Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

This essay analyzes the changes in fashion in the context of America in 60th. The “dropout” mostly manifested in lifestyles and appearance. In addition, perception towards sexuality loosened and women protested in public against their social and culturally assigned responsibilities of being housewives and mothers.

This paper talks about the fashion item, the item ring. Indeed the description attest to the bond I share to the ring. The gold coated ring blends well with my skin tone. Additionally, the ring proposes little concerns on my outfit, although I do not prefer wearing it on all occasions. My late grandmother gifted me the ring. She had anticipated it to serve.

This essay analyzes the ideology of Kandinsky Wassily. Paintings communicate with individuals in different locations in a unified manner. Colors used, and emotions expressed in the photos as well relay a common message across borders. Kandinsky's quote that if you let your eye stray over a palette of colors.

The essay states the material culture and postmodernism. Supporters of postmodernism believe that most of the apparent realities arise from social constructs. They also believe that the apparent realities are subject to adjustment inherent to place and time. Postmodernism addresses power relations, power of language as well as motivations.

The impressionism and post impressionism periods refer to the works of art created by artists with the intention of influential art movements. The artistic work arose majorly in France in the late 19th century. Impressionism did not agree with the system of controlled state salons and academics. They instead favored an independent exhibition.

This essay analyzes the ideas in Robert Frost's poem “Acquainted with the Night” and the oil painting of Edward Hopper, “Nighthawks.” The theme of shadow and solitude is strongly reflected in “Acquainted with the Night.” In this poem, the speaker suffers from a dilemma thus claims to be “acquainted with the night”.

“Old lady with a cat” portrait is a fine depiction of how an artist views and paints the viewed reality in a most subtle manner. The work is in flat tones with dominated pale colours used in it. Artist has given less importance on symmetry of the work and more on the object under observation. This oil painting has dull light saturation over all.

The essay discovers the American Ads of Ralph Lauren. What most people fail to realize is that these images are stereotyped and there is an entire legacy behind the dresses and traditions of these people. When Ralph Lauren or even Victoria Secret and Urban Outfitters try to imitate the Native American race, they are only copying the visual symbols.

The paper discovers the role of Andy Warhol in the pop art. Andy Warhol was an American leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. The work of Andy Warhol explored the relationship between advertisement, celebrity and expression that thrived in the 1960’s. Some of his works are preserved in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

The research intends to introduce a new method in rendering artwork which is called “Hybrids”. Hybrid is an attempt to synthesize partial pixelization with realistic drawing to arrive at a fresher approach in painting. “Hybrids” is a particular interest to this research as no previous study has been made about the approach.

It is important to note that the author, Maurice Meleau Ponty’s has shed more light in the differences that exist between the primary language as well as the secondary language. In order to fully bring these differences into view, the author has first of all distinguished the primary language from the secondary language by the use of definition.

Both print and visual versions complement each other. For example, the visual version of hunger games led to the rise in sales of the print version. The changing of some scenes was important for the visual form to captivate the people to watch the film. Both mediums should be well utilized to maximize sales and enable reach a large audience.

Art technique development is important in finding ways to present artwork in a more elaborate and better manner. Development of painting art techniques is a progressive with most ideas coming from critical viewing of the representation and finding way to make them better and diverse. Other development concentrates on digitalizing system.

Good examples of movements are Mexican Muralism and Argentinian Avant-Garde movement. In which case, an analysis of this two examples gives an overview of how a movement can have impact on its subjects. The thesis, in which case, is “both movements looked towards changing the future for the better future for both classes".

From the statement of Walter Adolph Georg Gropius regarding Bauhaus, it notable that the school aims at establishing a difference from craftsmen and artists. Bauhaus was a Design/Art/Architecture founded on the basis of teaching bringing up competent students in the mentioned field. The statement regarding Bauhaus notes a clear variation.

A common filming method that reveals women as a submissive thing to be observed by the men is the camera panning the uncovered body of a feminine, showing in detail, authenticating the act of men looking at women’s bodies in this style.

