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Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Franz West and Anish Kapoor's Installation or Environmental Art

the visitor regardless of past educational experiences in the world of art is not only entertained but fascinated by the sheer eno...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Iris Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

that "the Impressionism is a lot more a state of the mind than a technique; thus artists other than painters have also been qualif...

The Life and Art of Armando Morales

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Assessment of Graffiti Through Qualitative Research

same wavering existence. Q. Why art and not some other form of expression? A. Art is a cultural expression, one that does not rec...

Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt

his most moving works of art (Skira and Benesch 8). Many of Rembrandts paintings would depict his beloved mother either reading t...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

The Life and Art of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

schooling. High Ability Studies, 11 (1), 55-68. This study was extremely helpful in comprehending the complexity of this topic....

Balthasar Klossowski or Balthus and Pablo Picasso

suggests that the artists utilized distinctly different perspectives and artistic approaches to their subject. Balthus, for examp...

The Film Amandla

the additional emotional impetus of having united a movement. This movement has not gone unnoticed by filmmakers either. Lee Hir...

17th Century Dutch Painter Vermeer

View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...

Ancient Civilizations, Art, and Propaganda

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

Laszlo Moholy Nagy Biography

officer during the war (Biography of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2003). Maholy-Nagy was severely wounded in 1917, and it was during his ...

Life and Art of Impressionist Painter Mary Cassatt

Fine Arts. In 1866 she went back to Paris" where "She copied the old masters in the Louvre and other museums. The young woman arti...

Computer Technology and Art

the diversity and liveliness of the culture of the time. One could...

Crucifixion and Last Judgment Painting by Jan Van Eyck

is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...

Marisol Escobar and Modern Art

Marisols father moved the entire family to safer climes. These tumultuous times had to have made an impact on the impressionable t...

The Life and Works of Louise Nevelson

in her life her output was quite chaotic and uneven. In an examination of her art, and the development of her art, we present an a...

Life and Art of Jackson Pollock

reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...

Life and Works of Diego Rivera

Date of his death is November 24, 1957" (Tuck, 2002; jtdiegorivera.html). His Art "He studied in the San Carlos Academy and in...

2 Paintings by Gustav Klimt

synthesizes all of his diverse talents and multiple influences and results in an image that is completely unique in terms of its e...

Minimalism Environmental Art

universe characteristic to traditional theatre since there is no causal plot" (Happenings and Other Acts). The culmination of Kap...

Mythology and Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

Renaissance Europe and Artistic Talent and Genius

time spent in the workshop of a painter. Here they would learn how to copy painting by the artist. This would aid in the developme...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

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...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...