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The flow of the story is quicker in action films, and so the film needs to be reflective of that. The main antagonist in the film Unstoppable is Train 777, an unmanned train barreling down the track at eighty miles an hour. Not only is it destroying everything in its path, but it poses a serious risk -- it's carrying three carloads of an explosive, unstable liquid. It's a difficult task to make an inanimate object into a villain, but Scott does it through the use of combined real and filmed shots, close and quick cuts, and shaky camera ...

The analysis of different films about a phenomenon compares and contracts their formal qualities to bring out the desired meaning of the scenario. Guanxi as one of the social phenomena in China refers to the basic dynamic of relationships with a personalized networking of influences. The Chinese culture turns out based on Guanxi approach in bringing people together in a social setup. Three movies have ended up identified over YouTube describing Guanxi phenomena in the society. Guanxi: Chinese culture explained, the Chinese and Guanxi and lastly introduction to Chinese Guanxi are the movies for a comparative analysis in this ...

Argument Analysis

Advertisement is the basic source which is used to derive attention from the consumers to increases the sales of company. Consumer’s research shows that customers always make choices after analyzing the information they get through daily advertisement. They get to view thousands of ads on TV, roads sign boards, newspaper, magazines and they listing it on Radio too. The medium can be visual or audio because the only vision is to convey the information (Grant McCrancken, 19). Advertisement plays a vital role in sales. It is created in such a way that it can stimulate the consumer and ...

Introductory Essay – The Differences in the Female Nude

Throughout the history of fine art, one of the many recurring images found within it is the image of the female nude. The appreciation and replication of the female body in its purest form has fascinated artists for centuries, and some variation of it seems to appear in nearly every era or movement of art. To that end, it is interesting to note the changes that occur in style, composition, attitude and meaning between the different eras of art when dealing with the singular, unifying subject of the female nude. This exhibition seeks to examine the female nude in ...

Plot and Story

Plot and story appear in different dimensions in narratives. In narrative films, story refers to the account that film narrates. It also refers to events that the audience infers and assumes to have taken place in the film. In narratives, the story appears in chronological order with a duration and frequency. The Story differs from the plot because the plot presents specific events in a narrative. The plot appears as the imaginary construction by the viewer regarding the events in the film. The Plot also involves a chronological order and duration. The narrative’s plot presents Richard Hannay as ...

“Save Lives, Stub it out”

The design of an ad determines a great deal on whether or not the intended message shall be successfully conveyed to the viewer. In addition, it is imperative that careful design is achieved to leave the viewer without questions. The ad by the Fire Protection Australia (FPAA) entitled “Save lives, Stub it out” is one of the most successful and well designed ads. The ad is elaborate and on point in its conveyance of the intended message to the viewer. There is so much that is hidden behind this ad that cannot be seen at a first glance. However, ...

Maison Maria with a View of Chateau Noir, an 1895 painting by revered post- impressionist Paul Cezanne, is an oil on canvas painting that is 25 5/8" x 31 7/8" in size, and currently rests in the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, Texas. The painting depicts a scenescape of a group of ordinary-looking, yellow buildings resting around the corner of a hill, with a road leading to it bordered by dead trees. Instead of using typical artistic devices and notions of vanishing points and the like, Cezanne chose a more innovative approach for Maison Maria. The use of ...

Chuck Close’s “Frank”: Everyman as Art

The late author Douglas Adams said that art is holding a mirror up to the Universe – although he then pointed out that there was not a mirror big enough, since the Universe was infinite in size. So what’s an artist to do? American artist Chuck Close brings that mirror down to size by making his subject huge. In “Frank” (1969), a grey-toned acrylic painting of a black-and-white photograph, an everyday man becomes a monumental work of art. Close shows that the everyman is just as valid a subject for art than classical themes or the upper class. It ...

Advertisement is non-personal, paid, public communication about goods, services and causes, thoughts, individuals and places through ways like telephone, radio, print and internet. An integral sector of marketing, advertisements are public notifications designed to notify and motivate. Their purpose is to alter the thinking buying behaviour of the receiver so that he or she is convinced to take the action needed by the advertiser. When the advertisement is aired on television or radio, it is known as commercial. The video advertisement is about Homespun Reality, which is of thirty seconds. It is advertising houses, which are on sale. At ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories. Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when ...

