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Masaccio’s Holy Trinity: Analysis of Visual Rhetoric

It is necessary to outline that his work presents a great interest due to the number of reasons: it was one of the first frescos to contain features of realism and humanism, the work poses [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

Medieval Art and Apotropaism

The importance of apotropaism to medieval art is portrayed in the lifestyle and religious beliefs of the time when the works were designed.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 984

Kahlo and Pollock Pictures Review

The first I would like to tell of is the picture by Jackson Pollock named The Guardian of the Secret, 1943.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1416

Japanese Painters: Asai Chu and Hashimoto

Hashimoto Sadhide a renowned Japanese painter born in 1807 and he died in 1878; the painter lived in the city of Yokohama which was known to be a western settlement.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2614

The Politics and Abstract Expressionism

In contrast to Donnel's opinion in terms of space, he believes that this is the main weapon of modernist art where the painters were able to demonstrate the play of colors, which is the main [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

Contemporary Culture and Pop Art

To understand the essence of pop Art better, the connection between the This is not a Pipe by Foucault and Plato and the Simulacrum by Deleuze and the works of pop art can be of [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Art Appreciation. Inspiration of an Artwork

The inspiration from the works of the Italian Renaissance artist such as Leonardo and Botticelli brought the idea of works that can fit within the same context.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 588

“The Course of Empire” by Thomas Cole

Each of the paintings surprises with its uniqueness and expressiveness, but the sense of the paintings is even more striking."The Course of the Empire" changes the ideas of American people about other nations and their [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1946

Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

In a temporary post as a missionary in the village of Petit Wastes in Belgium, he recorded peasant miners' lives in his drawings. He was later exposed to Impressionist artists' works and became friends with [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1544

Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci: Two Geniuses

The two implications of these is that mannerisms was used to refer to the actual style of the artist, or to acknowledge that the artist had a unique approach that was beautiful in its own [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2509

“Venus and Adonis” by Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was the greatest exponent of the baroque paintings and the most renowned painter of the Northern Europe. Both of these paintings deserve to hold their exclusive place in the history of art [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 973

Art Planning and Process

Burtynsky's use of images as metaphors to depict the dilemma of the heavy industrialization due to which nature and earth suffer heavily is a prominent theme which I have used in the creation of the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1041

Edward Steichen in History of Photography

Edward Steichen is one of the central figures in the history of photos. The astonishing sale charge of the print is, in part, featured to its one-of-a-kind personality and to its curiosity.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 780

Kandinsky’s and Mondrian’s Abstraction Works

All through history, there have been many different styles of art utilizing an abstracting approach but abstract art was established in the early 20th century as artists began creating works of art lacking any apparent [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 616

German Expressionism and Fauvism

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

Russian Avant-Garde in History of Modern Art

The Russian avant-garde is a massive wave of non-traditional, experimental, and innovative art that covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century in Russia.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 259

Cultural Activity: Chrysler Museum of Art

One of the pieces of art that attracted my attention in the museum is the oil on canvas painting by Edward Hicks entitled "The Declaration of Independence"; the painting was created circa 1840.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

“Sculpture in the Expanded Field” by Rosalind Krauss

The major works that mark the transition from the classical to the modern period that she cites are Gates of Hell and the statue of Balzac by Rodin. In the 1950s, sculpture became a 'combination [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 205

Baroque and Rococo: Imagination, Values, Emotions

The church chose the style so that it could communicate religious themes in emotional involvement during the time of the Council of Trent. The style dynamically reflected the growth of absolutist monarchies, and in power [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1421

Performing Arts and Plays Analysis

In turn, the key purpose of this paper is to show how these performances can be related to the coarse goals that had to be attained.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2165

Photography: Is It Possible to Recapture the Past?

