Essays on Viewer

Albrecht Durer was a versatile and gifted German artist of the Renaissance period. The brilliant painter left a strong impact on the medium of printmaking and commercial centers in Europe. The artist is known to create a number of striking self-portraits that assert his creative genius (Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) 2016). His Self-Portrait wearing a coat with fur collar is done on a wooden panel in 1500. The essay discusses the Self-Portrait as well as the importance of the gaze in the portrait that is considered the most personal and complex. The self-portrait was done in 1500 was ...

The oil on canvas” The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” is mounted on aluminum and displayed in Smithsonian American Art Museum. The museum at Yellowstone National Park's archives collections of different artists, including Thomas Moran. Moran was born in England in 1837, and his family moved to Philadelphia later 1. He began his artistic training in an under a wood engraver. Later he shifted to a full-time painting career. He soon established himself as a renowned painter and illustrator. The essay makes a formal analysis of the colorful and magnificent artwork by Moran- “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” ...

The Soviet montage style in filmmaking is a critical aspect, the films that were made during the movement were very influential and ushered in a new era of filmmaking, with the central aspect of the style being editing. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one film that contributed to the film history and how films were made. Examining the film, and rewriting it with the Soviet montage style would make it more interesting, especially with the collision montage. Collision montage is a technique where the shots are edited such that they are conflicting with one another instead of being ...

The use of cityscapes in cinema began in the mid-1920s with Berlin being the birth city of these new types of movies. Since then, cities have provided a production site as well as consumptions and distribution sites. The usage of cities in movies also assists in explaining different emerging issues within the modern urban society. Using cities as sites for shooting movies allows an understanding issues of the public sphere and social space (Mennel 32). Employing city landscape when shooting movies also help in promoting an understanding of modern aesthetics. Linklater’s movie Before Sunset tells a romantic story ...

The critique Isabel Christina Pinedo makes an effective comparison between the classical and the modern approach of making horror films and highlights a few differences between the two. In this regard, Pinedo highlights that both of these approaches show the starting of the film in a similar fashion. In both the classical as well as the modern approaches, the story begins with the violent disruption that is caused by a monster which can be seen as supernatural or alien. The plot matures around the monster’s destruction and the people’s response to the same. The movie sees climax ...

In this paper, we will try to explain how the montage is linked to the images in the movie, because each image is associated by audience with a specific film. In addition, editing directly affects on the narration in the film. We will research the articles of the three different authors, Rudolf Arnheim, Andre Bazin and Sergei Eisenstein, which relate exclusively to the montage. In addition, we will analyze the film “Fist of Fury” in terms of art of montage. Let us start with Rudolf Arnheim. In his book called “Film as art”, he describes that the main thing ...

Undoubtedly, Bob Dilworth's paintings Daniel and James became a significant part of the exhibition "Memories of Inhabited Spaces" at the Klaus Art Center. The picture can be described as a bright and extraordinary work of art performed in the style of Pop Art. The artist used several different techniques to create his works, which makes it innovative automatically. Owing to the bright colors and unusual details, the picture immediately attracts attention so that the observers cannot take their eyes off it for a long time, analyzing the symbols and values ​​of the composition. If one talks about the colors ...

The eighth and ninth Byzantium was one of the most unfortunate in the history of art and architecture. The growth of art and architecture was partially stunted due to the desire to attain political correctness. In that period, political correctness meant following the edicts issued by the emperor. During that time, the emperor issued an edict banning the use of icons. One of the icons that would have drawn a lot of controversy in the eighth and ninth-century Byzantium is the icon of the Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints and Angels. The Icon is found in the Monastery ...

Introduction:

Anne Collier puts across still photography with such precision and thought that it makes viewers interpret the intention in several layers. Her techniques are not just unique but also employ such intelligence that it can connect with every observer at a different level. Her black and white photography creatively portray her strong sense of feminism and her keen interest in the mass media. She has photographed everyday objects, nude women against a white or black backdrop or arranged on a black floor with a white wall making every shot arise curiosity in the viewer. Born in Los Angeles in ...

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Overview Fast forward. There is a woman named Susan Collins. She wrote a book. Actually a whole series of books. People read them and liked them. Probably some executive in Lionsgate read it and liked. So they decided to make a movie out of it. Actually a series of films. The first movie “Hunger Games” was a success but the director – Gary Ross said to have a very tense schedule so Francis Lawrence was invited to film the sequel. For those who have seen both movies – the difference is obvious. It is also obvious that Francis Lawrence like his ...

