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Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

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Dog Day Afternoon Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Al Pacino’s performance as Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon (1975) did more than just entertain, it gave a whole new meaning to the way masculinity and certainly the way the “bad guy’ was portrayed in film up to that point. Prior to this era the villain in the film had little or no redeeming qualities and was a victim of her or her own circumstances.
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A Comparison of Moon River Breakfast at Tiffany's Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The film is loosely based on the novella of the same name by Truman Capote. This essay not only describes the background of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, it's actors and creation process, but also deeply analyzes the power of the music in the movie and methods that were used to impress the viewer, such as music tempo, dynamic and overall style.
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Sir Francis Bacon Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Sir Francis Bacon lived during a pivotal age in history. His life spanned the last gasps of the Middle Ages and the first breaths of the European Renaissance. He earned titles and honors for much of his life. He was a precocious learner, entering university at the age of twelve, where he became a favorite in the court of Queen Elizabeth.
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The Name Hollywood Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles California situated West North West of downtown California. Because of its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movies and movie stars the term Hollywood is commonly used as a metonym to describe movies that have been created and done in America.
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Installation Art as the Newest Form of Expression Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discusses Installation Art in the context of the Contemporary art form. One of the contributing factors to this shift in artistic expression has been referred to as the “politics of representation.” The idea behind this expression is that there is a difference between the form of the image and the actual content of the image.
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Costume and Fashion Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discovers the differences between the terms “costume” and “fashion”. Costume Fashion of the yesteryears or the ancient world, I would say belongs to the historical period and is very much different to the fashion we witness today. As times change, so does fashion in all respects. Fashion is one aspect of life that has evolved over time.
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How does Baz Luhrmann interpret Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The conclusion from this study states that Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet is not only an aesthetically unconventional take on a classic story; Luhrmann eschews the archetypal Hollywood paradigm to a degree and through the contemporary setting explores wider sensitive socio-economic issues such as drugs, race, and violence.
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Hollywood movie history Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Two names come up when one searches for the “origin of Hollywood”. Havey Henderson Wilcox was from Kansas and was a rich real estate businessman. In 1886 he brought 160 acres of land in the country side to the west of the city at the foothills and the Cahuenga pass. It was he who paved the way for the development of this area.
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Romanticism Art Movement Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Romanticism (1790-1850) has been one of the most influential art movements of the late -18th to the mid -19th century in the Western civilization which gave paramount significance to individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature. The Romantic Movement did not necessarily favor a specific aesthetic.
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Abstract Expressionist Painters and Cold War America Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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Abstract Expressionism may be described as an art that gives importance not only to the final product but also to the process of creating the artistic product. In short, Abstract Expressionism may be termed as action painting which is the result of kineticism, energy, freneticism ad action. The theme of Abstract Expressionism is usually vague.
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Visual Images of the Enemy Visual Arts & Film Studies Report
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The visual rhetoric propaganda can be even more powerful than written.  Even the illiterate and children can understand the message given in visual rhetoric propaganda.  Although on opposite sides during World War II, the American and German governments targeted a special interest group to blame the war on during that time.
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Postmodern Art and Graffiti Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The researcher of this essay aims to analyze graffiti in the context of postmodern art. Postmodern art is also known as contemporary art. However, it is said that not all postmodern art in contemporary art. Postmodern art describes movements which arise from reactions and trends against modernism.
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London's Fashion Today, From Primark to the club kids Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay talks about the London fashion from Primark to the club kids. Fashion often focuses on individual groups. There is a co-existence of a mini or maxi as semi-sport style and business style. It would be right to say "fashions" in the plural, because the manufacturers have to determine for whom they are developing their collections.
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Andy Warhol and Yasumasa Morimura Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes Yasumasa Morimura’s Self-Portrait and Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych. Morimura’s Self-Portrait (Actress)/White Marilyn is a photograph of three Monroe’s with her dress blowing up. The photograph was taken in 1996. Morimura’s Self-Portrait (Actress)/White Marilyn is a Postmodernist photograph.
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Paintings by Ilya Repin, Frederic Edwin Church, Peter Paul Rubens Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes Ilya Repin’s “The Volga Boatmen” (1870-1873), Frederic Edwin Church’s “Heart of the Andes” (1859) and Peter Paul Rubens’ “The Battle of the Amazons” (1618-1620). Comparing art, particularly from different periods and places, can help to reveal common approaches over time and place that help to convey particular moods.
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Artistic Style of Joseph Beuys Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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He believed that creative potential is universal and widening the domain of art is essential.“The isolated concept of art education must be done away with, and the artistic element must be embodied in every subject, whether it is our mother tongue, geography, mathematics or gymnastics” (Joseph Beuys, quoted in Harrison & Wood, 2003: 905).
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From today painting is dead Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discovers how photography influenced on the art in 19th century. А hundred yeаrѕ lаter, аn even greаter wаr rаged, but pаinting wаѕ not intereѕted in turning pointѕ of bаttleѕ nor propаgаndа heroeѕ. Inѕteаd, the French impreѕѕioniѕtѕ like monet аnd Germаn expreѕѕioniѕtѕ like Frаnz mаrc hаd moved on, unintereѕted in photogrаph-like imаgeѕ.
