Arts Essays

Found Metal Art Sculpture: A Guide
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Introduction: Found Art (or best know as scrap metal art) is a beautiful and creative way to express yourself and the things that you like. I would like to share with you what types of things that you will need, ...

History of Nude Drawings in Art
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Introduction: Nudity vs. Nakedness The nude figure is the most volatile subject in the history of painting. The artist’s treatment of the nude dictates whether her gaze addresses the viewer with a coy oblique...

Alphonse Mucha Art Style Overview
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Introduction: Alphonse Mucha is best known for his luxurious poster and product designs, which encapsulate the Art Nouveau style. Interest in his work was revived in 1980 when it was shown at an exhibition at the G...

Remix Culture and Postmodernism | Essay
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Introduction: The identity of our society fluxes continually with time change- as was noted by Greek-free-thinker, Heraclitus- when he expressed the impossibility of one to jump into a particular river more than on...

Conceptual Art as a Break From Conventions
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Introduction: Discuss arguments for and against the view that Conceptual Art should be regarded not simply as a break with previous conventions of visual art, but as a category of art – with reference to spec...

Edward Hopper and Tim Eitel Comparison
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Introduction: Introduction The following pages will analyse and compare American realist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and German contemporary realist Tim Eitel (b. 1971). The works selected are Office in a Small Ci...

Anna Pavlova - Ballerina Biography
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Introduction: Anna Pavlova, a famous Russian ballet dancer best known for changing the ideals for ballet dancers, was the first to make ballet popular in America and the rest of the world. Her love for classical ba...

Marxism Concepts of Art | An Analysis
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Introduction: The nineteenth century was significant in Europe because it spawned or brought to the forefront revolutionary new forms of culture and theology. Among these movements were feminism, Marxism, the roman...

San Vitale Church: Construction and Design
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Introduction: Byzantine Empire started when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the capital of Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium. Byzantine Architectures was very similar to Roman architecture, but got certain in...

Dystopia In Film | Metropolis Vs Utopian Art Deco
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Introduction: The 1920s in Germany were a transition time, World War I had recently ended, and it was precisely the war that showed the destructive potential of modern technology. Invented and first used by the Ger...

To the Unknown Painter, Anselm Kiefer
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Introduction: To the Unknown Painter, a painting made of oil, acrylic, latex, emulsion, and shellac, was created by Anselm Kiefer in 1983 (Figure 1). A palette adorned upon a pedestal sits in a vacated space surr...

Impacts of Technology on Art
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Introduction: Many modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art, artists in the early twenty-first century are now...

Frida Kahlo: Works and Life
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Introduction: This analysis aims to reveal the personal characteristics of the artist, by examining Kahlo's choice of subject matter and investigating what drives her....

Humanism and the Baroque Periods of Art
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Introduction: Humanism, specifically during the Renaissance, was a huge movement towards the human mind as a whole and how individuality in expression of thoughts and ideas was celebrated. Tradition was not someth...

Islamic Art in the Western World | Essay
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Introduction: Is there a place for Islamic Art in the western Domicile? Introduction: What is Islamic Art? Islamic art does not copy nature but conveys what it represents. Islamic art is a mirror of a culture and i...

Hagia Sophia: Architecture Description
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Introduction: Basilicas were used for commerce, as public meeting places and for courts of law. The Hagia Sophia was built as the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian’s personal imperial church. It was built in the h...

Last Supper by David Lachapelle: Analysis
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Introduction: I am going to analyse the image taken by mentioned artist above. The essay will cover wide range of descriptive language from focus, light, depth of field, contrast ET all. In other words I will try t...

Merce Cunningham: Symbolism in Dance
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Introduction: Merce Cunningham is one of the pioneers in the field of dance and choreography. He had been a mentor to most of the choreographers who have now become major names in modern times. In addition, there a...

Cubism Artists: Pablo Picasso and George Braque
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Introduction: In Paris around 1907, Pablo Picasso and George Braque broke away from centuries of traditional western art. The single viewpoint had been exhausted, it was cast aside. A new analytical system was put ...

Tiziano Vecellio's Art Style and the Italian Renaissance
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Introduction: In history, art has changed frequently. With new concepts and experimental ways, the new art forms slowly become accepted by society, while the previous techniques fade into the background; however, t...

Feminism and the Body in Art
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Introduction: Modernism is described usually as a movement and a tendency to provoke reflection and an individual character. During this period, art was seen to be set in its ways and people wanted to expand with n...

Constructs of Orientalism and Stereotyping Eastern Women
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Introduction: According to Edward Said, the West constructs a notion of the East as “other,” through orientalism which turns the East into a place to be feared or desired as an image of the West’s imagine...

Feminism in Film
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Introduction: Feminism In Film Feminism called for positive female characters but seems to have contributed to its own decline as a political movement by refusing to recognise the body as a site of transformation a...

Exoticism in Art: Picasso and Gauguin
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Introduction: The Exoticism in the Work of Picasso and Gauguin Ask important critical questions in the text. Intricately merge discussion of the two images Write about two pages on each image Introduction ...

Nancy by Chuck Close | Overview and Analysis
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Introduction: What can be seen as a beautiful work of art by one person may not appear that way to someone else. So much in the art world is subjective, yet when artists are able to come up with something revolutio...