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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...

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...

Comparative Artistic Analysis of Gimaud and Bernini

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

Ancient Greek Economics

in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...

Art and the Images of Women

themes and strategies I do wonder if women, who are artists, or artists who are women, consciously have themes of resistance. Fr...

Understanding North America and Europe Through Arts Studying

In five pages this paper examines how North America and Europe can be better understood through a study of the arts and their poli...

Tempestuous Paintings of Caravaggio

than painting. The jealous man heaped insults on Lena. Upon hearing of this, Caravaggio hit the young lawyer with a powerful blow ...

Art and Psychology

In five pages this paper discusses the psychological impact of art in an analysis of facial expressions when one is doing somethin...

Lee Krasner's Artistry

as the primary colors. These colors conveyed her sorrow as well as her insomnia. "The Eye Is the First Circle" is an example featu...

Twenty First Century and Humanity

In 8 pages this paper discusses the new millennium in a consideration of humanity that includes an examination of culture, art, en...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Art and the Legacy of the Puritans

In five pages this essay analyzes the Puritan's artistic legacy in America as considered by art critic Robert Hughes. There are n...

Auden, Braque, and Picasso

the eye through the painting. Colors are the restrained grays, whites, browns, and blacks that had dominated Analytical Cubism si...

Ancient Construction Form for Housing

Ancient people used a form of construction called cob construction. This paper examines the art and how it was useful to our ances...

Influences of Classical Greece

pervaded Western architecture for more than two millennia. The Greek temple emerged as the archetypal shrine of all time. Unlike ...

'Letters in Words' in the First World War Paintings of Ernest, Magritte, and Malevich

might just try it." Since artists react from each others works, one may "try" something and another may also "try" - in our case t...

Chinese Cookery and its History

In five pages this paper examines Chinese cookery from the development of chopsticks to the present day with such influences as Co...

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

In four pages the Parisian modernity period is examined in a consideration of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's art and his influence. ...

Pompeii Public and Private Life by Zanker

A synopsis of this text with the focus being on the social significance of art is assessed in five pages. There are no other sour...

Voice Music Pedagogy and Baritones

In five pages the scientific singing art is explored particularly as it relates to the range of baritone and considers voice in te...

Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau

In eight pages this paper examines the political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of On the Social Contract, T...

Poetry and Different Romantic Modes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron

In eight pages this research paper discusses the romantic modes featured by Shelley's 'Platonic love,' Keats' 'doctrine of art,' a...

Art Aesthetics and Freudian Revenant

In five pages this paper examines literary works 'Pied Beauty' by Gerard Manley and 'Fern Hill' by Dylan Thomas in an application ...

Artistic and Cinematic Postmodernism

In five pages this research paper examines postmodernism as it is reflected in cinema and art. Seven sources are cited in the bib...

Minoan Society and its Artful Definitions

later Roman cities. In addition, Minoans had indoor plumbing and a system of efficient waste removal. They built great palaces who...

Fifteenth Century Religious Art in France and Russia

the quality of lace. The faces and hands of these icons appear almost as burnished leather, but that may be due either to the age...

Rimbaud and Verlaine as Symbolist Poets

In six pages this paper analyzes Rimbaud's 'The Sleeper in the Valley' and Verlaine's 'The Art of Poetry' in terms of how each rep...

Art Aesthetics and Sigmund Freud

In five pages this paper examines how Freud conceptualized art in a discussion of what he believed to be the aesthetic significanc...

Greece's Golden Age

In six pages this paper examines classical Greece's architecture and art with a discussion of the Acropolis and the sculptures of ...