Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Stanislavski was a seminal theatre practitioner who was widely known and recognized as an outstanding actor. He directed many productions and gained a reputation as one of the best theatre directors in his time. His fame was due to his actor training and rehearsal method. He acted and directed and later co-founded the Moscow art theatre and later focused on teaching, writing and directing.

This ability to combine with other fields to bring change to society by creating influential decisions makes it an important tool in advertising where consumers make choices and decisions on what they use from a wide variety of what they see or are told about it. Most of the time, manufacturers tend to present their products as the best using several means such as images and sounds that create an attitude in people's minds.

World cinema depicts political, social, and cultural issues affecting people in these countries. Such films may be filmed in these countries or in western countries. World cinema films form an activist atmosphere and deliver, in a confident way, the disillusionment of a failed revolution or express the frustration with class, gender, racial and colonial exploitation.

Still, the cleanup movement illustrates the social injustice within the film. Li Guoxiang and Wang Qiushi lead the team which carries out the action and leaves Yuyin, homeless, poor, and also a widow. During a public gathering, Yuyin is referred to as the “new rich peasant”, which is also unfair to her.

Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism film ‘outfoxed’ was released in 2004 to expose and criticize the kind of journalism practiced in his own company Fox News and other media houses today. In Murdoch’s film, we see his main focus being his media house Fox news; he talks about the corruption that takes place there in terms of what stories are chosen to go on air.

For many years, the structuring and arrangements of power have resulted in a scenario whereby a group of people considered as dominant develops control over another group. Men in particular, throughout history, have been dominating women. The system of sexual relationships is thus viewed as a dominant and subordinate relationship.  Art, for the past thirty years, has also developed the sexual politics kind of thinking.

The film has received enormous reviews and acclaims, especially from the Social sciences world, especially Psychology, and sociology. It uses a totally different approach to solving problems. It has a lot of learning on psychology, especially on the behavioural approach, which is equally indispensable in trying to solver particular.

Chinese painting has been regarded as being one of the “oldest and continuous artistic traditions” in the entire world. In contemporary society, painting using the traditional style is referred to as “guohua” which implies native painting or national as opposed to the Western artistic styles, which became famous in China during the 20th century. 

LeBlanc argues that the dynamics and aesthetics are important in the design of games. They help in the development of a conflict, climax, and eventual resolution. Henri Jenkins views the role of narrative in games as essential in the overall architecture of the game. This is because it provides a sense of direction and emotional perspective in the overall outlook of the game. 

Nicole Eisenman’s paintings are representations of the personal experiences in a society that political decisions directly affect the individual wellbeing. Eisenman was greatly influenced by the German expressionism genre of art, she thus uses rich color schemes to depict the societal experiences in a satirical manner but yet very rich in meaning.

The artwork of Eugene is more convincing when it comes to demonstrating the political revolution that occurred in French in the nineteenth century. The reason is that The Massacre at Chios painting demonstrates expressions of political terror that are represented by horrified people. Destruction, as well as the suffering of people, is clearly laid out by people who are hungry and others who are dying.

This paper seeks to examine the role of technology in the film "Casino Royal" produced in 2006 by Martin Campbell. The scope of the analysis will be grounded on examining the various roles of technology such as; emotional arousals of the viewers, thrilling the viewers, taking the viewer’s back to history, the development of a reality of the film and also attracting and maintain the attention of the audience.

The main objective of this paper is to provide an understanding of the evolutionary essence of photography that has made it possible for the introduction of electronic media to enhance the ability of photography to surpass its modern identity. According to post-modernism, the meaning of different elements could not be understood by surface appearance since elements such as photographs comprise a series of texts that must be decoded.   

Since the early 1800s, films have been significant cultural artifacts. Since then, the different film styles have been analyzed by both critics and audience. . Nearly all move a major Hollywood studio release be categorized into a definite genre. Most films are classified as science fiction, comedy, drama, adventure, gangster, or western.

Culture refers to the way a group of people lives. Across the globe, people live indifferent ways regarding the behaviors, values and symbols that influence their acceptance of their way of living. Ideally, culture is passed from one generation to the next generation. Asia, as one of the resourceful continent, comprises of different communities henceforth, different beliefs and values. In the films industry (Rahtz, 2007).

Gray being a mathematician in nature restated the theme of systems as the being of the open systems.[1] The minimalistic idea that he brought forth was the description of the mimesis of thinking of the artistic idea to be beyond the simple yes or no, the affirmation or the negation, and the difference between leaving something intact as well as declaring it as being an artwork.    