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Cinema and Otherness: Bend it Like Beckham Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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A key concept in the philosophy of identity includes the idea of the Other as being essential to determining a definition of the self. This is explained in the statement “what appears to be cultural units – human beings, words, philosophical systems, social organizations – are maintained in their apparent unity only through an active process of exclusion, opposition, and hierarchization.
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Hamlets Procrastination and Delay: Moral Scruples and Conscience Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Proposal
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Hamlet, a play by Shakespeare has a number of problems that are considered unresolved by many writers. Each and every writer on Hamlet comes up with some other results. After watching the movie of Hamlet, I think that the play is somehow different from the movie. The director Kenneth Branagh changed some dialogues written by Shakespeare.
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12 Angry Men and Lifes Themes Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The idea that there are many interpretations of “the facts” is applied to real-life situations. In the educational environment, teachers are responsible for dealing with interpersonal issues between different students at the same age level. What the teacher is being told by each student is merely their own interpretation of what actually occurred.
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Modernism Along with Postmodernism: Graphic Design at Its Best Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The main topic of the essay is the graphic design in regard of Postmodernism. The author makes a short historical overview and gives examples of artists that were working in this field. The author gives a definition of Postmodernism and makes a comparative analysis of different approaches in the Art History.
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A Point of View on Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that an artwork can communicate concepts of culture such as moral values and experiences of the people. He then goes about saying that the basic factor of being understood by the general population and be received with empathy is not the beauty of the picture painted but the culture and traditions that are captured.
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Politics in Modern Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The aim of this essay is to analyze politics in modern art. Art becomes more significant in the sense that it addresses reality at the same time it encourages people to think and act when faced with events that concern them, the society and their values. The link of the contemporary arts to politics in the United States started during the Vietnam War.
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The Personality of Batman Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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But despite his initial reluctance, Fox ends up using the technology just as Batman intends: to violate Gotham City’s privacy and in doing so, to catch the Joker, who has been terrorizing the city. That the plan works — that this intense violation of privacy and its success in apprehending and stopping the mad terror that has been rampant in Gotham.
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Rembrandt - Dutch Painting in the Golden Age Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes Dutch Painting in the Golden Age and the art of Rembrandt. In this climate, Rembrandt had the opportunity to both learn and teach many of the influential painters who would eventually become associated with the Dutch school. Most artists became specialists in a given genre during this period and Rembrandt was no exception.
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Identity in Korean contemporary art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes the question of identity in the context of Korean contemporary art. Uniqueness in art, particularly for Asian countries like Korea which went all the way through Western influence in the line of creation and expansion in modern art, is often taken as a substitute model to distinguish them from the West.
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Humanities Baroque Period or Italian Reinassance or Northern Reinassance Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Foutain is a sculptor that Bernini chose to represent himself, considering this his greatest talent. A careful study of some of his multi-media works such as the Fountain of Four Rivers can illustrate a great deal about Bernini’s new Baroque ideas regarding time and space that were entering Rome as the 17th century progressed out of the Renaissance.
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Paintings and allusions in English Patients Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes Paintings and allusions in English Patients. The plot involves a small Italian villa which is “living out the end” of the World War II and has somehow managed to survive the wrath of a war torn planet. The author’s representation of a unique connection between disasters in the human history and the atomic bomb explosions.
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Postmodernism and Theory Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay explores the theory of Postmodernism. There were ideas that were considered in the past to some degree or another, but the postmodern movement, with its emphasis on illuminating the sublime, brings these ideas to the forefront. “The political and the aesthetic are inseparable, simultaneously present, faces of the postmodern".
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Western Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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Moissac’s last judgment represents the Romanesque art. The theme of “last judgment” is only implicit in the Moissac portal. On the side of the portal, there are complex relief compositions, on the right the events of the incarnation from the annunciation to the Flight into Egypt, on the left the vices of Luxuria and Avarice.
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Competition in the DVD Format Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This feature permits enhanced recording density, as the laser can be focused with greater precision, making for data to be packed more tightly on these discs. This means more data can be stored in less space, which increases the data storage capacity of these discs. The consequence is that Blu-ray discs can store five times more data standard DVDs.
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Art History Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The connotations of the Polykleitos today, may be entirely different from the connotations it carried centuries ago. Each generation has been able to look at these timeless pieces of art in order to gleam a relevant and even meaningful statement. In the next few centuries or millennia, future generations will see both sculptures differently.
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Gustave Courbet, Young Women from the Village and John Singer Sargent, The Wyndham Sisters Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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This paper compares Gustave Courbet's Young Women from the Village and the second work is John Singer Sargent's The Wyndham Sisters. The first piece of work is entitled Young Women From the Village by: Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet. This particular work received quite a bit of harsh criticism for its unaesthetic quality perceived by some.