Introduction

The movie Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards is about Second World War adventure where Jewish- American revenge squad team was sent to France to start panic among the Nazis. Brad Pitt is the leader in this film assisted by his associates. This movie is set during world war two showing concerns to the Jews. There are people who are tricked to enter building where the doors are locked and building is inaccessible to outsiders. People inside the building are set on fire as screams and bagging of the doors are heard from inside. This part is twisted since Taranto ...

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The art pieces from both the Greek and South Asian traditions express divine qualities, as well as, human qualities. They each indicate that the divine can be shown in ornate, exaggerated versions of humanity and also in the everyday person. Both traditions communicate the divine at distinct ends of the spectrum: from royal gods to the everyday person.

Athena Lemnia:

Athena Lemnia and Athena Pathenos is the art displayed in the Greek tradition. Athena Lemnia looks like a typical Greek woman. Her hairstyle is plain, absent of any decorations or elaborate headdress. The face is also plain, ...

Introduction

Images always have had their high pedestal in advertising. A picture is actually worth a thousand words when it comes to advertising. Advertisers chose to appeal on the visual senses of their target audience rather than bog them down with long text. According to Scott, visual imagery is used to command attention, stimulate curiosity, and demonstrate product features and benefits (Scott, 1994). When the product, which is neutral to the target audience, is paired with an image that elicits some kind of reaction in the intended audience, they try to draw parallels between the image shown and the product ...

Image, Representation, Experience: Understanding the Architectural Object

Answering the question on the ways in which photographic images provide us with information about architectural objects requires an understanding of visual representation. As stated by one of the past designers, the basis of visual representation entails interpreting the marks made on the surface. However, understanding visual representation depends on an individual’s visual literacy – this entails understanding all of the aspects of visual appreciation. The various types of visual appreciation include: appreciation of images for constructing, appreciation of images for representing and appreciation of images for communicating knowledge. In a nutshell, visual literacy, in simple terms, could be ...

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 ...

Introduction

Maurice Merleau-Ponty begins his essay “Eye and Mind” with a comment on science. Studying the world in the manner that science does, takes a person out of one’s body, he says. It places the world in a series of definitions, constructs, indices and variables, allowing only the understanding of minute, exact changes to have a status of legitimacy. He says science “comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals” (Ponty, 121). For any lover of art who lives in this practical, rational capitalistic society, this point of view is refreshing. Today, typically, the real ...

The art of the female nude has been one of the few major constants in art, with various forms of the subject being represented in nearly every major art movement for the past 400 years. From the High Renaissance to the Cubist movement of the early 20th century, the depiction of the female nude has undergone many different changes in style, aesthetic and significance in meaning. By examining some of the most well-known paintings of these eras, it is possible to gain an appreciation for the changes that took place in ideology and art style from one time in ...

i. Detailed description of the area researched IPTV stands for Internet Protocol television and it is a relatively new technology which had seen a significant rise in demand. This is usually transmitted /delivered by the service provider, or it can be fee based or even be free based and in its mode of transmission can either be stored video or a live store. Sometimes it is also bundled with other types of services such as internet access and VOIP services. Nowadays, a greater number of businesses are integrating this unique technology as a part of their product offerings. The ...

The 2005 film, Constantine explores the ideas of heaven and hell and their impact on the day to day lives of the people on Earth. In terms of its success, the film was, financially, a big one and took a total of $230,884,728 at the box office. However, it was greeted by a mixed reaction from critics and audiences alike – this was largely due to the film being based on a popular comic book series entitled Hellblazer. The film tells the story of John Constantine, a man ...

Grimm: Season 3

During the 3rd season, the series is staged in such a way the Nick appears to be dead. This happens at the beginning of the series. There have been many comments in relation to the fugue state of Nick. Part of the audience enjoyed this part while the rest are not happy with it claiming that the movie will be boring and a cliché if this continues throughout the movie. One interested fun is seen to describe the reason behind this claiming that it is as a result of Nick’s Super hearing. To him this is like a ...

