Art Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Compare and contrast courtesans in Renaissance Italy, Japan, and India

A courtesan originally means a courtier, a person who takes care of the powerful people in society. There are two traditions of courtesan, which include honest courtesan and the lower class of courtesan. The honest courtesan was portrayed as an intellectual and was often treated and romanticized almost like the women of the nobility. The art of courtisanerie is mainly associated with honest courtesan. They were well educated even than the upper classiest women, which made them hold careers such as artists and performers. They were chosen depending on the social and communication skills as well as their physical appearance. Therefore, ...

I’m in the Princeton Art museum, in the exhibit “Weapons Throughout Time: Remarkable Instruments of Survival and Warfare.” It’s a small carpeted room where the AC creates a quiet hum over my head and chills my body. Glass cases lined with hatchets, spears, shields, and arrows surround me as my eyes dart around quickly taking in the deadly weapons enclosing me. I sip my coffee to warm myself, enjoying the sweet taste of creamer as it flows down my throat. My eyes finally focus on an arrow that was used by the Lakota Sioux in the 1800’s. Its ...

Fine arts can be described as the classical form of art that is mostly considered, proper as well as traditional. It is an art that is done mostly for the purpose of aesthetics. However through time, changes have occurred as a result of industrialization and the development of societies in the post-industrial era. These changes have been characterized by aspects such as a formal organization of cultural goods that has made fine art products more market-based as opposed to their previous nature that was more traditional. Another aspect associated with these changes is the diversification of fine arts that have led ...

The big five test is used by psychologists to assess the personality of a person. The test consists of fifty statements that on must rate in the scale of 1-5. The test results say that I am relatively open to new ideas; I am well organized and reliable. I am conscious to other people feelings. In addition, that I can remain calm even in the tense situations. The results are true. This is because they have told my personality just as my friends tell me. I learnt that I needed to change the way I handle my friends and people ...

Introduction

Realism is a unique philosophical belief that suggests that a person’s reality (which can be characterized by his perception of life, including the things a person has and the experiences he has encountered), or a certain aspect of such reality is dependent on subjective factors and is ontologically independent from standard conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, perceptions, and other established system . Realism is generally the view that entities, which in this are humans, have an objective reality, a reality that is completely and ontologically independent of those entities’ conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, and etc. Thus, entities including abstract concepts and universals as ...

I have always been interested in selecting a career path that covers my educational needs and that, which provides me with proper skills to handle my job. The traditional bachelor’s degree programs as well as the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Science Degree requires fair amount of formal college level academic proficiency in different basic areas such as political science, English, philosophy, history, sociology, and the natural sciences such as chemistry, math, biology, and physics. However, despite these similarities, the Bachelor of Applied Arts and Science (BAAS) is more of a vocational degree, which provides the learners with the preparations ...

Analysis of an Artwork

Pop Art is probably one of the most intriguing and interesting elements in today’s age. Several artists initiated this genre in the late 1950’s and the 1960’s but none was more prominent than Andy Warhol. Although there have been several critics who have criticized his work as being without any form or sense of direction, posterity has shown otherwise. Works of art such as ‘Telephone’, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ and other pieces have fetched tens of millions of dollars as wealthy collectors have paid huge sums of money to acquire these iconic works. ‘Telephone’ is one such work, ...

The self-portrait is probably the most important painting in the repertoire of the artist since it defines the character and vitality of the subject matter. A self-portrait is an important statement about oneself apart from also being intrinsically linked to an artistic development. I approached the self-portrait issue with some trepidation, since this has been the remit of several great artists over the years, and several have been studied in detail, apart from offering important guidelines about that particular artist’s work (Smith, Kelly, 1997).
The practice of portraiture probably began with the Ancient Egyptians when it was ...

Critical thinking – Pink Summer

‘Pink Summer’ by Philip Guston is quite a great painting although at times it does seem to have lost its focus. There are several facets to it; from the way the objects are arranged around the viewing point to the strange pink colour which permeates the whole work. The immediate impression one gets is that Guston wants to convey a sense of disorder and comic portrayal; you can immediately observe the brush alongside other objects such as the ruler and the sandwich which may seem to be slightly out of place.
Philip Guston painted “Pink Summer” in 1975, which consist ...

