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No Jacket Required 1985 Album by Phil Collins

28). While there were introspective song that examined love experienced within the various phases of life, No Jacket Required nev...

Artist James Rosenquist

and wrapped them in cellophane and then photographed them. He said that some looked very sweet, others quite disturbing. He then i...

Overview of the Paintings of Weyden, Raphael, and Vermeer

detail is attended to with respect to the intricacies of the human form. Light is the primary separation that exists between two-...

Life and Career of Artist Robert Rauschenberg

With something of his biography in mind we move on to examine his works, his style, his influences, and those whom he influenced. ...

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

Artists Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman on Self and Identity

and then moved to New York city (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). It was at this time in art history that debates existed as they surroun...

Self and Identity in the Art of Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman

Sherman Cindy Shermans work has often been noted as focusing on issues and questions of identity through a sort of self-por...

George Harrison's Life and Music

commitment to studying the guitar, which he relentlessly pursued at the Liverpool Institute (Friedlander, 1996). With a new elect...

Graphic Artist Milton Glaser

Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...

'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' by Langston Hughes

young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...

Bellini, Durer, and Ribera and an Art History Examination

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

Life and Art of Rene Magritte

of realism as though it were a sketch. There is not the boldness of lines and the use of color that would represent the work of Ma...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Artist Ana Mendieta

since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...

First Abstract Watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky

1992; 143). He stopped what he was doing and just stared at it in amazement. He then suddenly realized it was one of his paintings...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

Artist Pieter Aertsen According to Charlotte Houghton

the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...

Analyzing the Walk in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

Comparison/Contrast: Art: Harmensz, Velazquez, and Hals

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

The Body in Contemporary Japanese Art

approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...

Sean Scully/Wall of Light

the formed of "learned communication" (Kuspit). As it is, Scully tries to recreate his lived experience for the viewer by offering...