Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Second, bearing in mind the specificity of a female nature, the novel gets its fabulous and fantastic look on the screen. Third, as might be seen, the life of a woman in a conservative Victorian period is well highlighted as the core idea of the series starting from June 1842 through August 1844 (Birtwistle and Conklin).

While I loved the theme of the movie, it had some shortcomings too. They did not characterize Leigh Ann deeply. It was never made clear what her motivations were. What was she feeling guilty about? For being so rich or for Michael being so unlucky?  Was it guilt over her being white and Michael being black? He goes on to become a player in the NFL.

As the cinematic theories developed over the time, there had been various new experiments and innovations in cinematic techniques that gave ways to new ideas about cinema, its effect and implementations to generate various artistic, emotional and creative belongings.One of the most important filmmaker of early era, Russian filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein had belonged to Russian opinion of cinema which termed cinema as a mean of provoking the people to think (Shaw 2011). This view, however, had a contrasting stand with many American filmmakers who used to derive the idea of filmmaking from its ability to provide entertainment to public.

The author states that compared with the first series of Die Hard, Die Hard 2 does not show a lot of his bodily physical beauty. There is some different approach for presenting the masculinity. Furthermore, his speaking style is marginal at best as a gentleman. The action films commonly present how the masculinity has been emphasized and displayed.

Even the filmmaking sphere is heavily inspired by the work of Shakespeare and filmmakers have made their niche with their own versions and interpretations of Shakespearean texts that has amazed audiences and critics. Akira Kurosawa is one filmmaker, who has given new light to the plots and themes discussed in Shakespeare’s works.

This was demonstrated during the entire duration of the film where Elizabeth had to contend with the various schemes and advances of Spain to remove her from the throne and install either her catholic sister Mary of Scots or Isabella, daughter of Philip II which is receptive to catholic Spain’s interest to restore Catholicism in England.

This essay explores fashion and its role. Therefore, fashion could be regarded as a non-verbal communication system that represents and expresses who we are as individuals. The non-verbal communication is based on semiotics. Actions create the meaning, value, and characteristics within a culture. There are two levels of the meaning of fashion.

The debut of Japanese art and civilization in the West led to the coining of the term “Japonism,” which recognizes the influences of the Japanese art in the Western society. Genova indicates that Japonism was mainly promoted by the ukiyo-e form of art (453).

A Bronx Tale Review The racially-charged setting of NewYork City in the 1960s is the backdrop for the movie, “A Bronx Tale.” “A Bronx Tale” portrays a young Sicilian male named Calogero from boyhood through his teenage years. The boy finds himself befriended by a mob boss, Sonny, who becomes a second father to him.

It has contributed to people being able to think critically in order to give ideas in an artistic way. Art is among the first method used for communication and has grown over the years as better artwork has been seen over the years. Several pieces of arts have been created in all the decades only that they improve with the era when we look from the ancient artists.

The category under which it was nominated was for the best foreign language piece. The title of the movie is symbolic to the creation of a perfect sibling relationship that exists between its two lead characters. Living in very deplorable conditions, Ali and his little sister, Zara, are very comfortable and love each other affectionately (Rochefort 2).

Why the irrational will affect design identity: the relationship between artwork and public reaction. The creative process has long been associated with irrationality, or “madness” to use an old-fashioned term. In previous ages this has been conceived of romantically, as the inspiration of a supernatural dimension on an ordinary mortal, or as the curse of some evil inheritance, enhanced by drink, drugs or mental illness.

Mel Gibson won various acclaims for portraying the role of Benjamin Martin realistically. The plot of the film revolves around an ex war veteran who had fought for the French Government.

The preliminary section of the movie is a crazy joke. At some point, Wei-Tung parents get a rendezvous service, Simon and Tung make respond by making up unfeasible requirements. In the culture of the Chinese, the musicians of opera are at all times men. The gay couple demanded for a female musician, who should have been extra ordinarily tall, possessing more than one professional doctorate and fluent in talking at least five different languages.

Many designers capitalized on the mass production of new goods by enriching their designs. At the same time, the architecture of the church was rapidly revolutionized since people would learn how to read, ending the need to have the religious structures designed in such a manner to depict reliefs of the religious narratives.