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GPUs that stand for Graphics Processing Units (also called visual processing unit) are used for high-speed image creation in applications that require images or videos to be shown on screen. This is done by manipulating and altering of memory. A frame buffer that is intended for output to a display is used for the purpose of image creation. The most common devices that use Graphics Processing Units include cell phones; both smartphones and some common mobile phones, personal computers and laptops, workstations and game consoles. The newer versions of Graphics Processing Units are very effective, and they ...

Abstract

This paper will analyze six curriculums of English high school in different schools using the Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. In particular, Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation has four components, namely the following: reactions, learning, behavior and results (Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 1 of Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation is reactions which measures how the participants of the training reacted (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 2 which is learning that measures what the participants have learned from the training (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 3 is behavior that gauges the ...

Lorenzo Lotto. Venus and Cupid.

Lorenzo Lotto’s “Venus and Cupid” painting is one of the most innocent and playful presentations of nudity. My first impression of the painting was - the color. It caught my eye and stopped for a closer look. The second impression was the scene: a beautiful naked woman and a boy peeing through a Laurel wreath – referring to Roman mythology Gods. The third component that made me chose the painting was the mood. It is very uplifting.

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I would like to start the analysis from, what seems to me, a vital thing in this ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Undoubtedly, Oscar Wilde is one of the most prominent figures of the world literature. A number of the writer's publications is huge and continues to grow even today. His plays do not cease to put in the world best theaters. Many people devoted to him researches, novels, movies, and TV shows; moreover, his paradoxes are abundantly quoted in any sections of society. Since Wilde's talent is undeniable, he is known not only for his creativity. The writer is considered a very bright and extraordinary personality that combines an extraordinary charisma and many contradictions. Oscar Wilde is a great playwright, ...

Quiz Questions

1. Explain the differences between the two questions, “What is Art?” and “What is art for?” Art is a vast phenomenon and its meaning varies from the viewer to the artist itself. To understand the notion between the difference between what is art and what it is for, it is first important to look into the insight of the descriptor (Theschooloflife.com). As art is taken into consideration, most people are daunted to ponder and ask directly that what exactly might the piece of art for. There is a misconception that art is everything, or art is anything, also art ...

The item presented in the photo is a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta supercar. The color of the car is bright red, which stands out in the surrounding shades of green of the vegetation. The car is easily recognizable because it displays the emblematic silver symbol in the shape of a prancing horse on its grill. The symbol stands out in a central position, on the grille. Above the grille, there is another Ferrari symbol. This is a yellow rectangular sign, displaying the black prancing horse. Other Ferrari symbols can be distinguished on the wheels as well and yet another one ...

In the film, “The General” Keaton Buster’s persona and sensibility adapt better to the sense of absurdity, cruelty, and randomness of the modern viewer (The General). The film recounts the story of Johnnie Gray, a railroad engineer under pressure to join the Confederate Army. A group of Yankees steals the train, and Johnnie sets out in its pursuit (The General). Long travelling shots and amazing camera tricks serve as the guiding elements of the film’s comic and visual style. The silent films of Keaton contributed significantly to the development of American comedy. In the films, Keaton utilizes ...

The title of the song is “Brenda’s Got a Baby” and it is written and performed by Tupac Shakur. It deals with a problem in a community, more specifically with a problem in a ghetto where people do not have the chance. The song is powerful combined with the music video which is shot in black and white. The themes which are explored are unwanted pregnancy in the population of teenagers, difficult life in a poor neighborhood and scarce resources which these people get from the government. The music video is shot in black and white so that ...

1) Art is definitely a skill. In order to achieve an effect in the visual arts, one must know what one is doing. This requires skill in their medium. If one is painting or drawing, skill with a brush, pencil, or charcoal is a necessity. Most viewers will be able to discern between a work of art that is amateurish in style versus a work that is rendered by a skilled artist. 2) Art is a concept insofar as it stimulates its viewers to think about the world they live in. Thus, art is a concept that attempts to ...

Article Summaries

Jackson Pollock was a towering figure of the abstract art movement during the mid-20th century. To many, his death meant the end of an era. Indeed, he was an instrumental painter whose loss was felt by many. Jackson Pollock was an innovator in so many ways. For example, Kaprow (1993) contends that Pollock's paintings are innovative in terms of line, form, and space (Kaprow, p. 6). Spatially, Kaprow (1993) insists that Pollock, much like the cubists, could produce the effect of an extension of space (Kaprow, p. 7). Thus, Pollock pioneered almost single-handedly a movement that still influences today's ...

