Art Term Papers Samples For Students

- Paleolithic cave paintings and the Neolithic Susa vessel have a common subject matter; they both illustrate the animals, hunting scenes and cuneiform writings. The Paleolithic art which was made during the old stone period has two styles: Franco-Cantabrian which was attributed to the Cro-Magnon man whose designs depict horses, bison and cattle for their art subjects. The Neolithic art on the other hand was a new art formed in the new stone period. The style of Neolithic art was portable art is characterized of its ability to be moved from one place to another either by humans or by environment. ...

Édouard Manet’s paintings were just as controversial as he was himself. This is clearly seen through some of his very famous paintings which include The Absinthe Drinker/The Philosopher (1859) and The Luncheon on the Grass (1863) which were rejected by the Salon at the Louvre. His other controversial and rather shocking painting is Olympia which also received its share of criticism. Through these paintings, it is clear that he was a man who went about provoking the people’s minds and therefore sparking arguments and different perceptions.

The Absinthe Drinker/ The Philosopher (1859) and The Luncheon on the ...

The Romantic Period is hailed as one of the most illustrious periods of art history which has been immortalized in the innermost core of the hearts of gazillion people across the world.
Describing the exquisiteness of the blossoms, William Wordsworth has quintessentially penned in the poem, Daffodils, “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” The omnipotence of emotions and apotheosis of beauty of nature is echoed in the line of this poem. Superfluous emotion triumphs in the extracted line from the poem. Nature is presented as an elusive metaphor in the poems. Wordsworth envisages an emancipated and personal ...

Introduction

Wide Sargasso Sea was written in 1966 novel by Dominica born renowned writer Jean Rhys. This post-colonial parallel novel has put the author in the limelight being her most successful novel. This novel is a premonition of charlottes Bronte’s novel of Jane Eyre 1847 novel. This is a revelation of a relationship that casts a patriarchal society in which she is neither a black nor a white European with her European white boyfriend. This is a sour and unhappy marriage, which makes her appear demonic or devilish woman. The novel shortly tries to analyze the main themes of racial inequality and harshness of displacement and ...

Photography embraces various aspects of Art, which affirms that it is a form of Art. Artworks virtually develop their ideas through photography. It is apparent that photography employs high levels of Artistic elements and expertise. Furthermore, photograph conforms to the philosophical definitions of the art proposed by popular philosophers such as Socrates, Tolstoy, Wilde and Plato among others. The paper analyzes the concept of photography in line with the argument that photography is an Art.
The philosophical beliefs argued by popular philosophers such as Socrates, Tolstoy and Wilde firm that photography is an Art. Socrates argued that Art is ...

Wonderful Norwegian artist Edvard Munch did not left behind any disciples, his art is too personal, subjective for a school to arise. It is difficult to determine the stylistic evolution of the artist. It is difficult to attribute him to any particular art direction. With equal force in his work there appeared features of symbolism, expressionism and realism. It seems that it makes no sense to look for exact definitions, signs of a particular style. All the phenomena of life, the artist transmitted through himself, perceiving them very individually. These phenomena, existing in images and ideas in his imagination, found their ...

ART WORK

The chosen artwork for this specific question is a piece of art by famous painter Leonardo da Vinci. This particular artwork is titled St. Jerome in the wilderness. This piece of art is dated as far back as 1480.thus, this particular art piece is very informative of the world as it existed in the 15th century and gives insight into the mind of artists as well as their emotions at that particular point in history. This is a painting that exists in the Vatican museum. Most of the artwork by Leonardo da Vinci is respected with almost all of his paintings ...

The purpose of this paper is to differentiate the Medieval Art from Renaissance Style. The way to study the present is to first study the past; hence, the Renaissance style that flourished in the beginning of the 15th century was nothing more than a rebirth and continuation of the classical styles whilst breaking free from the traditional religious concepts of the Medieval Period. The Middle Ages or commonly known as the Medieval Period is a part of the European history dating from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Erstwhile, in 395 A.D., the Roman Empire was divided into ...