This implies that different people visit museums for different purposes, which are dictated by their preference of features that are availed for viewing. Throughout time, different artists have been involved in the production of works of art and donating them to the different museums so that they can be put on exhibitions for viewing by as many people as those who visit them.

As a result of the changing religious and political climate that was exhibiting itself within Europe during the 16th century, the Catholic Church actively promoted a new form of artistic integration with the society of the time. Ultimately, this new artistic integration was born out of a primal fear that the simple and, at that time, increasingly popular.

This essay describes a 9 year old boy that is panic stricken about his parent’s arguments. He finds them inattentive about his talents. Finally, one day he got too much agitated with his parent’s fights and decided to divorce his parents. He hired a Lawyer for the purpose and with the time period covering a summer, North needs to find new parents.

Generally, works of art during this period is known for its uncertain theme and form which rebels against the conventional standards of representation such as space, tone, color, and etc. (Kuspit, D.). One of the distinct 20th century artists that have made a mark in the art history would be Max Ernst.

Venus Compared Whether art began as a magical means of controlling the external world as some archaeologists believe (Gombrich, 1995) or for some other reason, by the time civilization took hold in ancient Egypt, art was already an important means of commemorating important people and cultural symbols.

This paper analyzes modern and postmodern art. The Elk painted by the man of the Stone Age on the walls of his cave was not meant for exhibition. It was an instrument for his magic and ritual. He did expose it to his fellow men. But it was basically meant for the spirits who guided his life. The access to the God was the special privilege.

Inception is an interesting and attention gripping science fiction action heist film that was co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film comprised of an international star cast, which included some reputed names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Caine, Ken Watanbe, Tom Berenger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Tom Hardy.

It is with this idea that Galt and schoonover try to relate the Global art cinema to Global Hollywood. The global art cinema is an elastically hybrid category whereby there is a lack of strict procedures that surround the art cinema. This lack of strict measures is what makes this unique from global Hollywood.

Most people were hoping that the offenders were from some place else, but as the case unraveled, the matter was clear – Mattew Shepard had been kidnapped, tied up to a fence and beaten mercilessly to his death by two people from their very own town. All because he was gay and had allegedly made a pass at them.

The current film industry uses a combination of visual effects, films and media varieties in various contexts to produce visual and audio effects such as digital interfaces, web design, audio effects, and mobile content, as well as interactive toys. Consequently, it has mobilized flexibility in the film industry employing competent design and development of quality films.

But, for me, attending graduate school in order to study art is also a lifelong dream. Pursuing a higher degree in the field of art is my goal, based on my artistic ability, my passion for art, and my interest in investing in my plans for incorporating my knowledge about art into my future.

This analysis will briefly analyze the way in which the stolen bicycle serves as a powerful yet muted allegory for the way in which the Second World War had effectively destroyed the traditional culture as well as the formerly proud infrastructure and institutions that had defined the Italian nation up until the outbreak of war.

In the Time of the Butterflies, which was released in 2001, directed by Mariano Barroso, is a movie based on the book by Julia Alvarez. The movie’s genre is a political drama and romantic drama. It focuses on the resistance of three Mirabal sisters to the dictatorship of General Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic during the 1950s.

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 courtroom drama movie directed by Otto Preminger starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, George Scott, Eve Arden, and Ben Gazzara. The film is about a murder committed by Frederick Manion (played by Ben Gazzara), a US army lieutenant, after finding out that his wife, Laura Manion (played by Lee Remick) was raped by their acquaintance and bar owner Barney Quill.

Specifically, both the film effects and events show the condition of the American soldiers during the outbreak of WWII. For instance, the filmmaking techniques serve as ways out of which the director of the film portrays the themes of love, loss, and victory, and such a portrayal and filmmaking techniques led to the sentimentality of the film.

As such, this brief essay will utilize Alexander Doty’s article to attempt to “queer” the film Hotel Transylvania. This process will help to educate the reader in to the many nuances that such a “queering” process can entail and with any luck also help to broaden the perspective and identification of such a reader with a broader understanding of queer topics, queer identification as well as queer lifestyle.

The story is written in a unique style. The story starts at the railway station where the two characters are seen waiting to departure to Madrid using a train. As the characters wait for the train, a disagreement arises amid them. Surprisingly, the argument takes on until the story ends.