Pablo Picasso’s remarkable oil on canvas painting Weeping Woman (1937) is both a personally and politically significant painting. It is among the series of weeping women paintings that were painted by Picasso in 1937. Picasso addressed the theme of depicting a woman holding a handkerchief to her teary face in numerous other works of art in different mediums (Léal 396), such as drawings, etchings and paintings, all of which were produced with the intention of standing as voiceless but visual witnesses to an inexpressible modern tragedy. In 1937, after the Spanish Civil War had come to an ...

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 ...

Pictures and Word on Those Pictures

Introduction ‘Your body is a battleground’, is an illustrious art work made by Barbara Kruger in the wake of 1989’s pro-choice march for women rights that took place in Washington D.C. Barbara Kruger is a conceptual artist, a feminist, a socio-political critic, a radical and a postmodern well-known for her atypical depiction of political and social dissent. Born in New Jersey, America in 1945, she attended School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University and later on studied art and design at Parsons School of Design in New York. She did various jobs of graphical designer, picture editor, head designer, ...

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Howard Hodgkin is a renown British artist born in 1932. He attended Camberwell School of Art and then also attended the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham. He started his talent use when he represented British during Biennale which was followed by his win of the Turner awards which were undertaken the following year. He has been able to exhibit in international events and majorly in local and international museums. His work has done extremely well all over the world. The major museums that have had the works of Howard include Paintings 1975-1995 which was undertaken and organized by ...

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Ethical and Legal issue This case study focuses on a minor girl who does not want her parents to know that she is pregnant. She is contemplating terminating the pregnancy via an abortion without consulting or seeking the consent of her parents. According to the 2010 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill, a minor is a person aged less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee, is a minor because she is only 15 years old. In Western Australia, minors are governed by separate ...

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, ...

Cyberpunk combines futuristic ideas about human nature and technology to provide a new perspective on complex subjects ("Cyberpunk Review"). Film is a great avenue for this cyberpunk perspective! With the use of special effects, CGI, animation, and talented actors/directors a futuristic world can come alive to the viewer through cinema. By taking a look at films that fall within the cyberpunk genre, not only are we usually entertained but also intrigued with psychological dilemma. The films “Ghost in the Shell”, “Blade Runner”, and “Metropolis” are all great examples of how issues such as humanity, identity, and technological progression can ...

Music in Silent Films

According to Kassabian, music in films has three main functions: first - that it is used for identification, then for setting the mood, and finally as a form of commentary for the film (53-56). Oftentimes, the type of music used for identification is quite different from the music that is used for setting the mood and making a commentary. In silent films, music is used mostly to set the mood, and to provide unity when there is disconnect between the visual and the auditory when watching a film. The music is the only thing that the viewers hear because ...

George Braque understood art in terms of lines, mass, volume and weight used these elements to create subjective beauty. The purpose of art was to create rapport between him and the art piece (Mical, 2003). Braque yearned to not only see but touch artwork and so he created pieces that bridged the manual space and later incorporated other materials like sand and paper onto the canvas. He fragmented his subjects into pieces as a way of getting close to the subject like an artistic surgeon. Fragmentation allowed him to achieve space and movement in his pieces. In the Violin ...

Abstract

For the purpose of this paper, I will be discussing the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, as well as a terracotta bell-krater attributed to the Methyse Painter, and comparing both works in terms of their composition, formal elements, and cultural context. The selection of these works allows for two central activities of the Greeks to be compared, especially ones represented by their own divine figures. The east pediment and the Dionysian vase feature two distinct sides of Greek culture – the former showcasing Greek’s love of justice, and the latter the Greek’s love of ...

VIEW POINTS

Visual literacy means the ability of a person to understand how context and culture contribute to a visual meaning (Blair & Almjeld, 2014). There is a variety of factors why this is important in today's world. For starters, it enables the viewer of the work to be able to come up with meaning of what he or she has seen. This is because visual literacy is responsible for the emotional or logical response after seeing something. For instance, the author relies on the visual literacy of the readers to be able to put his or her point across (Blair & Almjeld, ...

Motion in the basic and simple functions in a movie or artistic work is to break the monotony that could accrue from still scenes. When the actors and actresses move about during the film, it helps the viewer or the audience in general to accept and appreciate newer scenes that would be equally interesting. This is one benefit that the motion has over still scenes and still films, where all the scenes are acted, or role played in a still or stagnant place. The overriding disadvantage of motion is that the viewer or the audience may lose grip and ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two ...

