Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

This study explores the fashion of Christian Dior. A papyrus drawing from a collection of religious texts known as the Book of the Dead depicts Egyptians growing flax, a plant that yields fiber for linen. A three-dimensional wooden model of a weaving workshop that was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb shows workers spinning linen thread.

This film review will discuss some of the technical aspects of Heat by using appropriate film terminology to describe its various sections. Particular scenes will be analyzed in order to fully grasp these terms and will be compared to the rest of the film. A synopsis at the beginning of the review will reveal the storyline.

This essay focuses on the Edward Hopper’s painting style. The movement was established on the concept that the true nature of art should be to reflect life as it really was, in all its common activities. This ideal held that art should be free of the idealism and judgments observable in previous movements. French Realism was inspired by movements.

Newland Archer is one of those who were content with the status quo of repressed emotions for the “good” of everybody and for the preservation of their culture and lifestyle. He had thoughts of his own and even observed the absurdity of this façade his society puts up with yet he accepts it for his own perceived good.

Just having a breakup with his current girlfriend, Laura, he goes on with the movie doing monologues as he recalls his “Five All-time Greatest Breakups.” Hence, the plot revolves through his thoughts brought to life, his vintage LP album shop, his colleagues, and love life.

The Internet opens communication lines between Fashion Designers and prospects which may lead to eventual face-to-face contact and subsequently lead to the closing of a favorable transaction between buyer and seller. Traditionally, Fashion Designers promote their clothes, or their capability to make clothes, through fashion shows.

The author states that the most highlighted things in the Cloisters are the treasures of sculptures, tapestries, ivories, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, goldsmith’s and silversmith’s work, and enamels. Renoir born on 1845 February 25 and died on December 3 1919 was a French artist.

Genetic engineering makes people spend a lot of time and extra effort to support a system they are not sure. A good example is a doctor, who is aware of Vincent’s invalid genetic, but he fails to say it out and keeps his secret. This means they are no need of him going on with the system testing. No one is upset when Vincent fooled the system.

Later, he is requested by a college acquaintance to keep watch over his wife, Madeleine. The young woman is possessed by Carlotta Valdes, her great-grandmother who dies long time ago from suicide. After seeing Madeleine for the first time, he is fascinated and accepts to watch over her instantly.

The author explains that Ray is the typical breadwinner for the family as he possesses a steady income. The couples are blessed with three kids, live in a nice house, and drive a nice car. However, life is not always perfect in this typical dream. A brilliant example of this can be portrayed through the fact that Ray absolutely hates his in-laws.

Art in the 20th century recorded maximum upheavals. These hundred years saw many movements in the world art scene, changing the very definition of art. The notion that canvas should display a ‘superior subject’ in a perfectly noble manner using oil as the medium was given up by the artists who experimented with newer techniques mediums and objects.

The essay aims to analyze the movie about the life of Pablo Picasso. The picture "Surviving Picasso", filmed by James Ivory and devoted to the examination of one of periods of life of a famous Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Ruiz Picasso. It is especially interesting when films are devoted to the investigation of the sphere of art.

This essay explores Women in Photography in Fashion Industry. To understand and comment on the portrayal of women and its inherent contradictions in fashion photography, it is essential that we differentiate it from other types like those associated to journalism, art, glamour or portraiture and define it exactly for what it is.

The focus of this paper is on Marc Chagall’s "Blue House". Modernists felt that the only way to portray the realism of the subject was to break the rules of art in order to explore images of pure emotion. Lyotard describes this process as an attempt “to make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen.

The author of the paper states that Jade is an impious, sassy Chinese-Canadian who is still living at home with her parents and younger sister. Their older brother, Winston, has been disowned -- a fate Jade is not eager to share and is terrified of, both for her own sake and to spare her family pain.

The author states that memories are nothing but the attributions that we make about our mental experiences based on subjective qualities, our prior knowledge and beliefs, our motives and goals, and the social context. For example, you have memories of your childhood school. You may add a lot of details to these memories.

The essay explores three major artists that I believe have had the greatest influence on me and on my style of art are Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik and Walt Disney. These artists have each influenced me for different reasons and I want to try and strive to attain their level of excellence within my own designs.

