Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

This essay analyzes The Dessert of Henri Matisse. Matisse painted the piece to fill an order, but his inspiration came from his own preferences of style and expression. Matisse sought to create a painting that focused more on impression than on specific detail, and hence wanted to offer a scene that was different from what might be captured.

The author states that the show is fully scripted and fictional; it is presented in the form of a documentary with the host acknowledging the presence of the camera. The Office has gained wide acceptance and popularity in the United States bagging the 2006 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and Peabody Award in the same category.

The author states that American imperialism has always treated the Asian as some kind of cultural savage to be portrayed as behaving suspiciously, the buffoon type with their broken English, and in particular angled, tapered eyes insinuating a wily demon, a type still to be found in a number of current American films too.

 Photography is a wonderful and beautiful art, one which takes on many different views and forums. Photography is basically the process of making pictures by capturing light on film, and it is a hobby, art form, and beautiful pastime, one that has been around for ages; in fact, modern photography can be traced as far back as to the 1820s.

This essay discovers Goya painting. The central figure in the paining if the man in the white shirt and yellow pants holding his arms outstretched. This man stands out because of the colors that Goya used in the man’s clothing. In the central figure, Goya used the bright and light colors of white and yellow while the other figures are wearing darker colors.

While the subjects are vast, the elements of such studies form a large platform for determining the socio cultural and geographical implications of recorded history and work in the same context. In this regard, museums are more than just buildings that house pieces for children to enjoy on a field trip.

As the report declares the British and American comedy differs on one main salient point, the presence of irony. Bridget Jones’s Diary reflects a strong inner meaning; a play of minds in the midst of humor attached while Some Like It Hot reflected a more humoristic and straightforward appeal rather than portraying emotion.

The art history faces a lot of criticism due to is subjectivity that is never universal. This paper will address two pieces of art that serve their destined art purpose. They include “kissing does not kill: greed and indifference do” by Aldo Hernandez and “the WTO is biocide” by an unknown artist. Both works of art have an underlying message.

The two people had known each other for years and share a very good relation of friendship. The tagline of the film was “can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?”

In this paper, the focus is on art and within this context art shall be approached from the point that it has a key role to play as regards fashion. In this endeavor, an analysis shall be focused on Marina Abramovic who has always motivated the writer to work towards her lifelong dream considering his excellent performances.

The Chinese film industry and the Chinese government are both engaged in ensuring that co-production efforts with the US and the Hollywood film industry are moving forward in order to meet commercial needs of both countries.

In the year 1582, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway and had three kids with her, Susannah, and Hamnet and Judith, the twins (Honigmann 1-12). So far, he had lived a mediocre life. Up till the nineteenth century, no one realized the true extent of the remarkable talents this boy possessed.

Heroic drama is interconnected with the Restoration period in British history. Eugene M. Waith opined, “Consequently, when ‘heroic play’ or ‘heroic drama’ are mentioned, we think first of the period 1660-1700”. During this period England was undergoing internal problems. So, exaggerated heroes and heroism presented in the heroic drama are well suited to the context of nationalism.

Slumdog Millionaire is not a Hollywood movie but an Indo-British joint production – the director Danny Boyle is a British playwright. Hollywood scripts treat Slumdog Millionaire as an American film, putting it in Oscar under the primary category rather than categorizing it as a foreign movie like other Indian set films.

The character of Max Bialystock is quiet far from being charming, ethical and upright, still it evokes a kind of mirthfully skeptic attention and appreciation from the audience owing to the varied ludicrously serious facets of his personality, which amply qualify him to be labeled as a comic hero.

After its release, there were several opinions and programs on education reforms on its impact and influence to the society. Storytelling has the authority of moving audiences and even generates debate regarding a certain social issues. This movie is a documentary film.

Just as any film is perceived as an artwork, it involves the audience through the engagement of senses, as well as feeling and mind in a certain process of active perception. This is done via a specific pattern and development of the film’s own form. Similarly to forms of any other artworks that are artistically designed with the purpose of enabling the spectator.