The Transformative learner

According to Jack Mezirow (1996), transformative learning is the process of using prior interpretation to construe a revised or a new interpretation of the meaning of an individual's experience in order to guide future actions" The transformative learning theory outlines the process of perspective transformation as having three broad dimensions,Behavioral,conventional and psychological. Through the transformative learning, the individual (learner) goes under a change in perspective, the way he conceptualizes the world, himself and others around him.

Various authors have identified three factors that determine if a student will turn out be a transformative learner:

- Characteristics of the instructor and the student
- Learning environment
- Instructional activities
(Jones 2008) Developing students are not simply ...

La Grenouillere

La Grenouillere
Art can be described as that aspect of anything that serves to convey various forms of emotion through its depiction. This means that an art involves the application of learned or acquired human skills in imagination to produce expressions normally depicted through visual constructions, such as sculptures or paintings. Artists usually depict various scenarios in their works of art for the primary purpose of appreciation by viewers owing to the emotional power, impression, or beauty the objects portray or convey. La Grenouillere is a painting of a riverside boating and bathing resort, which had a restaurant floating on water, ...

Egyptian art has been appreciated across the globe mainly because of the fact that it has influenced art in many different ways. One important aspect of Egyptian art is that it has survived thousands of years and depicts different aspects of the Egyptian people that have influenced people’s way of living throughout the world. Most of the Egyptian art has been from monuments and tombs and this has facilitated its survival for many years. Ancient Egyptians have been considered as one of the most advanced in the world with many of its aspect such as way of life, ...

Sailing to Byzantium is one of the most famous poems of the stalwart literary artist, William Butler Yeats. The poem is one of the quintessential pieces in the history of English literature, and it lives on in the hearts of the avid readers transcending the effect of time. The poet utilizes his aesthetic excellence to reach out to the gazillion readers across the globe through this immortal work of literature. There are vivid imagery and other literary devices in the poem that bring out the central idea with clarity and quintessence.
The poem is a vehement statement of the ...

Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954): The Components of a Critical Essay on Film
Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954): The Components of a Critical Essay on Film
The goal of a filmmaker is to make use of narrative to match well with cinema’s natural formalistic techniques. Cinema, as André Bazin has noted has its own ontology of being both an objective representation of reality seeing through the subjective lens of the preserved image. It has a unique way of both representing reality, by preserving life through a representation of life (Bazin 2004, p. 10). Filmmakers not only communicate ...

Introduction

John Hubley was an innovative American animator. He worked for Walt Disney and UPA, but his greatest work is seen as an independent filmmaker. He is one of the rare filmmakers who gave the audiences a glimpse into the lives of those that were often ignored by other animation studios. He was born in1914 in Wisconsin, and into an artistic family. His mother attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and his grandfather was a painter. Growing up, he knew that he would be a painter, and studied painting at the Art Center in Los Angeles, California for three years.
Hubley's cartoons ...

In the world of art -- especially painting -- the name Salvador Dali is synonymous with surrealism. Dali painted dreams on canvas that gave birth to new vistas -- landscapes of terror and amusement where time stood at a standstill, and viewers are lured into the fantastic, more-than-real world that Dali forged from his daily existence. Dali stood at the vanguard of the Surrealist movement, and his paintings now fetch upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Dali exhibited artistic talent -- and notable eccentricities -- from an early age. Dali ...

Following the American Psychology Association’s Guidelines

I first began to notice that the concept of learning is not an arbitrary thing to most people as I observed the education system. We begin school, we are taught, we learn, we graduate, and then that is the end. We are expected to find jobs and begin contributing to society; the learning has ended. This was a troubling concept. Why should we stop learning just because we have left school? In addition, why should school be the only place that we are learning? Are not there other ways to learn? We can learn through observing, philosophizing, and thinking for ...

Art and architecture both from the ancient and modern times display and communicate various themes that transpire in the society in many ways. Artists and architects, therefore, had to conform to the ideas and intentions that were to be displayed and re-laid by certain structures and artistic features to their audience and viewers. The design, style and method used in construction and production of any construction had to be done cautiously and professionally to produce an outstanding piece that would make it easy for the audience to analyze and interpret various themes and information being displayed by the structures. ...