The film depicts the lives of three young boys who struggle to lead a normal life in the banlieues of Paris, which fostered crime and poverty under the French government which ruled people with iron hands. La Haine is a film which shows how poverty and crime nourish each other.

This was because my father had been a troubled youth and at times got in trouble with the law She took him to meet her parents and it did not go down so well the first time It turned out my grandfather had actually arrested him once He disliked him at once and the meeting was high in tension

The art of block printing dates back to the ninth century. The first block prints were used in game cards in Europe, which printed images from manuscripts (Smith, n.d.; James, Corrigan, Enshian, & Greca, 1997). b. In which country was this method of printing first used?

What is Black Dance? Black Dance baffles definition. Each one sees a new horizon. “In place of a thoughtful, thorough, and intelligent definition, we are given a glib grocery list of characteristics (or stereotypes). Black Dance consists of two words.

Children, being young and frail as they are cannot improve the system yet. Such, it would be necessary for few individuals in the persons of Ms. Rhee and Mr. Canada to stand up against the odds and fight the status quo that brings about mediocrity.

Individuals who can assimilate into a given culture, even while maintaining strong ties to their own language and culture group, can be seen to have a distinct advantage. Bilingualism is more common than we think, particularly in California.

The author explains that her husband and she are both working and also attending higher education. Therefore, a daily experience would involve waking at about 6 in the morning to prepare breakfast for the family; prior to going to their respective routines: children go to school, while her husband and she goes to their respective places of work.

The storyline is surrounded around prisoners at a Jewish concentration who are assigned a common task of herding their colleague Jews to execution. This means that the movie takes a look at genocide as a subject matter and uses a series of inner built themes to condemn acts that took place during the uprising (Macleans, 2010).

So far we have not studied a single artifact that can act as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for art. For this case, I read and researched about a unique artifact, actually an architectural city that is a one-stop-shop for artifacts. This historical architectural artifact is called the ancient city of Petra or “the city on stone” (Paradise 40).

Arguably, the name overlook is used symbolically to refer to aspects of human life people overlook only for them to cause suffering later in their life. Arguably the film adapt the title ‘The shining’ to symbolically refer to advices and warnings people receive in their daily life, some learn and heed to them and hence they shine.

While the rest of Europe was still enthralled by the classical and famous themes in their paintings, instead of focusing on their surrounding environment, Courbet and other realist pioneers countered this style with accurate portrayals of the working class and their lifestyles, as well as those of farmers and peasants (Riat 11).

This essay analyzes Edvard Munch's life and art. He was remarkable for communicating most of these feelings, perceptions and ideas through painting. Munch was a symbolist artist. The symbolist artists used to communicate ideas and perspectives through paintings. The era of symbolic art lasted between the late 19th century and the 20th century.

The author states that the depiction of women as holding a specific social status is one which is specifically seen as creating a sense of controversy in the early 1900s.  During the 1900s, there was a shift in the role of women, specifically with the emergence of the ideal of women’s rights in both Europe and the United States. 

The Reader is widely acclaimed as a must-read novel in literary circles and is as praiseworthy as it is epitomized. Its adaptation as a film is said to have been created to mimic the tone, the milieu and the overall quality of the book - “in every detail… authentic and convincing” (2008) according to David Hare, the film’s screenplay writer.

The movie My Sister's Keeper was first shown in movie theaters way back in 2009. The film tackles two topics which are slowly becoming medical issues in this era of DNA manipulation. Based upon the novel of the same title by author Jodie Picoult, our story revolves around the fictional story of sisters Kate and Anna Fitzgerald.

The term social security refers to the system of providing financial, medical and other aids to an individual to protect him from unprecedented crisis situation. In the present civilized world, social security has become an integral part of the activities which a state carries out for the welfare of its citizens.

It is true that people are the ones who produce their system, but people who are born as part of the system can eventually become an active maker of it. Wall Street depicts the cycle of human greed, where Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), a junior stockbroker, becomes a protege of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who is a Wall Street icon, because of his aggressive approach to buying and selling companies.

Largely, people make decisions at the psychological level which is a subconscious level, and these decisions are prone to influence at this level. It follows that presenting information that would alter the perception of people at the same subconscious level would result to changes in perception.