Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Growing up as the son of a greengrocer and poulterer, his father was a disciplinarian who once sent a young Alfred with a note to the local police station, requesting them to put him in jail for 5 minutes due to bad behavior. This was an incident that would mark the psyche of the young man for the rest of his life. 

Discuss with reference to at least two of the set texts. Science fiction movies have been an essential genre in the film-making business for a couple of years now. There has been an ample stream of sci-fi movies inundating the entertainment industry, in the last few decades, mostly making a lot of impact on its viewers.

Especially luxury cars maker always considers and keeps in mind what an observer think about his car. Luxury cars are needed to have an eye-catching exterior and a rather comfortable interior with modified functions. The luxury cars are usually associated with people in the higher level of the financial hierarchy.

Writing about a Picture in the 1800s. Photographer of the image is not known but the production was done in the 1850 to represent a man who was a butterfly collector. The image is associated with George Eastman house, which is a leading photo gallery producer and owner.

Different artists use different styles, and as such, the style determines the genre of their work. Due to the revolution of the art of painting, there has been an evolution of different painting genres. One of the most common genres is the impressionists, developed by a group of artists seeking freedom from the traditional forms of art.

Since the introduction of Photoshop and other image editing software, continued improvement of this software has continuously improved the presentation of edited images. Nowadays there is no media that is not utilizing this program, mostly in order to discern consumers and multiply sales.

This led to the writer having a much greater impact on the eventual outcome of the film than would be normal in film sets, and a much more active compromise between the screenplay and the direction. The film also makes great use of conflicting messages of hope and despair, beauty and ugliness, and so on.

During these centuries, radical changes in art and science took place across Europe. In this sense, the term Renaissance has “also come to denote the era in general and its overriding spirit, in which desires intrinsic to human nature, generally repressed under medieval feudalism, burst forth with new fervor and resulted in a new culture.” (Osmond, 1998, p.18) For example, during the period, some basic changes in worldview took shape.

The film Invictus is a sport drama film written in 2009. It was directed by Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman. The storyline of the film is based on the book playing Enemy by John Carlin.

The word documentary traces its origin from John Grierson who was a Scottish documentarian in his famous review of the film Moana back in the year 1926. The book Visible Evidence shows the declining confidence in members of the public on the notion of reality in films, documentary, video production, photography and media and reassures the credibility of documentaries as compared to the rest of the representations.

Visual effects represent the best that movie making has to offer these days. It is the future of filmmaking, and it will continue to flourish for as long as the imaginative minds in the studios require them to deliver unique and realistic effects, set locations, and the like. Visual effects technology is not going anywhere.

American painting. Albert Bierstadt was an oil painter and he did art that was focused on oil paintings. The art that is going to be focused on in this paper will be that he defined by the name of “The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak”. In the art of choice, the artist, Albert Bierstadt did portray elements such as color, line and composition to show case the mood that he had set for the picture.

A brilliant movie, an excellent novel, and an intense plot that keeps the audience glued to the screen till the movie ends. The story of the movie Cloud Atlas has been written with such passion that makes a person get mesmerized by it and lost in thoughts thinking that ‘really, lives are linked from one generation to another’.

Stranger than paradise was an American Road movie was produced by Win Wenders when the activities of this genre were inactive. He established a film producing company named as Road movies. This particular film adopted a journey structure where the film characters taking a journey that stopped frequently by having long pauses in between the drive.

Graffiti is a form of art that involves scribbling, spraying, or scratching drawings and writings on surfaces or walls in public areas. Usually, graffiti is usually perceived as illegal since it is normally done without the consent of the authority of the public surface or wall on which it has been done on.

The cast of the movie Kids involves mainly teenagers of varying ages who from the very beginning are seen not only having sexual encounters from an early age but also getting involved in such extreme forms of violence that it is almost unbelievable. The movie goes through various themes, all of which affect teens in almost every aspect of their lives.

In the movie Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore, the filmmaker, shows how greed and different policies which have been implemented in the United States, especially since Ronald Reagan, have destroyed the American Dream.