Revelations is a dance created by Alvin Ailey. This production is the focus of this paper as the writer expresses in the succeeding sections the experience while watching this amazingly choreographed dance. The elements of position, movement, mise-en-scene, and music would each be elaborated as manifested in Revelations. The first, position refers to the location or the space occupied by the dancer. This can also be the space in between the dancers or the position the dancer holds relative to the entire dance assemble. Where is that person located and what are the things he/she does within that occupied ...

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 ...

For the vast majority of the history of art, protest has been limited to the written forms. Whether it is the ancient story of Antigone, calling the codes of honor of ancient Greece into question, or Boccaccio’s Decameron, ridiculing the high horse atop which the Catholic Church attempted to perch during the Black Plague, or the portrait of infinite government surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 that still chills readers today, the tradition of protest is much older in writing than in visual arts. This should not be taken to suggest that artists in other genres did not have ...

Introduction

A person that would understand the importance of valid and efficient assessments of early reading proficiency are the primary school teachers and principals. Efficient assessments demonstrate which of the children are failing in crucial reading skills so that the teachers can help students make better improvement in learning how to read. Valid and dependable tests do also help. Reliable and legitimate tests also help observe the efficiency and effectiveness s of instructions for all the children; without the need of consistently evaluating the children’s improvement in learning how to read, we would not be able to know which ...

The world of Marcel Duchamp’s artwork and influence on the modern art.

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Art180- Modern Art History

2519 words There have been many famous and excellent artists in the twentieth century. Their art works are famous until now not only in their country but also all over the world and a lot of current artists follow them.Even though they do not exist now any more and their art works are pretty antique, they influence on current artists a lot.Some of artists are very famous so people,who are even not related to art, know their name at least. Marcel Duchamp is one of them. Many people say “There is no innovate art after Marcel Duchamp.” ...

English 225 Introduction To Film

The film “The Elephant Man” is an iconic and powerful humanistic filmmaking endeavor. Released in 1980, the film relates the story of Joseph Carey Merrick, the real-life figure who was born with a horrible deformity and had to deal with issues of humanity and discrimination in 19th century London. Through the use of compelling performances, assured and minimalistic direction, and a stark, Victorian Gothic aesthetic, director David Lynch forces the horrors and sadness of deformity onto the audience in a way that leaves the viewer tear choked with sadness and sympathy. Most people who watch the film are touched ...

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Dorothea Lange started her career in San Francisco as a freelance photographer and her notable project encompasses social landscape and the changes that occur within it. It was until the great depression in the United States in 1934 that she began to focus more on documenting peoples lives, poverty and other socio-economic related subjects (Bartomea and Petrosky 287). Paul S. Taylor on the other hand was a professor and economist at the University of California in Berkeley. His works are also associated to addressing the social problems created by the great depression (Bartomea and Petrosky 287). Lange and Taylor’ ...

Japanese horror movies have long been a fan favorite because of their innovative way of combining traditional ideals and myths with innovative technology and storytelling to both thrill and horrify audiences. By looking at the cinematic elements in some of Japan’s most popular horror movies, we can better identify key themes and understand what elements serve to make these films so scary and so popular.

“The Ghost Story of Yotsuya”

“Ghost Story of Yotsuya” the 1959 film directed by TokaidoYotsuya, is representative of the traditional Kaidan genre. The plot revolves around the ronin Tamiya Iemon who lives a double life as a samurai ...

Beauty or Truth: Point of View in ‘Roger & Me’ and ‘The Man With the Camera’

Documentary filmmaking is a matter of perspective. Few examples exist of strictly objective and scrupulously balanced documentary considerations of a given subject or issue. This would, after all, amount to little more than straightforward journalism, and a simple recounting of facts. But Michael Moore’s tactics, the film’s exaggerated line of questioning and the mock serio-comic tone that Moore adopts in his narrative clearly identify Roger & Me as anything but journalistic. In a 1990 New York Times review, Richard Bernstein noted that “Mr. Moorewas no more operating within the standard framework of journalism than was Jonathan Swift when ...