The present report is a critique of the articles "Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico" by Franco, "Her Dress Hangs Here: De-frocking the Kahlo Cult" by Baddeley and "Mestizo Modernism: Race, Nation and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940" by Hedrick, who have performed an in-depth analysis of Frida Kahlo's life.

This essay discovers Surrealist Object and Fetishism. Specifically in terms of a potential physical art object, it can be considered ‘paraphilia in which erotic interest and satisfaction are centred on an inanimate object or a specific, non-genital part of the anatomy’. What emerges as essential in these definitions is a sexual urge.

The movie is considered to be the most painful and affecting movie ever likely to produce. Although an animated, having simple actions and scenes yet full of the great beauty and innocence that would not be possible otherwise, creating all the more contrast with the harsh and painful realities experienced by the characters

Design: the framework that we used to answer the questions holds the various comments of the famous artists showing what their reviews are, holding some general views and giving authentic information showing which way of comics is better. We are using the conclusive way of searching in which we will provide a conclusion after viewing the answers. We are using secondary data, adopting the techniques of questionnaires.  

Such films are structured with the narrative as the unifying force behind all other aspects involved in the mise-en-scene. In this style of filmmaking, it seeks to integrate aspects of the medium from costuming to the blocking of actors into a unified whole with the prime directive drawing the viewer out of the artificially constructed reality of the story.

The paper analyzes art of Joseph Beuys and discusses are the organic materials like fat and felt effective tools in getting Beuys’ messages across, as they are used in his actions and sculpture. eing that the materials Beuys use for his actions and sculpture are unconventional, it is not surprising that we question whence it came from.

This essay analyzes the fashion of designers in the era of modernism and postmodernism. Neither is it complete to describe modernism without linking it up with postmodernism, which can be described as an offshoot of modernism. Both movements or ideologies affected human sense of fashion and hence fashion designs that were accepted as vogue.

The author states that the film opens with a quote from football legend Vince Lombardi, and then fades into a football game, where the initial quarterback for the Sharks, Jack Rooney is the harm in the center of a game, indefinite third-string quarterback Willie Beaman is sent in for the respite of the season.

This paper analyzes the influence of Marcel Duchamp to dada movement. He eschewed painting in favor of what he referred to as “ready-mades” that were created from objects found around people every day. One of the most famous and infamous of these ready-mades consisted of little more than a ceramic urinal that he titled “Fountain.”

The author states that the painting tells about how immersed is the person in the books around him. he is most happy with people like his card players, who do not impose themselves, who are perfectly passive or reserved or immersed in their tasks. The portrait becomes a gigantic still life.

When it was released in 1941, the film revolutionized and revitalized the art of filmmaking in Hollywood, which was languishing at the time in its own aura of complacency. The precocious genius of Orson Welles is stamped in all aspects of filmmaking – the direction, screenplay, storyline, camerawork, editing, casting, contained therein.

The author says that the central theme of Beowulf is religion and it could not be avoided in the movie as well.  The poem depicts two religions:  Christian and Pagan.  “It came into his mind that he would command the construction of a huge mead-hall, a house greater than men on earth ever had heard of, and share the gifts God had bestowed on him”.

The author states that the show is extremely different and entertaining and there are no ways about this but the zillion dollar question is whether we should just have fun watching it or we should imbibe something useful from it? The answer is much awaited and we have to wait and watch what happens.

Gustave Courbet was a French painter who along with his colleagues Honore Daumier and Jean Francois established an art movement called realism. He was a self-made artist and grasped the art of painting mostly by copying works done by renowned painters. Gradually he developed his individual style of painting in a rather candid and straightforward manner to express the reality of the subject that he was painting.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that in all walks of life, we have people who, like Moses, try to deliver help and hope for those who are in “bondage” that keeps them as “slaves”. Many people believe in the concept of God-driven people who attempt to make the world a little better by helping others. 

Following the mannerist style of painting, the torso is shown larger than life and the head appears to be smaller. The chest and the shoulders are depicted to be broader whereas the thighs, legs and the arms seem to be more or less proportionate. This is intentionally done to exaggerate the emotional quality of the painting.

