YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Essays 301 - 330
In fourteen pages this research paper discusses the life and work of artist Charles White and how his art reflects his commitment ...
favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...
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...
and then moved to New York city (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). It was at this time in art history that debates existed as they surroun...
the women is wearing jewelry, a neck piece, and this would correspond with servant depictions of this period (Egyptian Civilizatio...
sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...
p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...
of pattern and design. Just as modernity favors certain fabric, colors and patterns, the people of an earlier era wanted to beauti...
their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
work. When people have only a short time to see a piece of art they are drawn to it and will remember it, especially when that ...
a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...
Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...
seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...
that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...
Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...
In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...
face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...
planets from the sun for instance memorize this sentence: Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes (thus Mercury,...
deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...
- the nation then being confined largely to the east coast" (Theatre History, 2003). The four largest theatre towns were Philadel...
her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...
in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...
male figure of God, at which point ideals began to shift toward male superiority. Once the ideal developed, the belief that men w...
and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...
ordinary. For example, the treadmarks that a car makes in the mud he translated into a tires treads rolled through paint and appli...