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Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Mondrian and Martin

Mondrians. "Red Bird" is part of the collection at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, and it is on display on their website. Accordin...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Abstract Art Meaning

colour, but intended to embody meaning in their works....

Art v. Science

scientific images art (Beauty in Art and Science, 2005)? Both the scientist and the artist...

The Arts and the Contributions of Women

others. For example, we look at the work of Maya Lin and see that her presence in the world of architecture caused quite a sti...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

The Ancient Art of Rome, Greece, and Egypt

history. The Greeks were the first to truly follow Egypt in presenting art and representations of symbolic figures in art histor...

Alternative Therapy Represented by Art Therapy

Art Therapy Association, 2003). Art therapy typically is used for and is effective for treatment of those who are impaired develop...

Myself and Artwork in terms of Surrealism, Dream, and Reality

and present/past, the connection between reality and dream. While it is true that Dogen may be viewed as a Zen Master, one might ...

Women of Ernest Hemingway

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

Graphic Arts and the Industrial Revolution

to come from the time period, the many things we take for granted in graphic arts would not be available. Of course, there is anot...

British Museum Sesostris III Statue

to change, a significant development given the importance of funerary ritual and art in later stages of the cultures evolution. ...

Robert Smithson, Jean Claude, and Christo

work. When people have only a short time to see a piece of art they are drawn to it and will remember it, especially when that ...

Masaccio, Botticelli, Donatello, and Art of the Early Renaissance

In nine pages a hypothetical early Renaissance art exhibit featuring this trio of prominent artists is presented. Eleven web imag...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Communication of Native Americans

should be. Evelyn Thom, born in 1927, provides a view of the traditional jingle dress dance. "We went to the round dance...

Religion and Approach to Dramatic Arts

of Peter Pitzele, "Scripture Window." For example, the group of fifth graders could be given the story of the Good Samaritan where...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

Jamila by Chinghiz Aitmatov

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

Self and Identity in Art

the fragility of life, the closeness of death, and the constant and perhaps futile struggle to rise above the coarse material worl...

Language Arts Standards Achievement

diversity (NCTE). Helping students to achieve these goals requires a variety of learning strategies. For example, research indic...

Disillusionment Reflected in Art Between the First and Second World Wars

past, but seeing it through disillusioned, or "cubist," eyes. Picassos other work under examination, Guernica, is his most analy...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

Artists Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman on Self and Identity

and then moved to New York city (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). It was at this time in art history that debates existed as they surroun...

Self and Identity in the Art of Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman

Sherman Cindy Shermans work has often been noted as focusing on issues and questions of identity through a sort of self-por...

Characteristics of Some Artworks

the women is wearing jewelry, a neck piece, and this would correspond with servant depictions of this period (Egyptian Civilizatio...