Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The first element to be examined is the color of the painting since this would be the first to be noticed from the the artwork. Moreover, the color should be the first to be analyzed because the painting belongs to Braque’s Fauvism period thus it would be expected that the artist had no inhibitions in using and exploring with colors.

The study of dresses is known as an example of material culture. According to David, it is the properties and distinction of dressing that symbolizes the culture and remains there as its record. It’s the clothing that can be used to mark the changes between cultures. As a matter of fact it is one of the key features to distinguish between cultures.

The author states that depending upon what cinematic film is being viewed, various emotions express themselves as either positive psychological re-enforcers or for some the impact from cinema can lead to maladaptive behaviors. However, it is more common to see people reflecting on cinema in a more constructive way.

The author states that while Chaplin has been famed for his facial expressions, Keaton, on the other hand, has been prominent for risky stunts carried out in a haphazard manner. Yet their differences do not just end here. Their distinctive styles were revealed in Chaplin’s The Gold Rush and Modern Times and in Keaton’s The General and The Navigator.

Some of the sacred and spiritual values are too strange to understand without some guidance from experienced people. In the movie, the complex scenarios’ of sacred and spiritual happenings are simplified to allow many people to have a clear understanding of the way to tackle some of the difficult situations in the daily living of an individual. 

Mike Leigh feels that the common man has witnessed so much of violence through films, video games and on TV that he has become “desensitized” and therefore the improvisation portrayed by his characters who are rather odd but still very human is intended to rouse them from the stupor or lethargy and make them “feel” compassion “for others” around us 

The author explains that Titian is one of the most popular artists of the Renaissance era. His technique of color, tone, texture etc has been greatly appreciated by art patrons of all times. Most critics while commenting on the work of Titian focus on his oil painting techniques and the way in which Titian brought his own unique perception.

The storyline of the movie revolves around the character Jack Torrance, who is a writer also a recovering alcoholic. Jack also has a son who is blessed with psychic abilities to reveal the things from the past and present, also to see supernatural beings. Jack takes up a job as the caretaker of an isolated hotel which is inhabited by ghosts. 

The referential frame is evident as her emotional reaction to Carl Dreyer’s La passion de Jeanne d’Arc and her identification with the protagonist is discussed, Godard appears to be injecting historical realities side by side with the narration about Nana to further accentuate the impression of a documentary and thus reality 

The entire movie is based upon a big lie, one that The Farmer does not know about, at least at first.  Abby is really in love with Bill, although they have tried to pass one another off as brother and sister.  The Farmer is in love with Abby, and takes Abby as his wife, without knowing about the true relationship between Abby and Bill. 

Contrary to most of the pictures of the era, including Volga Volga, Jolly Fellows, Happiness and others, which used to discuss comparatively light and simple issues and topics, the Road to Life concentrates upon a very sensitive subject, the Soviet society had undergone during the initial years of its coming into existence.

Qatar is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The vast economic growth has led Qatar to be one of the fast booming countries that have quickly jumped to modernity. Nonetheless, while Qatar is striving to establish itself as a modern state, the perseveration of national identity has never been missing from its future plans.

There is a quote in the reading which shows that art has one of the key roles when it comes to shaping human values: “Anthropologists frequently claim that art contributes essential social benefits to primitive societies: it expresses or relieves or canalizes feelings, reiterates social values, mirrors the social code, provides an avenue for shared experience, and the like—all of which are socially useful activities”

Movies, as one o the most strong media, has always been subject to critism regarding its exaggeration of the actual facts. Interestingly, tearing off the hypothetical world of exaggeration, realism has always been present in the cinemas. This paper is an attempt to justify the claim that realism does exist in movies.

The author states that in Italy, modernism grew in two directions: Novecento and Italian Rationalism. The Classical Novecento movement, represented by Giovanni Muzio, paved the way for the development of Italian Rationalism represented by “Gruppo”. Sebastian Larco, Guido, Frette, Carlo Enrico Raba, Adalberto, and Guiseppe Terragni formed Gruppo in 1926.

We can as well suppose that Walter’s personal choice of risk at some point is a decision to literally become bad. Just look at the series title – Walt risks to break bad and stay stereotypical bad guy for the sake of his own family. We do set forth Walter’s decision to break bad as a risk and the further events to occur in the series indeed prove that.

