Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Appalachia became the subject of his photographs in the sense that he captured people, moments, atmosphere and the social life of Appalachia. His works have been showcased in exhibitions and in collections put in major museums, for instance, National Gallery of Canada, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam (Henninger 216).

‘A beautiful mind’ is a really interesting movie about a schizophrenic mathematician, John Nash, who dedicates his all life to finding a revolutionary formula that can change life. Ironically, trying to solve an equation cannot work out. We find our true happiness by letting go and just letting life to happen us.

The Hays Code worked together with film studios to create Production Code Association. The system of administration of Hays code draws many similarities to MPAA style of management. Hays code had serious and strong backing from the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the rise of foreign films and the dwindling authority of the Catholic Church in America led to the fall of Hays Code and subsequent implementation of the MPAA rating system.

In the 1930s, films profoundly influenced women’s fashion. Paris dressmakers and fashion gurus offered their chic expertise to US actresses. Actresses such as Joan Crawford became fashion icons because of their fashionable screen appearance. She characterized glamour, sophistication, and drama.

While extending such relevance, a horror movie taps into the varied innate aspects of a viewer’s personality and by doing so helps the viewer come to terms with those aspects of one’s personality that one finds it difficult to accept in a social and public context. So to put it simply, horror movies are imbued with a deep relevance. 

It is the combination of these cultures that paved the way for modern, Chinese art that has a deep sense of Western culture in it. Through time, it has become an acceptable practice to join these forms of cultures together. This is usually done to come up with what is so often seen today in most art exhibitions and galleries.

To capture the most interesting story, the journalist must take into account the most critical variables of the stories available, and then decide on the most significant to air relative to the desired goals and objectives of that pursuit. Viewers or the audience make up the central concern of journalism, with the objective being to satisfy their quest for the most significant news to them.

Stereotyping categories of groupings is a coping mechanism. Gilman (1985, p. 16) writes that "the buffer us against our most urgent fears by extending them, making it possible for us to act as though their source were beyond our control". Gillman (1985) goes on to say that stereotypes are a way of coping with the external world as the internalized concept of the self is threatened.

The viewer has the ability to depict meaningful thinking out graphics and will determine the past or future event that is relevant to the script. A film based on battles should bear the arts that show events in the battlefields, and the characters should show emotions to the situation depicted in the graphics (Middents, 2009:28).

“Science Fiction films have been with us since 1902, when Georges Melie’s 3 minute epic Le Voyage Dans La Lune took cinemagoers off the planet for the very first time. (Si-Fi Film History) (“Le Voyage Dans La Lune” means a trip to the moon.). While describing Science Fiction, Cramer (1994) states, “Science fiction allows us to understand and experience our past, present, and future in terms of an imagined future.”  Though the genre is imaginary it just thrills the spectators and at the same time through dystopian representation of the future world, it conveys a valuable message to the audience.

In most films, moral choices are presented in the development of the plot (Casetti 25). There are different genres of films, which have been used to approach moral choices in different films. A moral choice presents itself when a person is faced with a choice between doing good and doing what is not good. These different films present moral choices in very different ways.

There is inherent in such a mindset the racism and sense of racial superiority that members of the white races felt when they were faced with any kind of a cultural encounter with the other races of the earth. In a postcolonial context, it is important that such a movie is analyzed employing the critical tools that are available to a scholar.

The importance of the movie lies in its depiction of the idea of America and the realization of it in a certain sense. This realization is made in a way that subverts the ideals that the United States of America stood for. The ideals of hard work leading to success, the core of the Great American Dream, is subverted in this movie where financial success is considered to be secondary to spiritual success as one of the two main characters in the movie, Billy puts it.

The concert, which featured Williams' talent with not-so-recent hits for West album, had been creatively enthusiastic. Though most songs depict some independence and peculiar tradition of folk, blues, and rock themes, the fusion can be said to still catch up with the postmodern trend in the relevant subjects of the present culture.

During the first flight of human civilization, the Chinese Dynasty already dominated historical books. Until now, China has empowered its global influence all the more despite the liberated West’s dominion in various aspects. As recent reports from various sources declare, China has undeniably toppled over the worldwide market not just in dry goods but also in the movie industry.

