Essays 91 - 120
person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...
The main contention resides with the fine line that separates harmless yet effective swats with an open palm and heavy-handed stri...
Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...
In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...
(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...
COUPLING Art can help students achieve at a higher level by encouraging them to stretch their minds beyond conventional sta...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...
news is that this proposal doesnt necessarily need to outline the benefits to the state, as the state has already targeted the art...
stuff "winning rather than off-putting," noting that he is an "equal-opportunity elephant-dung employer," using it to make support...
of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...
In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
creativity through art is that it provides an ideal medium for teaching diverse student populations. Through art, elementary teach...
the diversity and liveliness of the culture of the time. One could...
the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...
by geographic, socio-economic, educational or other barriers, as well as enriching the quality of individual, family and community...
of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...
in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...
ways of the farmer and those who work with the land. A return to the land and the environment may signal a return to these types o...
altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...
by Aristotle as a kind of activity based on knowledge and governed by rules" (Witcombe, 2003). From this perspective an art, or tr...
also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...
life for victims of this disease. Light in the Labyrinth pairs professional artists with Alzheimers patients for a period of eight...
the art and science of war, and also in operational art as he was capable of planning and executing campaigns which achieved "stra...
paintings, he sanctioned the use of artwork for decorative or didactic purposes in the home" (Albany Institute of History and Art,...
the Church to be displayed or created in the Church (Albany Institute of History and Art, 2007). 2) How does the Dutch...
to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...
abstracts pain and fear from history" (Berger 169). He also discusses what Picasso was doing, and not doing and in that respect th...
way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...