As the research study, Crash, stresses Even Jean shows racism towards a Mexican guy who comes to fix their lock at house. Jean, being the wife of District attorney who is white makes false assumption about all the minorities she meets. She thinks the Mexican locksmith is a gang member as his tattoo intent so.

Surprisingly, Roy who had been deeply wronged by Deckard instead of letting him die saves him just before dying. His words strike a familiar chord in the debate about what is real freedom and whether one can really be free if they have things that they fear, powers greater than them which directly or indirectly control them.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate, compare and contrast two Canadian filmmakers namely Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg. Therefore, we will identify any differences and similarities arising between these two filmmakers. David Cronenberg was born in Canada the year 1963 while Atom was born in Egypt in 1960 but later relocated to Canada.

Australian national cinema should interest numerous agents. The cinema marketers, producers and critics need to invite these agents so as to translate their ends and purposes through the film industry, which entails shaping it for their own ends. Any national cinema is an extensive social structure (Kuhn, 2009).

Instead of the basis being on practicality, creativity and links to philosophies and discourses can be used to create different spaces that propel forward specific ideologies.  The result is one that allows new discourses to be presented with the way in which one approaches the area in which they are inhabiting. 

The importance of these three works will also be discussed in order to present Michelangelo's status in the world of Renaissance Art in terms of being a polymath and an inspiration to many other artists, contemporary or not. Experts say that Michelangelo could be considered the archetypal Renaissance Man due to his mastery in several fields of art.

In terms of sexuality in films, queer is a reflection of the defensive and fractional social views that exclude from the mainstream those that are not normative. What is considered sexual norm is so deeply embedded in almost all social institutions that queer films can be seen not only as a aiming for equality and tolerance, but also as challenging these institutions.

Shot (6) four seconds: The camera is at a high angle that shows R running through the interior stairs of the building. The banister of the stairs, which she shoots through the slots as she runs through the stairs is in the foreground is. The banister slots are sharply focused, as she remains blurry in stark contrast, the singing continues in the background (Zaillian and Thomas 30).

This was done to preserve the French purity. The Jacobins immensely influenced global political and cultural landscape during this period. The Jacobin as a movement encouraged patriotism and liberty among the people (Klein, p.24). They controlled vital political bodies in the French Republic, and had various interests in world politics.

Name Instructor Course Date Analyzing and Comparing the Mise-en-scene of David O'Russel's Three Kings to Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan War films have existed in the world since their inception. Since 1915, movies such as The Birth of a Nation, Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan, and Platoon, have been developed to show man’s ability to demolish one another and the impacts of those actions in the world history.

Certain movies have huge impact on individual’s lives; The Notebook is such a movie. The astonishing writing of Jan Sardi and Jeremy Leven was able to impress an overwhelming majority of audience.

Through a thorough analysis of Loktev’s movie, the patriarchal ideologies that have persisted in society and expressed subconsciously become evident. On the other hand, the role of the woman in Hollywood movies appears paradoxical. She seems to confuse herself with the power of attraction and her inherent desire to get past the man, silencing him.

The monster got powerless as the effects of the axe sunk in. James got to his feet and pushed into the Monster’s throat a couple of more axes. The monster died in agony as it tried to remove the choking axe. As proposed by Sandler (1978. p. 47), the protagonist gets to pull the toughest stunt in the film.  

This essay discovers Claude Monet's art. The artist made a mark by the series of paintings as done in the haystack series of paintings. The idea came to this splendid artist one day as he was walking by the fields and saw the harvests that had been placed on the fields and had piled up to form a pattern. Monet therefore basically resorted to study.

In the end, it becomes difficult for one to make any sense of what really happened throughout the five seasons. It calls for one to look past the drama while mainly focusing on the way the city and main institutions are portrayed. In the end, I came to the conclusion that what made the series so good was definitely its ambiguity (Alasdair, 2013)

Western Versus Non-western art. Different traditions and cultures around the world have unique types of art works. They depict the strengths and weaknesses in those cultures and traditions. Art is an important vessel in the society that can be used to express feelings and emotions towards particular topics.

