Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The series while being aired on TV brought to light how important it is for any person trying to keep up the pace of the fast-changing engineering methods and technology alike should also think beyond the obvious. The days when agriculture used to depend on crude technology and heavily rely on human and manual labour is long gone. 

The visual rhetoric propaganda can be even more powerful than written.  Even the illiterate and children can understand the message given in visual rhetoric propaganda.  Although on opposite sides during World War II, the American and German governments targeted a special interest group to blame the war on during that time.

The author states that the banker Agostino Chigi commissioned Raphael to paint for the decoration of Villa Farnesina. The Birth of Venus was probably painted for the Medici family. The villas meant to be getaways had classical subjects adorning their walls. Both the Birth of Venus and Galatea were painted for private use in the villas.

Geena Davis’ character in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) falls directly into this genre. In the beginning, she lacks confidence and is uncertain of who she truly is, or was meant to be. While most character transformation films revolve

Initially named as the Season of the Witch, the movie developed out of an abandoned screenplay that was revitalized by Scorsese. This followed a demand by John Cassavetes into a strong religious metaphor full of picturesque local actors. The origin of

From among one’s personal favorites are as follows: The photography show online showcased diverse talents and the array of different images offer viewers and enthusiasts with the opportunities to appreciate a variety of skills, talents, and

The beginning era of revolutionary civil war also witnessed some breakthroughs of arts that involved energy and self-confidence of the American nation via art and represented it in the form of strong builders. The war had string impacts on artistic works on all kinds and brought new breakthroughs every year.

The war had destroyed past economic infrastructures. Difficult economic and moral conditions engulfed Italy and entire Europe after World War II leading to oppression, injustice, poverty and associated desperations. These films communicated realities with new democratic emphasis on the value of ordinary people.

Image No.1 is a seal with Yogi from the Indus valley from the 2600 BCE period. Image No.2 is a Buddhist monastic site of Mes Aynak that is thought to have been constructed between the 1st and the 7th centuries CE in Logar Province near Kabul, Afghanistan. This art form is a representation of capitals vs. province which is referred to as the Kusanas.

The film won the Screen International Awards, First Americans in the Arts Awards and also the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The film features a dark and bitter commentary on contemporary American living, which is masked in the form of a surrealist western.

The ear has limited bourgeois, rational transformation to handle reality from different objects or practical activity contrary to the eye. Sound expresses, animate, and develops the power of a narrative through action. Ordinarily, listening and seeing does not match, therefore, any film without music aspects fail to reach the great threshold.

Othello is just, loving, and loyal to his master and wife. Iago, on the contrary, is wicked. He knows he is evil and he does not even hide it from others who know him well. He has no honor and shame. The film Othello, directed by Oliver Parker, reflects who Iago and Othello are in the play. Iago and Othello are the foils of each other, mirroring good and evil in humanity.

When the main character considers leaving, she also sees several advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, if she quits she will be under the protection of the police and will no longer be afraid for her life. Keeping in mind that two of her “colleagues” died, the odds that she will be the next are rather high.

She had escaped the war that broke out in Holland against the Nazis. She later, after joining the Dutch resistance, find out the person, Van Gein, who betrayed her parents who had

This artwork is also mass produced as it represents the beginning of the major religions of the world. Walter Benjamin meant that art does not follow a pattern because

It is with no doubt that Art and culture have existed for many centuries growing in tandem with one another. The one art style that I find interesting is the Baroque style. That is because of the combination of various techniques in communicating the cultures and activities going on the society artistically. It helps in identifying or the societal norms.

Since the last half of the 20th century, visual communication played a major role in advertisement and marketing while more recently, creating Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for computer software as well as graphic design have been the mainstay of visual communication.The development of visual communication did not originate from the WIMP (Windows Icon Mouse Pointer) interface which is most commonly seen system for controlling computers.

Both works of art were based within the same time period and contain similar subject matter using similar materials for representation, these two works of art represent entirely different points of view. Through the use of color and composition, the artists manage to achieve a sense of balance and solidity even as they work to express the imbalance and malleability of the world in which they find themselves. 

 This crash landing had supposedly taken place in the 1960s, but the government had still not managed to quell the rumors 20 years later.  Partially because of the great uncertainty regarding the nature of the craft and the aliens it might have held inside, rumors regarding the intentions of aliens.

Most of the images appeared in the magazine Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (Worker’s Illustrated Magazine or AIZ). To make his meanings as clear as possible, Heartfield stuck to a minimalist style, restricting himself to only a few telling images in each piece, thus becoming a father of the modern and postmodern movements.

The author states that the woman in the painting is very reluctant to make any eye contact whatsoever. He reckons that the painting portrays the man as the head of the family and a dominant force. The woman does not appreciate the dominance of the man and wants to put an end to the same.

The artists who believe that they should copy nature and who proclaim that they should not do so, are alternative beats of the same heart. An artist’s heart and strokes of the brush always respond and move in tandem with the rhythms of nature, knowingly or unknowingly. No individual is close to nature as the artists.

Feminist scholars adopted the psychoanalytic film theory because the latter aims to examine and depict gender identity using cultural, instead of biological, concepts that are present in films, so that the exclusion of women in dominant film discourses can be identified and dismantled for purposes of political empowerment.

As a professional artist, I specifically admire the way my father had dealt with the ordeals of his career, given the fact that he is often confronted with challenges set by other great artists who each possess distinct imaginative traits of their own.