Discipline: Art & architecture

Gustavo Eiffel Tower was built in Paris 1889 for the purpose ofaninternational exhibition. It was meant for commemoration of the French Revolution centenary. Its name came from engineer Gustave Eiffel. The company of the engineer designed the tower and built it. It is international cultural icon of the country France. It is iron lattice tower. It was made of wrought iron.The foundation is made of concrete slabs of two meters high. It has antenna on the top making it even tall.It is the tallest art structure in Paris. Its dimensions are 324 meters tall. The tower is bronze colored. ...

Introduction

One of Paul’s letters to the Church, the Romans epistle has for the past two millennia been elaborated upon by the Church in connection with prevailing circumstances. This is because the change in times has shed light upon issues that are relevant to respective generations. Various theological authors over time did indeed come up with their own interpretation of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Roman people. Some of these authors were labeled rebels as a result of their interpretation attempt to explain sensitive issues about Christ’s Church and as a result had their works labeled ‘blasphemous’. One ...

Artist tried to express not only what they feel, but also what they see every day. For this visual analysis, I have chosen the fifth image. This image is, in my opinion, the calmest among the others. Besides, it has a rather interesting composition. The painting is a rectangle. There are two central figures in the image and a background. The palette is pastel. In the essay, I will conduct more thorough analysis of the piece of art. Moreover, I will try to understand when the painting was created and the reasons for its creation. It is one of the most significant ...

Who are we? How did we get here? What’s the point? This are just some of the many question we ask ourselves, questions to which the answers we do not know. But one thing is for sure according to me, it is these questions, simple but so complicated questions that have led us this far in life. These questions are the ones that have led man in the quest for discovering who he is. These questions are the one that in the first place have led to the discovery of art, religion, history and philosophy.
In the ...

In the current years, there are controversies that surround the American media regarding the hip-hop music that the artist produces. Starting from the East coast there are rivalries that shadows the murders of most rap artist such as Tupac, and B.I.G. most of the politicians have to blame the rappers for making most youths to be violent. Nevertheless, most people criticize that the rappers are not the cause of violence influence to the youths, but rather the hip-hop stars like Herc. Hip-hop music has raised more concern after people came keenly to listen to it. It is considered to ...

- Where does the lecturer live? Morris lives in Los Angeles, California. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Where did they go to school, what degrees have they earned? Morris attended Smith College, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991, a Post Baccalaureate Studio Certificate in 1992, a Masters of Fine Art and a Masters in Engineering in 1994.
- Do they earn their income from the work that they do? Or do they also have a day job? Since 2000, Morris has ...

Jan Massys was a famous and very talented artiste in the 16th century who was known for his paintings on landscapes, historical themes and genre scenes. Born in 1509 to a prominent painter in Antwerp, Jan Massys grew into a famous artiste who fancied paintings depicting nudes with historical themes. Being a student of his father, Massys learnt and painted like his father until he was exiled due to their family’s religious beliefs which were not welcomed in Antwerp.
Paintings and painters and other artistes were highly celebrated in the renaissance periods where art was used for various reasons. It was ...

Postmodernism is a movement of art that emerged in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Among all art movements, this one is considered to be the most controversial (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This movement defies definition and is said to have fundamentally introduced an unstable mix of theoretical and theatrical. It was majorly multifaceted and was characterized by elements ranging from the luxurious to the completely ridiculous (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2014). This new brand of art is considered to have shattered some of the previously established ideas and styles as well as generally introducing radical freedom to ...

Stephanie Dotson is currently based in California. She decided to settle in the area since her work, as a professor, requires her to be near the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California. The place is also home to several young artist, which derives their inspiration from the weather and landscape. Dotson earned her BFA degree in Kansas City Art Institute in 2000 while majoring in printmaking. She continued her studies and finished her Master’s degree in Fine Arts major in printmaking at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Aside from being an artist and printmaker, she earns a living by ...

