Gallery Research Papers Samples For Students

The Beat movement that was formed in the late 1940s in the United States and has gained acknowledgement in the 1950s is one of the most important and well-known literary trends that have been in the 20th century in the United States. Modern literary critics consider the beat generation in various guises and forms: as writers existentialists, immoral persons, romantic, apolitical people and bohemians; the most accurate, according to one of the researchers, is to consider the Beat Generation as a motto or symbol of the revolution of American morals.
This literary trend and the three most famous representative ...

Tiziano Vecellio native of Pieve di Cadore (1480/1485), but Venetian by choice, has reached precocious stardom when, little more than a adolescent, worked with Giorgione in the decoration of the facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi. He soon became a painter sought by important personalities such as Francis I, Charles V, Philip II, the Duke of Mantua and Urbino, the Duke of Ferrara and Pope Paul III. His ongoing research and its persistent renew, certainly due to the strong consensus, to the honor and the celebrities, has kept his pictorial vein always fresh, almost inexhaustible. The development of his painting has been ...

Rembrandt was a well known artist who lived between 1606 and 1669. He was brought up in the Netherlands. His work of artifact displays a brilliant individual with an independent mind. This is more so on the fact that he ventured into making the self portraits in large numbers. This was not the case during that time. Apart from the self portraits, Rembrandt did much work on prominent personalities on his time and even before. He is known as a historical artisan. This paper focuses on his biography, his self portraits that he made and the portraits of other people and events.

Autobiography of Rembrandt

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Nicotye Samayualie, Canadian Inuit Cape Dorset Artist

Research Paper
Introduction
Nicotye Samayualie, a Canadian Inuit from Cape Dorset, was born on the 23rd of November 1983. Her parents are Johnny Tunnillie Samayualie and Kudluajuk Ashoona, and her grandmother is a famous graphic artist, Keeleemeeoome Samayualie. She has clearly inherited her grandmother's artistry, whose art works were one of those few exhibited in the Cape Dorset yearly print anthology in the 1970s and 1980s (Spirit Wrestler Gallery, 2016). Nicotye has developed a strong fascination with the display, arrangements, and layouts of contrasting images in natural and artificial objects. Numerous of her artworks portray common images like crates ...

Artist biography MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Max Ernst is a German painter, sculptor and poet. He's one of the brightest figures of Surrealism. The artist was born in 2 April 1891 in Brühl, Germany. He was a second child in a catholic family of Philipp and Luise Ernst (Fiedorek).
In 1908, Max Ernst graduated from the lyceum in his native town, and in 1909 he started studying philosophy in the University of Bonn. During his studies at university, Ernst thoroughly studied psychology and showed a great interest to the art of mentally ill people. Soon young Ernst left the university and fully devoted himself to art. A ...

Introduction

Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s. This occurred when a Jamaican artist, Clive Campbell also known as DJ Kool Herc moved from Kingston to the West Bronx, New York. In West Bronx, Campbell tried to incorporate his Jamaican style of Djaying into the music systems of the Americans. His style involved reciting improvised rhymes over the dub versions of his reggae records. During his initial performances in the city, he tried to adapt his style over the chanting over the percussion sections in the pop songs during that time. With the help of other Clarke Kent and Coke ...

American painter John Frederick Peto created mostly still-life painting. A distinctive feature of his paintings was similar theme of dilapidated, time worn nature of what is depicted on his paintings. The objects of his attention include old books, lamps, boards, tubes, photos, everything that bears a particularly visible impact of aging, the inevitable influence of time and use. In the XIX century, when the artist lived and created his paintings, such images were not popular among the general audience preferring to see on the canvases something luxurious and rich. Only after his death, huge interest arose to Peto`s ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889
For reporting the ...

Samuel Fosso is a contemporary Cameroonian photographer who uses himself as both the subject and the model for all of his photographs. A large portion of his photographs are self-portraits which represent various cultural clichés of either Americanism exported around the world, or parodies of popular culture and its accoutrements. Most of his photographs are black and white, which makes the few that have been produced in color all the more glaring in their commentary on their subject. His two most famous series, African Spirits and Autoportraits, represent political and cultural commentary on the modern world, particularly as portrayed ...

Introduction

Andy Warhol represent popular culture type of art or “pop art,” an art movement which was very popular in the second half of the twentieth century. While he is famous for his unique paintings of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans, he also created tons of inspiring artworks which included silk screens, commercial advertisements and films.
"Pop" is a shortened term for popular art which became an important art ethos in the late 1950s (Delves, p. 12). It is also considered as an art movement which intends to “blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture” (Scherman & ...

Early life

Rodney Smith is an eminent photographer who is based in New York. He was born on Long Island in 1947. He believes his love for photography has been shaped by the sense of style (Harris). His father had made a renowned name for himself in the fashion industry as the president of Anne Klein. He has developed a sense of style, beauty, grace and proportion.

