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Commercial Law Questions

expected that it was Gary. Contract law doe not make assumptions regarding the level of consideration, only that it exits, the lev...

Dada and Impressionist Art as Political Statements

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

Life and Art of Rene Magritte

of realism as though it were a sketch. There is not the boldness of lines and the use of color that would represent the work of Ma...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

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 ...

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...

Characteristics of Some Artworks

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

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...

Art: Definition and Interpretation

In many ways these three artists were reacting to the world around them, the changes around them, and the conditions or events tha...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

Art and the Civil War Era

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

A Study of the American Theater

- the nation then being confined largely to the east coast" (Theatre History, 2003). The four largest theatre towns were Philadel...

Modern Media Arts and the Effects of New Digital Technology and Software

impact of digital technology and software on the media arts. The use of new technology in arts is not new, this has occurred ove...

Holland and France During the Baroque Art Period

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

Experience, Knowledge, and the Individual

ordinary. For example, the treadmarks that a car makes in the mud he translated into a tires treads rolled through paint and appli...

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...

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Arts and the Views of Plato

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

A Comparison of Donatello's David and Michelangelo's David

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

Overview of Minoan Art and Culture

face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...

U.S. Culinary Arts and the Literary Influence of M.F.K. Fisher

her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

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...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Ancient Art and Pattern

of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...

Sexism, Romanticism, and the Portrayal of Women in Eighteenth Century Art

and females are portrayed during that time period. A highlight of the Fricks holdings is its collection of 18th-century rococ...