Photography and Rhetoric

The photograph Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California caught my eye in the gallery. It is a from Ansel Adam’s amazing work photographing the Yosemite National Park. The beauty of the photo cannot be exaggerated. Although the photo is in black and white it is clearly depicting one of the most beautiful places in the USA. A viewer may not even notice that the photograph is not in color because of the detail. On the right side of the valley a butte is majestically standing over a cloud. On the left is a smaller butte which is ...

CONTEXT AND COMPARISON OF

In reaction to the decadence and corruption so pervasive in the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation sought to introduce an asceticism into the artistic world of its followers. Martin Luther, as well as others who followed him, advocated the destruction of art in churches, particularly images of saints, muted color schemes for the artwork that remained, and an emphasis on images either of Jesus or of contemporary leaders and heroes of the movement. Joseph Koerner’s book The Reformation of the Image (2004) compellingly shows how visual art became indispensable to a religious movement built on words. In ...

The Tell-Tales Ghost: Commentary and Evaluation

In my short film, The Tell-Tales Ghost, my vision was to portray fear with the paranormal. Paranormal activity interests me and this short film allowed me to capture my vision. In this three minute and 25 second video, I captured an evil ghost haunting a man who was in extreme fear over the ghostly encounter. This ghost was not a friendly ghost but an evil spirit. In the short film, I utilized special effects, an actor, scene setting, background noise and editing, to name a few. This essay will comment and evaluate on each scene. The film starts off ...

Introduction

Born of an affluent background, Marina Abramovic is one of the most celebrated and respected artists from the 1970s. Her performance in art has been exuberant. People have paid to see her performances of live art in galleries and streets. She is a performance artist who lives no covers unturned and has conjured pain in the process. Marina talks about different themes in her art. Perhaps one of the most endearing themes of exploration is love. Her relationship with her boyfriend Ulay was the focus of most people for half of her career, and she explored the theme in ...

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Netflix is considered one of the most successful e-commerce ventures. Starting from 1997, when the video rental market was dominated by Blockbuster Video, the company created an alternative delivery service model that used the US Postal Service to deliver and get back rental movie DVDs from a central distribution center, thus avoiding the overheads, costs and potential revenue losses created by having individual stores in specific locations. By targeting the growing DVD market which was small then but grew rapidly to cover 37 per cent of households in 2002, it avoided competition with Blockbuster and simultaneously cut ...

The differences between the information communicated by written history and cinematic history occur on the presentation of the events. The purpose of both written and film media is to communicate. Both written history and cinematic history may communicate the occurrence of historical events. However, the viewers understand both forms of media differently. Cinematic history is able to create a mental picture on the mind of the viewer. Although the cinematic history creates a good mental picture to the viewer, they have a tendency of containing altered information. On the other hand, written history presents information that is more precise ...

Tennessee Williams is one of the best-known playwrights from the mid-twentieth century, becoming famous for his work The Glass Menagerie in the year 1944. Although Williams would go on to create a variety of different pieces of literature and a number of stage classics, The Glass Menagerie remains one of his most well-known and well-loved pieces. Much of Williams’ work was later adapted for use in the cinema, and the movies made about his classic pieces became popular as well. Born to an overbearing father and a typical “southern belle” mother, Williams was a sickly child who tended towards ...

There is a man ploughing on land with an ox plough. This man is visible at first sight because he has been painted with bright colors and he is surrounded by dark colors of the sea; blue and green. There is a man also guarding his sheep and another who appears to be fishing. The other man looks like he is swimming in the sea. At the far end of the horizon the sun is setting and the ships are docking on the land. It looks like a society that is carrying out its activities normally before the day ...

Introduction

According to Khantipalo (1977), Buddhism cannot be explained without explain the 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Noble Path. The basics of Buddhism lie in these two philosophies by Buddha. The noble truths are that life means suffering, the suffering is due to attachment, suffering can be eliminated, and there is a specific path to cessation of suffering which lies in self improvement. Moreover, the Noble Eightfold Path consists of having right view, having right thought, having right speech, doing right actions, following right livelihood, doing right effort, having right mindfulness, and maintaining right concentration. According to Paonil and ...