This paper aims to reveal the essential aspects of Post Modernism, which are traced through the epic Harry Potter’s story – depicted shortly through the video tribute. Thorough analysis of the whole Harry Potter’s story evidently shows its being a postmodern artwork. The tribute to Harry Potter covers the most magnificent moments of all the movies.

Leonardo de Vinci is one of greatest intellectual artist and painter of all times in the painting industry. He is known for his excellence in quite a number of scientific and non-scientific fields such as being a painter, architect, inventor, and engineering among other artistry works. His artistry had a direct relationship to science and related with nature.

There are a few differences between seeing the painting live in real life v.s seeing it on a screen. Among these differences, the issue of ambiguity sets the two scenarios apart. This is because; Manets painting The Ragpicker when viewed on a screen does not give me it is actual size, texture or feeling.

The responsibility of saving enough retirement funds has been granted to the employee in the 401(k) retirement plan. This act has led to confusion and frustration among the employees. It is unlike in the past whereby many employees were covered by a defined benefit pension plan that put the risks of investments.

When religious tension between the Protestants and the Catholic Church was just beginning, this form of artistic display was supposedly adopted by the Catholic Church in an attempt to reassert its position. The fact that this form of artistic style originated in Rome before spreading to the rest of Europe further confirms its reasons of origin.

War remains and will continue to exist as controversial subjects in the life of people unless people decide to have a different perception of the world. The primary causes of war in the world are usually political, territorial, economic conflicts and militarism. War brings benefits to a single group while the other group suffers a lot.

Staying in Paris at the time, Van Gogh felt the dullness of Parisian life, and saw the urge of moving to somewhere else. Arles was the place he finally decided, as he wanted to go to somewhere close to Japan. Personally, Van Gogh has

As Cohan and Hark (1997: 83) describe in their work The Road Movie Book: “Mickey and Mallory don’t travel down freeways and back roads - that’s all back projected, they surf the mediascape.” So, the road as itself can be seen as a metaphor for their journey through mass media and ending up as celebrated super stars.

The researcher of this paper aims to discover the art of Constantin Brancusi. Due to his remarkable contribution to the field of sculpture making he is also called Patriarch of Modern Sculpture. His work is widely regarded as the work of the modern master. He has significantly contributed towards the art genre of sculpture making.

This movie is based on the “Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962” under the US leadership. The original idea was taken from the book “The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow”.

During the 19th and 20th century, many things have undergone significant transformations, most of which are changes from the conservative values of realism into modernization. These changes have mainly resulted from movements that advocated for changes in various aspects of life for example, art and performance as well as religion, lifestyles.

The idea behind this expression is that there is a difference between the form of the image and the actual content of the image (Lyotard, 1984). This can also be thought of as the difference between the visual image and the sublime connotations of the image.

According to the report in this film, it refers to the movie’s title, “Higher Learning,” and it means that higher learning is the process of unlearning preconceived ideas and biases. Racial discrimination-induced violence is related to the abnormally high self-esteem of the perpetrator based on his or her race alone, though otherwise the person has very low self-esteem.

The paper gives a critique on Salvador Dali's painting. Dali's importance for Surrealism was that he invented his own 'psycho technique', a method he called 'critical paranoia'. He deliberately cultivated delusions similar to those of paranoiacs in the cause of wresting hallucinatory images from his conscious mind.

The researcher of this essay aims to analyze Cave paintings in France and Spain, their Discovery, Appearance and Meaning. The cave paintings of in southwest France and northern Spain in Europe stand out as the most significant of the pre-historic cave paintings, because of their number, and the sophistication seen in them.

Throughout the history of art, one comes across a multitude of symbols employed by artists to convey a special meaning to their work. The mirror is one such symbol. It features prominently in the works of famous 16th-century painters. It has been used by different artists to convey different messages.

This essay analyzes the definition of The term fashion. It is very inportant to note the progressing process was possible to observe after the World War II and on the contrary regressing process was obvious and is now from the mid 80-ies. That is one of the reasons that makes this period interesting for discussion.

This review is inter-disciplinary in its draw near, giving notice to the cinema-city association not only from the point of view of film studies but throughout art history, urban studies, geography, and critical hypothesis.

