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Essays 1771 - 1800

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Filmmaker Woody Allen

its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

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...

Art Works, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist

This essay presents a proposal to purchase reproductions of 3 impressionist paintings and 3 Post-Impressionist. The art works are ...

Power and Pathos/National Gallery of Art

This paper describes an exhibit currently be shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The exhibit features ancient...

Egyptian and Chinese and Art

similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...

Jack Weatherford's Native Roots

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

Egyptian and Chinese Art Compared

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

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...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

Ways to See and Panopticon

The title reflects two essay written by two different authors. John Berger wrote the first one about art and images while Michael ...

"Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

Fountain (1917)/Marcel Duchamp

City. They were Joseph Stella, an American artist; Walter Arensberg, an affluent art collector; and Marcel Duchamp, also an artist...

Sports Markets and Demand Forecasting

for a number of reasons. For instance, when one takes a superficial look at any given culture, it seems as if there are certain "c...

Why Choose to be a Methodist?

and purpose When Oral Roberts was interviewed by a conference committee prior to his ordination as a Methodist minister, he was a...

Beauty, Art, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In seven pages the ways in which Wilde's novel explores the meaning of beauty and art are discussed. There are no other sources c...

An Art Work Representing Ideology

derive from your religion could be grouped around this central influence. For example, people holding hands in love and fellowship...

Listening to Music in an Active Fashion

expressive qualities of the music such as the pieces themes and melodies, the texture of the instruments and arrangement, as well ...

The Variety of Personal Influence

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...

The Renaissance Through Impressionism

The so-called Early Renaissance is among the more interesting of these periods. So too, however, are the Late Renaissance and the...

Analytical Analysis of Renaissance Art

obtained the quality he called "grazia," which he used to describe a "kind of perfect divine beauty" (Witcombe). A work of art cam...

John Greenleaf Whittier, a Biography

Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist and it was published in Garrisons Newburyport Free Press ("John"). Garrison encouraged the ...

Social Influence and Art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

Art has evolved in response to numerous societal factors....