The problem of photography is twofold: the problem of representation, and the presumption of reality that the photographic images elicits in the viewer the pervasive belief that a photograph depicts a referent, a real "how [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 50
  • Words: 13829

A Critique of a Photographer’s Works: Matthew Abbott

Matthew Abbott underlines one simple fact that Istanbul is the only place where East has all chances to meet West, this is why it is hard to predict the traditions and interests of Turkish people, [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

The Neolithic Culture in China: Art Objects

On the other hand, the Jade bi with two dragons on the rim, which is on the right in the table above, is made of jade rather than nephrite.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3095

“Past and Present, No 1” by Augusts Leopold Egg

The artist: Augusts Leopold Egg Nationality: English Title: Past and Present, No 1 Date: 1858 Genre: Realistic Group figure Medium: Oil paint on canvas Dimensions: Support: 635 x 762 mm Frame: 801 x 925 [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 622

Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Last Judgment”

Hieronymus Bosch's The Last Judgment triptych uses the three panels of the painting to represent the three biblical events that predict the terrible end of humankind: the Fall, the Judgment Day, and the eternal Death [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Chapters 7-9 in “Understanding Comics” by McCloud

Despite the strict logical organization of the stages from the basic understanding of purpose to sharpening the specific skills related to the form of art, the author claims that many artists tend to learn these [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 877

Pathos, Ethos, and Logos in Photography

The audience's personal experiences affects its interpretation of what the picture depicts, it might be close to the communication the photographer had wished to convey or a totally different perspective.
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  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1180

Contemporary Female Artists in Turkey

The secrecy associated with Islam and gender roles in some parts of Asia has further compounded this mystery because few people know what to make of the place of women in traditional Islamic societies and [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 22
  • Words: 6125

Josiah Wedgwood’s Input to Craft and Design

The concept of craft and design is one of the ancient developments in the world. Wedgwood was born in the year 1730 in a family of potters, and he was apprenticed to a brother after [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1387

The Photograph Description and Criticism

In this picture, the foreground is where the woman is seated and the background depicts transparent window of the apartment The photograph was likely taken in a broad daylight since outside the apartment to be [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Baroque Art Paintings and Sculpture

Teresa" defines the main idea of the Baroque due to the use of controversial concepts: on the one hand, it is a heavy and definite material of the sculpture that proves its connection to people, [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1000

Islamic Art in Africa

The question of what it entails to be Hausa is briefly addressed to uncover the dynamic nature of Hausa culture and the religion that plays the main role. The study of the Hausa art offers [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2286

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

Magical Realism as a Literary Genre

The concept of loreal Maravillas was introduced in 1949 to the Americans where the foundations of magical realism were traced from the art world.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1098

“Bird’s Hell” by Max Beckmann

The picture Bird's Hell was painted in 1938 by Max Beckmann, an outstanding German portraitist and printmaker, one of the greatest masters of the interwar period of the 20th century.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Ancient Greek Art and Sculpture

It is possible to trace this change through examining two sculptures pertaining to different periods of Ancient Greek art. Of course, to understand art, it is necessary to understand the epoch.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

“American Progress” by John Gast

The painting was mainly designed as a visual means of propaganda of the belief that the American settlers had a manifest destiny.
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  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

“The Railroad” by Édouard Manet

It should be mentioned that at the time when this painting was created, Manet was criticized by many people for the lack of clarity and compositional unity in this picture.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

The Play “The Seagull” by Anton Chekhov

One can say that the performers were able to create a very realistic and authentic atmosphere, and in this way, they helped the viewers see that the action of the play takes place in the [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

The Renaissance Theatre Development

The most important influence of the Protestant Reformation on English Renaissance Drama was the rejection of pastoral features of medieval drama.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

The Train Driver by Athol Fugard

Rolf, the train driver and a "traumatized, angry, and unable to get the woman and her baby out of his head", visits Simon in the cemetery.
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  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Photos of Vietnam War

The role of the media in the Vietnam War also raises issues of what the media ought to censor and report to the public.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4146

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

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

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

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

Netherlands’ Flower Paintings in 17th Century

The main reason for making these depictions in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities was to provide a cheaper way of having flowers in people's homes. The first still life paintings in 17th century were flowers [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

Surrealism in Photography

Surrealism, which started after the World War I, in photography is one of the indicators of most important revolutions that have taken place over the history in the area of photography.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2041

