Art History Out with the Old, In with the New Throughout the vast history of art, emperors have disregarded traditions and started new styles of art in their respected time. Great emperors not only changed the way art was depicted, but altered the mind-set of the society. Two such great leaders are Akhenaton and Constantine. Both are from different eras, yet the transformation in

Taking Pains On Art When someone speaks to me of art, dozens, even hundreds of images come to my mind, yet there is something more to art than just the painting or the sculpture or the mosaic. I look at art as something much more enchanting and more personal than that. It is something very essential and innate to us, yet with all its importance is rarely fully expressed and only by a div

The Annunciation The Annunciation: A Painting by Francisco de Zurbaran Works of art can best be appreciated when the elements of design, the principles of design, and the iconography of the work are observed and understood. The Annunciation, a painting by the Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbaran, is a work of art that incorporates both the elements and principles of design. The icono

The Bauhaus Ideologies The school had three aims since the beginning that remained basically the same throughout the life of the Bauhaus even though the direction of the school changed considerably. The first aim of the school was to bring art forms together in order for the art to find themselves, to promote the individual art styles and craftsmen to bring their work and skills togeth

The Big Lebowski All of the relationships among the elements in the film the Big Lebowski may seem to be enigmatic with each other, but this style of film creates an integrated system of disunity. The Coen brothers demonstrate this style through various motifs through out the film, from the main character's name to what he drinks. The film is a perfect example of a film which has the the

The Comparing Betweem Venus Of Milos And Venus Of Sandro Botticelli The comparing between Venus of Milos and Venus by Sandro Botticelli This essay will examine the parallel ideas behind the Venus de Milos and trhe birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Venus de Milos is an ancient Greek statue, carved in marble 150 BCE and the Louvre Museum in Paris houses it. It is a depiction of th

The Harp Of Erin “The Harp of Erin” Thoman Buchanan Read’s painting entitled “The Harp of Erin” was done in 1867 using breathtaking hues of greens, blues, and tans. This painting done on canvas using oil paint shows a woman standing almost in the ocean on a piece of sea rock. The woman’s stern, yet passive expression leaves the viewer breathless as her beauty over takes the painting.

The History Of Art Art, it's everywhere you look. From the billboards you see every day to the pictures you take with your camera. It exists on every continent and every country. Art has been around sense the beginning of time and still thrives today. This essay is to inform and highlight some of the most important periods, artists, and pieces of are over the years. The Renaissance

The Persistence Of Time In The Persistence Of Memory Benjamin Franklin once said, "You may delay, but time will not." This is a valid statement in that time will never cease. An irrevocable hourglass in the sky that cannot ever be reached or seen marks the passing of time. Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory gives an interesting perspective on this fact. It shows how time can slip awa

The Renaissance Era And It’s Artists The Renaissance Era and it’s Artists The time known as the Renaissance brought about many changes in the art world. Enlightened ideas and artists paved the way for some of the most famous artists of all time. For centuries, most scholars have agreed that the modern era of human history began with the Renaissance. First, let’s define the word Re

The Root Of Art The Root of Art "Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others, feelings he has lived through and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them." ~ Leo Tolstoy When we think of history we don’t often think of art. We don’t realize how the history of art c

The Statuette Of An Athlete What is art' And what is reality' Especially today, why should one draw or paint, carve or model, when an image can be captured with a camera' In a nineteenth-century painting, Interior with Portraits, by the American artist Thomas LeClear, two children stand painfully still while a photographer prepares to take their picture. The paintings and sculptures that

Titian Belluno, in about 1490, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian) moved to Venice as a young man, where he trained with Giovanni Bellini and became acquainted with Giorgione's style. His first works "Noli me tangere" and "Slavonian woman" (1510) at the National Gallery in London, and some portraits, are characterized by the use of the chiaroscuro technique and by strong and penetrating inward loo

Ancient Art Ancient Art The trip I took to the Getty Museum was very interesting and informational. I had always wanted to go to the Getty and now that I had purpose in writing a term paper on art of ancient civilizations it was worth my time. I mainly learned about art in Egyptian, Greek and Roman culture while I was there. Before the portrayal of the human body or any piece of art c