(Unit: Art and Architecture)
In 1927, Constantin Brancusi made a bronze sculpture to capture the essence of birds in flight. The sculpture aptly known as Bird in Space was subject to alterations that Brancusi made to go further and not merely do them differently. Although he did not label himself a modernist, his works embody the principles that have come to be associated with the modernist era.
Modernism is thought to be the philosophy, a style and ideology of modern art. Artists of this period sought to create a new world, their version of the world, a new conception rather than an ...

Introduction

This essay examines and discusses aspects of the belief system of the Akan people, who represent the largest ethnic grouping in the African country of Ghana, comprising in total just under half of Ghana’s entire population. Aspects of the Akan culture and beliefs covered within the paragraphs of this essay include their concepts of God and of Evil, their philosophy of the Person, and the links between the symbolic significance of their heritage art and their culture and beliefs. The aim is to gain some insight into the Akan belief system.

The Akan Concept of God

According to Wiredu (1998), the Akan religion ...

INTERDICTION

The study of Arts Education has been looked down upon for the past few decades in Saudi Arabia. More emphasis have been directed towards sciences such as engineering, medicine and mathematical courses. This is a problem that is prevalent in this kingdom to the point of pushing the ministry of higher education to consider reviewing the curriculum by developing an Art Education curriculum. This problem adopts a Discipline-based Art Education as the backbone of this project. The ministry of higher education is responsible for investigating, exploring and highlighting the merits associated with this program on developing Art Education in our institutions ...

With the advancements in technology and considering how fast innovations in technology happen, the world is constantly evolving. As a result, the field of live performing arts has continually struggled and modified how it utilizes technology in the arts scene. While many believed that live performance acts would die down with the advent of the Internet and the continuous innovations, the supporters of technological advancements have vehemently opposed such notions. Technology has a positive impact on live performing arts because in the modern technological world, people’s demands are much higher than it was before. Live performing arts should integrate all ...

Introduction

Henry Matisse is one of the famous French artist, particularly known for the unique use of color and fluid as well as unique draughtsmanship. Although he was essentially as a painter, he was he also ventured into printmaking, draughtsmanship, as well as sculpting (Sayre, 18). Furthermore, together with Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, are considered as the three main artists who engineered in the revolutionary developments with the plastic arts segment in the 20th century. In the early stages of his career, Matisse was branded a Fauve (wild beast), but was later on appreciated for defending the cultural traditions in French ...

Introduction

Art defines a society and various aspect of an art form can help understand the region or people connected to the art. The paper evaluates popular art pieces found in the Asian Art Museum. The art forms are symbolic and carry significance in the region. The piece will be evaluated about visual and contextual analysis to understand the art forms adequately. The selected sculptures is Camel Identification
The first piece is Camel found in Asian Art Museum, the sculpture is lead glazed earthenware made approximately 670 to 750. The sculpture is part of the average Brundage collection. The artist ...

Introduction:

The Buddhist deity and the afterlife are two important elements of the Buddhist religion and this is represented in the two images which are being studied here. The Buddhist deity Simhavaktra Dakini is an important figure in this religion and lore since she has great powers when putting people on the right path. On its part the Bactrian camel figure personified hard work and thrift and builds a passage towards a successful afterlife. The Simhavaktra can be compared to the bodhisattva which is another imposing figure in Buddhsit lore from the Heian period. Both figures have similar aspects and also demonstrate ...

Introduction

The University Art Museum has gone through a unique and compelling series of revolutions. The various managers and individuals who have laid hands on the Museum can be credited for the transformation, development and growth of the facility. Having a stable grounded foundation that can be traced back in the 1920s the museum holds a unique and source of enrichment to the students and the societies in general. This stipulates the essence of developing strategic approaches that will enhance effective and efficient run on the facility as various founders had wished to. The essential analogy that needs to be stipulated within the ...

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to conduct an analysis three works of art. First, the paper will present the background information about the artists, followed by description of each art piece and origin and the current location of the art work. Secondly, the paper will explain the artistic message that each artist intended to communicate. In general, the paper will evaluate and analyze the works based on research, using artistic vocabulary, and concepts.
Drawing is a form of visual art made with a pen, pencil, or crayon rather than paint. Drawing also refers to virtual representation of forms or ...

