Essays 1381 - 1410
in his career, Bernini occupied himself with church architecture late in life, designing three churches -- "one a Greek cross, one...
addiction, including salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict and relapse" (Griffiths, 2001, p. 333). Intern...
the public in 1900 (Victoria Art Gallery, 2003). The Gallery houses a range of oil painting dating from the fifteenth century, fea...
The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...
been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...
statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...
also something they can enjoy (Architecture Vs. Contemporary Art, 2002)? How can architecture mirror the fast changing cultural pa...
of art which transcend the existing categories of art, whether they come from music or language, from the fine arts or from dance"...
our manner of interaction with the world, ourselves, and others. Our perceptual capacities are not fixed; they are not static or ...
something they feel, or something they are. When the art is finished it has found its end, and it is complete. From another per...
However, Allen also makes the point that Platos attitude was at least partially due to his respect and fear of the powers of art o...
for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...
land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...
that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...
elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...