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Essays 991 - 1020

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Censorship and Pornography

Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...

Judith and Her Maidservant with The Head Of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...

Typography and the Avant Garde Art Movement

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

Development of Graphic Arts in the Future

graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

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...

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...

Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...

Nonprofit Organizations and Grant Money

political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Ornamental Arts, Fame and Fate in Beowulf

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

Love of Women Represented in Pre Raphaelite Art

this "a bitter argument" arose "at the Royal Academy, fellow students labeled Millais, Hunt, and anybody else who shared their bel...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

Faience Egyptian Art

for more than five thousand years"(ITR, 2002). How the Egyptians discovered the process is as big a mystery as any other technolo...

Impressionist Artists and the Influence of Japanese Art

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...

The Moon Rises

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

Comparative Analysis of Ancient Art Woman or Goddess with Snakes and Eannatum, Prince of Lagash

This report contrasts and compares the art from the ancient Minoan culture and Sumer in five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

An Aesthetician's Perspective on Art

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

Marketing

Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...

Chinese Calligraphy Art Form

and is known as the curly script for the form it adopts after each stroke (Calligraphy). Emperor Qin Shi Huang modified ancient z...

Overview of Minoan Art and Culture

face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...

A Comparison of Donatello's David and Michelangelo's David

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

Paleolithic Art Purposes and Meanings

the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...

Popular Culture and American Pop Art

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

Augustan Period Art

There were numerous monuments and statues constructed during the reign of...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...