The work that has come to be known as Sassetta’s painting of St. Anthony Beaten by Demons was once a part of the predella of the Arte della Lana Altarpiece, made at some point from about 1423 to 1426. This is a presentation of the holy figures that held them in important regard. This regard is how the painting can be seen as an expression of the artist’s belief.
When focusing upon one technical issues of the painting, that is, the use of gold in the Anthony panel, it becomes apparent that gold, which is much more visible ...

1.Where does the lecturer live?
Charles Long was born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey. He lives in California at the moment.
2.Where did they go to school, what degrees have they earned?
Charles attended Philadelphia College of Art, from which he earned a BFA in 1981. He also took part in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program at the same time. Later he went to Yale University in New Haven, where he received a MFA in 1988. Long also received Guggenheim Fellowship and two NEA grants, a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant and two Pollock-Krasner Grants.

Long doesn't ...

The word “Black” carries more meaning and weight than one would assume. In the world of usual culture and film, this is even more so as one considers the depiction of ‘black’ and the concepts associated with the term. In most visual representations of ‘black’ one notes that the way they are depicted proposes that certain stereotypes are assumed to be the norm in ‘black’ culture. According to Larry Neal, the term ‘black aesthetics’ calls for a change in the norm of the close minded culture where the blacks go as per the depiction of the wider society. He calls ...

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Art and literature have been prevalent right from the pre-historic times. There were cave paintings, which evolved and formed certain practices of art. In certain cultures, types of art forms became prominent, leading to creating a legacy of its own. When writing became a nomenclature, literature also surfaced in various forms. First it was in the form of religious books, history writing and then into various other ways. As the society evolved, ...

1. Who is Alejandro Jodorowsky?
Jodorowsky is a noted, though rather obscure, director. He made many films on a limited budget, that gained a degree of critical acclaim among more progressive circles.2. What are his most famous films?
His most famous, or perhaps infamous, films are Il Topo and The Holy Mountain.3. What is Dune?
Dune is a novel by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. It has been made into films twice, once by David Lynch, and once in a miniseries format hosted by the Sci Fi chanel.4. Who are the key artists that Jodorowsky brought together for his project, and ...

According to Habermas (1983), the notion of “project of modernity” came into focus during the period of the eighteenth century. It is worth mentioning that the spirit of aesthetic modernity discussed by the philosopher was extremely striking in the works of Baudelaire, avant-garde movements, Dadaism and surrealism. At this very time, Bergson presents his philosophy of the new time, showing the elusiveness, ephemerality and discontinuity of life. That’s is why the way of modernist representation of art is rather abstract and ambiguous. The representatives of modernism were rebelling against the whole normative system claiming that they have no ...

Byzantine art is a general name which is used to describe the artistic products which come from the Eastern Roman Empire, which is sometimes known as the Byzantine, as well those which come from the nations and states which were culturally inherited from the empire. These products were mainly Christian-oriented art even though derived from techniques and forms of Greece and Egypt. This style spread to all other corners of the empire, even in places where the orthodox Christianity was flourishing (Evans &William, 2).
The style that characterized the Byzantine art was one which was almost concerned with the ...

The art story tells of creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture, and their aim of the pop art movement was to remove any confusion and lines between high art and low culture. The concept is that there is no hierarchy in the cultures and that art can borrow from any culture regardless of their most influential characteristics. It could be said that while abstract artists looked for trauma for the soul, the pop artists looked to express the same trauma through cartoons, and imagery at large. It is true to suggest that pop artists were among the first ...

Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)
The documentary narrates the journey of the crew of Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling ship, on a whaling expedition that takes months in the open sea. Barney and Bjork are dressed in traditional Japanese attire while riding in the shipping expedition. Barney is an alumnus of Yale University where he was recruited as an athlete to play football. Initially, is intentions were towards a career in medicine. Nonetheless, he graduated with a degree in arts. While Barney was an artist by profession, he did not necessarily earn his living from his artistic pieces. He had a day job ...