The article called Am I a camera focuses on the issue of putting history on film. The main goal of this paper is to present the author’s main idea, and all the facts his work represents. In order to achieve this goal, it is needed to provide all the evidence properly, and to remain faithful to the text. In this article, David Herlihy argues mainly about the issues of presenting history with the help of films. The author carefully describes the main aspects of the films, which present historical events and characters. He provides the information about the ...

Horror movies are a controversial and complicated subject in terms of the influence they have on the viewers. Some people favor such films, stating that they have a powerful therapeutic effect – like any form of art does. Others are rightly afraid that being accustomed to violence on the big screen leads to being accustomed to violence in the real life. In any case, the benefits which horror films have to offer for the emotional well-being are worth exploring. In his essay Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King approaches the controversial phenomenon of people's attraction to the morbid and ...

Introduction

Films are used to portray social and psychological trends in society through the use of various cinematographic techniques and tools. Some authorities identify that the role of women in society is portrayed through their roles and the kind of stories they feature in – this include linking women’s fortunes, power and status in society and showing it in a film. The purpose of this paper is to examine the film, Lost in Translation within a feminist context. To this end, the paper will critique whether the film in question really “depicts a woman’s struggle to find a signifying ...

I. Introduction

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released the iconic film, Psycho, to an unsuspecting audience.

The film broke with narrative and cinematographic techniques that had been the Hollywood standard for decades. Produced and directed on a shoestring budget, the film garnered few positive reviews. However, it still stands as the most powerful influence on the suspense, and even horror, genre. Because Psycho debuted in 1960 (when theaters were much more popular), the film is best analyzed through the lens of mass communication theory. In James Kendrick's "Psycho and the Priming of the Audience", it is argued that the mass communication model is most effective at informing an astute analysis of the film. ...

The movie “Ma vie en rose” raises serious enough issue of modern society. Ticklish story of gender identity of the child is shown through the prism of funny stories, which often raise a smile, but not leave aside seriousness of the problem of lack of society`s understanding of people who are not like others. This movie through a story of a seven-year boy, who did not do anything bad to anyone and wants to be a girl, but faces the cruelty of the world, shows one of the most critical issues of genderization. This film is a stunningly ...

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“‘Paintingshould be, Monsieur, a faithful copy of beautiful nature.’” –Jean-Georges Noverre in Letters on Dancing and Ballet quoted in “The Choreographic Imagination in Renaissance Art” by Olivia Powell (p. xvii). The above quotation made by a dancer, critic, and ballet master of the Paris Opera (albeit for a short period of time) indicates how the paintings and other forms of visual art during the Renaissance Period did their best to imitate life. In fact, the Renaissance Period played a significant role in developing techniques in art (specifically painting) that were true to the object or ...

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Introduction Back in the first century AD, Stoic philosopher Epictetus observed that people become disturbed “not so much by events as by the views which they take of them” (Scott and Dryden, 2003). With this observation, Epictetus seemed to point out that, in viewing all the objects found in the visual world, situations are viewed from some distinctive angles than from others, and humans have the freedom to choose their orientation. This personal orientation, on the other hand, is influenced by a person’s beliefs and how they see themselves in relation to the world. How people view certain ...

"Jeune orpheline au cimetière" and "Jane, Countess of Harrington" symbolize two different periods of the art history. Young Orphan Girl in the Cemetery is an early work of Eugène Delacroix, the master of French Romanticism. The picture is full of sadness - there is a young orphan girl in a white gown, which slightly shows her bare shoulders. She is looking somewhere beyond the picture frame and Delacroix shows the girl's despair through certain elements like tears in her dark eyes or her lying hand. She seems to be distracted from what surrounds her, the artist uses ...

Massacre of the Innocents by Paul Rubens is judged by the experts as the true Rubens. The subject of the artwork is the massacre ordered by King Herod, who wants to prevent the King of the Jews to be a rival. Rubens depicts the massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem. Rubens work is characteristic of nudes that are chubby and voluptuous when compared to modern standards. He was an ambitious painter of altarpieces and worked on historical subjects.

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The rich and dramatic colors used by Rubens in Massacre of the Innocents show that he is clearly influenced by Italian ...