This painting could possibly be pointing toward a historical event. The essay will give an insightful visual analysis of this painting including its description, interpretation and evaluation. This painting has been heavily influenced by nature, particularly the rounded forms of the ocean and the sky. The irregular and out rightly threatening waves.

This piece of art was created by young Raphael. It was nicknamed the school of Athens, between 1510 and 1511 and the picture is 1600 by 1067. The paint in this portray is bright and well combined to bring the finest components of the figures. In the picture, a few scientists and philosophers so far have been identified, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euclid, Michelangelo. 

Call of Death is a painting that she produced when she was 70 years old. This painting, accordingly, is a “self-portrait” as she was expecting her impending doom. In the lithograph, a skeletal hand touches her left shoulder. Also, the ambits of her eyes are painted with deep shadows, which make her look very exhausted and about to take her last breath.

They like inviting people to their homes to show off the expensive stuff they have. All the houses are nice although people who own houses look down on people who rent. The suburb buildings today are modernization of the old suburb buildings, in this case the Victorian

The Ariel perspective show the influence the atmosphere has on the visibility of a given object when viewed at a distance. Increase in distance between the object and the viewer leads to decrease in the contrast between the

Van Gogh went on to create artwork on the river banks. One spot where the painting captures is close to the house he rented at the time. This view seen by the observer presents the houses from Rhone’s east side in the evenings. His painting, ‘Starry Night’ is made of oil and developed on canvas. It features strong and definitive strokes of the brush using broken colour.

Many assaults happened during the war, which resulted in the occurrence of hardships in the relationship between the United States and Mexico. The Cart War was regarded as one of the most violent incidents. The attackers used technologically advanced weapons during the period to kill people. The lack of initiatives let the war take a bad shape.

Different types of films are produced with varied representation and manipulation of reality depending on the interpretation the audience is supposed to make out of it. “Dark knight” and “memento” are two movies produced by the same director, Nolan. The director portrays the two movies as a representation of society through analysis of major themes and the setting of the movie.

According to Spicer, one of the most arresting traits of film neo-noir is how it depicts the male protagonist who lacks such qualities as courage, tenacity, incorruptibility and dynamism (47). All of these qualities characterize the prototypal American hero who, hence, functions as an antihero. He continues to argue that the distinctive noir male agonist is weak, unstable, confused and ineffectual.

With the assistance of modern technologies and camera techniques, film directors are able to produce big screen projects that are either heralded or rebuked by the viewing audience. Since the mid 20th

cent years, the impact of television in society has increasingly gained serious interest from various scholars (Berger 1), as its impact is felt in almost every home around the globe. How could a lifeless entertainment device greatly impact global communication? Understanding

The Shawshank Redemption relies majorly on the story the film characters to ensure it is astounding rather than adopt enormous planned action series endowed with special effects. Red connects the viewers to Andy’s

I learnt something from the article that I never knew before. The musical has a theme of political correctness that is relevant in the contemporary society. My opinion in

Generally, the film is directed by Sergei Bodrov and produced by Boris Giller in 1996. It was an Oscar Awards nominee and winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.  It presents themes of pessimism, disillusionment, war, despair, and extreme cases of substance abuse.

The first scene of the movie sees Charles Foster Kane dying, lying alone in his unfinished palatial mansion. The tone set in the scene is of sad tone. A man who has been living in seclusion for many years dies alone holding a snowball and uttering the words “Rosebuds” before taking his final breath.

Regrettably, most people who enter the porn industry see it as easy money, but I do not think it’s as easy, or as fun as it’s made out to be. Industry insiders, for example, will say porn actors are not chosen for their looks as much as their sexual prowess. However, I am also reminded that pornography has been with us since time immemorial.

 Both pieces are crisp, although in different manners.  Monet appears to use much less detail than Church, yet he still achieves a satisfactorily detailed piece.  The church employs the use of crisp, sharp color and texture to create detail, whereas Monet uses brush strokes to create a sense of ‘messy’ detail; it is much less precise than Church’s piece.  

The passion he had for the unusual, shaped so many artists of the Symbolist Movement. Delacroix was inspired by the artwork of Rubens and also of the Venetian Renaissance painters. He put a lot of emphasis on movement and color, unlike the neoclassical perfectionists who put emphasis on carefully modeled forms and clarity of outline. 

He believed art should be seen and enjoyed by all people. Through his murals he told powerful stories about the struggles of the poor, and he emphasized the history and diverse peoples of Mexico. When he died in 1957, Rivera was honored for creating a modern Mexican art that celebrated his country's native traditions.

possibly sensational impact and occurrence in the period of the American Civil War, Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” exhibits how the turn of chaotic events bears the capacity to generate three types of characters who converge at the will to amass huge

A reclusive and volatile personality, Pollock struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an alcohol-related single-car collision when he was driving.

The film is an adaptation of the same name novel by Masuje Ibuse. In the center of the story there is a non-typical family: the

Every aspect of technology has its own role to play in the provision of entertainment and information to the audience. Media convergence, according to Henry Jenkins, has altered the relationship between the existing industries,

However, it must be noted that each of such works of art is produced in a particular cultural environment. In other words, they bear traces of a

In the meantime, Marlon shows the violence over integration that was a coincidence with the show’s short lifespan. Ms. Carroll accepts that she was guilty of something they had to do for survival. She also says, “And that is known as adjustments,” (Riggs et. al. 0:33). This implies that she was obliged to make compromises so that she could star in “Julia,”

Chinese painting never started with painting, but began with ornament designs that were freely invented for imitating nature. Surrendering from the freedom of invented form to the lack of freedom of observed forms was seen as a fateful step that was taken