The elements of Picasso’s Guernica include: As viewed the scene appears to be inside a room. To the left there is an end, its open and a bull with a wide eye is standing above a woman carrying a dead child. She seems to be grieving. At the center, is horse which falls in pain with a large wound on its side. A hidden human skull overlying the horse and a bull appearing that gores the horse from below appear hidden in the art and are formed by the horse. A soldier is seen beneath the horse. He is dismembered and holds a shuttered sword. A ...

The pop culture syndrome is a facial extreme that permeates every element of social environment. Hamilton’s collage enhances a variety of factors that make homes appealing in regard to pop culture. The Hamilton collage collection outlines a catalogue of pop artistry from comics to adverts. One intriguing element in the art form is the black and white variance of the white chapel gallery of 1956. The element displays a heralding gap between personal understanding of culture and the new generation inspiration. The element of Jasper Johns reveals a different dimension of art in the manner that it becomes elitist. The object is an ...

The Still Life with Plaster Cast was indeed unique and original as a result of the way it had complex perspective. This painting was filled with the perspective of the things that were inside the painting. In the painting, there is what looks like an apple that is hanging midair on the back side of the image. Paul Cezanne, the painter of Still Life with Plaster Cast was inspired by other painters to come up with his painting. His closest influence was Camille Pissarro . Another painting that uses the same approach as the above is the Primavera. The painting has ...

Edouard Manet was amongst the lead painters of his time. Few of his works created controversies which were not commercial, artistic level rather, on social, ethical, diplomatic and official level as well forcing the authorities and Salon to keep many of his works from exhibitions in various parts of Europe (Mis, 2007).

This particular piece of art was abhorred based on the moral grounds presented. The woman depicted in the painting was dubbed as a promiscuous woman and the liquor placed in front of her.
Another reason to the deriding of this overall format and genre was the impressionism ...

In the course of this summer studies, during one of the weekends I had the chance to visit to important sites with my friends. We visited The Carlos Museum of Emory University and in the later part of the afternoon, went to The Hindu Temple in Lilburn GA. Our trip was motivated by the desire to explore critical sites and elements of art in the history of the world. This essay extols on certain historical developments in the two sites we visited. The subsequent section of the essay also outlines certain vital elements that became critical in the creation ...

Introduction

- Built between 532 and 537 AD
- Include prior uses of the site
- Use as an Orthodox patriarchal basilica
- Design/function: who was responsible for patronage, etc

- Discuss original basilica design
- Function of the different parts of the space as a basilica
- Changes made when the Ottoman Empire took over Turkey; what changes were made to the space, what form changes/function changes took place
- Differences between prayer/devotion in the Christian space versus the Islamic space and how the changes made to the design of the building were important

Iconography/Iconology

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Introduction

Human beings are peculiar and unique creatures as they have the mental ability of making concrete decision, communicating, engaging in a logical argument and interacting with others in the society. The fact that humans can communicate, associate and interact with others and understand their immediate environment effectively, engineered the use of artistic works such as music, drawings, painting and sculpture as a means of enhancing communication, integration and reconnect with reality(Roman & Roman, 2010). The trend has existed over the years and has evolved throughout the history thus forming part of human existence and survival. In additions, the use of artistic ...

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High Art vs. Low Art – Beyonce and Ruth Etting
With technology advancements, technology becomes affordable, accessible and easy to integrate with traditional art practices. In recent years, more and more artists and designers work with programmers and technicians toincorporate some kind of technology, such as electronic textiles, LEDs, and computer generated art into their art works. We see fabulous gowns with blinking LEDs, three-dimensional light projections on iconic buildings, and interactive and tangible screens that change patterns or movements with the performer. Interactive design becomes inevitable and everywhere. In this term paper, I will focus on stage designs ...

Module

Response to Reading
For the greatest part of the historic period prior to 1800, visual culture was informed by the Classical traditions of Ancient Greece and Rome. The ideal of Classical antiquity set the norm for how art should be made and how it should be experienced. In this respect, particular evaluative standards about what is appropriate visual culture existed linking it to the Classical ideal and excluding everything else. The modern period saw the re examination of these values and contemporary visual culture specialists have expanded the field in order to include not only the traditional artistic ...