In the three following articles, I wish to present a comprehensive examination of the art and aesthetics of Jean Renoir, the legendary French filmmaker whose assays into the impressionistic modes of life and subtle analysis of characters still stand as iconic elements in film history and theory. I will, in particular, refer to two of his works.

Filmed in 1959, North by Northwest portrays the use of cinematography, mines-en scene and editing. These techniques were not as profound as compared to the films in present day. This puts the movie and Hitchcock’s directing skills ahead of his time. The movie thus set the pace for the creation of high quality productions in the film industry.

The author of this paper will begin with the statement that Portlandia refers to a satiric sketch comedy television series. It was set and shot in Portland, Oregon. The film features Saturday Night Live actors, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Carries Brownstein is the lead singer and guitarist for Wild Flag.

Perhaps, what Genet is trying to do in The Thief’s Journal is to address a constructed reader, who may be any standard bourgeois existing in the past or the present. In The Thief’s Journal, Genet tries to systematically work out an aesthetic of deviation and degradation.

What is Art? Art can be described differently by different people but when I look at art I think it can be many things. Graffiti on the side of a building can be an effective art piece as well as something in an art museum. I see art as the expression that someone does to make a statement in the world.

The impact of fame can both be beneficial and disadvantageous.  To some extent, it can provide much-needed exposure to any activity, artwork, movie, song, or political cause.  In other instances, fame can also have disastrous consequences, both in the physical and the psychological sense.  In terms of art, fame is often considered a double-edged sword, mostly because of the price attached to it and it impact on the artist in terms of his work.

The research paper in this accord endeavours to understand the level of ethical practices enabled in the business organisation to help achieve both business and social ends. The company is found to largely encourage the practice of business ethics to help create a motivated environment for the workers to better perform.

Here is a depicted family that couldn’t possibly be more dysfunctional from every standpoint one could possibly examine. We will examine the different relationships in this household to see why these dysfunctional relationships appeal to so many Americans.

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The mid 1700’s marked the beginning of the neoclassical art. Shortly afterwards, Romantic art followed; the late 18th century. Though often confused; there are no similarities between them. Romantic style of Art focuses majorly on the mysterious and the natural aspects of life.

The founding Impressionist artists – including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Edgar Degas, among others – were united by their desire to cast off the strict rules of academic-style painting. In particular, the artists sought independence from the Académie des Beaux-Arts and its annual Salon (which was, at the time, considered the greatest art show in the Western world).

It seems that the rapid expansion of markets and competition leave no space for public services. However, the situation is not as simple as it seems. In the era of digital television, public service broadcasting remains a powerful source of freely accessible information for large audiences in Britain and the rest of the world.

his paper purports to discuss the aesthetic perspectives in art by comparing and contrasting two pairs of artwork. The first pair to be analyzed is the “Mystic Package” by Claudio Bravo and “Rabbit” by Jeff Koons. “Mystic Package” is a painting on paper by Claudio Bravo made in 1967 (Horsley, 2003).

The author states that the images portrayed in the film illustrate America during those days. Through images of the main stars, viewers construct an image of the society and understand how it lives. Image thus remains a critical focus in the film making a bridge towards the intended message of the producer and his cast.

The film bases on the population of one of the slums in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a sweeping tale of how criminal acts pessimistically affect the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. The film is unflinching in its depiction of the bitter contention amid gangs of gun-toting children and drug moguls who view intimidation and murder as the only way to settle scores.

Robert Bloch was inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and Ed Gein, a grave robber. Wisconsin and Ed Gein lived about forty miles from Robert Bloch.

Ways in which Movies distort our image of the World. A movie, which is also called a motion picture, is a set of still or moving images. A film production requires one to make images through animation or visual effects. Movies are powerful tools of educating the target group and a source of entertainment, too.

The impact of historical developments to culture Culture is not permanent, overtime, it has to change due to influences of technology, historical developments, environments and economy. Inventions, for one, changed lifestyles and cultures of people. For instance, inventions of the television, and lately, the internet, have kept families apart because now they have less time to interact with each other.

