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Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Women of Ernest Hemingway

wives, women always seemed to entice Hemingway and then he would somehow lose interest in them and move on. In better understandin...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Jackson Pollock

also drawn to Surrealism as well (Beat Museum). Such information clearly indicates that he saw many different styles as housing so...

Ancient Korean Pottery

began making pottery, there was "an influx of immigration from China, Manchuria, and Siberia" (Korean traditional pottery, 2002). ...

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...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Impressionist Artists and the Influence of Japanese Art

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...

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...

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...

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...

Artist Horace Pippin's Life and Times

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

Contemporary Artist and the Influence of Eastern Philosophy

In five pages this paper examines how the Eastern philosophies of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Keiji Nishitani, and Dogan can influence t...

Ancient Greek Economics

in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

1960s' Countercultures

completely rejected the "establishment" and decided that it was unwise to trust anyone over the age of thirty. This was clearly a ...

Artemisia Gentileschi and Kathe Kollwitz's Lives in Art

her family members to both World Wars, her view of life is necessarily influenced by the horrors that she experienced first hand. ...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

Tang Dynasty Artists and the Silk Road's Cultural Influences

its open access was that of the Tang Dynasty from 618-907 A.D. In addition to the Silk Road land routes, many scholars also includ...

Czechoslovakian Artist Milan Knizak

of art which transcend the existing categories of art, whether they come from music or language, from the fine arts or from dance"...

Life and Art of Raphael

of people have a serene quality to them as if the person were completely innocent and good. One can see Da Vincis influence on Ra...

Arts and Socrates

much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...

Greek and Egyptian Art

Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

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...

Jazz Musician Ann Patterson

In five pages the jazz influences of Ann Patterson and her female band Maiden Voyage are examined particularly in terms of develop...

Romans as Doers and Greeks as Thinkers

In four pages this paper examines how Greek thought propelled Roman action in a consideration of the influences of Greek art and p...

Islamic Art and Its Influence

In eight pages the influence of Islamic art is considered in terms of religion and Western artistic forms. Ten sources are cited ...