Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Arabesque is also used in relation with some Western art, but this form derives partly from Islamic art and partly from ancient Roman decorations. Arabesques are frequently found in Islamic mosques, such as the 8th century mosaics of the Great Mosque of Damascus.

In a typical film production, these technicalities are expected to go beyond the use of video cameras to capture a piece of acting. It is actually expected to include series of forms, elements and motifs that give artistic impressions and meaning (Barrenechea, 2004).

The roles of a film producer have evolved over the years and since the onset of the twentieth century, the functions vary from the person involved in the day to day running of the production process, instilling creativity and analyzing the practical aspects of the film production.

Pre-production: The first of these stages, preproduction ultimately first to the planning process that precedes production. Accordingly, the preproduction process begins immediately once the funding and initial planning stages of the film have been given the final green light (Grieveson, 2012).

As such, it is the hope of this author that such a level of understanding and evaluation will help the reader to come to a greater appreciation of how comedy can be used as a vehicle of societal and self-introspection to the same degree that many other genres of entertainment have been utilized for thousands of years.

During this event, Australian artists can showcase their artistic works, to the high numbers of visitors. The event serves to highlight different aspects of Australia contemporary art. The artistic elements, principles and themes used by the winning artists reveal a lot about Australian contemporary art culture.

The movie was well received, getting positive reviews from critics in both the US and in China. The movie has generated a lot of interest among people due to its depiction of themes of family and sexuality (Dilley, 2007). Unlike in America, where issues of sexuality, including homosexuality are openly discussed, in China and most Asian countries such issues are not meant for public discussion.

From the title of the film, it is indisputable to say that the film expresses the various dimensions of life likely to be encountered in England after inheritance of the West Indian culture. The West Indian culture was characterized with a high regard for a variety of music genres including reggae, ska, and soul music, which now become key elements of the England.

Please describe or list extracurricular activities, community or volunteer service, and memberships in organizations or clubs. Answer #1 I have been inspired by art ever since I was young. It has always been my desire to create something new from my imagination.

Drawings are usually done on paper through dry and liquid drawing materials. A drawing is a simple two dimensional art work. The most common medium used in making a drawing is a paper. Paper is produced from beaten pulp, mixed with water, formed and dried into a thin layer.

Casually films often records precious moments but might be difficult to watch. Film industry has then developed by creating improved methods that can post-process such films to improve them. Cinematography refers to writing with light in motion. Cinematography is an evolving language that speaks to the audience across cultural; divides in various ways that plain words cannot.

Historically, artists have used their artistic abilities and capabilities to either criticize politicians or push for political reforms. In my high school, I had the opportunity to study the contribution of art to the outbreak of the Second World War. Although there were other contributing factors to the war, as I realized, art had a great impact on the outbreak, progress, and the end of the war.

The films Jurassic Park (1993) and The Matrix (1999) by Steven Spielberg and Larry and Andy Wachowski (Wachowski brothers) represent the science fiction adventure/action genre in cinematography. One can easily identify that both these films are symbolic of the growth and development of cinematography.

This film is incredible from beginning to end and I will analyze every aspect of the film to provide the reviewer with reasons as to whether they should or should not see it. Gothika tells an incredible story about a psychiatrist who is like most psychiatrists in that she belittles the patients and considers them insignificant.

Indeed, it is a sticky subject to be caught in, and there are a lot of possible contentions one can adhere to and still be easily swayed to think otherwise. In fact, it may be quite easy to think of one good point being raised at the other side of the fence in either case. My personal view on the death penalty is pro- or for the cause, but not in all cases.

El Contrato is a documentary film directed by Min Sook Lee and produced by Karen King-Chigbo. The production agency was the National Film Board of Canada. It was released in the year 2003. El Contrato was declared as the best documentary in Iberoamerican Cinema Festival held on December 13 to 19, 2003 in Montréal.

There is information that one cartridge of electronic cigarettes may substitute twenty packs of traditional cigarettes. There are no recommendations as for the number of electronic cigarettes to use per day or week. One should just use this cigarette instead of traditional ones.