Beyond the myth is a film about a certain breed of dogs commonly reared in the United States. The dogs from this particular breed of dogs are referred to as “pit bulls”. The dogs are believed to be a threat to the safety of people living in any given neighborhood. This is based on an instance where a 12-year old boy was bitten to death by his family’s two pit bulls as Fredman reports (Beyond the Myth). The concerned agency, in this case the agency concerned with animal breeding, passes a law in four states in America (Miami, ...

Romanticism and Realism are both highly influential art periods, however, they depict their subject matter in vastly different ways. Political, social, and ecological understanding changed how society viewed art. Romanticism and Realism had different objectives. Romanticism to produce emotion and Realism to document reality by looking at these periods in depth one can gain a better understanding of the importance of these periods on the world of art.

Early Romanticism

Romanticism is usually considered a spinoff of Neo-classicism. The Romantic period begins with the turn of the 19th century, from those who did not find inspiration of the seriousness of Neo-classicism ...

Art and Architecture

The Representation of David in the Sculpture by Bernini

Gina Lorenzo Bernini was born in Italy in 1598. His artistic talents were recognized when he was very young. Lubow (2008) reports that Bernini was only eight years old when he “carved a stone head that was ‘the marvel of everyone’ who saw it” (p. 77). Throughout Bernini’s life he accomplished great works of art, including paintings, sculptures and the creation of great fountains throughout Rome. Bernini was always involved with making art from an early age until he died at the age of 82. One of his great ...

“Approaching a City” and “Gas Pumps” are similar in that they appear to be concealing something larger within them. However, both also contain elements of optimism. Although similar in their secretive natures, the images differ in that “Approaching a City” offers the prospect of a better future, whereas “Gas Pumps” appears to hold only insalubrious and destructive sentiments. One of the most obvious differences between the two images is that “Approaching a City,” is a painting, whereas “Gas Pumps,” is a photograph. The tones and colours of the painting are more calming than the stark brightness of the photograph. “ ...

Comparison of Forest British Columbia and Deer in the Woods II

Upon initially viewing Forest, British Columbia by Emily Carr and Deer in the Woods II by Franz Marc, the paintings seem incredibly similar in subject, form and color. However, a closer inspection reveals that they actually have specific differences in each of these three areas. The paintings are both depictions of a forest, and make full use of strong abstract shapes and lines. Both paintings also use rich, deep colors. Despite these basic similarities, the more specific differences that work together to produce opposing themes are much more interesting, and reveal more about ...

The word “communicate” comes from the ancient Greek – specifically, from the word “to inform.” On the basis of this one main goal, communicating to others as man’s basic necessity for existence has evolved, taking on diverse forms to serve more functions. One form of communication – and perhaps the most popular and most used today – is advertising, which aims to persuade. Advertising, in all forms and media, comprises a major part of the people’s daily information intake and dominates the nation’s culture at large. This is why advertisements are carefully planned and creatively done, usually having the ...

Genre and ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’.

The 2004 film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind raises the question of ‘if you could erase the memories of your ex-lover, would you?’ As a film, its genre is seemingly quite ambiguous: it switches back and forth between memories and reality; love and un-love in a non-linear fashion that also skips between romance and science fiction. The genre of a film is traditionally seen as being a form of classification; it refers to a number of factors that go some way to defining it: “type ...

Step 1: Initial Exploration and Analysis

“The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago is a massive work to undertake and understand. It is an installation art piece, and there is some general philosophy and background that must be understood to understand the visual design of the piece itself. The primary artist of the piece, Judy Chicago, has never hidden the fact that “The Dinner Party” is a feminist work of art (Brooklynmuseum.org). It has 39 place settings, and those place settings sit at evenly spaced intervals around a triangular table (Brooklynmuseum.org). Unlike some pieces of art whose interpretation may be more open, every stitch in every ...

Introduction

This paper focuses on a critical evaluation and analysis of the artworks of three artists, who lived between the Baroque periods through the postmodern era. The three selected artists and their respective pieces are; Giotto Di Bondone "Lamentation", Sandro Botticelli "Birth of Venus", and Leonardo Da Vinci "The Last Supper." The style and theme depicted by the three artworks will also be covered in this paper. The artist perspectives when creating the pieces in respect to the prevailing conditions that surround the artworks are also covered. We will begin with a critical evaluation. During that period, Leonardo da Vinci ...