The Video Age: The Effect of Home Video on Hollywood

Introduction The home video age has come and gone, being predominantly replaced by highly digitized and sophisticated mediums of viewing film and other content. Video’s role, however, remains embedded in every arena of cinematic culture. While VHS is nearly obsolete now, save for those who choose to collect such items for sentimental sake, it is the culture that the home video set forth that is responsible for the DVD industry that has seemingly taken over. Hollywood now caters to the legions of audiences who will wait for the film to come out on DVD, perhaps for the additional ...

Any advertisement is meant for the sole purpose of convincing the target customers about the product. And a creative advertisement is the one that can address the triggering points of an audience. The "The Force Star Wars Das Auto" advertisement is a good example of such a successful one in a unique way. Though, the target consumers of a car are the grown up professionals, it is the need in a family structure that drives the purchase of a car. This advertisement utilizes the total family fervor from a very attractive and interesting angle, achieving the business goal through the brilliant socio- economic tactics applied through manipulating a ...

Visual Argument

Visual arguments are the quintessential form of conversing with the general masses with the claims, evidences and the assumptions and thus engage the people seeing the visual to the utmost degree. This picture in context was taken by a photographer named Kevin Carter and it depicts a child and a vulture in the land of Sudan. The photograph was taken as a document of the colossal calamity in the nation during a famine which left the world shocked by the extent of brutality of the nature and fate.

The photograph goes on to persuade the viewers to accept the idea that the famine ...

Just as people in eighteenth century England had a source of news and variety of other subjects in The Spectator, modern day people have a ready source of information in the vastness of the internet. In this medium, the common person can find whatever information they may like, whether it is sports, gossip, entertainment, politics, games, religion and more. However, The Spectator reads like a very specific internet source. If a person were to identify the contemporary version of this periodical, they would undoubtedly name social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, based on their variety of subjects, diversity of writes, and ...

In the artistic oil canvas paintings of James Whistler, Nocturne, Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, and Barnett Newman, Midnight Blue, the three components of art namely form, subject, and content tend to create the difference in the artistic talents displayed. The artist used the elements of art such as line, color, texture, shape, and value to produce a form. However, each of the artistic pieces tends to display varying degree of application of the artistic elements. This variance tends to create the observable difference in terms of shape, color, or texture of the pieces. A bid to compare and contrast ...

Among the greatest exponents of Impressionism, one of the most important artistic movements of the 19th century, Claude Monet has become one of the most recognizable Western artists of all time.

La Grenouillère was painted in 1869. Its medium is oil on canvas and this version is exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Claude Monet). The artist depicts a sunny day of leisure during summer. A few boats can be seen in the foreground probably tied on the dock. In the center a platform in the river is full of people. Some are being seen ...

The piece for discussion is Vincent van Gogh’s “Mulberry Tree”, which is part of the permanent collection at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. It is a relatively smaller-sized oil on canvas painting. The image is one of a single mulberry tree that seems to be in the fall stage, as the colors of the leaves are more golden rather than the usual green that one finds in any mulberry tree in the summer or when there are fruits on the tree. The single tree is set against a background of a lighter – colored ground and a very blue sky. It could ...

Rear Window is one of the greatest work of Alfred Hitchcock and an excellent part of his experimental period. It has a very challenging concept - the audience watches almost the entire movie from the main character's rear window and that technique made Hitchcock's Rear Window a legend. The movie is focused on viewer's reaction to tension and suspense. It is persuasive, because the director puts the audience into main character's shoes.

Jeff has broken his leg and is forced to stay home for more than 7 weeks already. He has nothing to do, so he starts to be Peeping ...

In Defense of Literature: Art, Life, and Edson’s Wit

Margaret Edson’s monumental play Wit is a short but impactful piece that deals with a number of different themes throughout the course of the single act. Looking at Edson’s one-act play in the context of Florence Dee Boodakian’s statement, “Literature goes beyond life. It is art; it is an imaginative creation that can tell truths gracefully, subtly through narrative, poetry, and the movement of characters on a stage. Any imaginative act suggests possibility, and this is another reason to continue studying literature” encourages the reader or viewer to use the contrasting themes of life and death as well as ...

The Refusal of Time is an article that explores various concepts in photography. The article inspired the concept of using both kinetic and sculptural elements for photographic projection in multiple ways. The article’s writer used these concepts to present historical pieces that present photography references until this day (Kentridge and Peter 4). This paper will highlight how the article, The Refusal of Time inspired photography shooting.

