Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

People always have an interesting story to tell. This applies to the high and mighty as well as the poor and downtrodden. However their story is told and whatever their situations or circumstances, it is always a story worth telling. One cannot just derisively be dismissive of a person's life story, no matter how insignificant it might seem. 

Although many of these trends have arrived in the more recent years, the use of three-dimensional (3D) glasses in cinemas had been present in the 1950s. Also, such trend is only a recurring gimmick to attract movie goers, not necessarily giving viewers the “perfect” movie experience.

After the peace of the church when churches have been used as public places and mosaics have been transferred from floor to wall, the mosaic did not have a role only in the decoration of the church but in the educational aspect. The mosaics were usually pointed to religious stories about Christ, saints and martyrs.

When the Cold War is superimposed into the context of Pop Culture in America, it is evident that the Cold War deeply influenced the Pop Culture in America. Within this context, Rocky and Bullwinkle, two characters in animated cartoon series (Rocky and Bullwinkle Show) deeply influenced the Pop culture in America because these cartoon characters presented the American opinion on Communist ideology and Cold War, in an allegorical manner.

The essay discovers the history of fashion and trends. Fashion is a product of social, cultural and climatic forces that inhibit societies. Before the 19th century clothing was tailor made to suit the needs of each individual. However, at the advent of the 20th century, the idea of standardized clothing became more popular because of technologies.

The Han dynasty is also regarded as the golden age of the Chinese history. In essence, the history of Chinese history is subdivided into three main historical periods. The first category is the early period that was made up of simple folks, the second category is the classical period comprising of repetitive forms, which is under the Han dynasty.

The specialization of life in closed physical areas has divided the urban spaces in to an amalgamation of several moral and social worlds that are distinctly different in race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexuality, etc. Alienation becomes the result of this isolation and people get accustomed to demarcating each other on the basic grounds.

It is in the synchronization of these two elements that clearly define the essence of film, which is the expression of certain truths about human life in an artistic manner. However, this thinking was not accepted by all, especially the post-modern film makers.

The interactions may be romantic or business related or simple friendship. There are several forms of interactions through online media including; social networking sites, blogs, email, online dating sites and video sharing sites. The most popular social networking sites are MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

Amongst the post-impressionists discussed in this paper include Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cezanne. In these analyses, the paper attempts to conceptualize the perceptions of the artists, their actions, reasons for their actions, as well as the succinct art during their time.

Trends in visual arts changed when Erich von Stroheim tried an adaptation of the novel Mc Teague to a film in 1924 (Balio 256). Other similar adaptations are evident today in most films. Artists have made successful attempts in adapting novels, short stories, plays and other pieces of artwork to successful film show.

Valerie Belin’s creations are suffused with a delicate decadence of surreal imaginative places. New silver gelatin prints were showcased in her art holdings in this gallery. This artist got inspired by the crowded and cheerful worlds of burlesque. Pictures captured in Paris caught my eye. One could see a whole world behind the minute details.  

Michelangelo’s David was depicted before the battle. David’s victory is presumably explained by a slight presence of the slingshot he has on his shoulder. His cleverness was the most beneficial thing he had and a decisive means of victory. Michelangelo was born in Firenze and his city had numerous enemies.

The author states that often termed as the universal icon of painting all over the world. It is present at the Louvre Museum in Paris. This very museum is famous for the collection of all very old and rare pieces of art. Proper security measures are available to ensure that the picture remains safe since there has been a history of stealing.

The Na’vi women, including Neytiri who was supposed to hold the second highest stature in Na’vi society (second only to her mother), are relegated to nurturers even if Cameroon had beautifully portrayed them. But still, the reality remains that they cannot make decisions on behalf of the tribe nor take up major responsibilities. 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fantasy drama employing a narrative structure. According to Barsam and Monahan, a narrative is, “structured into acts that establish, develop, and resolve character conflict” (28). Although multifaceted storytelling over a limited course of time is quite complicated, the director made an excellent effort to maintain conformity in the story structure. 

John Heartfield pioneered the use of art as a tool for achieving political ends. He was born in Berlin-Schmargendorf, Germany, on 19 June 1891 as Helmut Herzfeld. In 1899, his parents, Franz and Alice Herzfeld abandoned Helmut, his brother, Wieland, and their two sisters, Hertha and Lotte, and fled overseas to escape political persecution.

