An Artist : Gaudi
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Antonio Gaudi was a Spanish and a Catalan architect, who belonged to the Modernism (Art Nouveau) movement. He was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs. We think he was born in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia in 1852. While there is some dispute about his...
A historiography of the net.art
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The historiography of an event, phenomenon or a novel can be defined as the examination of different discourses and diverse modes of writing history. Therefore, we must first, examine the design of the history and methodology. Today, historiography is characterized by a rapid methodology that...
The emergence of Al-Jazeera in the Middle East - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Olfa Lamloul, in her book entitled Al-Jazeera, Defiant and Ambiguous Mirror of the Arab World wrote, ‘The short history of the disrespectful Arabic channel Al-Jazeera, broadcast from the emirate of Qatar,provides valuable reference points in the maze of Middle Eastern issues in the post-Cold...
In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
At a time when the ideal of enlightment dominated in European cultural life, Rousseau was the only philosopher to enhance the significance of individual experiment and the need for nature in the education of young boys. Nature is elevated to a moral guide, a source of innocence and timeless...
What image of the ' native ' population does Delacroix's 1834 Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement present, and how did Picasso revisit this painting in 1954? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Delacroix painted Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement in 1834 after he was back from his journey in Morocco and Algeria which had profoundly influenced him,. In 1954, after having revisited many painters such as Velasquez or Monet, Picasso decided to revisit Delacroix's Femmes...
Women with the Hat, Henri Matisse, 1905 - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
This paper analyzes the extent to which the artwork, by virtue of the painting technique used, has an impact on the reaction of its audience, and the artistic context in which it was created. Imagine a woman looking at someone. She is seated, with her face turned towards the audience. She seems...
Avedon and Evans - Portraits of the Country - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Walker Evans (1903-1975) is often said to the best American documentary photographer of the century. His most important and famous work was his depiction of American rural life during the Great Depression. Commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935, he meticulously documented...
From the 17th century to today, to what extend is French opera a "product" of French politics?
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Opera is a musical form of art in which the text is often sung. The singers enact the drama on stage, with costumes and other visual elements like dancing or a play of lights. Though it is often considered that opera was born in Italy around 1600, but even if Mazarin tried to import it to France...
The history of the Blues music: creation, evolution and diffusion in the world - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The revolution started when the Germans arrived in America. They already had many slaves, but they still subjugated hundreds of Africans present in the country, so that these men also became slaves. In the 19th century, in the South of the United States, one could hear the cries which the black...
The Clash between Politics and Music: Joe Strummer's Songs in Thatcher England - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Today it only sounds like stating the obvious to say that the importance of popular music as a means of building one's identity has indubitably been shaping the so-called counter-culture of the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, in this consumerist society, classical music has...
The image of women in painting - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In order to study the image of women in painting as reflecting changes in political and social context, I have chosen three works of art by three different artists, from three different periods. I will study these paintings in their historical context as a mirror of the evolutions of values. The...
Orientalism in French painting in the first part of the 19th century through Women of Algiers in their apartment by Delacroix - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
I have chosen to focus on ?Women of Algiers in their apartment' (1834) by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). He is usually considered the most important French romantic painter. His romantic mood led him to dream of the Orient (thanks to poems by Byron) before traveling in North Africa, in search...
Forms and colours : Malevitch, Mondrian and Kandinsky - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
“The representation of an object, in itself, is something that has nothing to do with art,” claims Malevitch. In abstract art, there is no more representation of an object and also there is not even the conception, like there was in cubism. The object completely disappears. The...
Sports and the Media: Sport TV rights throughout Europe, a comparative approach - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
The relation between sports and television started years back. We all have in mind the image of Jesse Owen winning four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4X100m relay during the 1936 Nazis Berlin Olympic Games. Thus, we can assume that sport has provided the greatest images ever to...
Representation & Reflection on the Subject of Death in Modern & Contemporary Art - publié le 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - Arts and art history
Within the framework of the presentation of the personal fictive museum, I have decided to retain ten art pieces from the 20th C and 21st C in accordance with the problematic of the representation of, and the reflection on death in modern and contemporary art. In as much as the questioning about...
The Representation of the Struggle for Rights in Contemporary Aboriginal Painting - published: 29/09/2010
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...
Bourdieu (Pierre), On Television - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
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...
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix),
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (Eugene Delacroix), a French painter, lived from 1789-1863. This work, Lion Hunt oil on canvas, was painted in 1858. Lion Hunt is filled with colors that scream of the vibrancy of nature, action that fascinates the eye, and themes that excite the soul. If a...
A brief concert report
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
For my second concert report I decided to return to Benaroya hall to further take advantage of the great deal of the “Campus Club” (best seat available for ten dollars) and see the Seattle Symphony once more. This time they were performing a mix of pieces from various ballets. The first...
Avedon and Evans - Portraits of the Country
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Walker Evans (1903-1975) is often said to the best American documentary photographer of the century. His most important and famous work was his depiction of American rural life during the Great Depression. Commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935, he meticulously documented...
Propaganda art in wartime
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The Roman philosopher Horace wrote that "the purpose of art is to inform and delight". Indeed, this statement is the principal purpose of propaganda. Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of people. It is a systematic attempt to shape...
What is the right balance to strike between freedom of and restrictions upon artistic expression?
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Dictionaries commonly define the concept of censorship as a reality that certain texts (especially books), images, films or shows should be banned. Censorship is a form of regulation, created by the law, wherein books, letters, films, and other works of art have to be submitted to an examination...
Pollock and horizontality
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
For Siqueiros, Mexican revolutionary mural painter, canvas and oils are the "outworn conventions of a dying bourgeois culture". Thus the topic of the work or the conventions in painting are less a symbol than the institutionalized way to paint a canvas on an easel. The painting by Pollock is a...
Is Von Hagens' work a piece of art?
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The touring exhibition of Von Hagens attracted more than 25 million visitors around the world, raising controversies and questioning the status of his work. In Paris, the current exhibition "Our body" attracts a massive afflux of onlookers. Is Von Hagens' work a piece of art? Von Hagens...
Contemporary British art
Essay - 20 pages - Arts and art history
There are many tendencies in contemporary art in Great Britain. The break-up of the Surrealist Movement as a direct consequence of the Second World War is a historical event which needs to be explained. The leading personalities of the movement maintained a revolutionary attitude in the pre-war...
The legends of music
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Music is a form of entertainment that has existed for millions of years. Music even predates written word. The harmonious or discordant sounds of music are a reflection of human emotions. Songs have the ability to make one feel sad, happy or angry. Our atmosphere is affected by music; if we...
Staging in plays - publié le 20/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The staging of plays varies greatly in complexity, beauty and visual effect from one play to another. Writers sometimes focus their ideas rather on the characters' speech and acting than on creating a unique and refined staging technique. Both Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House and Arthur Miller in...
Matthew Barney or the Gesamtkunstwerk of the 21st century - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
When talking or writing about the American artist Matthew Barney, critics and historians of art always start with the traditional biographic descriptions which in the case of Barney are quite pleasant and are justified by the fact that the artist himself uses autobiographic references in his own...
William Hogarth (1697-1764) - publié le 19/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...
Music and politics (2004) - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
Art is often seen as a way to escape from reality, to enter a new universe, and indeed it is. Art has to create emotions, to make people understand how irrational their life can be or sometimes just to make the beauty hidden from their eyes appears. And nobody knows how Art manage to touch so...