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

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

Pablo Picasso: Blue Period

Child with a dove "Child with a dove", painted in 1901, is the painting which opens the Picasso's series of the paintings of the Blue Period.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2462

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

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

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

First Crusade Art and Architecture

Many Jews were robbed of their property by the crusaders and killed for the simple reason that they were not Christians During the period of the First Crusade, different styles of art were produced by [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1400

Shelby Lee Adams “The True Meaning of Pictures”

Familiar though he is with the living conditions of the poorest of the poor in Kentucky, Adams nonetheless did not live in that culture, but alongside it, as an observer from a middle class background.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

The life and Works of Titian

Other exemplary masterpieces of Titian include the "Miracle Of The Speaking Infant" and the "Miracle Of The Irascible Son" in which the latter has a beautiful background landscape which has captured the eyes of many [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2168

Picasso and His Paintings in the Modern World History

This paper will evaluate Pablo Picasso's impact on the cubism sign system, his manner of representation of the surrounding reality and his contribution to the world's history on the example of his painting Guernica.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1110

Edward Albee, His Life and Works

The theater had clearly gotten tired of the mainstream works of arts and therefore was at a stagnated stage both in respect to originality and creativity and therefore when Albee burst into the scene as [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1479

The Foreign Influences on the Roman Art

In the course of its history, the civilization of Ancient Rome incorporated and modified the elements of those cultures which it dominated. This is one of the main things that should be considered.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 578

The Early Forms of African Art

Purpose of the Research Because the African art is mostly premised on representing visual culture of the continent, the main purpose of the research consists in defining the early forms of African art, main materials [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1633

Comparison of Renaissance Works of Art

The technique that Leonardo da Vinci used in this painting, therefore, became a trendsetter in the art revolution of the time. The application of a lion in renaissance art is largely associated with Saint Jerome.
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  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1080

Hung Liu Artistic Work and its Contribution to Human Life

Some of the paintings used by Hung to explain the vital nature of culture include the portraits of Chinese self, Buddha's hand, the rainmaker, and the controversial fortune cookie that symbolizes the importance of Chinese [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1383

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper

The painting of the last supper draws the attention of any admirer to the center of the work, which is Jesus Christ's head.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1821

Impressionism History

Impressionism, an art movement, was born in France in the 19th century specifically in the period between 1860 and 1880 with its major goal being to popularize the impressionist art style, which was a deviation [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1707

Gender and Art: Female Role in Visual Art

In the beginning of the period of Renaissance a lot of restrictions were placed on the women that saw the Western society witness a decline and invisibility of female artists.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3780

Legend & Myth in Himalayan Art

Taking a closer look at the painting Shantarakshita and Scenes of His Life in Tibet and the Drowa Sangmo mural, it can be stated that the color scheme, proportion and scale of these objects are [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1175

The Correlation of Art and Human Values

Problems occur where art is taken as a form of criticism among religions where some are considered better than others on the basis of the kinds of art that they adopt and use in their [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 812

Color in Art and Design

Color in the brain After the retina has done the interpretation of the color through its cells that is cone cell and rod cells the other processing is done separately, this is done out of [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

Social Uses of Photography: Post-Mortem Photographs

The art of photography was invented by Louis Daguerre in the 18th century; this invention promoted the representatives of the middle class family with an opportunity to memorize the events and people and not to [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1421

National Indian Museum

Set up by the Indian government in the forties of the previous century, this museum is located in the capital city of New Delhi and is the biggest in the country.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1732

Painting a room

Raise the roller and move it along the slope of the pan severally to a point just below the well to allow the paint to flow into the roller.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 438

Visiting the National Gallery of Art

The purpose of this task is to discuss three works of art identified during my visit to the National Gallery of Art.
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  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 676

Art During the Renaissance

Though the artistic revolution is considered in this article as the major element of the renaissance, it was a result of the revolutions in the other elements such as the scientific, philosophical and the linguistic [...]
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  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1282

Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto

In his Futurist Manifesto published in 1909 in Paris, Marinetti formulated the essence and the purpose of the Futurist movement and thus outlined the "ethical code" of a New Artist, a Futurist.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 982