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Essays 211 - 240
statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...
being a "practical" discipline. It provides outstanding mental exercise, but its difficult to see how debates about the nature of ...
earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...
Although he served in the Franco-Prussian war, he was also accused of being part of the short-lived Paris Commune. Consequently t...
One of Picassos widely acclaimed Cubist paintings, the 1907 Woman Holding Her Foot is a fine example of this artist at his Cubist ...
are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...
of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...
babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...
to diminish the pain of actual loss. 2. What seems to be the purpose of the speaker in the first three tercets...
In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....
the relationship in Greek thought of the symbolization of the state through the perfection of the individual - or at least the phy...
3 pages in length. The beginning of the twentieth century was rife with improvements to everyday commodities that up until this t...
the numerically fine groups that compose the American elite (p. 363). The very "top of modern society" is frequently inaccessible,...
ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...
works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...
In three pages this essay considers the general and liberal arts meanings of the humanities concept....
In five pages this paper examines the expressiveness of tennis which qualifies it as an art form....
Descent into Hell," painted in the style of Hieronymus Bosch in the Netherlands between 1550-1560 is oil on wood, 21 x 46 inches, ...
damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...
contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...
one can also understand that it was a place were many different peoples came together, and then disappeared: "From the twelfth to ...
person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...
are the strongest reflection of the diversity of multicultural issues and ideologies that underpin Canadian life. As a consequenc...
Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...
heroic exploits" (Irinas World). And, in this particular painting, which also holds an angel of sorts (actually a goddess) with a ...
were several important developments in the style and theme of Chinese painting during the Han dynasty. Tomb paintings were importa...
In five pages this paper discusses how Campbell's text distinguishes myth through art and also considers such topics as dreaming, ...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...
In four pages this paper examines these paintings' 'imperfections' and what they may perhaps reveal about the Renaissance concepts...