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John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie

Pioneering jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in which jazz elements and the ...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Herakles Presentation by Playwrights and Artists

very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

Art's Golden Mean and the Development of the Fibonacci Sequence

In six pages this paper examines The Annunciation of Leonardo da Vinci in a consideration of the Fibonacci mathematical sequence, ...

How is "Good" Art Determined?

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

Being a Citizen of the World

in promoting global or worldwide rights for more than 60 years. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted The Universal Dec...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Virtual Art Museum Tour: African Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Early Artists and Art of China

can be found in Zhan Ziqians Spring Excursion. Li Sixun and his son Li Zhaodao in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty were the represen...

Art, Class, and Race in the Works of Jean Michel Basquiat, James VanDerZee, and Romare Bearden

some of the essence of urban life, jazz music, and Black pride. Basquiats work demonstrates both the vibrancy and despair of moder...

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...

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...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

1970s' Art and Urban Change Reflections

been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...

American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Comparative Analysis of the Art of James McNeill Whistler, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet

to merge as one giving no definite beginning or end. We see the impressionistic images of the boats which offer the real only geom...

American Scene Painting Art Movement

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

Gunter Grass' Tin Drum an the Artist's Role

is a great reference made to the works of Shakespeare, especially that of Hamlet in which a young prince is considered insane. How...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

Genre of Performance Art

In five pages this paper defines performance art in a consideration of such artists as Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Vito Acconci, Carol...

Representing American Achievements in Art

unknown territory to most of the country. The reason that I selected Cole to be included in this discussion was first the drama...

Text Function of Artwork

Art. The Postmodern artists discussed will be Cindy Sherman and Philip Pearlstein. Post-modernism According to Strickland (1992...

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...