Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The author explains that the four designs are a representative of four significant concerns: the state of food security when the globe is overpopulated as represented by Foragers, dilemma of insecurity posed by terrorism as represented by Stop and Scan and EM Listeners. Finally, Afterlife is meant to be used domestically.

Location and culture is another important factor in the film. The setting is a location that is far from the urban area. The roads leading to the house are abandoned and dark without lighting or street lights. This, by all means, causes a chill to the audience and leaves a thought that something ought to happen.  

Through the direction of Chaplin who is himself the protagonist in the film being the Lone Prospector, the motion picture, as a whole, was made to depict the economic struggle taking place during the early 1900s as well as the manner in which ordinary men go an extra mile to break norms for the sake of surviving the extreme conditions of cold weather, starvation, and especially each other’s competencies at vying for the precious gold mines.

An amazing exhibit of the Psychedelic experience was opened this week at Denver Art Museum and it featured rock posters from San Francisco in the peak of Bill Graham as well as an electric Kool-Aid. There was an amazing and glamorous second smaller room that was known as Side Trip which was near the poster show.

The author states that the language used by Walt goes ahead to describe Asians and African American, as well Caucasian Americans per brutally racist terms, although this racism is done all so tastefully that it is difficult to term the film as fully racist in its communicative language. In addition to this tastefully crafted racist language.

This paper brings out the way in which violence can be used as a media spectacle and the reason behind the issue. According to the available research findings, it is clear and appropriate to state that modern violence and culture industries has multiplied media spectacle in all aspects including sites, films, and novel space.

It is the inter-textuality among these movies which this piece seeks to establish, as well as the use of the melodramatic genre to tackle adult themes of this type. The all-encompassing theme that is predominantly palpable in the three above films is the love element between the lead characters, and the use of the melodramatic genre coupled with the touching sound designs that created truly poignant and moving scenes which made them all worth watching until the end.

The researcher of this paper aims to analyze the classical mythology concept in art.The concepts which are developed as well as the philosophies that have been created with the techniques have led to a different approach and understanding of the art work as well as how it is able to build a specific statement about the mythology.

The paper goes on to highlight the oppositional use of appropriation in the contrast that is created between old and new elements, and pinpoints the element of cultural questioning that the artist provokes in the viewer. In this particular instance the most striking element which the artist has “borrowed” from the past is the phrase “I … therefore I am.” In the original version, which was in Latin and written by French philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the full phrase was “cogito ergo sum” which translates into English as “I think therefore I am.” There is a very large amount of philosophy behind this statement, relating to the early efforts of European thinkers to wo

The editing uses some jump cuts, although they were used sparingly in the scenes that will be analyzed. In this essay, the scenes that will be explicated will be the scene in Rush Hour when Carter and Lee meet for the first time. In Rush Hour 2, the scene will be the scene in the massage parlor, right before Carter and Lee get into a fight with the Chinese men in the parlor.

Spencer Wells, a geneticist, proves this theory by travelling to different countries and finding genetic evidence related to the theory by identifying genetic markers in the blood samples of major groups such as Australians, Asians, and many more. I can highly relate with Wells’s approach about origins and that there is no such thing as a ‘race’, a word which becomes the basis of discrimination faced by Black Americans like me.

Film Remakes Abstract As society becomes progressively more comfortable with the immediacy and ready availability of commoditized visual entertainment (Blatt 2005, p.384), contemporary filmmakers are becoming inclined towards recycling source material for their films to meet the demand.

We find in the life example of Ibrahim the bringing to life of the concepts and discussions on Sufism presented in Ernst. Sufi's brand of Islam is not based on dogma. It is based instead on a lived and vibrant experience of a divine self. To paraphrase Ibrahim describing the Sufi dance to Moises, God dwells inside.

To describe the movie “The Insider” as a good versus evil parable is perhaps not the most accurate way to describe the compelling drama that looks into the concentric spheres of media, big business and the law and how it impacts on corporate America and the right of the public to information.

He gets famous for founding the circus and promoting celebrated hoaxes (Cottrell 14). He gets referred to as the most influential American showman of the nineteenth century. He started out as a businessman early in his life, but later upon moving to New York, began his journey as an entertainer.

