than this a prominent quality of this genre is the development of negative behaviors in heroes or ant-heroes usually generated by Femme Fatale which is the depiction of Women in Film Noirs in a [...]
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  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1271

Beyond the Boundaries of the Ordinary

It seems that the whale which is floating under the dark thicket of the freezing sea embodies the suffering and the sorrow of the refugees from the ship.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

The Last Emperor (1987) by Bernardo Bertolucci

The movie under consideration points to the difference between the mode of life people lead before and after the establishing of the Communist Regime, it shows the story of a man who had everything and [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1132

Technology Advances and Music

The internet has been one of the major challenges in the music industry as people are downloading music instead of buying them from the music shops.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1557

Where Creativity and Inspiration Originate

The different disciplines of art can also be used to define humanity with religion and history being a factor, with science and technology embracing the entirety of the human nature and hindering its raw creativity [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 991

Furnished Room in the Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota

The evaluation of the room will help to understand what kind of innovations may be required and why the owners of the room as well as the building itself want to redecorate the construction.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2560

The Aesthetic Movement in the 19th Century

One of the brightest events of that period was the creation of the Aesthetic Movement. The Aesthetic Movement started as a reaction against the Victorian style, which was characterized by the use of jewellery in [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1434

Recent Modern Art Exhibition: Projects 89

Art exhibitions are the places, which will be interesting to people of any age and any gender any time."A natural effect of the Museum exhibition will be to lead the public to enquire why it [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Jeff and Julia Woods: Passion to Making Photos

In this paper, the works, skills, and achievements of Jeffrey and Julia Woods will be analyzed; their awards and contribution to the world of photography is really magnificent, because they do not want to create [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1654

Pieces From Early and Baroque Music E-Concert

Spanning over fifteen decades, from the early 1600s to the mid-eighteenth century, Baroque epoch passed under the sign of rich ornamentation and fanciful designs which were the part and parcel of many a work of [...]
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1247

Waterloo Bridge by Claude Monet

In Waterloo Bridge, Claude Monet did not want to represent the bridge as he saw it but to underline the importance of the air, colors, and nature around that bridge that made the whole picture [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1179

Visual and Performing Arts in Canada

This paper discusses not only the essence of visual and performing arts but also focuses on the activities of popular Canadian artists and their ideas, evaluates the history of the Canadian art, and explains the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Pieces From Classical and Romantic Music E-Concert

The material of the first part is repeated, and at the end of the Overture the harmonic balance of the orchestra is assaulted by sudden sounds of trombones, as if questioning the achieved harmony.
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1232

20th Century Music: Prokofiev, Respighi, and Orff

This could not be overlooked by the creative part of society: the musicians of the century reflected the tendency to intellectualism, scientific perception of the world, and mechanization processes in their works.
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1173

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Works: E-Concert

Culminating in the sounds of brass, the agitation slowly fades, giving way to a counterpoint of a military theme in the wind woods and a broad lyrical melody of the strings.
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 893

Music in the United States Culture

Owing to the extensive nature of music, there is need to categorize music so as to simplify classification and ease the process through which a person can find music that they enjoy.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1413

The Wind and the Lion 1975

Running from power conflict between France, Britain, America, and German in Morocco in 1904, through President Theodore Roosevelt bid to win a re-election, to the eventual war between Americans and Germans, The Wind and the [...]
  • Subjects: Action Films
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 816

Hip Hop Infiltrates Asian Music Industry

Therefore, if American hip hop music genre infiltrated Asian music industry and an Asian hip hop music variety was invented then hurdles in Asian hip hop can be conquered.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 899

The Movie “Easy Rider” From Sociology

Well, as noted in the definition of structural functionalism, there has to be intermediaries and consumers of these drugs for the existence of a society stained with drug abuse and drug trafficking.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1171

Music Industry as a Cultural Industry

The underlying principle of the premise is to enhance the liberation of the targeted end user from the oppression of the producers through the induction of the consumer to query given ideas, much in the [...]
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1922

Role of Modern Art Museum

From the above we can say that the modern art museum acts as memory banks for all events and objects in the society which is of great utility to the members of a given social [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1720

Digital Art Exhibition Review

The second artistic work in the online exhibit is referred to as Digital dance. Digital art is a major revolution in the world of art.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1152

Caribbean Art History

Caribbean art history is an integral part of Caribbean history that offers important insight into the unique cultural aspect of the Caribbean people and their way of life.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Concepts of the Baroque Era

Considering this, the Baroque Era is one of the most significant periods in the world of art, as it bore a new world of art dominated by both religious and iconoclastic artistic representations, as a [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1023

Critical analysis of Cy Twomblys work

In a way, Twombly's labor points to the reality that work of art and "deconstruction," as it was supposed to be are all integral to each another.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

Why Do We Watch Horror Films?