The author states that during the time of Ninotchka, this American sentiment was anti-Soviet, but first, this film depicted the union of “the spirit of Marxist ideas” with the spirit of a business enterprise – clearly, a parody of “the conversion of the former to the latter”. In 1939 the USSR signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.

The author states that in the movie John Q, the son of John Q, a factory worker collapses while playing and needs a heart transplant. However, the doctors refuse to admit and treat the young boy, before John could gather and accumulate enough finance, which he is inevitably falling short of.

The author states that the pure meaning of the poem seems to be hidden under the code of tropes and poetic techniques, but the only apparent character inhabiting this piece of art completely is an eternal beholder, who interferes into the poetic flow. This character is embodied by lexicographers and Gorgons “with long whips pursued”.

The researcher of this essay aims to analyze modern art and gender portrayals of it. In this context, an important premise remains the fact that art is born from within and from influences that come from the outside. This paper is based on the concept of gender and the issues that have had an immense influence on the modern art.

The team moved from the Himalayas, Saharan dunes, Greenland glaciers, paddies in China, Desert Oasis, polluted industrial districts of Eastern Europe and Antarctica, to follow the birds in flight. The flapping birds can be seen near the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, River Seine etc.

The author states that both boys have tragic dysfunctional pasts. Cody’s mother killed herself when he was just a 5-month baby. When he reached 12 years old, his father also killed himself after killing Cody’s step mother. Now an orphan, Cody lives with his grandmother. Chris’ life is as melancholic as Cody’s.

The author states that it is necessary for tight cooperation with historians to reveal key-issues of arms, military attire, and other main elements of the play. Another scene that could be worked in a modern context is the “Macbeth and Banquo’s encounter the witches as they cross a moor”.

Smoking tobacco refers to burning the leaves of the tobacco plant and inhaling for pleasure or medicine purposes. Presently, it is a worldwide practice which originated from Native Americans. Tobacco contains a substance called nicotine which constricts blood vessels, increases the heart rate, and acts on the central nervous system.

The author states that this led her to Claymoore Hospital, a mental institution where she met several other women who like her were suffering from different psychological problems. There was Polly Clark who was a burn victim; Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar; Daisy Randone, a sexually abused girl with an eating disorder.

The essay analyzes Jackson Pollock and his influence on the Modern Art. Pollock is important for a number of reasons: his development form representational to symbolic art, his unique technique and his influence on a host of other painters. One important feature of Jackson Pollock was the fact that he “lived” the cliché of an artist almost to perfection.

The aim of this study is to analyze British abstract expressionism. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, expressionism in the different fields of arts became popular. This movement in the visual, literary, and performing arts aimed at expressing subjective feelings and emotions rather than the traditional way of showing reality.

The framing of the short tracking shot (Number 3) from a three-shot to the two-shot is vital for the psychological state of mind of the audience that must be willing to accept the perhaps fictional assertion that the man through whose eyes the story will be told was not as bloodthirsty and violent as those around him.

Most stunningly Alexander McQueen offered bizarre and terrifying shoes which resembled armadillos in both shape and size and his dresses were technical works of art – the embodiment of evolution, play of imagination including alien, insect, and sea creature themes. Sexy appearances were noticeable by Dior and Balmain and Chanel, Vuitton, etc.

Under these parameters of Hindu philosophy, Raja Ravi Verma’s approach towards painting was more towards the depiction of epical and mythological heroes in demigods. But while doing so he made them appear like human and thus followed the structural approach of western academic schools of the time.

 Technical codes of style will also assess the ways in which these technical codes interact to create their desired effect. The different meanings constructed within the text will also be analyzed. Each code will consist of justifications for each point and examples will be given to provide evidence of each constructed meaning. 

Name Course Instructor Date Religious Architectures This paper is going to discuss four religious architectures and the significance of their architecture in regards to the religion they belong to. These include Masjid e Nabwi, the church of Santa Maria, Sistine chapel and the Old New Synagogue.

This essay explores Exhibition of Wayne Thibaud. Known for his plain-spoken style and self-deprecating sense of humor, Thibaud links himself to the long tradition of painting from observation and speaks in defense of painting to audiences regularly. Born in Arizona, Thibaud moved to California in his youth.