Music plays a huge cultural part in Indonesia. Out of all art work, music is the one that has probably most acted upon the tradition as well as culture of Indonesia. Indonesia has a lot of types as well as forms of music. This ranges from music that originates from traditional culture that has lively nuances. The diversity of music in Indonesia makes itself to be employed for a number of purposes. The roles of music in the community of Indonesian include aspects from the heart, communication, representation of the symbolic, entertainment, the furthering of social relationships, as well as a religious ritual ( ...

Reflection on Tennyson’s Tap

Tennyson's Tap is a locals-owned group live songs pub along with a recording studio and art collection. Motivated by the good old days and dedicated to the success of today's successful artistry and enjoyment scene in historic Berkeley Highlands. The Tap is a part of a group who has for a century been has united by an attraction with art, songs, lifestyle and happy times. It's all about the songs, and we are dedicated to Colorado-born brews and spirits.
I love how the ambiance relaxed my body and mind. This has been one of the most exciting experiences that I have attended so ...

Aaron Douglas - Boy with Toy Plane

‘A boy with toy Plane’ is an artwork that was painted in 1938 by an African American artist and painter Aaron Douglas. Born in 1899 in Kansas, he proved and established himself as a leading artist of African style. In 1922, he received his graduate degree from the University of Nebraska. Then he shifted to the New York and settled in Harlem and it is where he adapted and realized the local culture. In a short time, he started creating illustrations for the two most prominent magazines at that time known as ‘Opportunity’ and ‘The Crisis’. These magazines have close association ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s views on naturalism clearly impacted his art. The “Vitruvian Man” combines the natural and scientific knowledge of da Vinci to create a stunning piece of art that has inspired artists, scientists, mathematicians, and naturalists for centuries. By looking at both the aesthetic value and the educational value of Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” I endeavor to explore why this drawing is considered such an important world.

Background of Renaissance Thought

A combination of political, social, economic, religious, and cultural factors all affected changes occurring in art during the Renaissance (Kleiner). During this time social, economic, and religious discord, came a new ...

Shakespeare’s Polonius is definitely a much more forward looking Renaissance man than that which is portrayed by Castiglione. The latter describes the ideal man as a lackey of the establishment, a courtier who does his utmost to curry favour from the rich nobleman to be able to advance his own lot. This perhaps is the expectation of the day but in Shakespeare’s Polonius all that seems to change.
Polonius advises his son to listen to everyone but to please no one. In a sense he is going much deeper than Castiglione whose only scope seems to be to impress those ...

Discuss the fourteenth century as a period of transition from the medieval to early modern culture (Renaissance). Include historical events, literature, and art.

Introduction:

The 14th century was an extremely important phase in the history of art and culture since it brought about major historical changes both in the way society changed but also in the way which art was perceived and how this was distributed amongst the population in general. Several events also affected the development of the general population but most notably one has to list The Black Death, the Hundred Years War as well as the decline of ...

The artwork manages to craft an effective compact of 30’ by 20 ½ frame. The artist uses oil poured on a wood panel that has been restored severally. The curator of the painting has been worrying that the painting is breaking down more than it used to be before. The artist puts his model at the centre of the painting and he uses a pyramid to design. At the front of the paintings are her hands and the same ray of lights moves across the breast, neck and the face. The lighting used helps to bring out the different geometric shapes that ...

The book of Revelation is without a doubt the most cryptic or perplexing book in the Bible. It is for that reason that despite the number of years the Bible has been in existence, it has no single interpretation agreeable to believers and scholars alike. Various people have interpreted it differently and such there exists several schools of interpretation. These can be generally grouped into four; the idealist, the historic, the futurist and the preterist school of interpretation.
The idealist school also known as the spiritual view holds that the book of Revelation and more so the events, do ...

