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Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Civilizations of MesoAmerica, Egypt, and Greece

Mexico and other areas of central America, demonstrates a number of similarities with Egyptian culture: the main architectural for...

Rasa in Indian Performing Arts

is regarded as the fifth Veda" (Indian Dance, 2004). This particular work offers "great detail of the different kinds of postures,...

Art, Class, and Race in the Works of Jean Michel Basquiat, James VanDerZee, and Romare Bearden

some of the essence of urban life, jazz music, and Black pride. Basquiats work demonstrates both the vibrancy and despair of moder...

Renaissance Art and Philosophy Integration

In three pages this paper examines how art and philosophy were integrated during the Renaissance. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Renaissance and the Art of Venice

time of specific change. Morris (1997), for example, observes even subtle changes in the dress of the Pope between the Renaissanc...

U.S. Culinary Arts and the Literary Influence of M.F.K. Fisher

her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Visual Art and Modernism

previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...

Evaluating Ancient Art Works

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

Ancient Egypt's Sarcophagus Art

rule of the emperors" that "Roman sarcophagi became elaborate, with mythological scenes carved on the sides and statues of the dec...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Fertility Art of Ancient Times

forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

Business Plan Development

of the year is always the Christmas pantomime. These are big budget productions and require forward planning. Pantomimes may also ...

Definitions in Art

Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance (roughly from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries) (Artcyclopedia). Generally religious ...

Politics and the Arts

weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...

Assessments of Sexually Abused Children and Art Therapy

As a result, art therapy may be use in evaluating whether a child who has been sexually abused has formed a normative view of sexu...

Process of Criminal Profiling

was actively used to achieve a successful conclusion. In the case of "The Mad Bomber," New York law enforcement officials t...

Roman Architecture and the Continental Building

are just a few of its ornamental features (Gilmore Associates, 2004). The overall style of the Continental is Art Deco. The Art ...

Clement Greenberg's Medium Concept and Dick Higgins' Notion of Intermedia

modern art had driven itself into the embrace of the abstract by shifting its focus onto the conditions of the medium, or in other...

3 Art Form Variations

Persian art. The Smithsonian Institute (2004) tells us that, "This exhibition features twenty-six of the finest illustrated manusc...

Early Artists and Art of China

can be found in Zhan Ziqians Spring Excursion. Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were the represen...

Auteur Theory and Art Cinema

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

Art and Psychology

In five pages this paper discusses the psychological impact of art in an analysis of facial expressions when one is doing somethin...

Lee Krasner's Artistry

as the primary colors. These colors conveyed her sorrow as well as her insomnia. "The Eye Is the First Circle" is an example featu...

Twenty First Century and Humanity

In 8 pages this paper discusses the new millennium in a consideration of humanity that includes an examination of culture, art, en...

Art and the Legacy of the Puritans

In five pages this essay analyzes the Puritan's artistic legacy in America as considered by art critic Robert Hughes. There are n...