The two movies are related yet very different in terms of presentation and use of cinematography techniques. Moreover, the films have different ways of creating and presentation of characters. Nevertheless, the movies have a similar audience and their plot developments are almost similar.

Every headmaster’s dream is to have its top circle of students go into Oxford or Cambridge, while every student’s dream is to have sex. Sex and sexuality are taboo in schools as if students are gender-less beings. Conflict starts when students live in a gender-sanitized classroom, when in reality, sex influence students’ lives and human history.

The movie revolves around the life of Zahra, Soraya Manutchehri, and a foreign journalist (Freidoune Sahebjam). Other characters in the film include Soraya’s husband Ali, Leila, Hashem, Morteza Soraya’s father, Massoud, Ebrahim, Kataneh, Malaka, Bita, and the village Mullah.

Born in 1898, Paul Robeson was African American, at university he was a great singer, and later he became politically involved in with political injustices and Spanish civil war. He was an advocate until his death in 1976. Biography Paul Robeson was born on 9, April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey and his father William according to Boyle and Bunie (22), Robeson was a priest and his mother Maria Louisa came from a prominent family named Quaker of mixed ancestry.

The thematic paradigm is Robert Ray’s article that seeks to define two types of heroes that American movies or films mostly feature. According to him, there is the official hero and the outlaw hero who differ in beliefs and personalities. The outlaw hero is more individualistic with the application of much fantasy and acts above the law.

These Cuban owners ran cigar factories where workers were often read stories and other news by lectors. The play represents a time where invasion by machineries was threatening the tradition of having stories narrated by lectors and workers rolling cigars in the conventional way.

The sanctity of the firstborn is retained through his birthright and religious obligations specific to him such as Pidyod ha-Ben and bar mitzah. In the middle ages, when a son was born the fathers status in the Jewish society was raised. A father would refer to his son as Muhja which means his lifeblood or Hamud meaning his delight.

Comparison of my manifesto and Hugo ball manifesto. Hugo Ball, born in the year 1886 in Pirmasens and died in the year 1927, while living at Sant Abbondio in Switzerland, is an educated researcher who attended university level learning his German literature, History, and Philosophy at the university in Munich and Heidelberg.

The Gutai was an art movement that was started by Jiro Yoshihara in Japan in 1954. This movement included many artists of that time who worked together in a specific manner for a specific purpose. The Gutai movement held immense importance because of its new and different concepts which were brought in by its members.

It is perfectly fine for a human being to dream when he or she is asleep. This is universally accepted as normal. Almost everyone on earth has experienced this mental phenomenon. It is purely a mental work which has the ability to stimulate physical activity. In fact, an individual may find himself or herself crying or gasping for breath while dreaming.

Utilizing a verity of techniques Daniel Petrie, the director of the film , A Raisin in the Sun(1961) did not only preserved the originality of the play, but also successfully transferred this classic of Afro American literature into a highly commendable film.

One of the themes that emerge from this list is the concept of the group and the concept of belonging. Whether executed as a sign of compliance or a sign of defiance, the tattoo has typically been associated with some kind of socially relevant meaning.

The Getty Museum is phenomenally famous for hosting a wide and rare collection of art associated with myriad luminaries and ancient cultures. That also forms part of the reason why I chose to pay a visit to this museum of all the others present in Los Angeles. The exhibition I chose to view at the Getty museum was none other than the Icons from Sinai.

The author states that interpersonal conflict happens to people who share different views, interests, and goals. There are five types of interpersonal conflict defined according to focus and source of conflict. Among of these are the people-focused vs. issue-focused, personal differences, informational deficiencies, role incompatibility.

The RSC has created radio pieces, television pilots, television specials and stage shows that have received worldwide acclaim. The company has performed in various locations around the world including Europe, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East and North America. The RSC also has the distinction for playing in various university and civic venues throughout the United States, Great Britain and Ireland.

It is very noticeable that there were only minimal actions in the film and more on conversations. The movie lines were generally entertaining. There were a number of funny dialogues particularly every time they mocked each other. A lot of them depicted the great and fond memories they had made together nine years back.

Israeli film academy awarded eight Israeli prizes to the movie. The movie basically depicts the theme of cross cultural understanding as it has been made in the context of tension between the Arabs and Israeli nation. The universal themes of loneliness and love have been portrayed in the movie however; it basically revolved around the theme of multicultural understanding that could prevents the clash between different cultures.

