YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Perceiving the Arts
Essays 1411 - 1440
life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...
elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...
and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...
photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...
similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
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...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...
limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...
arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...
smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for greater productivity has been insatiable (1999). ...
reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...
forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...