And yet, they are also quite different. The movie Slumdog Millionaire intrigues its audience with its title as it presents a contradiction. How can a veritable “slumdog” – a derisive term for someone in the fringes of society, so enmeshed in poverty as to be comparable to a mongrel – turn out to be a millionaire?

The historical perspective of human nature presents all human beings as being either subjects or objects. The contemporary argument on objectification is that it reduces people to the level of objects. Nonetheless it is further argued that objectification cannot be described as necessarily being a problem.

Directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Andy Bienen, the film stars Hilary Swank in the role of Brandon Teena whose powerful acting paved the way for her receiving Best Actress in the Academy Awards. Brandon Teena was a transsexual man who was allegedly beaten up brutally, raped and tortured by his male partners after they discovered that Teena had a female by body.

Exit Through The Gift  Shop is indeed part of Banksy's overall self-promotion strategy that is based on his mysterious anonymity which he uses to promote himself and his art. However, Banksy can't be accused of seeking the limelight or for wanting to be a star, as he still remains anonymous and doesn't live the life of a celebrity.

This is a collection of some of the most iconic images in history, analyzing how they influenced people in their particular social, cultural and political context. The images chosen represent the strength and courage of human beings even in the worst of circumstances.

The series has multiple conscious and some allusions to James Cagney, Edward Robinson and the Godfather trilogy. For instance, Tony soprano the psychologically disturbed leader of northern New Jersey arranged crime, observes a scene of Tommy powers together with his mother in the public enemy” in the episode where the mother of the main character perishes.

He travelled to Venice at the age of 26 after training and making a master within the confines of his tradition, just as his fellow Greek artists of his times (Zeri p 14). He later moved to Italy, at this time he enriched himself with mannerism and Venetian renaissance.

Walter Mosley, the author of the story, reflects a special tie to what Anna Deavere Smith considers as the greatest lost that could possibly arise in an artistic work: that is, reducing the reality in how a story is being transferred from the actual to the duplicative form.

However, when one takes a look at the details of the architectural elements and form, guests would revel at the intricate art forms that encompass different styles and functions. Despite the historical underpinnings, the structure remains strong and pristine in its original form.

The paper will compare the two movies in relation to cinematography, lighting, use of sound and the editing styles respectively used by each movie. This analysis will be done with the overall aim of determining whether either industry is better than the other in terms of the movies produced or whether the differences complement the industry and its techniques.

How is the McClane character represented as a site of identification? As spectacle? The extant literature in the field of films incorporates gender studies that examine the representation of masculinity or the male action hero. From this stance, studies in the film field pay specific attention to the herculean physical performances and spectacular body appearances of starring characters such as John McLane in the Die Hard series (Carroll, 2003, p.

Since the commencement of the play Chekov divides the responsibility of each character’s introduction amongst the fellow characters as it is also apparent from the fact that rather than using stage directions or any other technique he utilizes dialogues as a mode for explaining the characters of Lemov and Natalia.

Carpets provide weavers with a forum to exquisitely express their wildest fantasies of art in the most organized manner. Some of the best specimens of the Persian carpets in the modern age are referred to as the most intricate designs of art in the history of mankind.

In all his films, Quentin Tarantino has made a mark that can only be associated to him when watching his movies. One of the unique styles of Quentin Tarantino is the use of camera angles and shots. Tarantino is known for his trunk shots wherein the characters are viewed from the outside or a shot from the point of view of the character inside the trunk.

Elizabeth Murray was transformative in a sense that she flared up the good gains of deviating from the traditional way of producing visual arts in painting, which is through the use of new concepts, materials, and methods that significantly re-stimulated the world’s inclination to paintings.

This creativity was developed during a time when there was no verbal communication. The symbols that tell the tale of primitive times represent the culture, people and trend of the society. The symbols were all about colors, patterns and designs which represent certain aspects of life and convey meanings.

A number of comic celebrities like James Marsters, Billy Dee Williams, Adam West, Burt Ward, Claudia Christian and Walter Koening attended the event and made it enthusiastic enough for the general public as well. This paper helps to provide an insight into the entire two days at the Comic Convention and includes a number of aspects like a descriptive analysis of the event.

