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Influence on Art and Society in Hellenistic Greek Culture

succession of Macedonian Greeks who ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. The subject of this piece is Arsino? II. Smith...

“Everyday Use” - The Importance of the Story’s Title

charming and funny and sad, all at the same time. This paper explains the significance of the title by examining it using the diff...

Looking at the Link Between Drawing and Intelligence

the social and political functions of visual art, and how those functions might be assembled into a theoretical methodology for us...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...

Art Interpretation: Guernica by Picasso

abstracts pain and fear from history" (Berger 169). He also discusses what Picasso was doing, and not doing and in that respect th...

Critical Thinking & Art Education

and his analysis of the stages of artistic development (Olson 33). Following Lowenfelds ideas leads to teachers directing their fo...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Art & Creativity/Elementary Classroom

creativity through art is that it provides an ideal medium for teaching diverse student populations. Through art, elementary teach...

Art of Ancient Greek Civilization

It is for this reason that Greek art conveyed abstract ideas such as "beautiful" concepts of the human body through a dichotomous ...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Modern Art's Aura Dissolution According to Walter Benjamin's Theory

in print sources (magazines, newspapers) where the image present on the page bears little resemblance to the image "seen by the un...

Gothic and Roman Design and Art

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

Personal Influences from the Field of Fine Art

more, growing progressively smaller in the distance. The shape is welcoming, like he is opening his arms and gathering the philoso...

Indian Art Piece the Bodhisattva Maitreya

21 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 9 1/2".2 One author, in relationship to the material schist and its use, states that, "Unlike their Mathuran coun...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Social Forces and Art

piece, you would have found a tastefully printed card at your table announcing Manuel Lucero is Washing Dishes. You could have wal...

Pop Art and Its Critics

were found, and no interview was discovered, from the involvement of Kaprow we can see that he is a man who believes that pop art ...

The History of Andrea Fraser's Art and Occupy Wall Street

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the history of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the art work of Andrea Fraser. This pape...

Art Works, Impressionist & Post-Impressionist

This essay presents a proposal to purchase reproductions of 3 impressionist paintings and 3 Post-Impressionist. The art works are ...

Intrinsic Nature of Aesthetics and Design and its Universality

This essay discusses "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs" by Michael Kimmelman, "The Boundaries of Design" by Virginia Postrel and "...

Art and Mourning, A Reflection

This essay pertains to "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs" by Michael Kimmelman and "False Identifications: Minority Populations Mo...

Manet, Overview of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

This research paper/essay describes the career of Edouard Manet and the role he played in ushering in Impressionism as a major art...

Viaduct at L'Estague by Georges Braque

This essay discusses "Viaduct at L'Estague" by Georges Braque, which founded Cubism. The writer analyzes the painting within the c...

The Andromeda Strain, Mise-en-Scene

This essay pertains to the art production and mise-en-scene that characterizes "The Andromeda Strain," a 1971 film directed by Rob...

Overview of Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus

This essay focuses on the "Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus," which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A comprehensive ov...

Team Building, Evaluating a Website

This essay is an analysis of a website, "All About Team Building," which provides readers with an exemplary guide to the art of t...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

Analysis of the Ancient Near East Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art

holdings of a museum; the works that the museum owns and takes care of (The permanent collection, 2008). The Metropolitan owns mor...