Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Italy was a centre of this direction originating, and this was because of the influence of local life realities. Italy was also residence to the Roman Catholic Church which in certain periods of time, including the one described, determined country’s life, and this determination could not remain the art uncovered. 

As the American nation celebrates his outstanding skills, there is a salient need to reconsider the dehumanization of the Iraqi society as exhibited in the movie. Critics of the movie may be easily mistaken for supporters of terrorism. However, the movie’s depiction of the killings of children and women in Iraq is highly questionable. 

It may be beneficial to talk about the poses in which every participant is depicted. Thus, the waiter seems to be confident as assertive. He stands on the ground and leans toward the woman. However, this is done with great dignity. He holds the plate with his left hand and there is a lot of physical strength in this pose.

The truth is rare and never simple, as a result, many people aim at concealing it. In the modern-day, various communities thrive on falsehood and manipulation. Similarly, the past generations also lived on lies and exploitations. As a result, women and children suffered due to these unethical practices from men.

A significant gender gap remains in terms of the return on human capital. According to OECD data, only 55% of South Korean women aged between 15-64 years are in the labor force, compared to the average of 65% in the advanced economies. The male labor-force however, contrasts this standing at about 77% close to the OECD average of 79%.

Andrei Rublev, a Russian painter who lived during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was born in circa, Russia between 1360 and 1370. Rublev has been described as the most famous and esteemed artist of medieval Russia, and indeed he is seen by the Russian Orthodox Church as a saint. Little is known about his childhood life. 

William Blake painted the art piece. It looks like a hideous animal at first glance. However, there are so many details involved that it keeps a viewer in wonder. The painting does not look like a human being because of its size. One would think that it is a beast. However, that will be so only if one rushed his or her eyes away from the painting.

Wafaa Bilal is an artist and an assistant professor at New York University specifically at the Tisch School of the Arts.  Before joining Tisch, he was a professor in Chicago at the School of the Arts Institute. He was born on June 10, 1966, in Iraqi. However, he is an Iraqi-American who has spent a better part of his life in America.

Art is an expression of a person from how they perceive a particular moment, feeling, or landscape. Different arts portray different emotions or moments of different artists. Through art, it is possible to deduce and depict the intentions of the artists at the time they were painting the art. We indulge and dive into the time the art in question was created.

The theme of the following research is a great film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” by Stanley Kubrick. This movie is an example of a brilliant artistic performance impressive not only as a professional work of fiction but also as a controversial and timely event significant for the social and historical environment.

The film ‘Satisfied’ provided a foundation that has been used by modern producers to establish reality shows that have been used to provide a better comprehension of society and different cultures. Despite having different modes, documentaries have a common basis that includes the defined monitoring, collection, and analysis of data used in the presentation of the findings to the audience.

When one watches the two movies and compares them with modern films, one will undoubtedly notice the movie industry's progress in the last 100 years. The two movies are very interesting since they have a story that viewers can follow quickly. They may not have used modern time technologies, but the fact that it is easy to follow the stories makes them some of the best movies many people have watched.

If a person chooses to follow only one of the approaches, the interpretation will not be full. As a result, one is likely to miss several significant points and the picture will not be complete. That is why it is only the harmony of these elements that is able to contribute to a proper understanding.

Being a train station, this case might be something related to train departure or arrival or something different but related to train. The other officer in the background is most likely looking at the arrival and departure of the trains. This may concern the case. After considering all these, one may conclude that the case concerned train arrivals or departure.

This is very unique in relation to works in the 21st century. Ladies in works of the current are not so much depicted as especially modest or compliant. In spite of the fact that characters like Lady Macbeth definitely keep on being imagined and conceived, it is not especially a ladylike quality that such a character is connected with.

The author states that the horse under Charlemagne seems almost too small for the larger body and one of the back hooves remains slightly raised. There are two possible reasons for this. The first is that Charlemagne was a physically larger man in a time when horses were traditionally smaller.

For many artists, the inspiration for their works stems from the things that they know or have experience with.  It is for this reason, among others, that comparing two works of art from differing time periods helps one understand more about the artisan’s culture, beliefs, interpretations and intentions.

