Essays 91 - 120
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
renderings, she was portrayed as "clothed and formal" (Anonymous, 1997a); however, in later years this image was significantly alt...
for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...
religious themes or other such esoteric spiritual works. Repin sought to bring real life into his artwork. One way that he...
process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...
their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...
and children, a sobriquet given in her lifetime, she approached this, her favorite subject, with the surprisingly unsentimental bu...
In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...
first shot is fired. Finding the enemys vulnerability has always been a strategy, but in this book one is also urged to look for o...
of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...
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...
conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...
Byuck Ki, Taek Kyun and others" (Tang Soo Do). When Korea won its independence from Japan in 1945, Korean martial arts "flourish...
("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...
frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...
There is a belief that it may well have been hung up and used much like drums that have been found in the region (Metropolitan Mus...
areas of the Middle East as well as regions of Africa, Europe, and Asia (Islamic Art). Another author notes that, "The interchange...
farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...
conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...
other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...
accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...
Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...
yet they were incredibly symbolic and modern in their approach. It was not enough to say life was harsh, or to illustrate a beauti...
Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense" (Pop art, 2006). The art of the Impressionists a...
face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...
more, growing progressively smaller in the distance. The shape is welcoming, like he is opening his arms and gathering the philoso...
assessment of some viewers as being "resistant to abstraction" because see "no skill in it" (Barrett 87). In breaking down this ob...
(SpanishArts, 2006). In Baroque paintings there was more depth, more shadowing, and perhaps more of a sense of realism in comparis...
7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...