Xu Beihong: pioneer of Chinese Realistic Painting? - publié le 14/12/2006
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Xu Beihong (1895-1953), the modern Chinese master of fine art, was a native of Yixing in Jiangsu Province. His father, from whom he learned painting in his childhood, was also a painter. At the age of 20, Xu went to Shanghai to sell his paintings. In 1918, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, a...
How George Frederick Handel composed the "Hallelujah" Chorus
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The text is a collective prayer to celebrate the resurrection and the future of our world. The kingdom of Earth is becoming the kingdom of the Lord; in other words the domination of God has to take the place off the domination of Men. The word Hallelujah means “the Lord be praised”: it...
Edward Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) : Madonna (1895-1902) - publié le 29/11/2006
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Madonna is one of Munch's most popular images. It is a mix between a controversial image linked to a controversial artist, and a transcendent representation of women through different aspects. These are reflected in the different titles that had the painting: Madonna, Conception, Loving...
Edward Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944) : Madonna (1895-1902)
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Madonna is one of Munch's most popular images. It is a mix between a controversial image linked to a controversial artist, and a transcendent representation of women through different aspects. These are reflected in the different titles that had the painting: Madonna, Conception, Loving Woman,...
Describe the musical life during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. What effect did the reduction of discrimination against the Jews have on the city's culture? - publié le 28/11/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The nineteenth century is a radical turn in music history. Not only because of purely musical elements (the Romantic style), but also because of important changes in the musical life. This evolution could be summed up as a change of scale compare to the Classical era. On the one hand the...
What do you hear or perceive as the expressive narrative of the third movement of Beethoven's Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 #2 and how does the music create that narrative?
Essay - 4 pages - Music and dance
Composed in 1800-1801, called Moonlight by the poet Ludwig Rellstab, the sonata Op. 27 #2 became one of the most famous of Beethoven's pieces almost immediately after its publication. It continues to fascinate the audience by the lyrical and dramatic first movement contrasting with the virtuoso...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of obtaining political information from TV and newspapers?
Essay - 10 pages - Medias
If the Media industry is often seen as information and entertainment generators, it is especially the basis of our Western democracies. Indeed, the Media industry is certainly the most efficient and at least the most use mean to inform the people about politics. Media is then empowering Canadians...
The Representation of the Struggle for Rights in Contemporary Aboriginal Painting - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Art is vital to a study of history, as monuments, sculptures, paintings and literary works of art are often the only remaining testimonials of ancient times. When dealing with modern or contemporary events, however, a greater amount of non-artistic material is available; yet art is still...
The Representation of the Struggle for Rights in Contemporary Aboriginal Painting
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Art is vital for history, as monuments, sculptures, paintings and literary works of art are often the only remaining testimony about ancient times. When dealing with modern or contemporary events, a greater amount of non-artistic material is available; yet art is still important as it can reflect...
Discuss the portrayal of city life in a group of works
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In this essay, we will look at how artists portray city life, how they make the most common things in our lives becoming special and how they transform reality into art. Indeed, everyday, ordinary life often becomes special under their brushes. Some of them like Degas or Toulouse-Lautrec liked...
Internet usage in African countries: Empirical study on the antecedents of internet usage in developing countries
Case study - 27 pages - Design and digital creation
This research first investigates the relationship between the gross national product and the amount of internet usage (per 1000 people) in the 51 sample countries from Africa. It indicates that the outlier countries in this case, i.e. countries that have an extraordinary high amount (in this case...
Does reality TV have any ill effects on the participants and the viewers? To what extent?
Essay - 4 pages - Television
This literature review deals with the contemporary topic of reality TV. It is particularly focused on the examination of the ill effects of reality TV shows for both contestants and viewers. The study found out that the appeal which encourages people to participate in such shows is the search for...
Orientalist painting
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Today, we are going to talk about Orientalist painting. In this way, I'm going to present you the general aspects of that kind of painting: its historical context, its specificities, its recurrent themes, its criticisms and finally its decline. Throughout this presentation, I will try to show you...
Apocalypse now
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
Inspired by the novel written by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) and influenced by the film by Nicholas Ray Wind across the Everglades (1958), Francis-Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) reveals a grandiose imagery that conveys a lavish symbolic charge. Vast opera of death and...