The statue of Gudea of Lagash has been an icon of a good shepherd, a pious ruler, and a strong leader. Every detail of a work of art should be valued equally with the work as a whole, for, most of the time, it is in these details you would realize the value of art. From elements to visual metaphors, the worth cast upon by the iconography of objects is a remarkable step in understanding our history.

Steele considers the parallel between poetry and art in Renaissance Venice. Steele suggests that the initial ‘charm’ of a beautiful woman in a portrait is not, as earlier suggested, the point of the work itself, but that it entices the viewer into a further examination of moral and intellectual questions raised by the portrayed beauty.

To begin with, Salome’s beauty cannot be denied. As king of the land, Herod Antipas is the most powerful person in the play, yet he finds himself unable to look away from her. As his wife’s daughter, Salome is in a position where she can say whatever she wishes to Herod without fear of repercussions.

Henri Matisse’s Woman with a Hat shows the woman’s eyes reflecting both steeliness and tenderness; steeliness for the hard times she and her husband was going through and love for the support she silently gives to the man and his art. The woman in this painting is Amelie, Henri Matisse’s model, studio helper, financial assistant, and encouraging wife.

In her youth, she survived polio. When she was 18, she suffered a serious injury in an accident when a streetcar ran into her school bus, her body impaled on a steel rod, and her foot, spine, and pelvis crushed. She spent her life with pain coursing through her boy with every movement (Smith 261). When she was 25, she was taken to Henry Ford Hospital.

According to Freud, the fear of losing your hair is the fear of losing your sexual power. I tried to translate into the film the book "The interpretation of dreams" in that scene of the film. In one of the scenes, the male character touches his hair while the woman starts to laugh mockingly. She is saying "why don't you go to the doctor?" 

In his essay, the Filmed Century, Joel Black refers to the 20th century as a “documented” era. (Black, 1) According to Black “all sorts of events are graphically preserved as never before.” (Black, 1) The 20th century conscientiously departed from the concept of film as a representational art that primarily appealed to the eyes and the ears. 

The films of Disney and Studio Ghibli are no exception, with animated stories often held to be a particularly extreme example of over-simplification for simple minds. However, there are compelling under-lying messages designed to cater to a much more adult audience in both cases. For Disney, this is about convincing adults that Disney represents a reassuring consumerist model keeping with American society and culture.

The initial quote from Leonardo was for half a million dollars, and he explained that the painting was stolen on special orders to restore what had been stolen from Italy by the Napoleons. They did agree to the price, however, it was clear that the director of Uffizi had to see the painting before it would be agreed to be hung back into the museum.

The development of painting in the 20th century helped the painters to inculcate innovation in painting. Photorealism became popular. The need for a photo to complete a photorealistic painting has truly intertwined photos and paintings. Despite the fear that the photo would make paintings obsolete, the time has proven otherwise.

This assignment also discusses a documentary directed by Morgan Spurlock that takes a look at the effect of a fast-food diet on the American lifestyle by actually eating something on the McDonald’s menu every single meal time. At the same time as this incredible feat, he visits a few doctors to keep track of the changes that are occurring in his body.

Perspective is a particularly interesting problematic in Guernica, as one can see automatically that there is a twisted mindset—a tortured soul if one will—which lies within the source of the painting. The perspective sets the mood and the tone for Guernica, obviously giving it depressing yet action-filled nuances. 

Clearly, the shape of activism in the arts has changed and taken on a myriad number of forms throughout the years. The early 20th Century American Mass Pageants demonstrated a unique brand of activism. This was later altered during the strikes that incorporated the pageant framework in protesting poor working conditions in the newly industrialized nation.

Rodin demonstrates an obsession with representing as much of the real as he can while still acknowledging and utilizing the properties of art in its attempts to represent a lived experience.  He remains faithful to the imperfect forms of the human figure while also distorting these figures in some way as a means of more fully expressing the emotional appeals of their subjects. 

Sandro Botticelli was an outstanding Italian painter of the mid renaissance period. He worked for Medici, the patron of art and culture. His paintings are renowned for sinuous lines and ethereal landscape. The birth of Venus, the beautiful painting of the Goddess of Love is one of his most famous paintings.

Alan Moore’s Watchmen, the graphic novel and its film adaptation by Zack Snyder have attracted wide mass attention. The high standard of the aesthetic appreciation that the comic book provided has helped it much to be named as one of the 100 greatest novels of the past century by Time Magazine. 

