Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The Sung Emperor, Hui-tsung was one among the avid art patrons, who is notable for his meticulous works on flowers and birds. This Five-Color Parakeet bears a poem with the signature of the emperor in elegant calligraphy. In this paper, we shall have a detailed analysis of the artwork, Five-Color Parakeet, by discussing its characteristics. 

Shooting an image that will speak more about the setting requires skills and expertise. magazines, on social media, and other media. Some of these images can represent many themes in one show. They could be paintings, drawings or photographs, but serve almost the same purpose; conveying visual information.

Both the directors of these films have worked their script on the same lines but with subtle differences in the stories. However, in “Innocent Voices” and “The Kite Runner”, we find more similarities than differences. Both the films are box-office hits as they have a good blend of emotion and tragedy against the backdrop of war and its aftermath.

Sex hierarchies that have existed among us and have done nothing better than gradate sexual practices into what is good or bad sex morally should be terminated. They place monogamous sex between committed heterosexuals as good, and any sexual engagements and the individuals who fall short of this standard are categorized under bad sex.

The mechanisms by which each of these voice-over narratives are employed and the ultimate ends that they are meant to accomplish in the minds of the viewers is as diverse as the films. Regardless of the subject matter that the director attempts to engage the viewer with, the implementation of the voice-over narrative is both an effective and diversified tool.

YouTube has provided a fundamental change in the way that talent is found, promoted, and engaged. Whereas it would be foolish to state that this will be the paradigm into the definitive future, it is clear that the current era of music and talent acquisition is heavily impacted upon by the power of social media and the likes of YouTube.

The media is very influential to individual, communities and societies. The effects of different media forms to us cannot receive any form of under estimation. Either directly or indirectly, they influence the perspectives of people. A considerable measure of time is dedicated to the different media forms by people.

Nowadays it is not enough to broadcast short advertising clips to make people buy something. It is the reason why marketers rush to cooperate with filmmakers and introduce their products and services in the context of feature films. Product placement is present in almost every film released during the last 10 years.

While it is logical to put emphasis on such abilities as generating verbal interaction, there is no doubt in the fact that the notion of art should be placed among the characteristics which differ mankind. Indeed, if one takes a close look at the history of art, one cannot help noticing that it was following the humanity from the very dawn of it. 

The illustrations and writings featured nudity and Marxist ideas, Botero was expelled from school. At the age of 19, Botero went to Bogota, where started his exhibition. He travelled to Europe to study art. His artwork was largely unaccepted in Colombia. Nevertheless, Botero managed to make enough money to finance his education in Europe. 

Analysis of the film industry from the 1960s to date, reveals the trend in an illustration. This paper describes how the actors influenced societies both in the Indian capital, to its villages, and to the entire world. The films are based on fantasy, the culture of the Indian people. As the actors dressed in the films, the nation followed suit. 

There are not enough words to compile the services that van Gogh did for the sake of art. However, one feels pity while considering the end that this creative mind had to face. Moreover, today Vincent van Gogh’s paintings worth several million dollars, but they never earned him a single piece of bread in his lifetime. The works of van Gogh are a wealthy treasure of art.

The movie is in the context of the Second World War where the producers use pictures taken then to set out the representation, lighting, and sequence of Fury; comparatively, the theme and background of the movie put it among the all-time classics such as ‘Saving Private Ryan’ especially with actors such as Brad Pitt and Michael Pena.  

The photograph’s depiction of head ministers and homeland presidents, as well as celebrations of “independence” and bleak “reserves” environment, is apparent in the theme. The visual of the concept presents apartheid coalesce for the tragicomic indictment based on folly for the ideological understanding of human rights and “separate-but-equal”.

Relative to the women, Beauty and the Beast illustrated a depiction of different classes of women that existed during the time. Belle’s sisters represented the wealthy in the immediate society. The sisters confided to the idea of finding a princely man who would marry them off and provide the servants that would be subject to their needs. 

The silent film was popular in America during the 1920s. It became the world’s most popular form of entertainment with recognizable stars that spread the American culture. However, the popularity of American silent film came to an end in 1929. This was after the introduction of a synchronized dialogue in films which involved recorded sound. 

