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Past History of NEA

different media contributed to the "culture wars", photography--perhaps because of its relationship to reality--played a pivotal r...

Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of community theaters and high-school drama clubs). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from his drawing-room comedies, h...

Similarities and Differences Between Art of Incas and Aztecs

There are many similarities and differences between the art of the Incas and Aztecs. This paper analyzes each, touching on the str...

European Middle Ages Architecture, Art, and Classical Antiquity

In five pages the influence of classical antiquity on the architecture and art of the European Middle Ages are considered in the a...

Mycenae and Early Greece and the Effects of Minoan Culture and Art

In five pages this paper discusses how the art of the Mycenae and early Greece was influenced by the Minoan culture and art with c...

Liberal Arts' Education and its Importance

In four pages this paper examines liberal arts' education in an overview of curriculum benefits and value with job possibility exa...

Picasso, Braque and Cubism

Cubism had an enormous influence on modern art and artists. This paper discusses the work of Picasso, Braque, Leger, Uecker, Ducha...

The Smithsonian Hispanic Art Opinion Essay

In an essay consisting of two pages and five paragraphs the writer's personal observations and opinions regarding five works of ar...

Value of Sidewalk Art

In five pages this paper assesses sidewalk art's community value and also discusses the impact of children's participation with Si...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Modern Art's Aura Dissolution According to Walter Benjamin's Theory

in print sources (magazines, newspapers) where the image present on the page bears little resemblance to the image "seen by the un...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Gothic and Roman Design and Art

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

Art & Creativity/Elementary Classroom

creativity through art is that it provides an ideal medium for teaching diverse student populations. Through art, elementary teach...

London Borough of Southwark

is a former PowerStation, the shell remains, and the inside has been refitted (Tate, 2002). The area may already have been...

The Artistry of Antonio Gaudi

fantastic and organic readily applied to this particular structure, one can clearly understand why Gaudis avant-garde style earned...

Art from Classical,, Romanesque, Gothic, and Early Renaissance Periods

As Adams indicates, the archaic smile is now gone and stylization has decreased. Another marked change involved the materials used...

History of Chinese Art

is suspected that zhuan script came into existence due to the oracles significantly irregular patterns and overabundance of charac...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art

sometimes referred to as processes, which in their struggle and tension with one another move the Universe forward or backward as ...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Islamic Art Symmetry

Herman Weil; " Symmetry establishes a ridiculous and wonderful cousinship between objects, phenomena and theories outwardly unrela...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

Feminism, The Female Form, and Postmodern Art

This paper addresses the ways in which the female body has been adorned and admired throughout the history of art. The author com...

Kinetic Art and Real Movement

only one right way to do something. As artists we are only limited by our imaginations. The same is true for from one "ism" or p...

Fountain of 1917 by Marcel Duchamp

In seven pages this infamous work of art is examined in terms of its impact and how it forever changed the history of art. Eight ...