The article inspires photography shooting for the preservation of memories. It also inspires photography as art to inspire different ways of thinking during periods of historical violence. Photography shooting is a tool, ...

Everyone experiences the world in different ways; however, sometimes physical differences contribute to the development of a different culture, as is the case with deaf artists. Hilari Scarl’s film See what I’m Saying allows the world to glimpse what such a culture is like. Making use of different techniques, the director immerses the viewer in a profound analysis of this culture, including the emulation of what this population actually hears. The waking of consciousness that results of this is important and beneficial, as it allows the viewer to empathize with the people that have this condition. Finally, while many could ...

Introduction

The fashion images have now changed and they become surreal because of the easy availability of the editing software and the photography tactics and tools. Such software, tactics, and tools are letting the designer and photographer to do as much of the processing and editing as their mind come up with, which has changed the fashion images. Now the images do not look real because they are changed to such an extent that their originality is lost. Being a photography student, in this paper, I have focused on the the improvement in the photography, the use of tactics in order ...

The work of Art, which is discussed in this essay, is a painting of Emile Jean Horace Vernet – “The Scene from the French Campaign of 1814”, created in the 1826. Now, this masterpiece is located in the Legion of HonorGallery 16. This picture was created with oil on canvas.(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.Emile Jean Horace Vernet › Scene from the French Campaign of 1814.(n.d.)) This work is truly considered to be a piece of World Art: as it may be seen, all objects, depicted on it, are quite realistic. On this point it is appropriate to go to the ...

One artist captures you with his subtle strokes while the other captivates with the sheer drama that happens in the canvas. Vermeer and El Greco-artists with completely different styles yet united by the magic they bring about in the emotions of their figures. In the two paintings of Vermeer, ‘Study of a Young Woman’ and ‘Young Woman with a Water Pitcher’, there is a certain sense of stillness and serenity as opposed to the paintings of El Greco which is rather dramatic. Perhaps it is the setting and theme of the paintings, but the two works of El Greco, ‘Opening of the ...

“Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child” and “The Rape of Europa” (henceforth “Saint Luke” and “Europa,” respectively) are two pieces by two very different artists: the former is a piece by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, while the latter is a piece by the High Renaissance artist Titian. To put these two paintings in the proper context for comparison, some information is needed about their respective artists. Titian was a Venetian artist during the period that is now known as the High Renaissance, and is widely acknowledged by art historians as the master painter of this era. “The Rape ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

Frederick Douglass, born in Talbot County, Maryland, was a social reformer who escaped slavery to become the leader of the abolitionist movement. In his narrative, he describes his unhappy and troubled childhood as he experienced slavery firsthand (Gates, 328). He was raised up in the home of slave masters where he grew up seeing how cruel slavery was. Frederick Douglass’s mother was black and his father was white; of whom he did not know. Douglass was separated from her mother at a very tender age, a very common practice among the slave owners. Douglass believed that this was done so as ...

Night Café by Van Gogh creates a pleasant, comfortable atmosphere mostly owning to the softly painted light around the lamps and the wooden floor, with each chip and fragments thoroughly depicted in detail on the boards. The wallpapers on the café’s walls are more burgundy red than scarlet, which adds to the comfort of the room, as the depth of maroon color tones with the dark turquoise ceiling.

The title of the painting and the clock above the door pointing at quarter past midnight suggest that the set-up of the café is a warm, roomy place for late night ...

Movies are media works of action targeted to entertain, teach or reveal an aspect of life. Psychology on the other hand refers to our behaviors as a result of trainings of interests by the society that we live. Like all art, movies are saturated with humankind. They are created by humans, they depict human action, and they are viewed by a human audience. Movies are usually vivid art form, making use of striking moving images and vibrant sounds connect filmmakers to the audience through celluloid and the senses. In defending a purposive psychology, a number of submerged philosophical themes surface from time ...

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Titian’s ‘Venus of Urbino’ is one of the classic works of baroque art and was finished in 1538 for the Duke or Urbino. Apart from being aesthetically very beautiful, there are a number of hidden meanings including the allegory of marriage as well as eroticism which although not full blown is quite subtly present in many ways. In fact analysts have shown that the painting is a sort of object lesson in the obligations that the wife has in terms of erotic delight and sexual proclivity. The depiction of Venus as the goddess of love continues to add fuel ...

