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Renaissance Art's Depiction of the Human Body

In ten pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of how the human body was depicted by Italian and German art ...

Evil and Theodicy

the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Genetic Engineering

In eight pages this paper discusses Brave New World in terms of how Aldous Huxley addressed issues of genetic engineering....

Scenic Design and 'Tools' of Fine Art

this piece in our discussion due to the many stage-like qualities, which it includes in its presentation. Probably the first art ...

Dutch Art Market of the 17th Century

and against what was perceived as the lavish and licentious nature of the Catholics, paintings with religious subjects were forbid...

Narrative Style Comparison Between Classic Mode and Art Cinema

In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

Pre Second World War Policy of the US

opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Art of Ancient Greek Civilization

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

Contributing to the World Through Creative Independence

than to go the same direction as everyone else. As such, the student may want to add, it is one of my greatest and...

Indian Art Piece the Bodhisattva Maitreya

21 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2".2 One author, in relationship to the material schist and its use, states that, "Unlike their Mathuran coun...

London Borough of Southwark

is a former PowerStation, the shell remains, and the inside has been refitted (Tate, 2002). The area may already have been...

Second World War and Changes to the Nursing Profession

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Islamic Art Symmetry

Herman Weil; " Symmetry establishes a ridiculous and wonderful cousinship between objects, phenomena and theories outwardly unrela...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art

sometimes referred to as processes, which in their struggle and tension with one another move the Universe forward or backward as ...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

Relationship Between Society and Art

In this paper, well present sources that prove that Mr. Greenbergs philosophies are little more than elitist snobbery and that art...

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...

Manifestos in Arts, Crafts, and Marxism

and artistic consequences of what they felt was ill-considered machine use (Crouch, 1999). Hand skills were esteemed due to the fa...

Greek and Egyptian Art

In six pages this paper examines Egyptian and Greek pieces of art that are currently displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...

First World War and Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who wa...

Propaganda and Art

his predecessor, Constantine, Justinian did not want to be challenged in either his role as the emperor or his right to create his...

Sexually Abused Children and Art Therapy Assessments

when human subjects are utilized there is the need to apply an ethical standard to the research process. Inherent, then, in the d...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Martial Arts' Overview

such practice that date as far back as 1066-256 B.C. during the Zhou dynasty (Short History of Chinese Martial Arts, 2005). Wit...

Social Conditions and the Body as Reflected in Art

Finleys name with "the chocolate smeared woman, famous for her performance piece, We Keep Our Victims Ready, when she smeared her ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Modern Art's Aura Dissolution According to Walter Benjamin's Theory

in print sources (magazines, newspapers) where the image present on the page bears little resemblance to the image "seen by the un...