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 ...
from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...
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...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...
their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...
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...
In eight pages Nitta Sayuri and Dorian Gray are compared in terms of obvious differences but interesting similarities in maturatio...
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 ...
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...
narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...
ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...
Toulouse Lautrec's life and art are explored in a paper consisting of 15 pages that includes his fin de siecle social involvement ...
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...
animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...
to diminish the pain of actual loss. 2. What seems to be the purpose of the speaker in the first three tercets...
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...
approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...