- As a man obsessed with aesthetic art, Hitler found it extremely complicated to understand the modern art, especially abstract art because of the exaggerated forms and shapes of the subjects.
- Hitler was a frustrated artist. His paintings were mediocre and not that good compared to other artists especially those belonging from the earlier periods. When he became a leader of the Nazi party, Hitler wanted to conquer not only the whole European land but also to dominate the European culture. Hence, by plundering the art museums of Paris and other countries, Hitler immediately started to create a new world of ...

Business

Key success factors for success in jewelry and woodwork crafts including customer expectation
Jewelry and woodwork crafts provide business savvy people an opportunity to earn a living while expressing their creative art nature to the universe. However, Berrett (2012) suggests that the mistake that most people make when starting an art related business is to neglect the business side of the startup. As a result, most businesses fail due to mismanagement and poor planning of the venture. This is a mistake that Aguirre Jewelry and Wood Work Crafts will not succumb to because of the extensive planning analysis and planning that ...

Eliot’s The Waste Land and Tradition seem to display the poet’s personal thoughts as opposed to the adhering to the existing literary tradition. Through this work, one is able to establish the position or the perception of Eliot with respect to traditional literal culture. Eliot seems to promote individual view as opposed to the traditional approaches of producing poetic work. Rainey notes that Eliot was against traditional approach, which in most cases forced the many poets to shun the individual for the literal tradition (134). To demonstrate his position concerning conflict between literal tradition and personal talent, ...

The 18th century painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, is made by English painter, Joseph Wright of Derby. This art piece is done in 1768, marking as one of the important paintings in Neoclassicism. The oil-on-canvas painting has a dimension of 183 cm x 244 cm and is currently located in the National Gallery, London, England. It shows how a travelling scientist presented the inventive mechanism of air pump (The National Gallery, 2014). The demonstration attracts the attention of some family as they gather at the table. The focal point of the painting concentrated on an air pump ...

Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has a multipart publication history. It comes from short stories Dubliners and a draft novel Stephen Hero. The very title reminds us Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Though novels obviously are quite different, but they share some concerns for style, plot, content, and aesthetics.
There was a copy of Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in Joyce’s library. The novels consider aesthetics theory, while first critics thought them to be immoral. Both novels refer to Irish struggle against British colonization. Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a ...

Discussion on James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce had a copy of Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” with him. Joyce had a deep respect for Wilde, and felt a relationship with him, due to the fact that both of them were Irish. After reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, Joyce had an objection over suppressed sexual references in the novel, and wished Wilde had developed a better approach, as he stated in his letters. Keeping that in mind, when he wrote his novel, “The Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man”, he used a more modern and open approach, in order to make sure his novel did not have ...

Response Paper

In answering the question, Joyce, you demonstrate that you understood what the quiz requires and respond adequately. Modern art (rap and hip-hop) among African-Americans reflects the oral narratives characteristic of African traditions. Like traditional storytellers in Africa, African-American rappers tell stories about the tribulations of the Black population and others issues through rap and hip hop music (Wood 2004). Stating that rap and hip hop are real art due the way they follow a specific artistic tradition from African oral narratives, Joyce says that the art enables the rappers to deliver their messages to subsequent generations. She however does not ...

The artist

Christian Paul Kunsch was born in Hagen in the North German state of Westphalia. He is primarily a husband and father but is also a photographer and Taoist for good measure, also describing himself as ‘European’ on his website. His work which is chiefly in black and white is basically inspired by the work of Bernard Plossu, Francoise Nunez, Henri Cartier Bresson and Lucien Herve. However he claims other influences such as the music of Radiohead, Thom Yorke and Max Richter. Another source of inspiration is Wim Wenders, the film director whose movie, ‘Wings of Desire’ is an important part of ...

In taking into consideration of her confinement, the loom, the mirror and/or Camelot, the part that presented the qualities of The Importance of Being Earnest and which happened to be most humorous would be covered. The mirror providing the reflection seems to be carrying the day. It reflects the shadow that makes her feel half sick. It then heightens the perceived tension that exists between the woman’s cloistered position and the world in the exterior.
There are presence of many and varying allusions in T.S Eliot’s work of art ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. ...

