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The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

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...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Mondrian and Martin

Mondrians. "Red Bird" is part of the collection at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, and it is on display on their website. Accordin...

Van Gogh/Irises

to the left. Directly below these flowers, the iris bed begins and builds in height so that the flowers on the right are the talle...

Graffiti as Art

an expressive message to the reader, whether it is a political, social or personal view" (South). Whether it is vandalism or not m...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

Commercial Contemporary Art Market

their own websites, pay to be put in many different cooperative galleries, and perhaps hope that they become well known. But, this...

How Art and Design Influence Society

room, where a woman would go through labor and give birth. It is likely that everyone knows how a room, the color and the design o...

Finding Forrester: Education and the Arts

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

Art Deco: New York City

style included repeated shapes and icons such as an automobile profile or the stylized shape that one would see in a gear or a whe...

Modern Gladiator Days

pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...

Perceiving the Arts

had learned in Kindergarten. It was a song that had moved him and he wanted to move others. He waited his time and delivered his...

Critical Thinking & Art Education

and his analysis of the stages of artistic development (Olson 33). Following Lowenfelds ideas leads to teachers directing their fo...

Viewing Art in Florence

church. Admission to the Bargello Museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello) is $5.20 in Euros and well worth this nominal admission,...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Geography / Art Lesson Plan

relation to the United Kingdom and Europe. The teacher shows a picture of a satellite Atlas map (this can be found with a search ...

King George III and the Enlightenment

This 3 page paper looks at the way in which King George III was influenced and influenced The Enlightenment with interests in scie...

Time Capsule: Renaissance & The Age Of Baroque

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

Three Graphic Artists

designed to be much more primitive and thoughtful. Wind, Earth, Water - Nature" (Greenmuseum.org, 2002). His designs are not, by...

Cherokee Art

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

Barrett/Interpreting Art

assessment of some viewers as being "resistant to abstraction" because see "no skill in it" (Barrett 87). In breaking down this ob...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Medieval Sculpture

were a period of tremendous changes in western Europe, particularly in population, demography, economics, politics, and military s...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...