YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Essays 31 - 60
In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...
In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...
own soul," which causes the influenced person not to have his "natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions," (Wilde 18). T...
should he do? In an attempt to capture his youth, he sells his soul and instead of aging, the portrait ages in place of Dorians ow...
from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...
their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...
This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...
In eight pages Nitta Sayuri and Dorian Gray are compared in terms of obvious differences but interesting similarities in maturatio...
for the women we marry - that is quite true" (Lady PG). Attention to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray his inner...
In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...
the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...
of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...
importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...
approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...
(SpanishArts, 2006). In Baroque paintings there was more depth, more shadowing, and perhaps more of a sense of realism in comparis...
perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...
a great deal of art, was incredibly reflective of what was considered the good life. There was a change in the society at that tim...
A 3 page research paper that, first of all, briefly outlines the general content of national standards addressing the fine arts: a...
animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...
page. The use of negative space to enhance the darkness of the central image is important to creating a tone for the site, and th...
the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...
about Egyptian life. Discuss how an artist may express his or her point of view by explaining the content, concept and style of a...
is making a political statement. Other times, the artists are merely expressing an aesthetic point of view. Rosenberg remarks that...
her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...
includes paintings," which contrasts sharply with the fact that considerable critical "attention has been given to popular music a...