Essays 511 - 540
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
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...
people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...
life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...
an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...
artists book, that is, with no apostrophe, due to this initial usage of the term. As of 1998, there have been over 300 exhibitions...
accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...
affair rather than the politics. As such, Riefenstahl was chosen for two reasons - the first being that she had no particularly in...
Being that it is an article about ancient art it is not necessarily important that the article be incredibly new. The author is an...
the changes in any given society so with some chaos and change came more chaotic art. In truth, defining and keeping track...
able to leverage position in terms of the protection it can provide for its clients. This is supported by a commitment to maintain...
and purpose When Oral Roberts was interviewed by a conference committee prior to his ordination as a Methodist minister, he was a...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...
City. They were Joseph Stella, an American artist; Walter Arensberg, an affluent art collector; and Marcel Duchamp, also an artist...
concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...
and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...
photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...
for a number of reasons. For instance, when one takes a superficial look at any given culture, it seems as if there are certain "c...
obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...
its developers very well (Evil Empire, 2005). These days, with hot licenses in hand, theyre leading the industry in games producti...
Indian immigrants but it has also made its way here indirectly as the style has influenced Western clothing designers. In...
Huxley considers how the survival of a democracy depends upon frequent information exchanges, which is what made the medium of tel...
to Rivera, who is considered to be the "greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century," should begin with Riveras biographical...
and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...