Choose a print advertisement that has been used within the last 12 months from a popular American magazine that illustrates what Tuchman terms “pictures of perfections and goals of happiness” and then answer the following questions in a single unified essay. You must include a copy of the ad with your essay.
The advert I have chosen is the Carls Jr Super Star Burger with Cheese. It shows a woman dressed in a seductive form, practically half naked (and a blonde at that) alongside the burger packed with all sorts of ingredients imaginable. The subtitle ‘it’s gonna get messy’ adds a certain crudeness to proceedings ...

Business

In Berger’s opinion the publicity images depicts same meaning as the advertising images. He identified that the publicity images surrounds us and they are exclusive to the modern society. They are temporary visual messages and they last just for a moment, in terms of both how long we consider them by looking at them and how they need to be updated and modernized repeatedly. Despite this fact they do not denote present instead they refer to the future. These images are often taken for granted because they are seen frequently. When we pass such images, we develop a perception of ...

Question 1

The Renaissance is the period of the emergence of the individual artist and of art becoming more and more realistic. This was the result of intellectual achievement in other cultural fields which led to the creation of a new philosophy surrounding the arts (Getlein, 378).
Renaissance blossomed in both Italy and the North of Europe. There are however significant differences between the art produced in those two areas. Robert Campin’s Merode Altarpiece (figure 16.17 in Getlein) from 1426 is typical of the extensive attention to detail the Northern artists paid. The picture is full of details, some of ...

Question 1

Paleolithic period refers to the stage of human development characterized by the early life which involved the Stone Age in relation to tools and weapons. This is the earliest stage in the lives of human beings history. The technical human prehistory is well covered in this period or era. The stone tools and weapons as well as stone sculptures were the distinct characteristics of this age. The human activities during this period were hunting and gathering as well as scavenging wild animals. In this period, wood and bones were also used in making of tools and other useful elements ...

Question 1

Art has to have the ability to evoke a reaction from the people interacting with it, either from the sentimental meaning the specific work of art elicits, or from the aesthetic value it creates. Art is the conversion of obscurity and rendering of meaning to it. Clay in its natural state cannot be depicted as a work of art. An artist sources the clay, in this instance the raw material and transforms it into something meaningful such as a flower vase. The artist gives the specific work of art form while interactions with the work of art elicit different reactions and varying ...

The group and individual energy of an academic excursion to an art institute has undertones of expectation of the unexpected. Whether art or architecture the anticipation of engaging in the creation of another person and connecting to the artist's intention. The recent fieldwork accompanying the class to both the Grounds for Sculpture Museum in Trenton and to Princeton University Art Museum the expectation and the final experience engaging in art and architecture fulfills the anticipation.
Without a question, experiencing as many of the 270 sculptures offered at the Grounds for Sculpture Museum in Trenton explodes with dynamic extremes of ...

Abstract

Mamluk history is divided into two periods based on different dynastic lines: the Bahri Mamluks of Qipchaq Turkic, and the Burji Mamluks of Caucasian Circassian origin. After receiving instruction in Arabic, the fundamentals of Islam, and the art of warfare, slaves in the royal barracks were manumitted and given responsibilities in the Mamluk hierarchy. The following is a brief discussion of the rise and fall of the dynasty of these slave warriors.

Introduction

The Mamluks, originally bands of slave warriors, were the rulers Egypt and Syria from the year 1250 until 1517 AD; their dynasty brought down by the Ottomans after. ...

Romare Bearden’s painting entitled “The Family” (1941) shows three distinct images of members of the family: the father, mother, and child. The racial or ethnic background of the family seemed to stem from the African origin due to the black color of their skins. Likewise, the images are painted from the style which was representative of the cubism style, where the figures were apparently depicted in geometric shapes. For instance, there were different images at the background which are similar to geometric shapes like the triangle, oblong, square or rectangle, and circle. A white cloth hanging just at ...