Part 1:

How do Hellenistic sculptors engage the viewer? Compared to Egyptian and early Greek styles of sculpting, Hellenistic sculptures were more naturalistic and anatomically correct in their proportions and facial expressions. Realism is the hallmark of Hellenistic sculptures, as the figures would express more passionate, universal emotional states, including pain and suffering. While religion and morality were often emphasized in these works, they were presented more secularly than in previous eras, which played into the realism much more earnestly. Hellenistic sculptors would engage the viewer by making their sculptures about daily live, and real, nuanced emotion, for the sake of ...

Two Horses: Red and Blue is a pictorial art work of an animal painting by Franz Marc done in 1912. Franz Marc was a German painter and print maker based in Munich. His father was a great painter and he tried to influence him to also become a painter but he chose to do theology and philosophy (Partsch and Marc 37). He is described as an impressionist as his work was mainly influenced by the work of other artists that he met like Kandinsky who used to paint from the spiritual side of nature. Marc, on the other hand, angled his work on ...

Ancient Egypt was one of the oldest civilizations in all of recorded history, a people clinging to the Nile River, trusting in its seasonal flooding to provide the soil that would feed them each year. Around 3150 BCE, Upper and Lower Egypt unified under the first of a long series of pharaohs (Dodson, 2004), in what was called the Early Dynastic Period. According to the Egyptian priest Manetho, there was a king named Meni who, according to tradition, brought the two regions together into a unified state (Shaw, 2002). However, there is no actual record of Meni (or Menes, in Greek) in history ...

Introduction

Hans Bellmar and Cindy Sherman are great photographs whose photographs change the photo industry and influence it in a variety of ways.

HANS BELLMER BIOGRAPHY

Hans Bellmer born on 13 March 1902 in a Kattowitz city, which by then was in the German Empire, but now is Katowice of Poland is a well-known German artist for the pubescent female dollies that he created in the mid-1930s. He started the doll project to be in conflict with fascism of Nazi’s by announcing that his work will not back new German public. A sequence of occasions in Bellmer’s personal life is what the catalyst to ...

The Hope Athena is a Roman 2nd century AD copy after a Greek original of the late 5th century BC. It was named Hope Athena in honor of Thomas Hope, the man who paid for the excavation of the statue and its placement in a museum. It is made of white marble. The article The Hope Athena in Los Angeles County Museum website suggests it measures 86 x 28 x 22 1/2 inches. A standing, youthful woman is represented. Her head is a bit tilted forward and her gaze seems pensive, calm and serene almost as if she is in the process of ...

Interview with Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo; first, I am a person who likes coming up with new things every day. You will realize that I started my art work at the age of 14 years. Some of the people I worked with also inspired me with their work which made me to like this work. In addition, I liked drawing so when it came to painting; I just enjoyed the whole work (Franklin, 15).
Leonardo; actually, it might be true that people do not understand easily the meaning of my paintings. It is important to state here that my paintings have meanings that someone ...

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

Men have sculpted since the ancient of days to express their feelings and pass on specific messages to their societies. The sculpture The Little French Girl done by Constantine Brancusi in 1918 is one of the most celebrated works by this artist for its simplistic yet exquisite appeal1. The sculpture was first shown to the public in 1917and has gained international acclaim since then. It is a figurative sculpture made from one block of oak that has a conspicuous head showing a yelling child. The sculpture is an abstract and symbolic representation of Brancusi’s perception of human feelings of anguish.

The artist

Constantine ...

When reading a text, how important is the actual intent of the author? If a reader gleans a different meaning from a work than the author intended to include, is that viewpoint still valid? According to the Formalist school of literary criticism, the intentions of the author are irrelevant; as long as there is a concrete meaning to be gleaned from some interpretation of the text itself, it is valid. Formalism looks at the structure of a work itself to determine its meaning, regardless of whatever sociopolitical or narrative ends the author originally had in mind. In this light, the text takes precedence over the ...

When reading a text, how important is the actual intent of the author? If a reader gleans a different meaning from a work than the author intended to include, is that viewpoint still valid? According to the Formalist school of literary criticism, the intentions of the author are irrelevant; as long as there is a concrete meaning to be gleaned from some interpretation of the text itself, it is valid. Formalism looks at the structure of a work itself to determine its meaning, regardless of whatever sociopolitical or narrative ends the author originally had in mind. In this light, the text takes precedence over the ...

