Category: Art & Music

The Harlem Renaissance was an important part of literature during the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance took place in Harlem, New York in the ’20s and was lead by African-American writers and changed the way African-Americans were view by people. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary movement led by African-Americans in . . . Read more

Example #1 Mention the word graffiti and what typically comes to mind is something unpleasant and distasteful like indecent language scribbled on a wall of a store or crude pictures. Most graffiti is characterized as vandalism on the property that does not belong to the culprit. Graffiti also displays negative . . . Read more

Despite a year of headline-generating turmoil, musicians, techies, media executives and lawmakers gathering for the second Future of Music conference on Monday will find that much remains unresolved on the digital-music landscape. Over the past year, recording companies managed to force the shutdown of the free online song-swapping service Napster . . . Read more

Diego Rivera has to be one of the greatest artists of all of the early 1900s. I choose Diego Rivera because he is an old folk hero and because his work has so much meaning behind it that normally you wouldn’t know unless you understand the current events during that . . . Read more

Jackson Pollock was born to LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. His stay there was short as the family moved before he was one and continued travelling around the southwest United States. Pollock’s father would take his young son with him to . . . Read more

Michelangelo (1475-1564), arguably one of the most inspired creators in the history of art. As a sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, he exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on subsequent Western art in general. A Florentine—although born March 6, 1475, in the small village of Caprese near Arezzo—Michelangelo . . . Read more

There is no doubt that those in every city who by their merits obtain fame to become a blessed light to those who are born after them. For there is nothing that arouses the minds of men and makes them indifferent to the hardships of study, so much as the . . . Read more

The renaissance was a time of great reform and prosperity, especially in the art aspect of it. The most famous paintings seen in museums are from the renaissance period. Many techniques that were used in Renaissance times are still used today. This was a time where many great artists from . . . Read more

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), German composer, generally considered one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition. Born in Bonn, Beethoven went to Vienna in 1792 to study under Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. In Vienna, he dazzled the aristocracy with his piano improvisations and became a successful freelance composer. In . . . Read more

“I’m tired of people coming back from Europe and telling me how beautiful the churches are. We’ve forgotten what we’ve got here.” mac1996 Between 1915 and 1973 the Italian-Canadian painter Guido Nincheri devoted his life to producing stained glass windows and frescoes for more than one hundred churches across North . . . Read more

This benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced “Jezu”) (1705? – 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicolo Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. . . . Read more

Gustave Courbet was born on June 10, 1819 in Ornans, France and died on December 31, 1877. He once said, “I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one,” therefore, Courbet was a realist. In 1839, he entered the studio of Charles Steuben, where his artistic skills would . . . Read more

Pablo Picasso was probably the most famous artist of the twentieth century. During his artistic career, which lasted more than 75 years, he created thousands of works, not only paintings but also sculptures, prints, and ceramics, using all kinds of materials. He almost single-handedly created modern art. He changed art . . . Read more

Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and filmmaker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of an immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with . . . Read more

In the first three acts of the play Hamlet, King Claudius go through a subtle but defined change in character. Claudius’ role in the play begins as the newly coronated king of Denmark. The former king, King Hamlet, was poisoned by his brother, Claudius, while he was asleep. Claudius, however, . . . Read more

This essay discusses the ways in which several contemporary artists have dealt with war in their artworks. I Introduction Art has always been a legitimate means of expressing the artist’s views on current events, politics, and the government. In some cases, art has spoken out with tremendous power, as in . . . Read more

Introduction Abstract Expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. The World War led many influential European artists to leave their war torn countries to travel to America. This led to a dramatic increase in the exposure American artists got to European Modernism and other art movements such as . . . Read more

During the past week or so our group has been doing a research assignment on Gothic art and architecture. In the following paragraphs, we will be discussing Gothic art and architecture, the Rayonnant Gothic period, and sculpture. From about 1140 to the end of the 16th-century religious buildings, stained glass, . . . Read more