He links contemporary art to a vague or utterly absurd subject that is less structured and meant to portray all that does not link to art in its genuine form. In essence, Baudrillard is saddened the degeneration of art due to reducing creativity so much so that even with art, you could not really quantify the amount of creativity therein.

This classic paradigm is reinvented in A Separation (2011) and The Flowers of War (2011) which depict the strong desire to liberate women from male exploitation and oppression as well as suppressive traditions against women. While The Flowers of War explores the tale of a chivalrous rescue of a Chinese woman by a white man, A Separation is an attempt to save the face of Iranian or Muslim women from male chauvinism.

Kitsch is a German form of art that is mass-produced by the communities to show their different impressions. Art of this kind is associated with a low-brow style that makes it classical and sentimental impressions of the figures. The art which was brought up in these instances shows the demanding need for appreciation of the communities that participate in crafting these cases.

They propagate social, cultural, economic and political themes in society. Film production in Asia continues to soar, with India’s Bollywood making more films than Hollywood and China’s film industry registering a phenomenal growth in the last decade to give the United States a run for its money (Sheibani 2011, p.5).

The local communities there not only have the chance of interacting with the tourists but also have got employment as tour guides at the site. As Nordic film production becomes more diversified, it is of great importance to collect Nordic genre films and television from various sources so that it is never lost.

In a film adaptation of that society, it is the responsibility of the film director to ensure those two groups are protected. At times these groups are small children, rape victims, commercial sex workers and much more. From the film “gleaners and I” there have been no such groups in front of the camera.

The ever-changing media landscape has resulted in a shift in both the target and focus of media relations in two notable ways that include; first, the overall increase in the imminent desire of journalists working with practitioners since they will be compelled to engage in social media aspect (Lister, 2009).

The work made is appreciated for their beauty and the emotions that they invoke in people. Evaluating artwork comes down to analyzing and making a judgment on how appropriate the work is. Ethical artwork is something that should be achieved through morality since the artwork goes a long way in influencing the lives of all people who come in contact with it.

Vincent Van Gogh in his painting gives us a boat that is intended to show us or make us see the correlation being that the boat appears to be like it’s just about to sink, or it is broken. Another possible interpretation that can be deducted from this is that the object that Van Gogh portrays which is the stars to means it (Soth, L. (1986).

Darling, directed by John Schlesinger, illustrates how the boredom of a beautiful, young, married model, Diana Scott (Julie Christie), reflected the social conditions of the 1960s. Secret and Lies, directed by Mike Leigh, demonstrates that some women have experienced improvements in their social stature. 

It was written by Gaston Leroux in 1910 and has been staged in various events and film adaptations. The playwright uses two dominant themes, horror and love, to present his ideas. The author makes use of songs as the primary tool and technique in scripting the entire book. A significant part of the story is a compilation of lyrics and phrases from the songs.

This was agreed upon by many critics of art. The Starry Night is a landscape painting, an inspiration to many poets and musicians, particularly Don MacLean and his “Starry, Starry Night”. A painting in oil and canvas, Wheat Field expresses unity between earth and sky, the round world with all its mysteries and fantasies.

To sum it up, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Lootera present examples of Bollywood movies that have employed the masala style to spice up the content. The essay focuses on examining the significance and global reach of Bollywood, and the ways that filmmakers have created alternatives to the masala style of film production.

Chinese painting is a unique cultural aspect that commands a lot of attention with incredible lessons to draw from. It clearly elaborates the value of a unique identity that sets one particular group of people apart from the rest. It is a solid expression of inherent talents and beliefs that must be respected from one region to the other.

Reproduction of reality is the way of imagination and art in its most direct form through creating something new. Unlike documentary films even though imagination and art appear in them just as well still act as a representation of reality instead of being reality’s reproduction for whatever reasons are necessary. The film “Crumb” was praised by critics highly.

It was easy for him to be found in the ledgers of the ship in the debt tally or the overseas journals. Black Venus is described as a girl where no one would remember her name nor was there anything recorded about what she said. A story of a black Venus is told only by a failed witness, and it would take long before she would be given permission to say anything.    

In his work Off Base, 2012, a group of soldiers is shown as they light up for a photograph. However, it is clear because of the use of color and composition that there is a small amount of chaos within the group as well as elements of injury and illness. This is not a painting of the military, but a painting of the men who work as soldiers.

