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Francois Boucher's The Toilet of Venus and Edgar Degas' Nude Woman Having Her Hair Combed Paintings Comparison

Quite frankly, both Venus and the nameless woman seem equally as fair, yet because of her godly status, Venus is entitled to so mu...

Pop Culture and The News

Art often imitates life, particularly in American media. This paper compares the media frenzy over the Clinton-Lewinsky affair wit...

Nicolas Poussin's Selene and Endymion

by Poussin, Nicolas). In "Poussins painting" we see "Endymion awake, kneeling to welcome the arrival of the moon goddess, while he...

Whistler: "Portrait in Black and Gray"

found in the womans tightly clasped hands, in the handkerchief that she is clutching tightly, and in the fact that her hair is cov...

Claude Monet's Painting 'The Rouen Cathedral Morning'

life than anything thats done later in the studio" Rouen Cathedral, The Fa?ade, Morning Effect The painting that we will examine ...

Head of Medusa by Peter Paul Rubens and The Seven Acts of Mercy by Caravaggio

while he was running from his crime, were perhaps the most powerful.4 In this work it became obvious that he was dismissing the pa...

Jackson Pollock’s Convergence

a harbinger of change in the society. Fine art makes an impact on society in a powerful way and also reflect society. Pollocks Con...

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

him four years (Wikipedia, 2007). "Contrary to popular belief, he painted in a standing position, not lying on his back. According...

How the Storm Helps Readers Understand Ann’s Character in “The Painted Door”

it is in a few words: "The sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow that instead of warmth ...

Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap Painting by Titian

and his hand that holds the sword. The mans eyes are relaxed and slightly aimed upwards as his head is tilted slightly down. The e...

Yasujiro Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon

In five pages an overview of Ozu's film also known as Sanma No Aji is analyzed in therms of sound, editing, movement, mise en scen...

1855 to 1875 American Folk Pottery Industry Historiography

also serve to illuminate a lost way of living. In spite of al the missing history, for the last twenty-five years scholars have ...

The Andromeda Strain, Mise-en-Scene

This essay pertains to the art production and mise-en-scene that characterizes "The Andromeda Strain," a 1971 film directed by Rob...

Hamlet and the Function of Art

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

Urban Art as a Reflection of Urban Culture

This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

European Art of the Medieval Period

of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...

Modernism and the Art of Mark Rothko

In six pages this paper examines modernism and its impact upon painting in a consideration of the art of Mark Rothko. Four source...

Wilde's Dorian Gray and Art

In a paper consisting of 3 pages the relationship between life and art as reflected in the novel is considered in terms of the onl...

Viaduct at L'Estague by Georges Braque

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

Art Works, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist

This essay presents a proposal to purchase reproductions of 3 impressionist paintings and 3 Post-Impressionist. The art works are ...

An Art Work Representing Ideology

derive from your religion could be grouped around this central influence. For example, people holding hands in love and fellowship...

Two Works of Tibetan Art

statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...

Sensitivity and Social Awareness in Modern Video Art, Photography, and Paintings Examples

the 19th century but his work had been censured and placed away for much of that time due to the fact that he focused mainly on li...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

Civil War Art and Folk Music

In five pages this paper examines slave art and music during the years of the Civil War along with a consideration of family durin...

Group of Women by Pierre Auguste Renoir: Group

In five pages this paper examines how art historians Carol Duncan and John Berger interpret Renoir's Group of Women painting. Thr...