This bad blood between the Native Americans and the white settlers arose because the Native Americans of the late 18th century and early 19th century used to commit various atrocities including murder on their fellow white settlers, with the aim of defending their land from being grabbed by the white inhabitants under the ‘Manifest Destiny’ (Berkhofer, 1978).

The theme of love, jealousy, and blackmail seems to feature in the first instances of the movie. The unfolding of the events in the first scene predisposes the viewer to the myopic view that certain traits against the opposite sex might project the interest that one might have against the opposite sex.

Mueller was born in the city of Straelon in Germany on July 10, 1968. He was fascinated by paintings since his childhood and painted rural scenes of Straelon often. He was 16 when he was dropped out of a Communication Design course and pursued street painting.

People can hear music and see literature from his images. In the Scream, one of the most prominent of his paintings, he explored confused emotional sceneries of contemporary life and the suffering silence of a lonely forsaken person (Gill 55). This paper will discuss death, illness, life and love in the work of Edvard Munch.

According to the paper decades before in 1970, TV had turned into one of the most popular media and everyone used to watch different programs telecasted on TV on a daily basis. At that time, many people observed great impact on the social and cultural behavior patterns due to TV popularity and also witnessed benefits from it. In comparison with the other media, such as radio, theaters, and literature, TV has been perceived as the propulsive in the US and this was a new era in its democratic civilization.

American Psycho: A Reading Response Visual Poetics, Intertextuality, and the Transfiguration of Ideology: An “Eye” for an “I” in Mary Harron’s Cinematic Adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho By Vartan P. Messier In the insightful article from one of the pedantic scholars of contemporary time, Vartan P Messier many innovative and novel discourses pertaining to the adaptation of films from texts in the recent years evolve out.

The film identifies a number of cultural developments for the last thirty years that are partly responsible for the up to date levels of domestic violence, date rape, and school shootings. A metaphor, “The Wizard of OZ” is used to show how men wear a mask that disguises their toughness; a tough guise.

But what does the audience of violent films look for and obtain from watching the suffering and/or death of characters, whether they are based on fictional or real stories? Aaron (2007, p.4) described people as a “visual culture,” where people generally enjoy looking at either/both the most common or uncommon people and events.

The movie has been performing well on the market since its release with a great reception across the globe. The film is very well known for its narration of true events involving criminal bodybuilders at the Sun Gym. It is also notable for its form and style. The director of the movie, Michael Bay, is also a well-known and respectable film personality.

Nature as a Construct in Art .Contemporary art refers to modern day art. Mostly art that has come about by imitation of real nature since the era of cave paintings when early man used to draw inspiration from wild animals, trees, water bodies, and fellow humans.

The American presence had been brought about by the signing of Anpo between Japan and America after the end of the Second World War which was a treaty that allowed the presence of American troops in Japan. The Anpo was passed in secret to allow United States of America bases to be stationed in Japan and in exchange the United States would offer protection to the Japanese.

This essay discovers Balthus's Cats and Girls painting. His mode of technique prompted to numerous criticisms to the extent of both ethical scholars and lay people citing to be suffering from paedophilia, a claim he highly turned down. Since, he contended his technique was a niche of creativity similar to any other artist in the field.

The films, No Country for Old Men and Dead Man attempts to reveal uncertainty of life. No Country for Old Men is a murder mystery written by Coen and Joel, and is based on the McCarthy narrative. The story revolves around three main characters; Llewellyn Moss, Anton Chigurh and Tom Bell, a psychopathic killer.

It is through deception that Iago makes them to do things that benefit him and moves him closer to attain his own selfish goals. Through the use of carefully thought words, figurative language, rhetorical devices and other language features, Iago successfully manages to vilify innocent situations and people and pushes everyone to their tragic ends.

The author describes that labyrinths are of many types depending upon the materials and things which have been used to build them. Some labyrinths are constructed in open places such as gardens and barren earth by using plants, bricks or any living or non-living thing found in organic world.

He also insists that an excellent graphic is one that contains complex ideas communicated with precision, clarity and efficiency (Tufte’s principles 2009). He views graphical excellence as one that is capable of giving viewers the greatest number of times in a short span with the least ink using limited space.

