YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Essays 31 - 60
In eleven pages this report discusses how Hume's skeptical views shaped his perceptions regarding good taste and art with the writ...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...
This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...
their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...
own soul," which causes the influenced person not to have his "natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions," (Wilde 18). T...
should he do? In an attempt to capture his youth, he sells his soul and instead of aging, the portrait ages in place of Dorians ow...
from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...
early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
In eight pages Nitta Sayuri and Dorian Gray are compared in terms of obvious differences but interesting similarities in maturatio...
for the women we marry - that is quite true" (Lady PG). Attention to outer detail and an unquenchable desire to portray his inner...
In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...
the world. This may be a critical look, on the part of Wilde, at the realities of the traditional family which presumes it is the ...
importance. With that in mind the following paper examines the two characters separately and then together in a discussion, in rel...
of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...
animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...
perceptional or inferential in nature (Studley 17). Contrarily, scientific approaches employ a very finite and empirical applicat...
a great deal of art, was incredibly reflective of what was considered the good life. There was a change in the society at that tim...
A 3 page research paper that, first of all, briefly outlines the general content of national standards addressing the fine arts: a...
"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...
myriad philosophies by which people live their lives that help to maintain order and a sense of direction where otherwise there wo...
of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...
to diminish the pain of actual loss. 2. What seems to be the purpose of the speaker in the first three tercets...
approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...
the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...
(SpanishArts, 2006). In Baroque paintings there was more depth, more shadowing, and perhaps more of a sense of realism in comparis...
page. The use of negative space to enhance the darkness of the central image is important to creating a tone for the site, and th...