Education

Rodney Smith is one interesting character considering the courses he took. In 1970, he went to the University of Virginia where he studied English Literature and Religious Studies. In 1973, he went ahead to ...

Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism Works

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich spent his childhood in villages of Ukraine1 and knew nothing about professional art, although he was exposed to peasant art as a child. Later he moved to Moscow and got his education in art in Moscow. His work was influenced by avant-garde painters of the time and he responded that art did not need the artists and can advance on its own.Thesis -The aim of the essay is to provide a broad overview of Malevich’s artistic practices and the Suprematism of his work. The paper discusses the reasoning and meaning behind his work and why ...

Introduction

One of the major cases about copyright infringement has recently been in session in one of the federal courts of appeal in New York. The case features a well-known photographer, Patrick Cariou, against a famous appropriation artist, Richard Prince. The main argument in this case was about how exactly fair use interpreted in a court. It also seeks to clarify whether there is a provision in the law for works that have copyrights to be re-purposed for the development of new works, which are distinct or different from the copyrighted work even when they refer, criticize, or even comment about the original work.
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Research on Da Vinci and Michelangelo (Draft)

This paper will discuss the three works of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci and contrast them according to the elements of the artistic techniques and standards with emphasis on individual style and composition. This paper will also discuss how they two artists influenced art in the 16th century in Italy and Europe. How they were able to raise the benchmarks in European art and establishment of high renaissance period. Several examples will be mentioned to support the facts of their influence and detailed description of their own work in comparison to one another.
I. Introduction

Da’Vinci and Michelangelo

“The two biggest ...

Abstract

Religious art has been present in art history for a long time. However in different periods it was used in different ways. In Early Renaissance people used to show their faith with it, whereas in the High Renaissance and later Baroque, it became a tool in the hands of the Church. Nonetheless, history and the process of art development have provided us with plenty of artists and their masterpieces for all the future generations to study. The works of Antonello da Messina, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn are considered the best examples of each period in question ...

The Crucifixion by Jativa Master

In the 15th century in Spain completes the centuries-old struggle with the Arabs (the Reconquista). Soon Spain extends among Europe's most powerful states; it becomes the richest colonial power. In Spain, the absolutist system installed; the mainstay of Spanish absolutism, which had a much more narrow social base than absolutism in most other European countries, was the Catholic Church. Fomenting revolutionary fanaticism during the war with the Moors, the church in previous centuries has acquired in Spain only a great influence.
With the rise of absolutism, the church was made dependent on the royal power in the hands of ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

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All drug delivery systems (DDS) use the nanostructures as drug containers. There are various types of these nanocontainers such as polymeric liposomal nanoparticles, carbon nanostructures, magnetic nanoparticles and polymeric micelles (Singh and Lillard, 2009; Zarogoulidis et al., 2012).
The mode of action of these nanostructures on the target site and the molecular proceedings occurring during this process provides a mechanistic foundation for drug discovery against cancerous developments. The several considerable points that an anti-cancer agent should have are targeted delivery to the impacted cells, least activity loss, ...

This March, the whole world celebrated the 161th anniversary of the birth of Vincent Van Gogh's, whose paintings are now included in the list of the fifteen most famous and expensive artworks in the world. The paradox is that it was the artist's lifelong dream to sell at least one of them to get the money and pay off his countless debts.
When a healthy boy was born on the 30th March, 1853 to the ...

As Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc., Jobs met many ups and downs as a good leader. Throughout Apple’s history, such as when they Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne have just started their business in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ foster parents, years later, they were a success. It only proves that with the right mix of leaders, they can start a company that will later on live with its vision. Apple Company had since then continued to hire many highly talented, creative, and innovative people (e.g., Mike Scott, John Scully).

With Jobs’ leadership and the highly competent ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Vincent van Gogh was arguably one of the most influential artists in the human history. Through his use of color and imagery, he managed to communicate many different emotions and messages to each viewer of his paintings. He is most infamously known for the incident in which he chopped off his ear, supposedly mailing it to a woman in a box. For this reason, how he grew up and who he was as a person is particularly interesting to the public, as well as psychoanalysts. Regardless of if he was deeply troubled or not, one thing is clear, his life eventually led ...

Introduction

Christian Dior was the most influential fashion designer of the late 1940s and 1950s. In fashion history, he is one of the most interesting stores. By establishing Dior as a global brand across a wide range of products, new business model was defined by Christian in the post-war fashion industry. With the hourglass silhouette of his voluptuous ‘New Look,' he dominated fashion after World War II. His vision continues to be at forefront of current fashion even over sixty years later that proves that he was certainly a visionary. He was best known for his eponymous fashion house and was a French ...

Before the advent of the computer, artists and artisans alike utilized a complex tool in making their letter forms; the hand. At ten digits, five for each hand, the hand was efficiently the first digital lettering tool, utilized in engravings, carving and in the production of the various letter forms. The hand, while allowing for a few technological flaws and eccentricities, still facilitated the creation of some of the most beautiful lettering forms ever made. The advantages of the hand as a lettering tool underscore the paradox that, with technological advancement, both a loss and profit were incurred. The computer, on the one ...

