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Art Bulletin Article 'The Romanesque Revival, Mural Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America' by Kathleen Curran

result of this shift, Curran found it necessary to reflect on the substantive factors that influenced the development of religious...

Three Essays on Art

What Degas shared with the Impressionists was an interest in modern life -- in Paris dance halls and cabarets, its racetracks, it...

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

Art of the Ancient Middle East

made or coins minted (Ancient near eastern art). Because the figures on the plates are not labeled, they cannot be identified wit...

Abstraction, Modernist Temper, Art and Literature

yet they were incredibly symbolic and modern in their approach. It was not enough to say life was harsh, or to illustrate a beauti...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

The Significance of Indonesian Tribal Art

There is a belief that it may well have been hung up and used much like drums that have been found in the region (Metropolitan Mus...

Surfing and the Korean Martial Art Tang Soo Do

Byuck Ki, Taek Kyun and others" (Tang Soo Do). When Korea won its independence from Japan in 1945, Korean martial arts "flourish...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

Sylvia Plath's Life and Art

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

Martial Arts and Screen Legend Bruce Lee

in Hollywood features he decided to pack up his wife Linda and two young children and move to Hong Kong, where his ambitions would...

Western and Non Western Art of Ancient Times

powerful texture. The cloth that apparently is draped around the woman seems quite tight, and beautifully well distributed. It app...

Art of Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence

the background and one individual standing in the foreground. The painting is filled with images and different activities. There i...

Max Pechstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and German Expressionist Art

find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from mor...

Art Aspects of 3 Impressionist Works

is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

to the twenty-first century reader somewhat of an ordeal to read through the entire volume. The author for example talks about nin...

Art of Egypt

we have, as noted, a technique of combining papyrus strips, along with a gummy substance, which enables the mummy case to be flexi...

Economic Patronage for the Arts in the 20th Century

Closes work from the 80s and the 90s loses something of his earlier provocativeness. Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras)...

Art and Recruitment: World War I, Flagg, and Christy

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

Documentary Analysis 'The Art of Survival'

positive and joyful. Although some of his work deals with his horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazi, the emphasis in Janka...

Hamlet and Macbeth and the Art of Murder

easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...

Consideration of Cinematic Art

In nine pages two stylistic modes Hollywood's classical narrative realism and modernist or avant garde are examined in terms of ho...

Art of the Sistine Chapel

Aesthetic and historical views of The Last Judgment fresco by Michelangelo are offered in this consideration of the Sistine Chapel...

The Nude in Art Analyzed

In five pages different paintings by artists Rubens, Renoir, and Velazquez are analyzed in terms of their representations of nudes...

Photography and Art

In a paper that consists of six pages the writer asserts that photography captures the same depth in the age of technological real...

The Mihrab Calligraphic Art

In five pages this paper examines the mihrab in terms of its significance, placement, and one calligrapher's particularly famous a...

Renaissance Art and Myth

In six pages this paper examines how myth is represented in the Renaissance paintings by Titian, Bruegel, Mantegna, and Botticelli...

Cycladic Figure Art

In five pages the Museum of the Legion of Honor's Cycladic figure is examined in terms of its goddess religious significance. Fou...

The Arts and Women

In five pages this paper examines female artists and their views on feminism. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Life and Art of Caravaggio

In a paper consisting of thirteen pages Michelangelo Merisi, popularly known as Caravaggio, is examined in terms of his life and h...