The first from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr which says that violence is never justified under any circumstance while the second quotation from Malcolm X says that violence is intelligent when it is in self-defense. Thus Lee leaves it to the audience to reflect on the quotes and decide what was right and what was wrong. 

The British film industry was of the view that the only way they could protect a declining trade, was by refusing to sell films to television – the new kid on the block. According to Ed Buscombe, the British film industry had always behaved in a restrictive way, when faced with the competition from the new medium of television.

The way Duchamp transfers the meanings of his own voyeurism to the audience is characteristic of an approach to spectatorship that views art as communication between subjectivities, with the object as a focal point for the transference to occur. Duchamp then deconstructs the fundamentals of the artist-viewer exchange in order to become a master of symbolic communication.

As a very important conflict of cinematic history, those contributions of D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein and their theories are widely still experimented, celebrated, dedicated, and paid homage by all filmmakers around the world belonging to different philosophies, regions, and era, approaches, and specific stands towards cinema.

The action films commonly present how masculinity has been emphasized and displayed. Of course, Women do not get a fair shake in action movies, but it could be seen the shift of the femininity to focus on the men in this film. Die Hard is an action movie full of a thrilling scene full of spectacular scenes produced with the latest visual special effects. It deals with a spectacle uses of technologies.

It follows that presenting information that would alter the perception of people at the same subconscious level would result in changes in perception. In most cases, satisfaction is obtained when one perceives a product or an issue to have value and to address their problems. This may not be attained using words, and calls for a more powerful tool that would influence people’s perceptions as required.

Dada, in all its negativity, was about relationships. Through taking things that should not be related and putting them together, Dadaists create worlds of connections, even though the manifestos written about Dada would not have made that claim. Through relating the unrelated, the Dadaist commented on the eruption of the industrial world, pre-pubescent ideas about consumerism, and material life.

The second stage of Refusal of the Call in The Matrix is acted out in the following way. Neo opts for fleeing and starting his adventure. At the same time, he finds out that the path he follows brings him to the very edge of a skyscraper. The hero is overwhelmed by fear and rejects the call for action. He surrenders to the authorities.

Attachment of values to the cultural products is one of the important parameters in the artistic enhancement.  The assignment to the value of the cultural products includes the accumulated actions of the organizational and agents of the institutions involved with those products.

The problem with the focus seen at very slight moments was the action sequence being shot and focused so well, while the soft scenes like the dialogues seem to be unfocused. The viewer would find themselves looking at the ear of the actor because that is the focus in that scene. Though it becomes distracting, the story and the plot cover it up. 

For instance, the extreme long shot of a toll booth set up the scene to be taken place where Sonny is murdered by gunmen. Long shots are also used to show locations and establishing shots in a sequence but they are also used to show relationships. For instance, Michael and Kay are shot in a long shot from the front when they are walking and having a chat.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick. The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was about a 30-year old and single woman named Toula Portokalos who though has lived an incredibly Greek life-style, settle on to pursue a relationship with a non-Greek man.

There are often chances where what is considered morally right in one culture may be considered wrong in another, an example being the use of animals in modern artwork. It is a fact that while there are some who believe that this use is degrading and immoral, others believe that art is an independent subject, whose methods should not be criticized by those who do not appreciate it.

The Japanese were the first individual to use pottery and their pottery which dates from 10000 BC is the oldest in the world. Japanese art is categorized by historians into time periods. This paper will only examine art in the time period before 1333, which involves five periods. They are the Jomon and Yayoi period, the Kofun period. 

Griffith was an individual who played a clear, undeniable role in establishing film and motion pictures as the medium for the artistic expression of the 20th century to date. Through the use of novel filming techniques and a vision of the film as a business enterprise, Griffith rose to prominence as one of the industry’s foremost directors.  

The red colour is associated with the values of bravery, intrepidity, defence, and other attributes that contribute towards the general defence of the society. The cultural associations that connect with these pieces of art could be understood as an effort in the reaffirmation of Asian cultural expression in the face of conflicting influences.

The effects of war, however, are greatly felt by the women. War impacts women and they suffer greatly from its impacts. Women caught in between war lines face a number of devastating effects such as sexual violence. The unwritten war scripts dictate that part of victory from conquest is dominating the foe’s women by raping them. 