Dover accompanied by his daughter to end his life. He undergoes emotional trauma and confused as his daughter takes him with eyes blinded and says the final goodbye. For unknown reasons he retracts from his motive, breaks down removes his blindfold to realizes that he is not on the cliff but on an open field 

The first screening of the first film in the world marked the birth of a new art form in 1895. Lumiere brothers’ picture show thus became the arrival note for of this all-new medium. Talkies were born in the late 1920s to provide a platform to exhibit cinema to the masses. And this was the beginning of the cinema as an industry.

Television and the global market as such function as secondary outlets for the commercial process involved in marketing an animation film. An array of toys to video games are produced and sold based on each successful animation film. The creative persona of humans has once again reached a threshold of transcending reality.

The book reflects the high standards of quality that the public expects from Lauren, and the story itself reads as a Horatio Alger story of a son of immigrants to America who builds a business empire worth billions of dollars. The mythology of the Ralph Lauren biography is itself symbolic of the attainment of success.

The idea that spectators looking at something being performed (whether live or on a screen as in the film) is somewhat similar to a dream, is not new to the 20th Century when movies appeared. One of the most famous creators of performances in history, William Shakespeare, referred to the similarity between drama and dreaming within his plays. 

Art began with the beginning of humanity. Through art, human beings are able to convey messages regarding their capability to develop a supportive link to their surrounding, which could be fellow humans. Art assists humans to transform nature to become more favorable to their life. Art is a tool that is necessary for the survival of human beings.

The author states that in almost all cultures and throughout history, different forms of sculpture have existed. Sculptures are artworks that are three-dimensional in nature. Today, they are often made by forming plastic or hard materials by different processes such as modeling, casting, welding, assembling, sewing wrought.

Throughout history, women’s depiction in paintings and other types of images has been designed most often as a means of pleasing the male gaze.  “According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome – men act and women appear.  Men look at women.  Women watch themselves being looked at”.

The author states that art expressions can be seen in each country in the way they portray their own culture - through their national song, their flag, their dance, literature, fashion, architecture, and other artistic expressions. Culture expresses many things about a country and such practices are representations of the nation.

The author states that film analysis allows the scholar, research, or thinker to go through a meditative process wherein the important human elements the filmmaker has deemed worth further exploration can be considered and appreciated in greater depth. There are a number of elements that are foundational in analyzing an entire film.

If a person sends the other a stone, he would look at it and feel what feelings it stirs in the person. The shape, size, and touch of a stone are three primary measures. A small smooth stone would mean that the person is happy for the other while a rough-surfaced stone would mean that the person is worried.

During this process, there are several techniques involved to ensure that editing is carried out in a very successful manner, on the other hand, a number of devices are also deployed to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Most commonly used devices are the reverse-shot or the shot and the eyeline match.

The author of the paper explains that at work, Adam overhears an evil plan being made by the top administrative officials and plans an escape with his family but decides otherwise when he finds out the mayor abused his wife at work. He then plans and executes his revenge on the mayor and sheriff.

This study hopes to shed light on the films’ depiction of women as an illustration of who they really are and how they feel. This paper also aims to show how the film-director Almodóvar contributes to the causes of feminist and gay/lesbian movements through these two films, as quoted in Time Magazine in 2005.  

On the DVD, Roeg talks about the film’s theme of obsession:  “Once we think we have control, we don’t.  Anger and jealousy develop and then control turn into an obsession. One obsession that is physically uncontrollable, is a sexual obsession. You can’t get rid of a sexual obsession by willing it away.” 

Filmmaking has been an evolvingly challenging and colorful artistic journey. The tenacious pace of technological advancement profoundly influenced the growth of filmmaking from its crude origins of silent and black and white films to the intricately three-dimensional movies of the contemporary times.

The author states that France is not the only society wherein dominating political and cultural myths are preserved, or, more seldom, questioned by cinematic themes. However, it is also factual that the reverence customarily given to French cinema has reinforced the major function it has fulfilled in relation to myths coinciding with the national past.

Directions: Cover table with newspaper. Use scissors to cut a sponge to fit inside the plastic margarine tub.  Saturate sponge with paint for a printing pad. Press fingertip into pad; then press onto paper for a fingerprint. Use markers to draw things such as funny people, little animals, and sill insects on fingerprints.

