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joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious in the creative process. To th...

is one of Americas best loved artists. Arguably, no other artist succeed so completely at reflecting the homespun nature of Americ...

A 6 page research paper that discusses 3 posters form the World War II era. The artists profiled in this paper are Martha Sawyers,...

a conceptually untapped avenue that became a large part of the artists legacy. Appreciation of nude art grew right along with the...

Hurston and Langston Hughes. Hurston was a novelist probably best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, a tale of a confident bl...

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...

since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...

Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...

young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

With something of his biography in mind we move on to examine his works, his style, his influences, and those whom he influenced. ...

and then moved to New York city (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). It was at this time in art history that debates existed as they surroun...

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...

led him to exile in England (Bentley); Capote found himself ostracized by society (Smith). Marley had been a musician all his li...

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...

and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...

artifacts cannot be successfully manipulated by "clumsy, inward-curling monkey fingers" (1), although this view does not seem to t...

a tremendous life-changing decision at such a relatively young age and does not want to be a part of what he believes will be a de...

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

seductive powers of the imagination at an early age. In her candid autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, she recalled, "In crossing...

the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...

has a closed circuit video camera located at its far end.5 This camera captures the image of the viewer, which is then...

framing, as the painting bears no relationship to the size or shape of the canvas (Pioch). While he was initially ridiculed by the...

in regards to information on the Internet and within journals, books and magazines. Because of Lims extensive reach in regards to ...