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Jacques Louis David and French Revolution Art

radical of all times. These changes are particularly interesting in regard to the manner in which they changed the artistic depic...

Nineteenth Century Art and Modernity

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

The Art of War: Reflections on Modern Applications of Classic Strategy

significant military strategists who have written about various dimensions of warfare and speculated about its importance to socie...

Franz West and Anish Kapoor's Installation or Environmental Art

the visitor regardless of past educational experiences in the world of art is not only entertained but fascinated by the sheer eno...

Ofili and Dalwood's Celebrity in Contemporary British Art

of the artist. Dalwood has, in effect, set himself up as the "visualiser" of the publics imagination: this, he says, is what the o...

Art and the Body

It is a painting that "attests to the artists pure virtuosity of paint handling. One can trace his rhythmic movements in the long ...

Profiling Art and Australian Serial killer Ivan Milat

American television show called Numbers demonstrates that sometimes random killings are not really random at all and location can ...

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...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

Collingwood, Tolstoy and the Art of Frans Floris

that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...

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...

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...

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....

Marisol Escobar and Modern Art

Marisols father moved the entire family to safer climes. These tumultuous times had to have made an impact on the impressionable t...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

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...

Cultural Perspectives on Art

be as tall as six feet, the addition of an ornate headdress may also symbolize the political power, prestige and authority of the ...

Naturalistic and Abstract Art

with all its particular and peculiar characteristics" (Fleming 38). On other hand, an artist who is primarily interested in abst...

Art Analysis

superb, as its various elements naturally move the viewers gaze into the landscape and onward as the artist takes the viewer on a...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

A Life in Art: How Kate Chopin’s Life Influenced Her Feminist Writings

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

Sinai Covenant

over the last half century as illustrated the multiple elements that the Sinai Covenant shares with ancient Near East suzerainty t...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts

white and black color scheme of the bird (white feathers, black accent on the tips of its wings, black legs) stand out in sharp co...

Life and Literary Art of James Joyce

is encapsulated in his writings. Indeed, autobiographical elements are characteristic of much of James Joyces work. This...

Changes in Life and Art as Reflected in the Paintings of Sandro Botticelli

elder brother Giovanni, who was nicknamed "Il Botticello," which means "little barrel" (Schmeckebier 138). It is believed he was ...

Roy Lichtenstein and Rene Magritte's Art

he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...

Art of Wassily Kandinsky

KANDINSKYS ART Few realize that Kandinsky is considered to be the founder of abstract art. Though his art was not appreciated at...