- Drawing the line between crime and art
- Graffiti, the Purest form of Art
- What is Street art? Vandalism, Graffiti or Public art
- The Culture and Politics of Graffiti
Most people would be hesitant to call graffiti an art, because the current law treats anything painted on a wall or any surface, without the owner’s consent, as a form of vandalism. Nonetheless, while some people view graffiti as vandalism, members of the art community view it as an art of strange beauty on doors and walls scarred by spray paint and markers. In ...

Not everybody knows what does the term “Surrealism” mean, what it consists of and what it`s appealing to. This art movement has always been associated with something unclear and mysterious; there has always been a riddle within the strange images and colors that were asking you to solve it and find your personal meaning of it. The genre wasn`t always popular among the masses, and the surrealists weren`t as well; however, the one among the other was always famous and well-known through all over the world, he has produced more than 1,500 works including paintings, movies, ...

Ansel Easton Adams is a renowned photographer in America. He was born in the year 1902 February the 20th in the Western Francisco, California. In the year 1927, he had his very first portfolio produced which was called Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras. In this portfolio, he featured his famous photograph Monolith the Face of Half Dome. This portfolio earned him a good amount, 3900 dollars. In the 1930's, he published books on photography and laid to rest on April the 22nd 1984.Adam is popularly known for the black and white landscape photographs where he featured the American West mainly ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti and Gianlorenzo Bernini are among the best known artist who curved the statue of David. Michelangelo’s Statue of David is thought to come its completion at around 1504 (Lieberman, Ralph, 11). This is the most acknowledge works of the high Renaissance Period. On the other hand Benini’s David is thought to come to its completion at around 1623-1624. This is one of the sculpture that was fourth to be commissioned as life sized statue by Cardinal Borghese. It is therefore worth examining the two statues of David brought by the two artists to find out ...

Introduction

Kora is a musical instrument that was used in the ancient times by rulers of West African Countries, and it is still utilized by the Mandinka people of West African countries. It compositions comprise of a large calabash that is half covered with a skin of a cow and consists of a long hardwood neck. The cow skin is strengthened by two handles that run under it and makes a double freestanding bridge. The composition of Kora Mamadou Kouyate makes it a diverse music instrument that does not fit into any category of music instruments but rather to many and is classified as a double bridge harp. ...

One of the art works exhibited in the Legion of Honor museum, a subsidiary of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (FAMSF), is Vincent van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland (1883). The FAMSF commissioned van Gogh’s work from the Intimate Impressionism collection of the National Gallery of Art. Art works in the museum will be exhibited from May 11 to August 3 this year. Van Gogh’s Flower Beds in Holland is considered a Post-Impressionist painting because it represents the artist’s subjective views or perspective of the world, particularly of nature. Since Post-Impressionist views are subjective, artists ...

Introduction

Silk Road used to be popular transportation route used for trade between Europe and Asia. The name originated from the delivery of silk. Despite no ancient Chinese document of “Silk Road”, German F.V. Richthofen (1833-1905) used the term Silk Road for the first time in his book China which was published in 1877. Post that The term Silk Road was used universally and became widely accepted. Silk Road used to be the communication bridge for economy, politics and culture between the West and China. At the helm of Han Dynasty, the Hans and Huns used to compete over the ...

Biography

MacKenzie Phillips was born on 10th November 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States of America. Her parents were celebrities John Phillips and Susan Phillips. The father was a rock musician while the mother was a ballerina dancer. Mackenzie had four siblings namely Jeffrey Phillips, Tamerlane Phillips, Chynna Phillips and Bijou Phillips. The latter two were a singer and an actress respectively. Her father later married Michelle Gilliam after divorcing his first wife Susan Phillips when Mackenzie was 3 years old. Mackenzie’s family life was troubled given the early family separation. At the age of three, her mother had parted ...

Abstract

Strongly influenced by Freud’s theories about the structure and the workings of the human psyche, the surrealist movement dived deeply into the exploration of the unconscious – hoping to find the essence of the human mind and spirit in an alternative reality. Salvador Dali is one of the main representatives of this movement – his works constantly defied the boundaries of reality and imagination. He was a prolific artist, always in search of new ways of creative expression. Due to his personal background, he was always attracted to the world of fantasy, which made him very suitable for the surrealist movement. ...

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dali – and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dali is going to accomplish today?" His personality causes a lot of controversy: God given talent for painting and odd personality. These qualities helped him to become Salvador Dali, as one of the greatest and the most eccentric painters in the world and one of the most important figures of the Surrealists of the 20th century. The influence of Dali on Surrealism was enormous. "P.Halsman: Dali, what is surrealism? Dali: Surrealism is ...