Sometimes through history, something comes along that changes everything as it has been known thus far. In the 1920’s, such an art movement came around that changed the way art was defined. The Surrealist art movement combined elements of its predecessors, Dada and cubism, to create something unknown to the . . . Read more

I will be comparing the portrait of Norman “The Red Man” 22nd Chief of Macleod by Allan Ramsay to the portrait of Louis XIV by Riguad. Allan Ramsay was Scottish and lived during the 18th century, which was probably the only time that Scotland shook off its reputation of being . . . Read more

Introduction Art defined the renaissance and the renaissance defined art. It was the product of a society, a response to both social and political circumstances and a mirror to its values as well. Although it would be impossible to derive Isabella d’Este’s exact taste, it is safe to say the . . . Read more

Throughout the time of the Renaissance, there were many individuals who embodied the “spirit of the Renaissance.” Many individuals had achievements in the fields of art, literature, and science. The Renaissance was a time of great rebirth and revival of cultural and scholarly activity in Western Europe. Three people who . . . Read more

Changing philosophies in, functions for, and materials used in artmaking has lead to a change in the way art is perceived by the public. A shift from the structural and cultural frames to the subjective and recently postmodern frames means that the interpretations of an artwork can be much more . . . Read more

Pablo Picasso was a famous Spanish-French Painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pablo Picasso’s works can be seen in many museums and galleries all over the world today. He is best known for co-creating the art style of cubism. His most famous works of art were possibly . . . Read more

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride were painted in 1434 by the most famous and innovative Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (ca 1390-1441). American Gothic was painted nearly 500 years later in 1930 by the acclaimed American Regionalist artist Grant Wood (1891-1942). Both images are highly detailed oil portraitures with van . . . Read more

The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century was an attempt to improve society by creating objects and architecture of a more worthwhile nature. The movement began in England in the 1870’s and soon spread to the United States where it was widely employed in the arts and . . . Read more

Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist’s culture. As man evolved over centuries, his views of the body also transformed. Our tour definitely showed the drastic changes in different cultures’ art. Each culture and era presents very distinct characteristics. Through time and . . . Read more

The “rebirth” of art in Italy, otherwise known as the Renaissance, was connected with the rediscovery of ancient philosophy, literature, and science and the development of methods in these fields using keen observation. Greater awareness of classical knowledge created a new way to learn by direct study of the natural . . . Read more

Response Essay “Art, Culture, & Cuisine” Although another tough piece to digest, “Art, Culture, & Cuisine,” by Phyllis Pray Bober; emitted intermittent flashbacks of Professor McAndrew – as she revealed to us her reasoning to base this class upon food. It had not occurred to me that there is an . . . Read more

Throughout the history of civilization man has often made monuments in many varied forms symbolic of the cultures they live in. These monuments are usually represented through arts of architecture, landscaping, painting, and sculpture. These diverse forms of art have their own unique qualities, all of which can be accented . . . Read more

The argument of color verses design originated in the Baroque, but extended much further into the eighteenth century in terms of theory. Roger de Piles was the father of this argument based on coloris versus disegno and the Poussinists versus the Rubenists and so on. He joined the Academy in . . . Read more

The impressionist age was a time of artistic rebellion to the common standards of art in late nineteenth-century France. Rather than painting in the traditionalist fashion, focusing on the exotic subject matter, powerful figureheads, and historic scenes, impressionists painted everyday life as it was. The impressionists were known for using . . . Read more

Practice in art refers to the decisions and actions that affect choices, perceptions, ways of working, and views of an artist or art historian. Tim Storrier sums up the practice of an artist by saying that “A painting is really a graphic illustration of where a particular artist is at . . . Read more

Christians today have a different view of the world than those of other faiths. Following God’s teachings, not the world’s ideas of what is appropriate and decent, is part of being an educated Christian. Knowing the world around us but not being part of it is hard. Standing up for . . . Read more