The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission - Nanette Salomon (1991)
Book review - 2 pages - Art history
Nanette Salomon, in her essay "The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission" written in 1991, described the canon as virulent, virulent, and vulnerable. As Salomon describes, the canon emerges from a model of writing on the lives of artists established by Florentine artist and writer, Giorgio...
Aral Sea Ecological Disaster
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
Documentary film 'Aral, Fishing is an invisible sea' by Saodat Ismailova and Carlos Casas highlights the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan.
Jean Vigo's Cinema: A New Perspective on Reality
Dissertation - 48 pages - Art history
This document explores Jean Vigo's innovative cinematographic techniques and their impact on French cinema, analyzing his films such as À propos de Nice and L'Atalante.
Transnational History of Museums 1750-1940
Book review - 3 pages - Art history
This collective work redefines the history of museums by highlighting international and intercultural exchanges that shaped them between 1750 and 1940.
Al Mu'jam Al Kabir Dictionary Overview
Text commentary - 3 pages - Art history
Explore the significance and features of Al Mu'jam Al Kabir, a pivotal Arabic dictionary compiled by Muhammad Fuad Abdul Baqi, influencing modern Arabic lexicography.
Medieval Religious Illumination as a Source of Information for the Faithful
Artwork commentary - 4 pages - Art history
Explore the significance of medieval religious illumination in conveying the life of Jesus and the faith of a Christian, set against the backdrop of the social and religious context of the time. Discover how these illuminations served as a source of information for the faithful of old, and how...
Grape symbolism in Art
Case study - 4 pages - Art history
Art can be defined as the interpretation of the world and its beauty, and as far as beauty is concerned, we can't help but relate it to the fact that beauty expresses the world as a human and spiritual version of the divine. Among the recurring themes present in art, food has always been...
Analyzing Confederate Symbols: History and Legacy
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Art history
Speaking about the role of art in protest as well as their legacy is really interesting because it puts forward the fact that more than just graffiti or paintings on the streets, art can be an effective form of the radical fight against racism and systemic violence. It can have the same impact as...
Flora - Sebastiano Ricci (1712-1716) - Painting analysis
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Art history
Flora is an oil on canvas painting, completed in 1712 by Sebastiano Ricci, exhibited at the Blanton Museum. The subject is inspired by the myth of the Greek nymph Chloris, who was raped by Zephyr, the god of the west wind. After her abduction, the nymph married the god and became the Roman...
Efforts to Decolonize: The Royal Museum for Central Africa
Essay - 6 pages - Art history
Decolonizing museums and colonialism have been major subjects of conversation, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa, commonly known as AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, Belgium, has been at the centre of both. The museum was created in 1898 with the intention of presenting the history, culture, and...
Modern art: Marcel Duchamp
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
How does one define art? Is it the feelings a piece of art gives you, or perhaps the awe of the artist's skill? But feelings of admiration are subjective and cannot be used alone to assume what constitutes art. To try and define art, one must not only look at traditional paintings and...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847) ; The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985) ; Kissing the War Goodbye - Victor Jorgensen (1945) - How have British and American artists dealt with feminism in relationships through time?
Text commentary - 3 pages - Art history
We will study this through three documents. The first document is the novel "Jane Eyre", written by Charlotte Brontë and published in 1847 in London. It is a coming-of-age novel: indeed, we follow the story of Jane, a young orphan girl who lives with her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her cousins, John,...
Land Art of the Twentieth Century
Course material - 5 pages - Art history
The term land art refers to an art movement that was popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. It was popularly associated with Great Britain and the United States, but it included examples from other countries. Land art, also referred to Earth art, environmental art, or Earth work, broadens the...
How Brands Become Icons, Holt (2004)
Case study - 2 pages - Art history
As mentioned in the title, this excerpt deals with brands' myths, that is to say a strong image of brand that would talk to the consumers and attract them, while being in phase with the actual society tensions. The extract focuses on the case of Budweiser and their struggle to always just...
NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, Excerpt
Poesy - 36 pages - Art history
Enjoy this excerpt of Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton,NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, ExcerptNIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, ExcerptNIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, ExcerptNIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, ExcerptNIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark...