In the film, Bagdad Cafe, motifs are recurrently used to portray about human relationships in our lives and the impact one person can have on others. For this to be attained, a number of metaphors have been set to show the changes which happened due to Jasmin’s presence.

Appalachia became the subject of his photographs in the sense that he captured people, moments, atmosphere and the social life of Appalachia. His works have been showcased in exhibitions and in collections put in major museums, for instance, National Gallery of Canada, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam (Henninger 216).

Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Essay on the movie "A Beautiful Mind" Plot Summary ‘A beautiful mind’ is a really interesting movie about a schizophrenic mathematician, John Nash, who dedicates his all life to find a revolutionary formula that can change life.

The Hays Code worked together with film studios to create Production Code Association. The system of administration of Hays code draws many similarities to MPAA style of management. Hays code had serious and strong backing from the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, the rise of foreign films and the dwindling authority of the Catholic Church in America led to the fall of Hays Code and subsequent implementation of the MPAA rating system.

In the 1930s, film producers concentrated more on war and romance. These films relied on unrealistic and exaggerated portrayal of sexual relationships and romance to appeal the audience. The films positioned women on a narrative scale of patriarchal capitalism (Berry, 2000, p.

It is the combination of these cultures that paved the way for modern, Chinese art that has a deep sense of Western culture in it. Through time, it has become an acceptable practice to join these forms of cultures together. This is usually done to come up with what is so often seen today in most art exhibitions and galleries.

To capture the most interesting story, the journalist must take into account the most critical variables of the stories available, and then decide on the most significant to air relative to the desired goals and objectives of that pursuit. Viewers or the audience make up the central concern of journalism, with the objective being to satisfy their quest for the most significant news to them.

Introduction The representation of 'other' in art and literature is an intention to engage the exotic, taking that which is human and rendering it unique and alien so that the mystery of other cultures takes on the aspect of something foreign to the human experience.

Artists realize the piece of art, as it helps in developing a scene of events such that, on viewing, one can identify the occurrences of the past in a manner perceived as rather real to animation. The audience feels the impact of different past events all alike, and can establish on the plights that the human race underwent in the past.

“Science Fiction films have been with us since 1902, when Georges Melie’s 3 minute epic Le Voyage Dans La Lune took cinemagoers off the planet for the very first time. (Si-Fi Film History) (“Le Voyage Dans La Lune” means a trip to the moon.). While describing Science Fiction, Cramer (1994) states, “Science fiction allows us to understand and experience our past, present, and future in terms of an imagined future.”  Though the genre is imaginary it just thrills the spectators and at the same time through dystopian representation of the future world, it conveys a valuable message to the audience.

There are different genres of films, which have been used to approach moral choices in different films. A moral choice presents itself when a person is faced with a choice between doing good and doing what is not good. These different films present moral choices in very different ways.

There is inherent in such a mindset the racism and sense of racial superiority that members of the white races felt when they were faced with any kind of a cultural encounter with the other races of the earth. In a postcolonial context, it is important that such a movie is analyzed employing the critical tools that are available to a postcolonial scholar.

The importance of the movie lies in its depiction of the idea of America and the realization of it in a certain sense. This realization is made in a way that subverts the ideals that the United States of America stood for. The ideals of hard work leading to success, the core of the Great American Dream, is subverted in this movie where financial success is considered to be secondary to spiritual success as one of the two main characters in the movie, Billy puts it.

The concert, which featured Williams' talent with not-so-recent hits for West album, had been creatively enthusiastic. Though most songs depict some independence and peculiar tradition of folk, blues, and rock themes, the fusion can be said to still catch up with the postmodern trend in the relevant subjects of the present culture.

As recent reports from various sources declare, China has undeniably toppled over the worldwide market not just in dry goods but also in the movie industry. China’s culture has been a worldwide interest in various parts of the world. Stories and plots for movies intertwined with Chinese culture is a common line that is featured in Hollywood movies.

The two movies are related yet very different in terms of presentation and use of cinematography techniques. Moreover, the films have different ways of creating and presentation of characters. Nevertheless, the movies have a similar audience and their plot developments are almost similar.