Description:

The Virgin and Child (Virgin of Paris) in Notre-Dame is a sophisticated, demure piece, as it depicts a stoic Madonna, standing in a sconce on the famous cathedral, holding her child. She wears a large, ornate crown above her head, while her toga flows modestly around her. In her right hand, she holds a goblet, while in her left arm she holds the infant Christ. Christ is depicted as looking like a small adult, as opposed to a pure infant, though his face is still cherubic and innocent. The Christ’s tiny arms are outstretched, reaching past her for the goblet with one hand while holding a ...

Analysis of Christ The Good Shepherd

The artwork portrays many colors and also includes a tapestry of patterns. Symmetrical flowers appear as a sky, or enclosing tunnel surrounding a rocky hillside where Jesus is depicted surrounded by a half dozen sheep who are all engaged in looking at Jesus. The colors are primary, with plenty of blue, green, white, brown and earthen tones present in the work. The patterns, consist of eight pronged flowers and read globes, further surrounded by a circle ring and what appears to be vines or vegetation growing from it.
The most striking colors appear as the sky and foreground colors and their patterns, which ...

Emotionalism

Introduction
The emotionalist school of ethics providing the foundations to Romanticism in Art, as well as the promise of democracy in the French Revolution emerged in response to the English empiricism of Social Contract Philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Ideas of sympathy developed by the British school of moral philosophy propose an ethics of feelings, including the emotional transformation of rationalism’s limits in art, culture, politics and religion.
Such conceptions of human nature are found in the intellectual discourse of nineteenth century Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin. Ruskin summates early Modern notions ...

Introduction

World politics involve states and nations coming up together with organizations and agencies that cannot be understood independently. In order to understand world politics, we need to grasp the domestic structures that are defined by the ordering of principles. World politics are different and specific in functionality and capabilities and are distributed in the units. Nowadays, some political systems are aimed at giving commands while others obey the commands. World politics are created by some group of self-regarding political units in some period or scale such as empires, cities, and nations. World political systems are differentiated by nations or ...

Abraham Rattner

In one of the paintings of Abraham Rattner entitled “Crucifixion in Yellow”, he used the style of figurative expressionism by combining the traditional themes and incorporating the recognized components of Modernism. The subject of this painting of Rattner became his reaction to the memorable events that took place during the World War II. He used the idea of crucifixion to symbolize the condition of humanity during such time. As part of his personal assessment, he considered himself to be included in this spiritual journey by picturing that he is on the cross to despise the inhumanity done to the ...

Literature:

Reader-response theory, also referred to as reader-response criticism, generally refers to a category of literature theories that the reader at centre of interpreting and giving meaning to a piece of literature work (in this case poetry). The theory, emphases on the audience /reader’s reaction to a literature work than on the work itself. In fact, the theory suggests that the text (poem) cannot exist without the reader and thus cannot be interpreted and/ or understood in the absence of the reader’s reaction. As such, reader-response criticism renders literature a performing art with the reader as an active agent that gives the ...

Question 1

- Chorus
Chorus is a literary device that refers to the situation when people do something in unison. It was used in the ancient Greek drama. As seen in Lysistrata when the old women chastised the younger women when they said they would not give in to the demands of their husbands (pg 149).
- Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony is seen when the audience or readers get to know certain things that certain characters in the play do not know. An example of dramatic irony in ‘trifles’ is when the women find the evidence to show that ...

- Sculpture: Warrior Bronzes of Riace

Description: As a classical work, the sculpture is an example of a contrapposto where weight is supported by the back legs. It was to be transported to a Roman city but ended up submerged in water possibly because of a shipwreck.
- Sculpture: Athena and Marsyas by Myron

Origin and Era: Greek – Early classical

Description: The sculpture does not fail to embody movement especially because the artist studied actions of athletes. Although none of the original work in bronze survived, it had Roman copies in marble.
- Sculpture: Discobolos by Myron

Origin and Era: Greek – Early classical

Description: It features the moment when the athlete is about ...