China, being one of the ancient civilizations that bloomed in the Asian Mainland is somehow able to exert its power as a progressive one that has been able to influence the artistic convention of Japan. There is still a recorded matter in history that the closure of Japan from foreign influences helped them develop their own paradigms.  

This essay analyzes the movie “You Don’t Know Jack: The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian”, a 2010 released HBO movie. The movie is structured on Jack Kevorkian’s life and the decisions he made to fulfill people’s desires to die due to a certain illness. There are many impacts of assisted suicide on the society and most of them are negative.

Hitler had learned the herald of Fascism from Mussolini, that a dictator could take control over industrial and modern European nation, but only through the elimination of all challenging iconographies and elevation of such leaders to a state of quasi-religious. One could only achieve such a status by wide propaganda exercises. 

The author states that Takashi Miike, the director of this movie has almost become synonymous with this new wave of Japanese films. Japanese horror movies have a distinct style about them, the pace is deliberate, there are terror and violence that is usually conveyed through graphic visuals and these movies are mostly based on stories of vengeance.

As the paper outlines, the need to document ‘real’ events existed almost at the same time when motion picture as a medium of communication became an integral and quintessential part of human life. In its early stages, the primary intention and the subsequent benefit of recording a live action or event were the freedom it gave to have control over time.

This essay discusses that, despite the recent world financial crisis that impacted almost every country and every economy, the prognosis on South Korean Real GDP growth is optimistic, changing from 0.2 in the year 2009 to 5.9 in the year 2010 (EIU, 2010). Consumer price inflation revolves steadily around 3% with slight deviations of 0.2-0.4 % (EIU, 2010).

Lily is a 14-year-old girl who has been referred to family counseling by her adopted family. Family services provide low-cost mental health services to the community. Lily currently lives with her adopted family which includes three sisters: May, June and August Boatwright. The Boatwright’s own a successful honeybee farm.

The composition is dominated by the span of the bridge extending across the horizontal center line. The background is filled with wispy green trees and reeds surrounding the pond while the foreground and midground are filled with the suggestion of lily pads, some of which are topped by ill-defined white water lilies.

Consumers now in this era use different types of textiles, jewelry, and many other things in their everyday lives. Various studies were done on the topics as fashion, the arts, personal studies, visual images, performance, and cultural history shows that the aesthetic discourse is no more limited in the consumer research.

Phelan notes that there is the element in the performance of the non-reproducible and that of it being of the present moment, through people and consumed by people, moving forward in time and something that cannot be canned or recorded. In essence, it goes against some fundamental tenets of modern economic structures.

In first reducing Alex to a voice on a cassette tape and then silencing her altogether by choking the life out of her, Dan asserts his masculinity and dominance while Beth, in shooting Alex without a quiver, proves her right to defend her home and family while still retaining her happiness in being able to be ‘merely’ a wife and mother 

Beginning in pre-historic times, the practice of tattooing has been used as a means of decorating the body or denoting information important to the individual.  The art has been used on the bodies of tribe members, gang members, military members, and other individuals in every culture throughout the world. 

The West Chester movie scene indicates a stark difference between the movie theaters in other parts of the US. Specifically, the movie sales of theaters in other parts had declined to unprecedented levels. The secret of West Chester’s movie theater revenue increase is innovation - a sound system installed in almost all of its movie theaters.

As expected, Wright uses an astounding cast for this movie. Kevin Spacey drains pop and color to the movie. This kind of color can only be played by a colorful actor with such deadly precision. Jamie Foxx acts as Bats who is highly masculine, important for the job. To have peace with himself he recites the words that he is taking something that had been taken away from him.

At the beginning of the Russian Revolution, Rodchenko was a painter. As his Communist beliefs became more clear, Rodchenko became an assembler or a Constructivist. He started to use the bare minimum in Communist posters. Geometric lines, shapes, bold block lettering, along with red, black, and white colours created a minimal look.  

The African American detective narrative in film and fiction turns away from the central theme of “whodunit,” to focusing on the characterization of the African American detective in what is known as “hardboiled” detective fiction.  Its major trope is the persona of the detective and the impact of race and social tensions on who they are.