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"Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

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 "...

Self-Realization And The Liberal Arts: Assessing The Link

perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...

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...

Analyzing the Orientalism of Edward Said

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

Art History Questions

about Egyptian life. Discuss how an artist may express his or her point of view by explaining the content, concept and style of a...

Post-World War II Developments in Art

world around them. One might legitimately ask why todays artists see nothing but ugliness and degradation when there are still so ...

Medieval Christianity and the Arch Angel Michael Diptych

examination of one specific piece of sculpture of the time (a sculpture of the Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixth cen...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

Defining Pop Art

is making a political statement. Other times, the artists are merely expressing an aesthetic point of view. Rosenberg remarks that...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Indian Influence in the United States

Indian immigrants but it has also made its way here indirectly as the style has influenced Western clothing designers. In...

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

to diminish the pain of actual loss. 2. What seems to be the purpose of the speaker in the first three tercets...

Jacques-Louis David

of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...

'A Clean Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

This paper consisting of six pages argues that in this story art reflects life as the common denominator linking Hemingway to his ...

Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell

In five pages this paper discusses how Campbell's text distinguishes myth through art and also considers such topics as dreaming, ...

Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving

to what love really is because they approach it from the wrong perspective. They believe that love is something to be found house...

Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust

the beast that was the Holocaust. It is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also su...

2 Meanings of Humanities

In three pages this essay considers the general and liberal arts meanings of the humanities concept....

Art of Tennis

In five pages this paper examines the expressiveness of tennis which qualifies it as an art form....

Comparing Platonism and Atomism

concerning change in the world. Although the methods of reasoning they used were not those of the modern scientific method, it is ...

The Kouros

the relationship in Greek thought of the symbolization of the state through the perfection of the individual - or at least the phy...

Painter Lee Krasner

works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...

Rembrandt's Self Portrait, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Their Portrayals of Old Age

In five pages this paper discusses how two different art forms depict the same topic - old age....

Artistic Expressiveness

ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...

Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation

In three pages this paper compares Market Segmentation by Art Weinstein with Theodore Levitt's The Marketing Imagination and David...

Theodore Levitt's Marketing Imagination

In three pages Levitt's text is compared with others on the subject such as Art Weinstein's Market Segmentation and David Ogilvy's...

Maya Art

person," which linked Maya society to the world of its ancestors (Carrasco, 1990, p. 40). The Maya lived in a cosmopolitan world o...

Ancient Art

Both are clearly made of very different materials. The Head of a Roman Patrician is carved from marble and is thus a three dimensi...

Department of Canadian Heritage's Cultural Affairs Sector

are the strongest reflection of the diversity of multicultural issues and ideologies that underpin Canadian life. As a consequenc...