The collection of the Medici displayed at the Tribuna and Rudolf II's wunderkammer
Dissertation - 9 pages - Art history
"Kunstkammer" or "wunderkammer" are German words and meant respectively "marvels room" and "art room". These words became famous thanks too Julius Von Schlosser who published in 1908 a work on the art titled Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance. These words mean in particular the...
Philips Wouwerman, Taste and market in the 18th century
Dissertation - 11 pages - Art history
Philips Wouwerman was born in Haarlem in 1618. He was the eldest son of the painter Paul Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert. His two brothers, Pieter and Johannes Wouwerman, were also to become painters. Philips probably received his first painting lessons from his father. According to Cornelis...
Caillebotte's bequest
Dissertation - 10 pages - Art history
Gustave Caillebotte (Fig. 1) has long been considered as an odd man out in the circle of the French Impressionist. A wealthy amateur, a friend and a supporter of these artists, Caillebotte amassed a stunning collection of their work, which he bequeathed to the State at his death in 1894, and...
"Sexing the Cherry", Jeanette Winterson (1989)
Artwork commentary - 6 pages - Art history
"Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson is a reading experience as major themes of life are defamiliarized and gives the readers keys to reconsider his or her view of the world. Jeanette Winterson was born in a protestant family. She had to fight to conceal her religious education and her...
In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism?
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
"For us, existence is feeling, and our capacity to feel inarguably precedes our reason." At a time when the ideal of enlightenment 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...
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?
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - 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...
Forgetting Demeurisse René, artist of the lost generation
Essay - 7 pages - Art history
René Demeurisse (1895-1961) was an artist of the generation that fought the fire. In 1930 he exhibited a huge canvas titled "The Forgotten", at the Salon d'Automne. This masterpiece, which depicts the skeleton of a dead soldier in the humid forest of Retz, represents a sublime poetic death....
English painting from 1260 to debut late XVIIIth
Essay - 10 pages - Art history
In many countries, arts schools met with a block. Instead it is the freedom of individual talent that is the specificity of English painting. We see it fully realized, with Hogarth, and strive to reflect all of society. With Gainsborough, it expresses the heart of his poetic sensibility....
Forest Interior, Paul Cézanne
Case study - 3 pages - Art history
Paul Cézanne painted the landscape Forest Interior between 1898 and 1899. This small painting depicts the interior of a forest, at a nameless location. Cézanne regularly painted landscapes in Aix en Provence, like the Mont Sainte Victoire which he painted over and over again in an effort to...
St Luke portraying the Virgin, Roger Van der Weyden
Case study - 2 pages - Art history
Roger Van der Weyden's painting represents the Virgin Mary and Baby Christ on the left and St Luke in the foreground of the painting on their right. She sits in front of a bench whose armrest is a carving of Adam and Eve with the serpent. She holds the Christ Baby in her arms, offering him...
The Jocond by Léonard de Vinci exposed to the Louvre Museum
Essay - 2 pages - Art history
The Jocond or Mona Lisa's portrait is an Italian painting created Leonard da Vinci, between 1506 and 1509. Oil on panel of poplar wood sized 77 x 55 cm, it is displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Jocond is one of the rare paintings that are attributed with certainty to Leonard da...
Orientalism in French painting in the first part of the 19th century through Women of Algiers in their apartment by Delacroix
Essay - 5 pages - 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...
The image of women in painting
Essay - 5 pages - 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...
American Art since 1945 to 1990
Essay - 17 pages - Art history
The post-war American citizen is obviously linked to postwar anxiety. The trauma of war experiences, and the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made it obvious that peace had been won at the cost of innocence and insecurity. The bomb's potential for total world destruction brought...
Gustave Courbet & revolutionary Art after 1848
Essay - 4 pages - Art history
The idea of a revolutionary art could easily be related to famous artists, such as Malevich and his attempt to transform art into a collection of universal forms, Rimbaud and his will to crush down the language in order to crush down the world, Schoenberg and his dodecaphonism or even the Dada...
