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Egyptian and Chinese Art Compared

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Art and Religion of Ancient Egypt

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

Human Expression and Art as an Essential Component

boundaries of time to impact audiences of today. Take the popular artistic design dubbed "Kokapelli", for example. Kokopelli is ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Virtual Tour of the American Wing

represent American copies of European styles from Holland, France, and England. The craftsmanship on these pieces is excellent. Th...

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...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Overview of Language Arts

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

Early Renaissance Literature, Architecture, Art, and Theology Integration

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...

Development of Graphic Arts in the Future

graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...

The Life and Art of Armando Morales

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

Science and Art of Teaching

a more useful graduate" (Patterson, 1990, p. 69). The extent to which educators deal with both internal and external issues is ov...

Ancient World and Art

called herself the Goddess (1989). In ancient Egypt it seemed as if dynastic power had passed through females even when the Pharao...

Verbal Art and Terrorism

of the World Trade centre we see that they were perceived not only as a commercial centre, but as a part of the New York skyline, ...

Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Movement

artists involved in art nouveau were particularly interested in the way that the new technology which had evolved out of industria...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

An Irish Art Interpretation

In eight pages Patrick Hennessy's postwar surreal painting is examined in terms of meaning and in an exhibition setting with a dis...

Roman Art, Use of Myth

This essay presents the thesis that Roman artists used mythological subjects to symbolize ideals and virtues and examines analysis...

Theft: Art and Antiquities

This research paper presents an overview of art crime, with a particular focus on the topic of theft. Fifteen pages in length, thi...

Typography and the Avant Garde Art Movement

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

Roman and Greek Art Eroticism

with a quote from Stewart who states the following: "They saw the custom as a concrete manifestation of such desirable manly attri...

Renaissance and Humanistic Art

intellectualism" of the medieval universities began to give way before the warmth of "Franciscan emotionalism" (Fleming 162). This...