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Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Art and Religion of Ancient Egypt

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

Jack Weatherford's Native Roots

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

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 ...

Rubens and Botticelli

In six pages the Renaissance paintings of Botticelli are compared with the Baroque art of Rubens in a comparison of style characte...

Hindu Gods Vishnu and Shiva in Art

In a paper consisting of five pages the symbolic significance of Vishnu and Shiva to Indian art is examined along with the artisti...

Art of Cinema from 1948 to 1965

In nine pages the ways in which cinematic art changed surprisingly little during this time period despite some avant garde detours...

Grade School Lesson Plans for Recycling and the First Thanksgiving

In four pages this paper includes descriptions for writing process, art, and social studies lesson plans in a consideration of thi...

Group of Women by Pierre Auguste Renoir: Group

In five pages this paper examines how art historians Carol Duncan and John Berger interpret Renoir's Group of Women painting. Thr...

Young Woman with a Water Jug by Jan Vermeer

In eight pages this paper examines the the life and art of Jan Vermeer with the primary focus being this painting and the female i...

Overview of Jazz and Its Legendary Artists

is often "misunderstood, under-appreciated and underestimated. If jazz is the underdog, avant-garde jazz is beneath the underdog"...

Life, Love, and Art of Frida Kahlo

In six pages this paper discusses Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in terms of her life experiences, her love for fellow artist Diego Ri...

Greek and Roman Akroterion Art Figures

In eight pages this paper discusses the art that was featured atop Roman and Greek buildings in terms of their representation, art...

Central European Politics from 1910 to 1939 and Modernist Art

of art. Europes turbulent, social and political changes offered (and still offer) suitable conditions for artistic temperament to ...

Life and Art of Pablo Picasso

In five pages this paper examines Pablo Picasso's art and the artist's reputation. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Femininity in Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Art

This paper provides a reading of two articles discussing the topic of femininity in seventeenth and nineteenth century art. The a...

Interpretations of Lee Krasner, Eva Hesse, and Georgia O'Keeffe Offered by Anne Middleton Wagner

In fifteen pages this paper presents an issue analysis of Three Artists (Three Women) : Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, a...

Comparing 'Oroonoko' and 'Persian Letters'

uncle was without children, he had been designated his uncle?s heir and began using his name at that time.) The Persian Letters ...

Analyzing Tennyson's Poetry

The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...

5 Examples of Minoan Art

In 5 pages this research paper discusses 5 Minoan art samples which include the Harvester's Vase, Snake Goddess from Knossos, the ...

The Art of Consumer Capitalism in Advertising

In a paper that consists of five pages the art form of slick consumer capitalist advertising is disccused as are the ways in which...

Beaux Arts Architects William Morris, Labroust, and Frank Lloyd Wright

In five pages this report considers how Beaux Arts architecture was mastered by Frank Lloyd Wright in terms of environmental harmo...

Graffiti and Whether or Not It Represents Vandalism or Urban Fine Art

In four pages this paper discusses graffiti and whether or not it represents fine art or vandalism and disrespect. Four sources a...