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 ...
early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...
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...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...
This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...
their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...
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...
importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...
of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...
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 ...
In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...
Toulouse Lautrec's life and art are explored in a paper consisting of 15 pages that includes his fin de siecle social involvement ...
ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...
the relationship in Greek thought of the symbolization of the state through the perfection of the individual - or at least the phy...
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 five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....
Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...
narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...
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...
This research paper examines literature that discusses the utilization of art therapy in regards to meeting the counseling needs o...
This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...
the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...
animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...