It was merely because of the era of great depression that these filmmakers produced movies that highlighted American societal transitions. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the cinematic techniques employed during filming of Bringing up Baby. The film under review will be discussed in terms of body language, imaging, presentation acting, representation acting and Entrances/Exits.

As much as I wanted to have a firsthand experience of life in ancient Rome, I was interested in identifying the unique aspect of the ancient artifacts or a secret feature of style that has not yet been discovered by present-day artists. This paper presents my experience with A Day in Pompeii through a descriptive and critical approach.

This essay discovers who is fashion designer. Delayed performance evaluations can decrease the organization’s and supervisor’s credibility in the eyes of the worker, particularly if the procedures and policies of the organization specify performance evaluations to be carried out timely intervals (annually, or on the employee’s anniversary date).

The film follows a young teenage girl on her journey in life as she encounters an obstacle in the form of an unplanned pregnancy. It is, thus, about how she manages to handle her life despite deciding to have the baby, and the kind of impact the situation has on her maturity and lifestyle. This paper helps to provide an insight into the technical factors of the movie including things like acting, storyline, cinematography (done by Eric Steelberg) as well as style and direction; in other words, talks about the mis en scene associated with the film.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has had exhibitions in the US, Canada, Germany, France, amid other places. his work is housed in University collections in Berlin, British Columbia, Zurich, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, among other places.

Death Race is a stunning action packed film which mainly deploys cars as the main mechanical transportation tool in the movie. Throughout the movie, the viewers get a chance to view cars moving in all the scenes and the main story also revolves around the role of cars.

Moreover, McCullin's work rejects the findings of the humanist tradition of photography. The main features of the humanistic paradigm are universality, historicity, quotidienality, empathy, commonality and monochromaticity. The time and place are ambiguous since the images are taken from the varying course of his work; hence.

In the period leading to the coming of sound, that is late 1920, many motion pictures were synonymously projected in silence. However, some theatre owners provided musical accompaniment in the form of live orchestras. To this end, although movies exhibited some degree of magnanimous popularity, they were largely regarded as a secondary entertainment.

The author states that Karaganis in his book “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies” refers to piracy as an “international plague” and “nirvana for criminals” relating it to a global pricing disaster. In this respect, the author contends that media piracy has taken root in major economies world.

In as much as most of these films have proven memorable for both excellent and awful reasons, only a few have come to be regarded as true “classics.” Most of the films in this group are centered on a universal and timeless apprehension that in turn helps those films achieve the enduring excellence that qualifies them as classics.

As opposed to other forms of communication, art serves to add the visual effect to the message being delivered by the artist, making it even more understandable and memorable11. Therefore, in undertaking the "Experiencing Art in Person", the objective is to clearly understand the purpose and the intention of the work of art, and the reason for which the artist developed the art piece, with a focus on the relevance and suitability of communication of the specific message through art, as opposed to other means of communication and message delivery.

 In order to depict a dreamy perspective of life, romantic settings, outward romance and beautiful people with elegant apparel appeared on the silver screen. This significantly attracted the millions of people who were rushing to theatres and coming out looking like their favourite onscreen heroes and heroines.

The Invisible People’s chieftain maintains an authoritative watch over his people and shows this through his beliefs that people should not be asked to do things they do not want to do. This kind of authority structure is every different from modern society’s authority structures, wherein people are always reminded of what they can and they cannot do.

This essay analyzes art, fashion and surrealism. Those who wore her collections and accessories became surreal apparitions, heralding to life a core principle of Surrealist manifesto. The paper explores how elements of Surrealism and aspects on femininity played a critical role in fashion design creations by Elsa Schiaparelli.

Also native to North America, poplar tree has a number of different variations, which it has carried over the centuries. For example, in the Celtic mythology, poplar tree represents the Ogham for “E,” which symbolizes transformation, victory, and mission.