The essay discusses the movie North Country, that was based on the book ''Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law" which tells the story of Lois Jenson, who filed the first class action lawsuit for sexual harassment in American history and covers the controversial topic of conflicts between man a woman.

Street art is among the more fascinating forms of art because of its quicksilver nature of being there and then gone, changing form as it moves. “As an artifact, it is the most ephemeral of all contemporary art forms: surviving only long enough to be documented before it is buffed, painted over and forgotten”.

All through the eyes of the ordinary man—a single cog in the massive system of an immense industrial organism. Modern Times is Chaplin’s final film in the series of his popular character, “the Tramp”, and thus has a particularly strong place in the hearts of those who truly cherish the actor’s achievements as the consummate entertainer.

This essay explores the theory of Postmodernism. There were ideas that were considered in the past to some degree or another, but the postmodern movement, with its emphasis on illuminating the sublime, brings these ideas to the forefront. “The political and the aesthetic are inseparable, simultaneously present, faces of the postmodern".

This essay analyzes the question of identity in the context of Korean contemporary art. Uniqueness in art, particularly for Asian countries like Korea which went all the way through Western influence in the line of creation and expansion in modern art, is often taken as a substitute model to distinguish them from the West.

This essay talks about the London fashion from Primark to the club kids. Fashion often focuses on individual groups. There is a co-existence of a mini or maxi as semi-sport style and business style. It would be right to say "fashions" in the plural, because the manufacturers have to determine for whom they are developing their collections.

The name “Hollywood” traces to the sample stand of native Toyon a name meaning “California Holly”. The name Hollywood was coined by H J Whitely (the father of Hollywood) who came up with the name when he and his wife Gigi were on Honeymoon this is according to the memoir of Margaret Virginia Whitely.

This essay discovers "The Lighthouse and Two Lights" and "Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine", two paintings by Edward Hopper. The mood of the country was changing from one of optimistic hope to one of pessimistic blame. Into this world entered Edward Hopper, whose images managed to capture the heart of this nation.

This essay analyzes the influence of surrealism movement on fashion. For instance, people are bombarded with marketing materials and information about a certain line of product that implies taste, style and way of life. This is very common to beauty products, consumer goods and apparel. Women are commonly the target of products.

This essay analyzes Graphic Design in the context of Dadaism. Dadaism was considered to not be a movement of artistic nature, but a movement of ‘anti-art’ that rejected the traditionalists and the bourgeoisie, which was used to describe those with money and power. In creating anti-art, the Dadaists created some fundamental concepts.

The essay analyzes visual identity of the feminine. The ancient Greeks valued a more muscular figure in their artwork of the feminine ideal, yet these figures still retained a soft roundness in their body structure denoting extra fat. In modern times, the feminine ideal has shifted to something closer to the skeletal. Fashion has played a significant role.

The study explores avant-garde movement in Russia. This modern life was considered to be urban, industrially based, socially fluid, and defined by the notion of capital or interchangeable wealth. These changed social norms set into roll a sort of metamorphosis, that brought about wide spread changes which had far reaching consequences.

This paper concentrates on the significance of micro and macro economic environment of the UK. With a general point of view, certain primary characteristics of the business concept today are profit oriented motive of the company, trade of goods and services, continuation of dealings. A business firm not only needs to confirm its influence.

Walt Disney has created many such cartoon movies that have taken fairy tales as their stories. The cartoon movies, which take inspiration from fairy tales and use that content, are very liked because of their dream like qualities.

Abuse may be defined as ‘the manipulation of another person through intimidation or intrusion into his psyche through fear’. Abuse may be of many kinds including physical, verbal, sexual or emotional abuse. In recent times, we have also come across instances of social, economic, intellectual and spiritual abuse.

This essay analyzes Painting of Modern era. According to Greenberg, the essential nature of modernism lies intrinsically in the determination of each piece of art’s (painting or sculpture) unique and irreducible character. To him, this process would render the art ‘pure’, and it is this purity which would establish its standards of quality and independence.