Sample Music Review
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
The Legendary Pink Dots, featuring members of Skinny Puppy, played the Howlin' Wolf on Saturday, June 12th. Upon scanning the stage and seeing the medley of performers, I knew it would be an interesting show. The saxophone player, dressed in a purple and orange suit, a rather average-looking...
Alfred Schnittke in Retrospect
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
“For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to the most serene time of my life.” In this quote, Alfred Schnittke, in the final years before his death, recaps his pleasant times...
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite...
The influence of Socrealism in Poland
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Socrealism is „an attempt to translate Marxism into the sphere of art” . This term appeared first in 1932 in the soviet press. It is, more formally, an artistic current; it was indeed the official art trend imposed by the Communist regimes. It originates in the Union of Socialist and...
The Rise of Choral Polyphony in Burgundy
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was a flourishing of culture in the Netherlands with the rise of humanism and the patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy. With the advances in trade and commerce, there was also a general prosperity which contributed to the wealth of artistic...
Comparison between 'Nighthawks' by Hopper and Mystery and 'Melancholy of a Street' by de Chirico - publié le 20/02/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The success of the Melancholy show demonstrated that existential issues are a productive source of inspiration for artists. Universal melancholy affects both painters and spectators. Hopper's Nighthawks and De Chirico's Mystery and Melancholy of a Street represent human metaphysical concern,...
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
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...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
The idea of Post-structuralism derives from philosophy. It is a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, followed by anti-thesis, then a synthesis of...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Post-structuralism derives from philosophy , ‘ a discipline which has always tended to emphasise the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things' (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, anti-thesis then a synthesis of both, always comes...
Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
How does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance exemplify our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? Further, how does this in turn explain some of the concerns of the postmodernists? These are the buzzing thoughts that plague an individual's or a...
Theater and audience perception in a postmodern perspective - publié le 15/01/2007
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Renowned French philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard described the impact of post modernization as ?The genuinely postmodern work, forces us to recognize that reality is something other than our formulations of itself and that those formulations are therefore what is constructed'. An...
Artaud's theatrical principles
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Artaud stated that ‘theatre is first ritualistic and magical, in other words bound to powers, […] and whose effectiveness is conveyed through gesture, directly linked to the rites of theatre which is the very practice and the expression of a hunger for magical and spiritual...
Theater and audience perception in a postmodern perspective
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
« The genuinely postmodern work forces us to recognise that reality is something other than our formulations of it, and that those formulations are therefore constructs » (Jean-François Lyotard). Investigate and interrogate the urge in performance theatre to radically restructure audience...
Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective - publié le 15/01/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
How does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance comment on our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? How does this in turn exemplify some of the concerns of the postmodernists? Postmodern cinema is rich in intertextual references, and is often...
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 questioning about...
Xu Beihong: pioneer of Chinese Realistic Painting?
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Xu Beihong (1895-1953) 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, he went to Peking University to work as an...
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...
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...
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
Worksheets - 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)
Dissertation - 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...