In Maus Art Spiegelman, there are portrayals and symbolism that are combined with a technique to convey the Holocaust. The turning point in history is one which Spiegelman displays with defined identities and metaphors, all of which create a stronger impact on the main theme in the novel.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is one of the famous canvas artworks of Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is recognized as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. During his early times, people believed that Pablo possessed natural artistic abilities. Pablo created many highly artistic paintings and drawings during his childhood and teenage years.

In order to enhance children’s motivation and interest in artistic performance, there is a need to better understand the role that gender plays in children’s artistic development. Numerous studies have not been able to fully address how gender affects children’s preferred content and how gender is translated into the children’s drawings’ form and style. 

Artists make use of art to express what they feel about different situations or things present around them. There are many people associated with other fields of arts. Let us now describe the work of five various artists who have made their names in the area of art.

Action movies have undergone a lot of changes over the decades, but have still maintained the core values that make audiences care for their heroes and their trials.  An action movie, in many ways, has always been nothing other than a spirited, visual portrayal of a hero.  By definition, a hero is “one who shows great courage”.

Everything was thought out perfectly. Though you can see the lines coming from Jesus's head as though they were going into the celestial sky, they also are in perfect perspective to the geometrical design of the architecture of the Refectory. The other triangle between Mary and Jesus represents the cup of the last grail.

All of the objects and the frozen actions uniformly convey the hidden truth that life in this uncertain world is full of phenomena that are short-fleeting. The beauty of the captured ‘floating’ moment in the picture necessarily lies in the fact that all the forms and contents of the picture essentially to be brilliant symbols through the abstraction of particular objects.

Both were influenced by the Japanese style which used flat bold colors and bold outlines. While Gauguin, in his attempt to break the bondage of Impressionist, moved first to Brittany and then to Tahiti, Henri lived right in the heart of Paris and Montmartre and drank up the nightlife to the brim. Physical deformity and ensuing caustic attitude to a life impacted many of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings.

The author states that as long as the film history goes, it is safe to assume that motion pictures have had a high impact, good or bad, moral or immoral, on the minds of its audience. But as Hollywood perpetually hangs between morals policing and freedom of speech, there has been a constant conflict between the filmmakers and the rest of the world.

The movie depicts that despite Ray's work in converting his cornfield into a baseball ground, he had always doubted his works. But the main character of the novel is particular about his deeds and leaves no space in following his dreams. This difference in the film's characterization had contributed to making the film more real than the original story.

He was an author who had been nominated for a National Book Award. This brief but significant resume was indicative of the kind of filmmaker John Sayles became, both in this first film and in his long and storied career. He is a writer and tells stories of dense personal histories played out against the backgrounds of social, economic, and tribal environments.

It is significant to make a note of the expression balanced in this depiction, as it brings to mind the idea of the beautiful. Picturesque paintings gave a picture of jagged, craggy trees and plant life, sharp dissimilarities of light and silhouette. The prominence in these works of art was on the range and distinction of observable.

He became prominent in the photographic community in 1935 when he was working and contributing technical articles to a popular photography press. In 1936, his work was renowned by Alfred Steiglitz and he further used his position in the field to boost approval of photography as a fine art since then.

Similarly, multi-shot movies like Uncle Tom’s Cabin showed only the main points of these popular and widely staged melodramas, with scene links given not by editing techniques but by the idea of viewers of the overlapping incident. Yet, the latter cinema seems to be one of the first to use title cards, or intertitles. 

Most of the characters in the movie are true to life and convincing. However, the character that I identified is that of Ali a Palestinian pacifist who lost a brother in the conflict. Ali Abu Awwad was himself badly injured in the lower body by an Israeli settler and had to go to Saudi Arabia for treatment and rehabilitation.

This painting does what it sets out to do incredibly effectively, and fully lives up to its potential. It shows absolute mastery of geometrical form and requires such mastery to be able to imply symmetry so heavily while at the same time completely deconstructing it and making an asymmetrical figure.

The piece "Christina’s World" is perhaps Wyeth’s most famous work of art. It is painted in his favorite medium, egg tempera, and is in his favored realist style. The use of tempera here allows Wyatt to create almost photographic detailing in the piece, whilst retaining an element of control over the brushstrokes.