Black Music

What’s happening? Black Music.
1. (a) Reggae artist, Duane Stephenson

Duane Stephenson is a non-dancehall reggae artist. The reggae sound and beat are not the up-front of the sound; they are the foundation on which his singing voice and his message comfortably perch. His voice is serious even when he sings; he sounds like an old man, probably because he is mature and thoughtful. His fans describe his voice as wise.1

Stephenson’s albums may be too mellow and well, boring to some. His lyrics are strong so he doesn’t let the music overwhelm his message. He ...

Definitions

Program Music

Program music refers to a kind of music that is creative in nature (Cooper, 2008). Music describes a situation in a narrative way. Liszt introduced this term by describing a program as an added description to the music to draw the attention of the listener to a poetic idea. It adds value to music because listeners receive it in the form of program notes, which brings a mutual relationship with the music. Program music continues to bring an effect on film music in cases where this draws the latest techniques of romantic music.

Claude-Achille Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a music composer from French. He lived between ...

Part I

Monody – This style is particularly associated with Italian songs in 17th century, specifically from 1600 to 1640. The main composers of Monody were Vincenzo Galilei, Emilio de Cavalieri, and Claudio Monteverdi. Sacrae cantiunculae tribus vocibus of 1582 is the major work in Monody by Claudio Monteverdi. The style grew in Italy as the response to the 16th century contrapuntal style vocal genres like motet and madrigal.
The Messiah – Messiah is the work of George Frideric Handel and reached the peak of its popularity in 19th century. It uses text painting and is segregated in three acts. The most ...

In the text Time Out of Joint by Philip Kindred Dick there is inconvenient truth. The text is a Science Fiction written by a novelist who has written numerous outstanding and influential novels. Dick’s stories habitually dealt-with realism as delusion, Gnosticism, mad people, drugged-up individuals, individuals who seem mad but are in actual fact drugged-up, individuals who appear drugged-up who are actually mad, government schemes, malevolence corporations, eldritch abomination and simulacra. In Dick’s works there are twisted endings and revelations that splinters the world of a reader.

In the text Time Out of Joint, he uses a theme where he compares ...

INTRODUCTION

The Spanish painter Salvador Dali was one of the most idiosyncratic and interesting figures of the 20th century, not just for his painting, but for his overall personality and behavior. He was often called eccentric and flamboyant, almost to the detriment of his work. However, despite his odd nature, it cannot be denied that his surrealist paintings carry significant meaning and purpose, as well as incredible aesthetics behind them.

This is no less true in his 1954 painting Crucifixion Corpus Hypercubus, which depicts a rather unique version of Christ on the Cross, combining complex quantum mathematics with a deeply spiritual event. ...

Claude Monet was a renowned French painter who is accredited with the foundation of the French impressionate painting. He is also considered to have been a prolific and consistent practitioner of the philosophy associated with the impressionate movement. This movement was named after his famous painting, the impression sunrise. Born in Paris on November 14, 1840, Monet was the second born son to Claude Monet Adolph and Lady Justine Aubree Monet. However, his family moved from Paris to settle in Normandy in 1845. Claude Monet’s parents wanted to see him grow into a businessman, but he had different aspirations to pursue. ...

Art can be, and is, often seen and understood in many contexts. In museums, visual arts are generally pleasing, and looked forward to with great anticipation. Musical art, in concert halls, is seen the same way. There is performance art, like that of the choreographer Anze Skrube, that is in high demand. Graffiti is another kind of visual/performance art, most of it connected with gangs, but not always, when considering the work of Banksy and other artists who try to do something positive with their talent. Art can be defined in two ways, according to Adajian. One of its ...

Painting and art have been part of the Chinese culture for centuries, and the type of art the Chinese civilizations engaged in distinguish them from vast western arts. In this regards, major artists have attributed the Chinese art as having a unique essence, compared to the aesthetic art embraced by western cultures. Therefore, different authors have bid to explain the uniqueness of the Chinese painting and art, but in doing so, they have also had different methodologies and approaches of attaining a similar goal. For instance, Wen and Kathlyn, both wrote about Chinese art and painting, but their methodologies ...