Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The Warden assigns the daily chore of digging holes five feet deep, in the dry lake on a daily basis. She dominates everyone involved in the camp, inflicting pain on the assistant warden and threatening the patient counselor, Pendanski. It is evident that she is in control of her surroundings and those she interacts with.

The responses show that more than 50% of students were not aware that creative skills help them become a better learner and help them in the outside world with everyday subjects. About 12% felt creativity helps them understand things much better, and the rest felt that creativity is just about drawing.

Pixar started in 1984 when animator (and current vice-president) John Lasseter joined George Lucas’ (of the Star Wars fame) in Graphics Group, of the Computer Division of Lucas film Ltd. The Graphics Group would later be purchased for US$10 million, by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986 and become an independent company known as Pixar.

The author of the essay states that the encoded email made Chuck an “Intersect” or a repository of the United States' greatest spy secrets that he can recall those secrets by mere “flashing”. This TV series is interesting because it was able to portray how an average guy can become a great spy.

Nobody can guess from what artists draw that, there existed secret drawing methods or the possibility of eyeballing it. These New artists studied the real methods of the Old artists and gain more experience through practice. Indeed, the argument that it is impossible for any person to eyeball it is flimsy because people are in the continuous eyeball and many students have learned to do it better than Hockney can within a short time.

The use of lines in this painting is not evident but lines were used to come up with regular shapes that resemble cubes. For instance, the woman in the far right hiding behind a curtain has an oval like face drawn using lines. The breasts

Given the understanding that Hitler himself approached Riefenstahl to deliberately have her produce this movie (Riefenstahl, 1935) also leaves little or no doubt that Riefenstahl was fully aware of the propagandist intention in Hitler’s heart and just wanted to use this movie as a tool to accomplish the same.

I define art as a process that follow pre-established procedures or constructs to develop a product or a manifestation, historical or current, which aims

Difficulty of understanding the values is also manifested in the fact that it is hard to establish whether the framework dictating values came first or the values gave birth to a framework of behaving ethically, righteously, or justly. I personally believe that the

The director is criticized with consideration of his reflection on the society where the film was created. Genre is a particular focus of structural criticism and is considered as a set

To make exhibits sustainable, it is important to engage the public/audience at large. Traditionally exhibits are just exhibits featuring works of a certain artist/artists. There is a considerable risk involve in this because the exhibit is dependent

Both the migrant worker and the theme employee experience exploitation according to the film as it tries to show how difficult it is working in a big city where one is a stranger without city life experience. The film portrays the modernization of China from its ancient cultural society to modern China through the migrants moving from the province to the city

The word auteur is originally a French word meaning an author but its modern usage has been applied to a film director whose control over all aspects of the film production is so great the film can be said to be unmistakably his own (as the author of that particular movie). Rear Window is a suspense thriller and belongs to the crime fiction genre.

The movie, through Viggo Mortensen and his son, Kodi Smit-McPhee, proves that life after the end is not a rosy affair. Flashback scenes show Charlize Theron, who acts as the mother of the son, and the wife of the man. The movie shots and photography are admirable, including the appallingly deserted landscape.

Kahlo mainly worked on self-portraits that not only expressed her many themes but also relayed her sexuality and pain (Meadows, p. 56). She was married to Diego Rivera, himself a Mexican muralist

The movie industry is regarded as a tool for gender propagation and control. The Disney Corporation is attempting to encourage people from various parts of the world to consume their fantasy by creating films that depict other races of the world as well as trying to make them appear as equal subjects.

Despite the fact that Rembrandt spent most of his time in Leiden and Amsterdam, he had a passion for contemporary art and that made him win the hearts of many artists not just in Dutch but throughout the world (Hughes, 2006). In the

Wuxia films happen to be a subgenre of martial art films and it resorts to historical settings from ancient Chinese martial arts traditions. Unlike Wuxia films, Kung Fu films showcase much less swordplay and primarily rely on unarmed combat for appeal and attraction. Wuxia films in contrast depend a lot on the inclusion of the elements of magic, fantasy, and supernatural in the overall plot. 

It made me feel certain kind of shock and bewilderment from the very beginning due to its original and partially tragic plot. I am not going to retell the synopsis but for me the very understanding of the fact that two kids can be left on themselves doomed to

The film restored his pride in his Jewish heritage, a heritage he had ignored for many years while growing up in Arizona and when he faced anti-Semitism from his high school classmates in California. Spielberg rendered the film’s title character as, appropriately, an obviously flawed man who initially hired Jews for his enamel factory workforce because they’re inexpensive labour.

All the listed characters are found on the island. Besides, they are also seen during the plane flashbacks before the crash takes place. Consequently, the flashbacks in the Pilot come to give a sign of the things coming. They demonstrate the way the rest of the season is going to look like. Generally, a big part of the Lost show is made up of the flashbacks.

The second, which portrays a small tree or shrub in a desert, use light to show nature as an inhuman, somewhat inhospitable place.The prominent feature of the first painting is the interchange between light and dark. The painting is shown from the perspective of one underneath the shadow of the trees, which form protective walls or cocoons along both sides, and overhead. 

Legislation needs to be enacted for the protection of the animals. Pigs, cattle and chicken are raised in awful conditions and the entire process of meat production in inhumane. More or less, it is now an admitted fact that meat-eating causes coronary problems and harms the body and environment by eating animal protein in large quantities.

reveling forms that were made from materials that were malleable and references to the human body that were very uncharacteristic especially the female body. She was excited about her machine drawings and reliefs and she looked at them as “real nonsense” in this can be

It was mainly Baroque era ideas of empire, iconography an, compositions in the process of depicting space and corresponding movement in the eighteenth century.  Architecture is mainly found in the Renaissance within Europe in the fifteenth century to corresponding sixteenth century subsequent to the development of the Gothic.

