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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

Richard Avedon’s Photo Portraits of Celebrities

Therefore, I decided to focus on his works and explore their features to understand the topic of photography in detail. Still, instead of selecting fashion photographs by Avedon, I concentrated on his portraits of celebrities.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 245

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

Postmodernism Era: Body and Popular Culture

To understand how the body is constructed and deconstructed in modern western society, it is important to analyze the significance of the corporeal factor in the culture of postmodernism.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2054

Visual Analysis of Nature in Modern Art

In the age of modern arts, when both the creators and the audience is less concerned with the physical form and more with the underlying messages and feelings that art invokes, the multi-faceted topic of [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1701

“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

Modernism and the Feminine Voice

The major issues discussed in the book are the place of women in modernism, Stieglitz's impact on O'Keeffe, and the role of O'Keeffe in Stieglitz's life.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2383

Renaissance Art Works’ Comparison

The chapel is located in the Vatican and is one of the most illustrious artworks in the western world. The entrance to the chapel is marked by two frescoes which symbolize the last episodes of [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

The Renaissance in Italy

The Italian Renaissance marked the end of one era in Europe and the start of a new one. Apparently, the Dome of Florence was an important symbol of Renaissance culture in Italy and was regarded [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

Still Life with Three Skulls by Max Beckman

Of course, the painter understood the wrongs of the regime and he experienced the horrors of the war. The color is the ground for the skulls, cards and tablecloth.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

Ray Beldner Artistic Works

This reproduction is the allusion of the painting by Rene Magritte This is not a Pipe, which is the typical example of the representative art.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 636

Artistic Activism and Tactics

3 The outbreak of violent protests in the capital city of France in mid-1968 was because of the Student dissatisfaction at the Sorbonne University and the University of Paris. 9 Accordingly, the right to the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1992

John Constable and Caspar Friedrich: Romantic Painters

The Motherlands of both painters, England and Germany, were covered with a wave of industrialization and practical materialism that changed the typical lifestyle of European people, their ways of thinking, and their ideas of the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 833

Ancient Chinese Arts Comparison

On the right is The Seated Buddha, a sandstone carving from the Northern Wei Dynasty obtained from a cave along the Silk Road in China.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1632

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Paintings Style

In order to discuss the style of Ingres, one should look at the difference between his earlier and later works because this comparison can throw light on the evolution of his style.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

Cultural Diversity in the Play “Othello”

It is the role of men to support women in this society, and that is why Desdemona's father goes to court immediately, he is convinced that his daughter was bewitched by Othello.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

Illuminated Manuscripts – History of Graphic Art

However, those people who can be even not interested in art easily imagine illuminated manuscripts because the elements of this art tradition are still used in decorating the books for children and some of the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1222

Goldsworthy’s and Christo Landscape Art Comparison

He uses photographs and films to record his works to show how different objects are arranged in a landscape. This allows him to show the energy within and outside various objects he uses in his [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 852

Perception of Beauty in the Artistic Field

Numerous artists have tried to find the answer to what beauty is and managed to come up with an important finding that beauty is something all people long for. The song is related to physical [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 541

San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego art museum is one of the oldest in the country. The museum has a lot of significance because its exhibits show continuity in art ideas from different periods.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 828

Frank Gehry’s Life and Career

Other than his architectural designs, Gehry has been working as a lecturer at Columbia University in Yale and the University of Southern California in the recent past.
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

Photography and Beauty Perception

His resistance stemmed from the fact that in the early decades of photography, photographs were meant to idealize images and for a picture to be considered beautiful, its subject had to be something beautiful.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

Post-Impressionism: Paul Cezanne

Thus, to understand the variety and depth of Cezanne's paintings, it is necessary to concentrate on the most famous works of the artist.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

This may have been the result of failure by the observers to make a direct interpretation of the meaning that the subjects in the paint presented.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1698

How Digital Technology Influences Art

This section of the paper discusses the impacts of digital technology on the world of arts. Digital technology has extended the array and amount of artwork that one artist can do in a given period.
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  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2025

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

Claude Monet and Impressionism

This painting indicates that the painter appreciated it and sought to present the aspect of nature as it appeared in the environment.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 946

“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

Afrodizzia by Chris Ofili

They create a feeling of systemic and arrangement in the overall structure of the painting. The border lines also bring in a sense of 'security' to the content in the artwork.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

Art History – Mona Lisa

The woman's smile, often described as enigmatic, is the most intriguing aspect of the painting and it is also the subject of much speculation. The smile of the seated woman is the hallmark of this [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

“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

To be or not to be

Branagh's Hamlet is a version that sets the "to be or not to be" scene in a palace, in a room surrounded by mirrors.
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

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

The Son of Man by Rene Magritte

The interpretation of some signs which are not seen at the first glance, such as the backward bend of the left elbow of the man and his eyes which can be only partially seen over [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1109

Nudity in the Paintings of the Renaissance

One of the most famous female nudes in the history of art was the Spanish painting called 'The Nude Maja' done by Francisco Goya. Thus, the artists of the Renaissance brought about the rise of [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1355