These are some of the things that I shall endeavor to explore as I take you through the world of watching horror feelings and some of the mortals enjoy by so doing.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

“Notes on Camp” by Susan Sontag

Also, Sontag had proven herself analytical enough to realize that the very concept of Camp is nothing but the modern equivalent of the concept of dandyism, originated in late 19th century: "Camp is the answer [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1669

Identity, Ideology, and Design

Thus, as Vial introduces the difference in identity understanding referring to various kinds of notions, the identity of a human being is his/her unique personality, the identity of an object is its style, while the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2568

The Film “Transporter 3” and Its Narrative Structure

In summary, Transporter 3 film is the third installment of the Transporter series in which the services of the lead character Frank Martin are enlisted to transport certain items/people from one corner of the world [...]
  • Subjects: Action Films
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1828

Movie Babel by Alejandro Gonzalez Innarritu

Of the many issues brought forward in this movie, the subject of family life is outstanding. In fact, in the hotel where they are seated, an argument is evident concerning the father's decision of escaping [...]
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 912

Impact of Modern Digital Technologies on Film Industry

In this paper, the evaluation of the film industry and numerous impacts of modern digital technologies on the chosen sphere will be introduced; though the development of digital technologies cannot be constantly integrated with the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1665

Twins Characterization in Manga and Anime

Psychological issues that represent twins struggles with the real self against the expected self, the split and fragmented self and the internal conflict between the ego and the super ego.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2453

Fall From Power in ”The Last Emperor” Movie

In this video production of 'The Last emperor', the audience is immersed deep back into the 1950s where Puyi, who was previously under the custody of the Russians, attempts to take his own life in [...]
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1187

Pu Yi: The Last Emperor

The film is based on the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who was the last individual to reign as Emperor in China.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1193

Star System in the Silent Cinema

The introduction of the star system proved to be an outstanding means of earning a profit from not only the production, but also distribution and even exposition of films. As the consumerism increased in America, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1420

Nickelback’s “Photograph”

The viewer can observe the close connection between the lyrics and the images presented in the video because the lines of the song are supported with the visual content in the form of significant memories [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 489

Bloc Party’s CD titled “Four”

In reality, the specificity and the unique sound that the band produces can be seen as a somewhat new direction and a great variation to everything that was created before.
  • Subjects: Singers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 302

African American Theater

Black people in America have basically subdued several forms of subjugation in the community and this can be attributed to the African American Theater.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

Gone With the Wind

Charles dies in the civil war, and it is during this mourning period that Scarlett meets Rhett at a charity bazaar.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 505

“To Live” by Zhang Yimou

However, Zhang Yimou has managed to do a very decent job of portraying the history of the Great Leap Forward period by telling a story of a typical Chinese family and the relationships between typical [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Rockumentaries and Musicals: Woodstock

Rockumentaries can be discussed as the reflection of the social trends developed during the 1950s-1960s because the focus on rock and roll music resulted in mirroring the elements of the music and musicians' images in [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 815

“Never Let Me Go” Movie Design Elements

The director is expected to work together with the production and costume designer to ensure that the visual look of the movie is consistent with the theme of the film.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

Critique of Film by Tony Gilroy

On the same note, the comedy that is incorporated is crucial as it helps in maintaining the attention of the audience.
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2268

Marlon Brando: A Method Actor

He is accustomed to being in charge of his family and he is the boss. Thus, the scene where Stanley is telling the women he is the king is one of the illustrations of this [...]
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 911

The Role of Božena Horáková in the Movie Little Otik

The upward rising growth and development is due to the increased film acting talents and development of theories that criticize the old films. It is a high-angle shot to the Otik and makes him look [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1098

Jazz Concert

After listening to a soul jazz performance, the writer finds that there was calmness at first in the mind of the writer as he kept on listening to the initial beats while trying to connect [...]
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  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1632

Munich: The Ethical Aspects of Revenge

This is one of the points that can be made. Another result of this operation is that one of the agents named Carl is killed in the course of this operation.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

The Moral Dilemma in Gone Baby Gone

The maxima of Kant's moral theory are based on the idea of the categorical imperative and the person's duty to act according to the universal moral laws.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Emperor Xiaowen and His Court

What it means is that, along with referring to the mural 'Emperor Xiaowen and His Court' in terms of art, we can also refer to as the art-related tool of an ideological indoctrination.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556
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