Sex and sexuality are taboo in schools, as if students are gender-less beings. Conflict starts when students live in a gender-sanitized classroom, when in reality, sex and sexuality influence students’ lives, including human history. Cusack and Hytner (2006)’s The History Boys examines the purpose of education for teachers and students alike.

The movie revolves around the life of Zahra, Soraya Manutchehri, and a foreign journalist (Freidoune Sahebjam). Other characters in the film include Soraya’s husband Ali, Leila, Hashem, Morteza Soraya’s father, Massoud, Ebrahim, Kataneh, Malaka, Bita, and the village Mullah.

Born in 1898, Paul Robeson was African American, at university he was a great singer, and later he became politically involved in with political injustices and Spanish civil war. He was an advocate until his death in 1976. Biography Paul Robeson was born on 9, April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey and his father William according to Boyle and Bunie (22), Robeson was a priest and his mother Maria Louisa came from a prominent family named Quaker of mixed ancestry.

These Cuban owners ran cigar factories where workers were often read stories and other news by lectors. The play represents a time where invasion by machineries was threatening the tradition of having stories narrated by lectors and workers rolling cigars in the conventional way.

The sanctity of the firstborn is retained through his birthright and religious obligations specific to him such as Pidyod ha-Ben and bar mitzah. In the middle ages, when a son was born the fathers status in the Jewish society was raised. A father would refer to his son as Muhja which means his lifeblood or Hamud meaning his delight.

Comparison of my manifesto and Hugo ball manifesto. Hugo Ball, born in the year 1886 in Pirmasens and died in the year 1927, while living at Sant Abbondio in Switzerland, is an educated researcher who attended university level learning his German literature, History, and Philosophy at the university in Munich and Heidelberg.

The members of this movement were all young artists who were raised under the traditional values of spiritual and religious importance. The artists knew the Japanese artistic traditions as well, but they took the platform of this movement to completely overrule the traditional approaches and attempts.

Utilizing a verity of techniques Daniel Petrie, the director of the film , A Raisin in the Sun(1961) did not only preserved the originality of the play, but also successfully transferred this classic of Afro American literature into a highly commendable film.

One of the themes that emerge from this list is the concept of the group and the concept of belonging. Whether executed as a sign of compliance or a sign of defiance, the tattoo has typically been associated with some kind of socially relevant meaning.

This essay analyzes that the name of the exhibition, which the narrator visited, was "The Icons from Sinai" and "Sinai" is the name of a famous mount in Egypt which has the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine just adjacent to it. This monastery is termed as orthodox in the world owing to its ancient history.

The author states that interpersonal conflict happens to people who share different views, interests, and goals. There are five types of interpersonal conflict defined according to focus and source of conflict. Among of these are the people-focused vs. issue-focused, personal differences, informational deficiencies, role incompatibility.

The company has performed in various locations around the world including Europe, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East and North America. The RSC also has the distinction for playing in various university and civic venues throughout the United States, Great Britain and Ireland.

It is very noticeable that there were only minimal actions in the film and more on conversations. The movie lines were generally entertaining. There were a number of funny dialogues particularly every time they mocked each other. A lot of them depicted the great and fond memories they had made together nine years back.

Israeli film academy awarded eight Israeli prizes to the movie. The movie basically depicts the theme of cross cultural understanding as it has been made in the context of tension between the Arabs and Israeli nation. The universal themes of loneliness and love have been portrayed in the movie however; it basically revolved around the theme of multicultural understanding that could prevents the clash between different cultures.

This essay explores Home Watson's painting called 'Death of Elaine'. Watson, a Canadian had a talent in landscape painting. Elaine is a legendary maiden who died because of unreturned love. She loved Lancelot so much but he was in love with another woman. Elaine could not handle the disappointment that unreturned love brings.

Ruben painted the sculpture to show such challenges that challenge the holy. Symbolically every work of art has two interpretations that can be derived from it. There is the literal direct interpretation derived from the straight view of the painting, and there is the deeper interpretation.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most outstanding artists of the nineteenth century. Gogh noticed his superiority in art during his early school days and he lived his life to fulfill his passion in drawing. This essay will, therefore, focus on Gogh’s life and career as an artist.