The strategy has made it possible for her to increase the fan base. This indicates that the fashion industry drives photography to the limits in its attempt to reach a large number of consumers. Photography has been playing a critical role in enabling the fashion industry to remain relevant. This is through the use of pictures to create new buzz and trends in the local and international market.

Elsaesser & Hagene use these seven senses to discuss the different ways of representing cinema. Each of the senses accounts for a new understanding of how cinema works and relates to the speculator. Cinema grabs the attention of the spectator through different ways, for instance, cinema as a door means that there are different entry levels of film not just through the screen.

The story is set in New York in the 1960s in a fictional advertising agency dubbed Sterling Cooper. The series focuses on the lives of highly competitive men and women in the field of advertising such as Don Draper (Jon Hamm), Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss), and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) amongst others.

In theatre performances, actors employ a variety of techniques relating to the voice, body movements and group work in order to provide a better understanding of the play. The group and the individual body movements are used to complement the voice by aiming to stimulate and develop the imagination. Martin and John (2012, p.45) note that the group is used to create images while the body and the voice creates the art employed by the actor.

The importance of such films, novels, plays or any other piece of art can have several interpretations, all of which depends on an individual’s line of thinking (Donald, 2012). This difference in perception of what entails a film is evident due to the creativity that the creator puts to it. Through the choice of actors, the costumes used, the environment chosen, etc., the creator can pass information pertaining to the targeted audience.

Continuity in the landscape, utterly realistic recreations of past world wars, highly convincing shootout scenes, and generation of masses is but a button or two away from this technology. Computers have done a lot to aid directors and movie producers evade the tormenting and rather rigorous activity of planning, staging scenes, finding the right background, weather, and illusions to make movies interesting.

Also, the essay focuses on some artists that demonstrate the ideology of post-colonialism. The artist-centred essay involves Masami Teraoka, who is a Japanese American contemporary artist. His works mostly centred on paintings. The artist incorporates the various values touching on postcolonialism. 

Institutional critique is a type of commentary made on different art conventions and institutions. It is also a commentary on the fundamental disarticulation of art as an institution (Welchman 2006, p. 56). Institutional critique tries to make more visible the boundaries between the inside and the outside, and between the private and the public (Books LLC 2010, p. 19).

Between 1906 and 1911, Australia produced the largest number of feature films. In 1911 alone, Australia produced 50 fiction features and numerous local films. ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, a feature produced in 1911, won credit as the world’s premier full-length feature.  The supplies of foreign films during this period were irregular, and thus Australian films enjoyed a lot of screenplays. The industry failed to consolidate this position.

The artists who constructed the original sculpture are not known as it was constructed many centuries ago and the records were not kept.  During that time, several groups of people were involved in the construction of sculptures used for religious purposes. However, their records do not exist despite the high-quality artistic work that they came up with in the construction of the marble statue of the youthful Hercules.

The world of visual art has been used as a platform for artists to express their ideas and the values they hold towards the society. This, over the years necessitated the development of different theories that could be used in the development of effective understanding of the society through art. By late 19th century and early 20th century, modernism was introduced as a radical school of thought.

According to Jenna (2010), the event followers will tell you that this event was not the first one to present Japanese fashion in Australia. There has been “The Cutting Edge”, a fashion exhibition at Powerhouse Museum in 2005 which also covered similar ground, but showed a low profile compared to “Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion”.

However, this went on to become a significant component of any artiste’s education at the time of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century.Industrial Revolution took place after the middle of the 19th century and different other kinds and movements of art came up. This led to changes in art styles and these were visible in the paintings that were produced by the artists of those times.

Throughout the history of mankind, demons have been creatures of dread, fear, and reluctant fascination – the latter manifested by the countless array of literature on demonology. As such, depictions of demons are wide-ranging and vary from one period to another and across cultures. This paper explores the visual characteristics of hell demons throughout centuries. 

Nations having good film cultures and having successful film industries and having good production and direction in film making all tend to share a relationship that is loaded with problems and that too with the dominant American film culture American production and consumption.

To understand that a plot of the storyline is essential and that has been described in the sentences below. The main advantage of the editing was that the prejudices were real though the characters were not. The editing was able to give the advantage that the tensions and raw emotions and conflicting behaviors were being able to transform to the viewers.

Changes in other fields may affect art either directly or indirectly. Paint ready mixed in tubes was invented in 1841 according to Greg Simpson in his article ‘The Impressionist Movement’ and became widely available in the 1860s. Before this time artists had to grind their colors and keep them in little sacs.