Ancient Art of Japan: Kokeishi Dolls Ancient Art of Japan: Kokeishi Dolls By: N. Daniel Kokeishi are a simplistic form of wooden dolls found only in the Tohoku area of Japan. The “ko” of Kokeishi means “child”and “keishi” means erasing. These special dolls are surrounded by an air of mystery, as their point of origin is somewhat unknown. There are several theories about how the Ko

Thomas Hart Benton American Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton Throughout out the history of mankind, art has played an important part in the every day lives of people. Art is everywhere around us. It is in the paper that we read the children’s books we grew up with, and on the billboard s we pass on the side of the road. Art has the ability to inspire us and lead us. It’s in the magazi

Andy Warhol Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950’s. It was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. Advertising provided a number of starting points for the subjects. A particular favorite advertisement form that Warhol likes to use

Andy Warhol ANDY WORHOL The Dark Side It is rare for an artist to become a celebrity, but Andy Warhol experienced much more than his fifteen minutes of fame and became an icon of his generation. Warhol was involved in many artistic fields that included painting, filmmaking, publisher, record producer, and photography, but at the same time he was a businessman, social commentator and

Virgil And Dante DANTE'S VIRGIL: A LIGHT THAT FAILED In memory of J. Arthur Hanson No linked pair of poets has, over the centuries, been considered as so significantly related a pair of poet-prophets as Dante and Virgil. Not only does each of them present himself in the role of the vates or prophet, but their works contain solemn moments of explicitly prophetic utterance, promisi

Astrology Vs Astronomy Assignment #1 One similarity that exists between astrology and astronomy is the way in which they originated. Astronomy originated in the ancient world when people began to notice that heavenly bodies moved in a specific, consistent motion. The more people understood about the movement of the heavenly bodies, the easier it was for people to keep track of time. A

Black Hole Within our universe there are millions upon millions of galaxies. Humans have known the existence of stars since they have had eyes. The mystery does not lie within what we can see, but what we cannot see. The theory that black holes have existed is not new at all. All black holes are formed from the gravitational collapse of a star, usually having a great, massive, core. A st

Astronomy #1) (A) Issac Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is: Two bodies attracted to each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This means that the further apart these two attracting bodies are from each other, the less the gravitational force between them is. The forc

Big Bang Theory My report is about the Big Bang Theory. It contains three major points, which are the origin, how this theory was formed and my thoughts about the theory. First, I will start with how the Big Bang Theory came about. No one really knows how the solar system was formed. The Big Bang Theory is one of many ideas about how the whole universe came about. It can best expla

Big Bang The mystery of the beginning of our universe has puzzled mankind since the dawn of time. This mystery is especially relevant to astronomers, who construct hypotheses called cosmological models to try to find the answer to this ancient question. This paper will focus on two of these models: The Big Bang Theory and The Steady State Model. The Big Bang model postulates that about

Black Holes Black Holes Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complicatio

Astronomy Space Exploration SPACE EXPLORATION: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE Ever since the beginning of time, mankind has been fascinated with wonders of space. Before the mid-1900s, all mankind could do was gaze at the stars from Earth and wonder what it would be like to go into space. Man would look through telescopes and make theories on how the universe worked. During the mid-1900

Aurorae Borealis The Northern Lights and Kristian Birkeland The northern lights have inspired awe and reverence in people all throughout the northern latitudes. At their most impressive, they form an immense halo of pulsating light around the pole, stretching hundreds of kilometers out into space. People in the 18th century were unsure what to make of these mysterious lights. Th

Earth The earth completes its orbit about the sun in 365 days 5 hr 48 min 46 secthe length of the solar year. The moon passes through its phases in about 29 12 days; therefore, 12 lunar months (called a lunar year) amount to more than 354 days 8 hr 48 min. The discrepancy between the years is inescapable, and one of the major problems since early days has been to reconcile and harmonize

Earth Abdomen is the rib-free part of the trunk below the diaphram. Which is broken down into nine regions. In this essay I will break down the nine regions and what is involed in the regions. The first region in the abdomen is the Hypochondriac region. In the Hypocondriac region the following organs are placed, the liver also the gallbladder. The liver is, largest internal organ

Black Holes Black Holes Everyday we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise