In defense of Abstract Art
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
It's possible to believe that people around the world love, hate, misunderstand, and criticize abstract art. More than likely the people who've come to hate and criticize probably have no art history knowledge or appreciation whatsoever. However, art critics and serious...
Same sex desire as demonstrated in Art and Literature in antiquity
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Many artists use their medium to express their thoughts or feelings on a particular subject. Often this material has to do with a current event, trend, or mindset that they have noticed. Some choose to portray things in a very realistic light, and others were more inclined to put their own...
Confidence is Art
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
If you do not feel confident, do not let that get your spirits down for you can be confident. If you're already feeling confident, then you can become even more confident. Confidence is dynamic, it can go up or down, constantly change and evolve. What you need to do is keep it at optimal and...
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...
Cartier's global operations
Market study - 7 pages - Business strategy
The famed watch and jewelry House of Cartier, one of the classiest brands in the industry, can trace its origins back to 1847, when Louis-Francois Cartier opened a small jewelry store in Paris. Over the years, the brand has evolved to become the official jeweler of the Royal courts of England,...
Art and globalization
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows...
Company analysis: Richart's chocolate business
Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy
The first strategic turnaround in the life of chocolatier Michel Richart was when he decided to produce and focus on the art of chocolate making. Subsequently, he sold his bakery and moved to Fontaines sur Saone. He specialized in the sale of "anonymous bulk" for professional chocolate...
Cartier in the UK and across the globe
Market study - 10 pages - Business strategy
One of the most revered names in jewelry, Cartier Monde (French for "World") is also the world's largest luxury jeweler, operating nearly 200 retail stores in over 125 countries. The famed watch and jewelry House of Cartier, one of the most recognized brands in the industry, was founded in...
Comparison of two artist-painters' works: Jacques-Louis David and Gustave Courbet
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The artists chosen for this study are the two French painters Jacques-Louis David and Gustave Courbet.They lived similar experiences in the social and political chaos of post-revolutionary France. Chronologically speaking, the two of them together examined the changes in the society furthermore...
Baroque or Rococo Art Critique
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
"The Taking of Christ" is an impressive work of art by one of seventeenth centuries most prolific and influential painters, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The painting is typical of Baroque style: intense, vibrant colors, strong contrasting of light and dark shadows, and dramatic...
Land Art
Thesis - 20 pages - Arts and art history
In the late 1960s, a limited number of artists, especially from New York, United States, left the classical settings of the workshop, gallery and museum, to work directly in nature, or introduce natural elements into museums. According to GillesTiberghien, this new Land Art can be defined...
Artists and art in the 1920's and 1930's
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
What are the effects of art in 1920-1939 on art today? Art between 1920 and 1939 set a large example for later art. Artists (mostly ones who practiced Art Deco) paved the way for a lot of artists in the ‘90's and the 21st century. Art Deco, for...
Pop culture as art, the images and artists of pop art
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Following the Second World War, popular art became dominated by images of popular culture. While it can be said that all art is a reflection of its period and all artists voices of their generation, pop art is so wholly owned by the post-war period it is impossible to...
The imagination's art
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
Art is life and life is art. There is no difference, at least not when literature is at hand. Three key elements exist in the realization of a written work of art. There is the author who gives the unintentional start to the creation of literature as an art form. Also...
The representation of the Great War in German Art: Otto Dix (1891-1961)
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In August 1914, after months of a prolonging crisis and tension, the Great War broke out, abruptly interrupting any artistic activity in Europe. Indeed, those who had helped launch the first wave of new ideas of the twentieth century by their avant-garde trends were mobilized. It is in the...
An essay on art
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The art of Renaissance Italy is remarkable for its near complete break with past tradition, even as such art was still being made in the rest of Europe. The old forms and styles of the Middle Ages, which were primarily symbolic, gave way to a new art that strove for realism...
At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects
Case study - 29 pages - Economy general
Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...
Representation & Reflection on the Subject of Death in Modern & Contemporary Art
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...
Art and culture in branding
Thesis - 4 pages - Business strategy
Art is the means used to produce an aesthetic creation. From the beginning of humanity, art has been the vehicle of thought, the vector of emotions. It is the graphic or sound understanding of the deep interior of our beings. Culture is defined as the data acquired and transmitted...
Martini: An international drink
Thesis - 20 pages - Services marketing
Martini, Sola & Cia was founded in 1863 in Torino by Alessandro Martini and Teofilo Sola. The company became Martini & Rossi in 1879. In 1922, it again changed its name to Martini. It retained the name of Martini & Rossi in the United States because Martini is the name of an American cocktail....
Changing the roles of women as seen through art
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was a unique woman in many respects. Her family's wealth allowed her to travel extensively during her childhood and eventually move to France to pursue painting with prominent French painter Edgar Degas. More extraordinary than that however, is that she was just one of...
The art of social justice in today's society
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Social Justice is a pledge to take care of social issues, the economy, and the environment of one's planet for the future. Respecting the planet is a task we were all born with; either by recycling, planting tress, or going green is a definite was to empower a transformation of socially. It's a...
Art of listening
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This piece was very dramatic with the chorus and orchestra working together to put together a beautiful overall piece. The soprano was hitting notes that I've only heard or seen in movies, notes that I truly didn't think were possible in real life. Her timbre was angelic and passionate. Her voice...
The art of Colonial Peru
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In more familiar terms, a gremio was essentially a professional guild while a cofradia was akin to a fraternal society. Gremios were artists' guilds/workshops and were often extremely trade-specific. There were gremios specializing in almost every minute aspect of artisanal production, from...
Street art: A case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Places and means of access to culture are very numerous and very diverse. However, one often makes a deliberate approach to access knowledge: visit a museum, surf the net, participate in classes etc. Fortunately, there are areas of universal access, all you need is to keep your eyes and ears...
Fixation of Prices: Is it an art or a science?
Thesis - 8 pages - Business strategy
In a market, each company must adopt a pricing strategy which will enable the company to thrive. For that, it is necessary to determine certain parameters before entering into the pricing strategy technique. These parameters are concerned with determining production costs, evaluation of...
A study on purchase intention of internet consumers using fuzzy ART (Adaptive Resonance Theory)
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Logistics
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the purchase intention of consumers in the online bookstore. AIO (Activities, Interests and Opinions), a method of measuring consumers' lifestyle, and Factor Analysis are performed to understand consumers' propensity and to find out the main factors which...
On Chrétien de Troyes' The knight of the cart
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
In The Knight of the Cart, after Lancelot disposes of an opposing knight and saves a fair damsel, she offers a place of refuge so long as Lancelot sleeps with her. However reluctant, Lancelot agrees and to kill the time between dinner and sleep, he roams around outside the house. When he returns,...
Technology's influence on art
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Technology allows artists to explore new mediums that were not previously available. Three dimensional modeling on computers and various other programs graphical effects provided on various programs allows artists to do things with their art that were unavailable to previous generations...
Italian futurism and art: Poetry, theatre, and war
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
“Erect on the summit of the world, once again we hurl our defiance to the stars!” (MASD 253), cries Marinetti in “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909”. A very passionate, yet aggressive statement which, when analyzed, serves as a very pertinent encompassment of...