These two prevailing influences are in a constant interaction state to the extent that is nearly impossible to ascertain that nature is only responsible for a particular aspect of an individual and nurture is

In designing the costumes for the characters in the play, one has to consider the style and complexity of the costumes. Bearing the in mind, the costumes can be revamped out

interesting thing about the project is that it was temporary and the artists deliberately did it as a way of appealing to the interests of the targeted audiences. They chose inland valleys in both countries as a way of trying to establish how land in particular was

She was loved by Rivera shockingly; thus her courage to paint was self-revealing. After having a miscarriage, Rivera encouraged her to paint the most

The Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X may look grotesque but as the title suggests, it is the reinterpretation of the portrait of Pope Innocent X as originally painted by Velazquez. The rendering of this painting was similar to Henry VI which was thickly painted with Cobalt Violet mozetta and pink.

I was born in the middle of December 1899 not far from London, but not in the capital itself. My parents were a beautiful couple who liked music. I took after them and found my way to the stage as well. However, my talent was a different one: I wanted to be an actor in a play. Soon, at about twelve I received such a chance and people seemed to like me.

A bouncing ball squashes upon hitting the ground because its entire body does not hit the ground simultaneously. Upon hitting and reaching the ground, the ball flattens out because of the gravitational pull on it. The squash will make a bouncing ball appear deformed although the nature and shape will remain the same after the squashing action. 

This movie represents the fashion industry as a world full of narcissistic and shallow people. An example is the way that everyone at Runway Magazine starts treating Andy differently when she decides to dress “accordingly”.

The Israeli cinema has been primarily used as a tool to advance the Zionist agenda. This factor would dominate much of the Israeli cinema since its birth. The films are focused on the masculine, where the man dominates the cinematic space while the women have been relegated to the “others” category and sharing its place are Arabs and the Diaspora Jews.

This essay concerns the Story Behind the Last Supper. Da Vinci was hired by the Cuke Ludovico Sfroza to create a paining representing Biblical story of The Last Supper where Jesus shared the last meal with his twelve Apostles and announced that one of them would betray his trust. The twelve Apostles seated beside him have varying emotions.

There is an analysis of the movie “Pilgrimage” which was directed, filmed and edited by Tadashi H. Nakamura. It is produced by Karen L. Ishizuka and Tadashi H. Nakamura. Nakamura, 26, was a fourth-generation Japanese-American and second-generation filmmaker. He created a 22-minute documentary that has been absorbed in the “short film” category of the film festival.

‘Why don’t you dance?’ is an excellent masterpiece written by Raymond Carver. The main theme of the story revolves around love, bonding, and relationships. Raymond Carver has skillfully highlighted the most delicate subject of relationship in his short story, why don’t you dance which was first published in 1977.

The painting itself as described by members of the Louvre Museum in France say that this is a painting of a boat wreck just off the coast of Senegal when it ran over a sandbank just a couple of years prior to the artist painting it. The boat, the Medusa, had nearly 150

This angers God who uses lightning to warn the humans to desist from the construction. They humans are, however, undeterred causing God to alters their speech to be different causing a communication barrier

Vito's line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" made it one of the most popular movie lines in American Cinema. There is no doubt that movie 'The Godfather' impacted American psyche tremendously after its release and masses even today find a solid association somewhere in their life with the character such as Vito – The Godfather.

The Department of Theatre and Dance of Rowan's Chamberlain Student Center presents the super awesome Ultimate Dance Competition show which is named “Kill me now” It is a very suspicious and interesting dance show in which the ultimate dance competition gets dramatic this work is devised by John Clancy, directed and choreographed by the faculty member Melanie Stewart.

One glaring familial value that we can see in the film is the patriarchal nature of the family where the father decides on all things about the family. In one scene where Ali and his sister Zahra were exchanging notes about her lost shoes, Zarah admonished Ali that he will tell their father implying that Ali will be disciplined.

Through the play, the memories of that summer as depicted in the plot, exploring ideas and a lot of themes, in the Mr. Friel iconic pragmatic

People were shown walking quickly as if they were in a hurry all the time. Long shots of several cars passing show traffic building up, again implying that people were always on the go. Although only music played in the background of the movie, the scenes showed that noise was all around implying the fullness of activity in the city.

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace of George Dickie was inspired by the Artworld of Danto. Dickie refers to the art world as an “institution” that is operated with a lot of subordinate systems. These systems are made up of different forms of art like music, paintings, theatre and dance etc. these systems have further categories.

Orientalism is the manner of seeing that visualizes, overstates, accentuates, and distorts dissimilarities of the Arab peoples and cultures as weighed against those of the United States and Europe. Further, orientalism involves studying the cultures and societies, people, and languages of the Near and Far Eastern by Western Scholars who see the Arabic culture as backward.  

This paper discovers of Edgar Degas's art. Changes in the political, economic and social systems of the world are the major reasons for the emergence of artistic movements, whose responsibility is to pass out the ideology that is brought about by the changes. An example is renaissance art.

Protestant art was more personal and avoided indulgence in large scale biblical art. Protestant reformation of art was characterized by the shift to small-scale biblical works that carried with them a moral lesson or a Christian message. The defining characteristic of

Basic movement is the second dance movement. It has a photographic print that enjoys front-projection of the combination of paint and paper to reveal diverse dimensions of the dance movements (Pavis 178). Therefore, demonstration of a sequence of movements is an interesting phenomenon that illustrates the use the 3-Dimensional as observed by a white rabbit in the photo. 

The author states that Margaret Tate, a Canadian woman, is a senior editor of one of the most New York publishing houses. Due to her character, she is well- respected professionally and loathed at equal measure. The loathing effect is expressed even by her staffs who call her a witch when she is not around.