The two movies have different ways to convey the interest of the viewers. The concept revealed in the movie, “Innocent Voice” (Voces Inocentes) is about poverty that surround in the country during civil war. It imprisoned the humanistic side of war through the eyes of children. The movie is set in a fictional and remote village that is comparable to the real life town of Cuzcatazingo, El Salvador; a real life event describes the political, social, and military combats that happened in El Salvador during the civil war in 1980s. The movie, “Do the Right Thing” probably caused a real ...

Instructional videos come out clearly, when one uses 3-D objects that show the real shape of the given object. The project will highlight 3-D video on the way to clean a fridge. The main aim is to create a 3-D animation that shows all the processes involved when cleaning a fridge. The project aims at explaining all relevant processes that are essential to the successful cleaning of a fridge. The video will contain a three dimensional structure of a fridge. The fridge will be placed in a setting that resembles living room. However, it is essential to note that the living room will empty with no ...

Introduction

The current condition of chaos and terror use as an end in itself in the contemporary America is what Christopher Nolan presents in his film The Dark Knight. The contemporary Americans chaos and terror prevalence is the most significant issue portrayed in the movie. The plot of the movie appears similar to the current situation of the contemporary America. The Gotham city where the whole criminal and chaos occur is a replica of the American cities lifestyle where greed, money and crime are rampant. The Villains like Bane and Joker are a reflection of the notion of fear, chaos and mass ...

Buzzle. Negative Effects of Television. 2013. 14th October 2013 <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/negative-effects-of-television.html>.

These days, many people are glued to television in search of entertainment to kill their state of boredom. They include people of all ages ranging from small children to adults. The truth is that televisions are a major source of mental stress rather than being a stress buster. In short, televisions have severe negative effects on the minds of the viewers. Time wastage is one of the key negative effects. A lot of precious time is wasted on television, which could have been spent in a more productive way. Time spent in activities such as reading or exercise is far much ...

How pollution is presented is just as important as why it is discussed. A weak presentation can wipe out the facts, and a strong one can make us do better. In the videos I’ve seen, the work in showing us the knowledge is can change how we view it. With this in mind, the merit can only be measured by a cleaner tomorrow.

First to be acknowledged: I acknowledge that pollution exists. I know its nearby and far away, and all throughout the world. I know it’s in the air, in my living room, in my water. When I see ...

Art is an expression. It is borne from a feeling, an idea, and an act that deserves an eternal glisten. How artists may go about choosing which moments, which facts, or realisation is a political act. But when a region of artists follows, the politics become a dedicated genre. If pressed to divide the entire history of Art, there are two categories: the theatre of Baroque, and the stillness of Neoclassicism.

The Baroque Era and Neoclassic Period are cousins, carrying very similar traits but altogether different in their achievements. The parent to these genres is the Renaissance. In their respective years, the phase ...

The story of the biblical hero David and his battle against the giant Golliath was very popular among Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists. Four great artists of the two periods have created statues with this theme. Each of these represents the genius of the artist and the ideals of the period during which it was created. Donatello’s David is the earliest, created in c. 1428-1432 (Tansey and Kleiner, 688). Verrocchio’s sculpture was made in c. 1465-1470 (Tansey and Kleiner, 715). Both belong to the Early Renaissance. Michelangelo’s David is part of the High Renaissance, created in ...

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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 a time ...

Character Analysis in Selma (A Movie about Martin Luther King Jr)

Directed by Ava DuVernay, Selma is the latest movie capturing a period of Martin Luther King Jr’s life (the period of worst violent acts by US against black people) in which he, as always, attempts to bring black people what is their right. It starts with King himself preparing his speech for the ceremony in which he is about to accept his Nobel Prize, and ends in King’s most famous speech on the stairs of the State Capitol about his dream. Selma is a historical movie, but the fact that its theme feels like a very current issue, sadly reminds ...

Claude Monet was a master Impressionist artist, whose works inspired a new art movement. His radical style often depicted un-idealized landscapes, whose colors where unrealistic, moving away from the traditional earth tones. The main relationship between him and his art focused on the sensation of viewing nature. Monet often used the fall of light in a way in which it would in nature, not just spotlighting key elements as was the previous style. Monet painted in bold, separate strokes or vivid color.

Monet often suffered from criticism from his peers in the art world. Many called him a failure because of his devotion ...