Every human society draws boundary lines between different categories of people, and the fictional works that are produced in each generation both reflect and contest these prevailing categorizations. This study examines the concept of mental illness, sometimes labelled as madness, deviance, or disability, with particular reference to the way that these issues are represented in two films.

The paper will explain the important role of Pablo Picasso and give a review of artist life. Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous artists of history, was born as Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso in October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain.

The author states that the active, live independence spirit in impressionism could be viewed as excellent from popular pieces of work, which could have been rejected in 1863 by the salon and might have been exhibited within the Le Bain title, meaning The Bath at the Salon des Refuses within the same year.

Much of modern western art is based around designs that the Chinese developed centuries ago. Up until the eighteenth century, Europeans regarded Chinese culture as superior to their own, so it made sense that they wanted to borrow Chinese art culture (Mungello 81).

‘Impact of minimalism art movement has on art community during 1960s -1970s’. The dawn of 1960s saw the emergence of a new phenomenon in the art industry: Minimalism. A concept with strange and unusual elements as one would expect of any ordinary art work.

This movie is about an alien invasion to take over the planet Earth, in which humans reside, by awakening the dead. The aliens initiate their plan with the awakening of Bela Lugosi in a Dracula costume and his wife Maila Vampira together with an overweight police officer Tor Johnson.

It also did influence the socio-cultural and socio-economic realm of a nation as an enterprise and the amount of resources engaged with it. Hollywood as a seat of the film industry, and being the world’s largest one did influence the socio-cultural and socio-economic activity of America right from its classical period.

Hence, prompting artists embrace the effective methods, which they deem would enable them transmit their information or messages with ease. This is evident in Henry Moore's, Two Large Forms (1966-69)1 and David Smith's, Cubi XIX, which this study seeks to highlight based on principles and elements commonly used in art.

From the time that birth ensues and growth begin there are aspects that can be said to appeal to people visual and in the process telling stories in a particular and significant way. In childhood there are aspects such as the fairytales. These depicts the lives of made up characters and there are always a hidden message that unveils as the main story line and is meant to bring out certain aspects to the children they are meant for.

The play and movie A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, played and filmed in 1947 and 1951 respectively has brought out the gender roles of the southern society. This essay will look into the summary of this play and movie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and how it has brought out the gender roles in the southern society.

The paper focuses on freedom theme in the modern art. Art today is devoid of walls from the conventional aesthetic standards of output where expressions are devised in many various forms. Today, art has been exhibited and expressed in surprisingly varied media greatly influenced by the global modernization.

The movie Dark Water is a 2002 movie that was directed by the famed Japanese director Hideo Nakata, who had previously directed two other very popular movies of the same genre, The Ring 1 and The Ring 2 which featured Sadako, a troubled girl who haunts people through a videotape. This movie is part of the genre of movies called Japanese horror, which is very popular worldwide.

Filmmakers when making a film that involves the past along with historical locations in the world have responsibilities to the film. The first responsibility of the filmmaker is to try and keep the historical facts true to their nature as they happened in real life. But with historical fiction, the filmmaker needs to fit the story into the facts as best as possible.

Many people referred to him as Claude Monet even though his parents called him ‘Oscar’. He was baptized Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, with his Godfather as Claude-Pascal Monet, a merchant from Nancy. (Monetalia 2011 p. 1). His elder brother was called Leon and they both resided in Paris with their parents until 1845.

Chinese Influence on Japanese Buddhist Art and Architecture The evolution of Japanese art and architecture is attributed to the early Chinese people, who have brought the Chinese way of doing things to Japan, which the Japanese people have also adopted. This happening began during the Asuka period (552-645), where the imperial court of the country expressed its fascination to everything that was of Chinese origin (Mason 40).

Different people categorize some movies as interesting and good to watch while others could be described in terms of their value to the body of knowledge as educative. Some of the movies that are viewed have different themes that they present to the viewers that cause them to be placed in specific contexts which means that they serve people with different purposes.

The writing team of David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes handled the screenplay for the film.  The story combines interesting events from the lives of the most wanted drug traders of recent times including George Jung, Carlos Lehder, Pablo Escobar, etc.  The influential Medellin Cartel’s fluctuating fortunes were also included in the story.