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Is Reportage Documentary Obsolete Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Proposal
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The invention of the photo camera during the 19th century had radically changed the world of visual presentation. With each subsequent period of development, photojournalism created stepping stones for new generations to evolve visual reportage. The use of the photographic camera and video camera during the 20th century likewise had provided better means to document.
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Robert DeNiro, Bang the Drum Slowly and Raging Bull Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Generally, James Cagney and Clark Gable represented the masculine strength that audiences looked for during the darkest days of the Great Depression.   Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean each caught the collective imagination of young movie audiences stifled by the conformity of the 1960s. 
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Comparison of Stieglitz and Jacob Riis photography style Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author of this essay aims to analyze and compare the style of the photography of Stieglitz and Jacob Riis. It was in 1880s, that the term straight photography was coined to mean the kind of photographs that were completely un-manipulated and natural. The other type of photographers came to be known as the pictorialists.
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Frida Kahlo and Surrealism Movement Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay discovers surrealism and Frida Kahlo. Not being a formal student of art most of her paintings were heavily influenced by other artists, eras, and by the Mexican culture surrounding her. She depicted her every emotion and life experience, from intense physical pain of her accident to the extreme emotional sorrow of her miscarriage’s on canvas.
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Failures and Triumphs of Ordinary People in Juno Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author explains that Juno, the film's hip, wise-cracking namesake, masterfully played by Ellen Page, struts her way across town as the credits roll, to take her third pregnancy test of the day. The toe-curling awkwardness of the ‘love scene' which proceeded this moment is shown without romance.
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Encountaring DAMIEN HIRST Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Many people believe conceptual art is the next step in art’s evolution. In surprising and amazing ways it brings ideas and ideologies into art in a way that the more traditional forms never did. In the past, art focused mostly on aesthetics—how beautiful or decorative something could be—but the history of art in the 20th century shows.
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Traveling Matte Techniques Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Matte removal procedure classically comprises attempting to decide which sites on each image stand for the foreground and which site stand for the background. The difficult task in the procedure is to determine the boundary between the images of foreground and background. Foreground and background pictures are mixed to make a composite image.
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The Role of a Star Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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What are the common characteristics between all-stars? Why is such huge, sometimes exaggerated, attention given to stars? That dilemma can be justified by the multiplicity of possible interpretation to the conception of stardom. In fact, in “seeing stars”, Janet Staiger attempts to question the traditional way of perceiving the role of a star.
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The Lovers or The Dustman by Stanley Spencer Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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The Lovers or The Dustman is an allegorical piece using representational imagery. Spencer did not seek to join the abstractionists and “made every effort to disavow the abstraction and to reconnect modern painting to its European traditions, as did the painters of the new realism in Germany and many members of the School in Paris.”
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The Big Sleep and L.A. Confidential Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that both films have distinct parallels in being screen adaptations of novels, tackling the film noir genre. This analysis will undertake a comparative analysis of the films and evaluate the directorial, acting and cinematographic approach to a similar genre from different cinematic periods.
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How Curatorial Practices Shape an Exhibition Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Repeated performance as well as thinking based on doing impact the concepts surrounding curating. The exhibition being institutionally situated enjoys the advantage of high visibility from a greatly influential platform. For the curator, the institutional context provides a critical framework for the creation and reception of the exhibition.
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Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Modern Times is a classic American film. Directed, written, and starred by Charlie Chaplin, the most influential personality of the silent film era, the film presents a vision of a society impacted by technological innovations, rampant bureaucracy, and financial depression, all through the eyes of the ordinary man—a single cog in the massive system of an immense industrial organism.
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Contemporary Art Issues Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Through the tremendous changes that took place through Industrialization, the values of society were questioned in every field, not just art. In the field of art, though, this questioning took the form of who defines art. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp said, Art history has consistently decided upon the virtues of a work of art.
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Salvador Dalis Surrealist Concept of Paranoia Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This paper analyzes Salvador Dali and his concept of paranoia. For Salvador Dali, artistic training is actually the foremost impediment in seeing the truth behind the façade of a work of art. Dali made his crafts devoid of enthusiasm or animation, so that the eyes do not deviate from the objects exposed.
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Berkeley Museum of Paleontology: Leonardo Da Vinci Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The author states that Leonardo was most famous as a well renowned artist but besides this, he was a scientist, inventor, botanist, painter, sculptor, engineer, writer and musician. In the words of da Vinci, “Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so, does inaction sap the vigor of the mind”.
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Pablo Picasso & Cubism Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The paper concerns the role of the Pablo Picasso in the context of cubism. Picasso had written his autobiography, not through the medium of words, but rather manifested through his paintings’ sense of the aesthetic. Pablo Picasso along with his contemporary Braque were the fathers of Cubism.
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How Has the Insanity Defense Been Used in the Films Primal Fear and Nuts Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The films titled “Primal Fear” and “Nuts” both revolve around crimes that have been committed, where the counsel for the defendants base their defense on the criminal insanity defense – “not guilty by reason of insanity.” In both these films, the defendants are guilty of committing a crime but are mentally competent individuals.
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