Simultaneous attention has also been afforded to the viewer, who is viewed as the maker of meaning on one side and a physical space visitor on the other with more options between the two positions. Within the context of museums, the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion range from the recognition of educational, psychological, and ideological factors.

The critical years between 1910 and the 1930s were most transformative for documentary photography as a result of salient influences of Cubism. The dramatic epic from pictorialism that characterized the modern era is perfectly attributed to cubism and not photography as would conveniently be assumed.

Aesthetics remain an important part of American art as it gives a generalized impression about the people on how they are able to perceive beauty. Using sculpture as an example, it has been explained that the aesthetic qualities of a piece of art make it possible for the artist to communicate to the audience in a manner that is easy to be understood by the people.

In the movie, the political scenario is set in an extremely violent, dystopian alternate future where society has collapsed as a whole and is trying to claw its way back past the various menaces of juvenile delinquency, social violence, break down of traditional Japanese cultural and social mores and traditions.

This makes the hotel operate for only five months in a year and for the rest seven months, it is closed. The manager of the hotel, named Ullman Stuart, tells Jack that the person who held the position of caretaker committed suicide after killing his entire family. This functions as the first allusion to the events that unfold later in the film.

The Japanese video games also use imagery as the center of entertaining. This acts as a persuasive tool for potential customers of the games. The images communicate all the information pertaining to a product in perspective. Salen (2009, 32) asserts that Japanese video games employ virtual systems, which are based on visual culture.

Unlike the preceding era, during this period, baroque focused on an aspect that had been largely forgotten by most people in the generation before them, Christian faith. Baroque art mainly focused on reviving the faith people had in God. Realism was one of the features of baroque paintings. The second unique feature of Baroque paintings was the lighting up dark scenes using warm colors.

Postmodernism had a great impact on the stylistic techniques that were used by makers of Third Cinema. In what turns out to be a direct result of the suffocation that Hollywood and European films gave viewers from developing and underdeveloped countries, Third Cinema, saw gradual growth and improvisations through the work of its directors.

The analysis goes further into public profiling with reference to their respective genres mostly relating to segments of lifestyle and age. This is mostly applicable to TV information for Scandinavian films tabled in Denmark. The films managing transitions from national markets into broader Scandinavian markets embrace most dramas having an exception of the occasional comedy.

Thus, the subjective perspectives and value judgments involved in traditional curating are weakened, and this shift is consistent with the theoretical perspective that there is an increasing need for a more integrated approach to ‘institutional power, cultural freedom, and artistic value’ (Charlesworth, 2006, p. 4).

Society in the definition is the occurrence or existence of a group of people bound by common factors. In a social setting, there exist three sub-branches to it, and that is compliant internalization, and identification and these affect the way people do their thing in ways acceptable in the societal context they exist in.

According to Kilborn & Izod (1997, p 8) watching documentaries have become a more engaging experience and this has been proved so by their growing popularity as part of a backlash against reality television. Most of the audiences wishing to have their downtime in theatres express the need to get the most out of it and hence prefer documentaries to fictional movies.

The visualization of the body has become more perfected in the past years and although sometimes the technological advances and media have oft outpaced the artists grasp on them, the artists have nonetheless been able to succeed by use of sensors, implants, and other interfaces in showing some of the impossible to manipulate processes that are ongoing in the body as works of art.

While interacting with the artists, individuals have an opportunity to make inquiries about issues such as the relationship that the artist’s work bears with activism. Again, there are changes that have been witnesses through the facilitation of political change though there is a common belief of politics neutralizing art skills.

This film aims to demonstrate how prejudiced acts have broken family bonds and led to people hurting one another on the basis of misconceptions. The program will take its audience on an emotional journey that will reveal cunning acts of characters that leads to disheartening results. The television program will leave its viewers with a better understanding and appreciation for their neighbors.

The art is often influenced by the artistic conventions of the community and not the individual perceptions of the artist per se. Perception and meaning in the art are not unique. On the flip side, it is normal and is affected by the normal cognitive behaviors that will affect the perception of art. The artists render their subject matter relative to the desired perception and aesthetic appeal.

The growing popularity of Chinese cinema in the global arena has led to many Chinese filmmakers winning major international film awards in recent years. Such globalization of the Chinese film industry has resulted in the country earning a huge amount of foreign capital and also Chinese film companies are collaborating with foreign companies.