Who were the major "players" in monastery economies (think of Vezelay, for example). What did they have to gain- or lose- based on their roles in this economy? How did the cult of saints fit into this monastery economy? What visual and textual evidence do we have?
The legalization of Christianity undoubtedly gave rise to a number of monastic orders who flourished extensively over Europe with the establishment of several monastery economies. The Dominicans and the Benedictines were among the most successful especially the latter who took to copying sacred texts and commissioning works of art with considerable zeal.
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Introduction

A lot about who we are is due to our sensory perceptions. Our actions and inactions are determined by the information processed in our brains. This information is input through the sensory pathway. It is through this way that we connect to the physical world. Many scholars have argued that that which is not first in the senses is not in the mind. Nonetheless, the importance of sensory perceptions in shaping who we are individually does not vouch for their accuracy or inaccuracy. Sensory perceptions are not always accurate as evidenced by incorrect interpretations of the sensory data input ...

Pink angels by De Kooning

Introduction
The painter of this famous portrait Willem De kooning was born in the year 1904in Netherlands and he died on the year 1997 in long Island that is found in New York. He started decorating art when he was at the age of 12 and used to attend the evening art class at Rotterdam academy of fine art.He migrated to New York in USA in the year 1926 and by the year 1936 he had fully began the work of painting. He created his final painting in the late 1980 and his paints include Pink angels, excavation ...

The Play Hamlet by William Shakespeare may have been written many centuries ago but it remains one of the most outstanding plays ever written during the renaissance. The play was written during a time when England was trying so much to suppress many of the traditions that people were practicing then, among them, traditional religious beliefs such as believe in ghosts. Ghosts were held in very high esteem and this may have been the main reason why Shakespeare chose to incorporate this aspect (Greenblat 16).
Greenbalt says that at the time when the play was written, there were very ...

Film Studies

He again goes back to discuss certain academic writings by film scholars like Murray Smith, Richard Allen, Noel Carroll and David Bordwell. He maintains that these scholars do not find theory to be scientific (Turvey, 110). ‘Analytic philosophy wants to redeem “theory” for film by placing it in the context of a philosophy of science. At the same time, this implies that the epistemologies that were characteristic of the humanities for a number of decades are neither philosophically nor scientifically legitimate. And so the contestation of theory becomes a de facto epistemological dismissal of the humanities’.
The philosopher, Wittgenstein, wanted to ...

Introduction

Sculptures are two or three-dimensional works of art used in the representation of abstract forms. These include the artist’s ideas, and aspects of the environment. Sculptures can be made from varied materials such as; wood, metal, marble, clay, granite and paper. Sculpting involves the use of four basic techniques; assemblage, carving, modeling, and casting (Rice, 2). In the analysis of the sculpture, focus is on carving; a subtractive method where material is removed from a large mass to reveal a new form.

Analytical description of the sculpture

The visual analysis of artistic works enables the viewer to recognize, understand and appreciate the choice of skills used ...

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Introduction
Among the oldest forms of heritage that every community, country or society boasts to possess as the oldest form of culture and tradition that it has maintained over centuries include art and architecture. One of the most essential things to note concerning art and architecture is the fact that every community and society has its own unique and authentic designs, which were developed centuries ago, with inspiration drawn from different sources, such as the indigenous people’s ways of life, as well as other close-knit and personal aspects and reasons, such as the artistic skill, talent and ...

A response to the artworks

A response to the artworks

INTRODUCTION

The contemporary artworks of 21st century have come far ahead of usual pencil, paint brush and charcoal artworks. Now, there are countless instances of digital artworks as well as mixed media art incorporating innovative ideas and state-of-the-art technologies. This short essay analysis aims at illuminating the similar array of artworks- by artists Beth Grabowski and Jina Valentine. The response for their artworks in term of artistic quotient has been given here.

BETH GRABOWSKI’S ARTWORKS

Beth Grabowski is the Assistant Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Studio Art who takes classes including undergraduate courses in printmaking, 2-D ...