Robert Blackburn: American Printmaking

In his career, Robert worked in several institutions, where he was a founder, teacher, and master printer. At the age of thirteen years, Robert participated in an official art class, which allowed black artists to [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

Fine art in advertising

This is meant to make the process of getting art for sets a faster process. In all these uses, art and architecture add a positive and powerful set of signals for the viewer/consumer.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1678

Transformation of the Ancient Greece Art

At first, it is necessary to examine the sculptural works which belong to the archaic period of the Greek culture. The techniques that one can see in the sculptures of the Archaic Period were rejected.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Richard Koboyashi: farmer with Cabbages

Koboyashi informed them that he was a good man and that very many people in the country knew him."He was told that I am very good at planting cabbages and he wants to make me [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1081

Andy Warhol’s Biography

This essay seeks to examine Andy Warhol and his painting career with a focus on his style, its tenets, and his overall contribution to the art of painting. The public was receptive of Warhol's work [...]
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  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 655

Concept of Documentary Photography

The purpose of composition in this case is to bring out a distinction between the different elements of a work that is being portrayed in such a manner that the elements of the work that [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 19
  • Words: 5143

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus is a famous painting produced in the year 1863 by a French painter Alexandre Cabanel. This paper analyses the painting The Birth of Venus and gives a brief background of its [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 243

Picasso’s Blue Period

One of the paintings was that of his friend Casagemas in his coffin. Pink was used to bring a different theme to the great paintings that he had in his gallery.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

The Controversy of Graffiti Art

Finally, graffiti is a form of expression and inhibiting it denies young persons a voice and the right to express themselves.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860

Photoshop Beauty in Modern Society

In the case of modern day photographers the use of extensive photoshopping in order to change the appearance of models can be likened to the actions of history's artists in that their very survival depends [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1546

Peter Paul Rubens: Life and Works

He is one of the famous artists of Baroque period. One of his famous paintings is "The history is the raising of the cross" a triptych, painted in 1609-1610.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

The Last Moments of Saint Mary Magdalene

The setting of the first scene in the frame is a place of worship, probably a whole church or a section in a church. There is evidence to this in the presentation of priests in [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1538

Giotto as the First Renaissance Painter

Behind Italian Renaissance was a great painter and architect, Giotto di Bondone, who existed in the 13th and 14th century."The Renaissance was a period of artistic and cultural achievement in Europe from the fourteenth to [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2741

Colour composition and Polarised Light

The outcome of such polarization is that the light gets in through a medium is not the same as the one that comes out on the end side of the medium.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1356

Rococo and Neoclassical Art

However with the advent of the neoclassical art period in the mid 18th century, balance and symmetry was emphasized as a reaction to rococo art designs.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1267

Parthenon in Athens

The damage of the temple made some people to steal the artifacts that used to be housed in the temple. Frieze was used to decorate the exterior walls of the temple and also illustrate the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 881

The Raft of the Medusa versus the Gulf Stream

The painting of The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault, a French painter emotionally portrays the survival and hardships experiences of the passengers in a raft, who survived the sinking of the French ship, [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

La Grande Odalisque by Ingres analysis

The subject matter of the painting is the odalisque, a concubine of a rich man in the East. Wallowing in luxury and waiting for her master to come is the only sense of her life.
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  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

Byzantine Art by Robin Cormack

The location of the Byzantine empire both in the east and in the west provided for the specific marriage of different traditions in Byzantine art.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 24
  • Words: 6668

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

Admiration by William Adolphe Bouguereau

The center of interest in the painting, emphasized by the color contrasts, is definitely the central group of five young women, reaching out for a yet more important figure of a boy in the center [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Art Appreciation on Renaissance Paintings

The paintings identified for this analysis are the Madonna and Child in Glory by Jacopa di Cione in the period between 1360 and 1365, and the Adoration of the Shepherds by Giovanni Agostino da Lori [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 857

Theory of Modern Art: Rationalization

Buchloh observes the cyclical appearance of action and reaction in art since the advent of Cubism, and infers from this that art reflects somehow the state of society.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 989

The Art of Self-Portrait: Rembrandt by Rembrandt

Against the background of the general popularity of portraits in the seventeenth century, the gallery of Rembrandt's self-portraits stands out as an exciting encyclopedia of the evolution in the artist's personality.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2557

Cultures in Van Gogh’s and Bichitr’s Paintings

According to Diamond, "the Mughals were the apogees of sophistication in the Islamic world, and they created an art that was utterly revolutionary and totally Indian and deeply connected to the broader world, including Europe,". [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1227

The Statue of Liberty: A Timeless Symbol of Freedom and Hope

With a long and intricate history intertwined with the origin of the United States, the monument represented the French people's dedication to the cause of liberty during the American Revolution. The Statue of Liberty is [...]
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Christian Art from Early Christianity to the Reformation

The four images in this challenge are significant pieces of art that shed light on the development of the Christian faith from the early Christian period to the Reformation: Good Shepherd, Orants, and Story of [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 599