Drama film: Hiroshima mon amour
Study guide - 11 pages - Arts and art history
Ode to love and requiem for war, the incantatory threnody of Hiroshima mon amour lulls the senses and the spirit of the spectator grabbed by the literary and cinematographic poesy fruit of the collaboration between the writer Marguerite Duras and the cineaste Alain Resnais. Rewarded for its...
A clockwork orange (S. Kubrick)
Thesis - 15 pages - Arts and art history
The problematic axis of the course « Hollywood-Europe-Hollywood » is based upon the reciprocal interaction between European cinema policy & Hollywood film industry. In as much as it insists on the backward & forward motion of the influence from one model to the other, this thesis underlines the...
Under the blanket of "Sex and the City"
Essay - 14 pages - Arts and art history
Once upon a time, in New York City, there were four girlfriends. In celebrating the thirty something birthday of one of the four, they made a pact - to have sex like men. They decided to date who they want, when they want, as often as they could get what they want. This is how the show sex and...
The character of James Bond
Essay - 28 pages - Arts and art history
James Bond is the most indefatigable action hero in the history of cinema. Since 1962, his inclination for women, his taste for fights and his British appeal have been the right ingredients for a series, has been a great success. Indeed, for a generation who only knew the homogenized heroes and...
Globalisation and the mass media
Essay - 5 pages - Design and digital creation
The Internet is above all, a decentralised system of interactive communication. And Internet-enthusiasts have seen it as a way to introduce more communication between different communities around the world, as well as an outstanding mean to re-invent and develop democracy. For the first time in...
Journalism: fiction and reality. The figure of journalists in films.
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
In most of the movies or TV series, journalist characters are often represented in one way: stereotyped. Namely, a man in his 30's and single. Journalism is filled with stress due to the constant awareness those workers face since the news stays ongoing. The job of a journalist is infinite;...
Is it true that hollywood films always reproduce stereotypical gender roles ?
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
To discuss about the subject of the reproduction of stereotypical gender roles in Hollywood films, first of all, it is important to remember what the term “gender” means. Strictly, by definition, gender must be used to refer to females or maleness in cultural, social and linguistic...
An overview of the role of leadership of the American press in matters of foreign policy
Essay - 7 pages - Medias
How matters of American Foreign policy are dealt with by the American press? Indeed, unlike domestic affairs or State and community affairs, matters of foreign policy do not have the same echo to the general public, which is mostly unaffected by the decisions taken it this field. Does the...
Is private ownership of the media incompatible with a well-functioning public sphere?
Essay - 4 pages - Medias
According to J.Curran, “adequate media system should enable the full range of political and economic interests to be represented in the public domain and find expression in popular fiction.”(Curran, 1991) In our societies, media have grown against the absolutist states and their...
Chagall : I and the village
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is one of the best loved artists of the 20th century. Born outside Vitbesk, a small Russian city of 50,000 inhabitants, he was naturalized French in 1937. His Russian childhood was to have important influence on his all work, and his dream-like memories of this period...
From China with Love: Hong Kong Movies
Thesis - 35 pages - Film studies
Dianying' is the Chinese translation for movies. It literally means 'Electric shadows'. To me, this term is particularly meaningful and suggests that movies are the shadows of real life and offer a clear reflection of a society or a culture. My topic here is Hong Kong cinema, the...
Essay on Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
Study guide - 4 pages - Film studies
“1984 is about 1948. I made a film about today.” told Terry Gilliam to the Cahiers du cinéma in April 1984. Concerning two films which were nearly made the same year and which both seemed to talk about the same thing (oppression in society), it is indeed very interesting to make a...
The influence of media in the early development of the Civil Rights Movement, through the Study of two Photographs
Essay - 9 pages - Medias
In the early 1960's the scenery was set up for a revolutionary movement opened by the Civil Rights Movement that would shatter the U.S in the 1960's. The media coverage of the Civil Rights Movement was part of a large-scale cultural and social revolution, which called into question the...
Bourdieu (Pierre), On Television
Essay - 5 pages - Television
Television has become increasingly important in today's society and it has become a tool for expressing an opinion or conveying a message to the public. It is also able to influence other fields in the social space through which it enables a series of interactions. It also determines the...
Women in the American cinema
Study guide - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Some people say that movies offer a clear reflection of a society or a culture, and put into light its majors concerns and views of the world. And one has to admit that this is particularly true for the American cinema, which, from its origins in the beginning of the 20th century, often followed...