That said, Nicholson is best known for his dark portrayals of sometimes dubious characters, exemplified by the Joker in “Batman” or Jack Torrance in another dark film, “The Shining” in which main character is slightly off his chair, so to speak (or mentally unbalanced, in plain language).

A Critical Evaluation of My Learning and Development Whilst On Work Placement This model is intended to help me to use my work experience as a prospect for academic and personal development. It will enable me to critically reflect upon and analyze my skills, learning styles, strengths and weakness, and plan how I can be able to expand them as I learn from experience (Sammon, 2008).

Use of Motion Pictures in The Painful Deception The steps towards coming up with a compelling documentary include deciding on appropriate and riveting and carrying out elaborate research on the subject. Documentaries make use of different sources of motion pictures which may include recorded motion pictures to portray reality especially on subjects that are of much interest to the society.

He returned in 1944 after which he started working in a department store as a photographer. An art director found Richard Avedon at the Harper’s Bazaar within two years of his return. Richard Avedon did not only work for them but also for several magazines that included Look and Vogue.

This art form may include crafts, paintings, photography, and pottery. It is not a rigid form of art as it entails other forms of art like graphic design, fashion designing, and interior designing, which are all forms of applied arts. For instance, the society we live in relates its structures to thought and ideas.

Bradford is an artist who is very familiar with the issues that affect race relations, his work often commenting on various problems that affect urban life. The piece of work can be compared to that of the Modernists as they worked with flatness and commentary in order to impress upon their audience meaning within the boundaries of their work that then extended well beyond it.

With this love, he purposed to achieve his dreams and get the treasures of Troy. He, however, could not achieve this in his youth due to lack of money, and he had to do some poorly paying jobs. His luck changed when he discovered his love for languages and managed to teach himself English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian.

Film as a medium is powerful, influential and plays an integral role in the society as a tool for creation and perpetuation of well-known culture. Mythic archetypes utilize symbolic language and show significant culture experience in untimed past that is always there in the contemporary revelation of the myth.

Many of his fans regard Maradona as the best football player in the world. Maradona gained accreditation as the best player in the world in a number of occasions as well as scooping FIFA player of the 20th century jointly with Pele. My research aims at answering the following research questions.

During this time, religious faith had attained a new emotional peak, thereby spilling emotional religious sentiments to the world of art (Spielvogel, 2012, p.480). Baroque artists aimed to integrate the Classical ideas of Renaissance art with the sixteenth-century sentiments of spiritual revival (Spielvogel, 2012, p.480).

Though divided by the second World War, the two films signify the principal desires that came to fascinate serious filmmakers, critics, and the viewers after the war. The propensities they highlighted—those that were soon coined into a particular aesthetic are not significantly different as corresponding.

Ingram states that some cultures and religious doctrines are to a certain degree non-conforming therefore, a major cultural clash can occur in the event of the interaction of the two religious setups that may profess extreme doctrines (6).

To most audiences, it seemed to be a remake of the French movie, ‘Fanfare d'Amour’. It had combined several aspects and characters to bring out the humor out of it such as crime, prostitution, sexual desire, clubbing and gender due to their disguise. The main characters in the movies include George Raft, Tony Curtis (musician Joe), Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon (musician Jerry).

Chariots of Fire is set in the early 1900s and tastefully addresses the issue of anti-Semitism. Based on the real life experiences of two British athletes who participated in the 1924, Paris Olympics, the film begins with the backstory that started in 1919.

Societies have always defined gender roles according to sexuality, thus, leading to the enforcement of some profound and dominant gender stereotypes concerning the sexes, which ironically, are also reinforced by both sexes. Therefore, sexuality is broadly defined by masculinity and femininity, which are gendered constructs that indicate other’s perceptions of an individual; this paper will explore the various themes of sexuality in society.

This is evident in their films like X-Men and Blade Runner. To be specific, one cannot expect that all discoveries and inventions related to genetic engineering/bioengineering can lead to positive outcome. Within this scenario, some innovative ideas can be misused by someone interested in transforming the mother earth to a battleground.

This essay discovers the contemporary art in London. Since contemporary art reflect on the issues that people face every day, the challenges, as well as the opportunities, it evolves with the evolution of people. Therefore, it is unique in its own culture, as it addresses people in a particular region. There has been the liberalization of the kind of art.