Western world is rich in music and culture ranging from antiquity to the present day. Survey and a close analysis of the characteristics of Western Arts, Antiquity, culture of the prehistoric times, reconnaissance and Baroque are well documented in the Adventures in the human spirit by Phillip Bishop particularly in the sixth edition of the book.

It was through her mother’s encouragements and support drawing excursions and sketchbooks that perfected him. He worked carefully at an early age on his drawings and copied ship images from the illustrated London news. At thirteen, a German landscape painter taught him the use of watercolor.

To animate means to give life to still images in such a way that they creates a complete film by giving magical power to different objects. I think animation is not a new concept in the history of filmmaking. There exist some evidences of projecting hand-drawn moving images onto the film screens of as early as 70 B.C.

This paper will discover unfinished 73” x 63” painting of oil on canvas entitled “The Circus” by George Seurat. He had some fascination in the study of colors which brought him to the discovery of his own artistic style which he called ‘chromo-luminarism’ which his contemporaries called divisionism or pointillism.

The researcher intends to cite some scenes on the “The Bucket List” and relate them to Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory. As conveyed in the movie, both Carter and Edward were already senior citizens and both of them were lung cancer patients. Carter was black and broke and he was very thin due to his disease. 

The directors are more interested in presenting the setting of Europe. That is why they choose the castle to drive the point home. Other successful works in depicting the importance of setting are the camera angles and movement employed by directors. The movement of the German officers before the escape is captured through the camera.   

I for example never considered Greg’s works to constitute art. Instead, I viewed it as a construction, a sort of developed and misplaced set of ideas, like ideas to manufacturers for promoting a person’s products instead of offering such ideas to marketers.

In this paper, the movie Entre Nos (2009) will be used to analyze some urban issues that face immigrants in many cities. This movie is great based on the argument posited by Thomson (2011) that a movie is great if the so called authorities agree with such description.

The author says that the painting has four distinct sections which include the wall, the rugs, the skull and the table that is wrapped in a white cloth. One cannot also fail to notice the rose and a can for soup included in the painting. The label on the soup can reads “your plan” and it’s next to a beer glass bottle which is broken.

They saw the human form as the ideal in nature. Greece had many thoughts about the noble ideas of human dignity and beauty and Western civilization is believed to have begun in Greece.

The aim of this paper is to analyze modern art and culture, to show the issue of class and gender. The artists have shown the subjugation in the name of race, class and gender. In an outcome people started to think about their rights and created certain frameworks which everyone should follow in order to live sustainable in a society.

Often still regarded by critics as one of, or the greatest movie of all time, it garnered a large amount of Academy Award Nominations of which it won the “Best Writing” award (Mulvey, 1992). Set amidst the newspaper publishing world of the US at the time, the movie tells the life story of the character Charles Kane, a publishing tycoon based on a real life individual.

In fact, Klimt was the centre or the heart of Vienna’s avant-garde 3. Very much inspired by the previous art works of Klimt, Schiele eventually became one of the proteges of Klimt when he decided to enter the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts back in 1906 4, 5.

The storyline is based on a play by Kikuchi Kan, the famous Japanese author. This is the first full-length feature film in Japan to use Technicolor.

Thesis statement: Donatello represents the early Renaissance Italian art and his works (Equestrian statue of Gattamelata and Judith and Holofernes) can be considered as the best examples of the development of early Renaissance Italian art (special references to the works Equestrian statue of Gattamelata and Judith and Holofernes by Donatello).

Johnnie was in love with Marion Mack (Annabelle), though she rejected him since he had also been turned down to serve in the army at that time (Timothy & Patricia, 2012). In The General, a number of dimensions can be analyzed. Movies often display a number of dimensions like character, setting, cinematography, sound, plot that will be discussed below.

This paper analyzes such Art Mediums as Collage Making, Charcoal Drawing, Acrylic Painting and Water Color Painting. The word collage is derived from the French term “coller,” which means to stick or glue together. Collage is considered as an art. News paper pieces, canvas, pieces of color paper, photographs, magazines.

 The arguments and debate have particularly existed because very few were those who thought the reign of the New Hollywood era otherwise known as the post-classical Hollywood would ever end; considering that the era came as a very influential phenomenon in the history of filmmaking in the United States.