This essay explores Home Watson's painting called 'Death of Elaine'. Watson, a Canadian had a talent in landscape painting. Elaine is a legendary maiden who died because of unreturned love. She loved Lancelot so much but he was in love with another woman. Elaine could not handle the disappointment that unreturned love brings.

Ruben painted the sculpture to show such challenges that challenge the holy. Symbolically every work of art has two interpretations that can be derived from it. There is the literal direct interpretation derived from the straight view of the painting, and there is the deeper interpretation.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most outstanding artists of the nineteenth century. Gogh noticed his superiority in art during his early school days and he lived his life to fulfill his passion in drawing. This essay will, therefore, focus on Gogh’s life and career as an artist.

The Gentleman Caller is the other character in the play who serves as a catalyst to the plot. The Glass Menagerie is the story of broken promises and disappointments in the backdrop of economic turmoil.

The audience wanted to see a great performance, to be enchanted by mystery and experience new feelings and emotions watching mysteries of a separate society, which is circus. This type of attitude concerns traditional circus.

 The episode is constructed within elements of the theory of economic realism. Although the film does not address the issues directly, its plot has major implication on realistic global affairs. The main aspect of global politics depicted in the film is the role of technology in leadership.

Produced by artists from Beijing, the artifacts are factory commissioned reproductions stalled midway during their production. In this sense, it is a unique exhibition, offering the viewer a one-of-a-kind experience. The mastermind behind this exhibition is Liu Ding, who “employs the economic model of a shop as a platform for discussion on the creation of value in the art world.

Some of these factors include the lighting, sound effects among others. It is important for every film maker to be in a position to combine these factors well for the purpose of delivering something which is of quality in the market (Pezzotta, 2010). Storytelling There are several issues which portray themselves in leadership.

Africa is large, imposing and omnipresent (Rockwell, 1981), not just because of its size and the harshness of its territory (Africa is four times the size of the United States), but because it is the birthplace of all humanity, and that in itself makes the continent appear larger than life.

“Film Noir” is a French term, which literally means ‘Black Film’. It encompassed classic Hollywood crime dramas that were made during the ’40s and ’50s. These movies had a major element of cynicism in them and character drives often were sexual in nature. The term was initially coined by Nino Frank, who described a highly stylized form of movies that Hollywood began producing following the wars and the Great Depression.

It came about as a result of women studies by scholars which led to a new trend among women’s rights activists. This new trend was based on studying and analysing societal issues regarding a wide range of factors from a feminist point of view. When it came to film, the analysis encompassed the functional role that women played in films and the impact it had on society.

Kathryn Bigelow is one such magician, the only female to be renowned and acclaimed so widely for her directorial skills. Born in 1951, Bigelow is a director, filmmaker, and a screenwriter. Being trained in the art of filmmaking from a very young age, she officially started off her filmmaking career with her first feature-length film.

Analysis of When Harry Met Sally. The movie When Harry Met Sally can be divided into stages based upon the Knapp’s Model of relational development. The first stage that is discussed under this model is that of the initiating stage. This is where the two characters seek to create their first impressions of each other.

This essay gives a review of two fashion films. The lighting used in black and white except for the final shots of the man followed immediately by the perfume bottle which is in color, this could be used to show the viewer that all that manliness, suave and machismo action could be brought to life, by the perfume, which is the objective of the advert.

Traditionally a final sigh signaled the death of a person. The relatives of the deceased would surround the death bed chanting his or her name. Calling of the name would be done continuously to ensure that the deceased had really died and for the burial process to officially start.

The most important part of Chapter 11 is the description of Methods and Materials of sculpture. According to the author, there are four basic methods for making a sculpture that includes: modeling, casting, carving and assembling. In modeling and assembling are most of the times considered addictive.

In keeping up with the highly competitive and fluid system, Korean schools have employed questionable methods. This paper seeks to explore the Comparative analysis of the conventional perceptions of horror as a genre and the distinct realities of the Korean educational system.

This research aims to evaluate and present three fashion illustrators: David Downton, Tina Ling, and Jean-Phillipe Delhomme and three designers: Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Karl Lagerfeld. Each illustrator and designer will be examined in the context of how their vision, expressed through their art, contributes to the fulfilment of the final product.