Abstract This paper studies 20th century Jewish art, focusing on signs of ethnicity. Works are analyzed for evidence of explicit ethnicity and references to 20th century Jewish history. The paper looks at the work of Moritz Oppenheim, the works of European Jewish artists, Max Beckmann's picture entitled "The Synagogue" and Israeli art. It also touches on Jewish theatre and folk stories and explores Jewish ethnicity in U.S. artists. It concludes with a summary of the transformation of Jewish art over the 20th century.
From the Paper "The process of acknowledging, gathering, reviewing, researching, and elucidating Jewish art, was initiated around a hundred years ago, as it continues to date. The basic purpose behind studying the Jewish Art was to safeguard the ethnic legacy of the nation, and to sustain a promising resource for the revitalization of Jewish lifestyle. Be it in the customary, ceremonial, or conventional perspective, the Jewish art history is noteworthy to understand the future of Jewish works of art."
Abstract This paper provides a brief bio of Salvador Dali, his life, and works. It looks at the important contribution he made to the surrealism era of art. It looks at the significance of his work and painting and the depth of study needed to understand the true meaning of his work.
From the Paper "The artists of the Surrealist movement researched and studied the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, determined to explore ways in which to express their art through the world of dreams and the unconscious. Some expressed their art in the abstract tradition, others, in the symbolic tradition. Although, surrealism and certain forms of abstract art share similar origins, they diverge on interpretation of what those origins mean to the aesthetic of art (History pg). The accumulation of knowledge is the root, the basis, to push beyond the frontiers into the unknown. Dali was one artist whose approach to art during the Twentieth Century used that accumulated knowledge, built upon it and mastered it (History pg)."
Abstract This paper briefly discusses how studying Egyptian art proves the need for more use of all the senses in art. It uses the famous picture of the offering bearing to the court official Tjeti. The writer looks at all aspects of the picture to assist in enhancing the reader's senses.
From the Paper "Egyptian art and language are intimately and intricately linked. Egyptian writing is very pictorial --- all the alphabets are really pictures. Each letter is a representation of a sound, like in English. But unlike English, the very shape of a letter or word has meaning. In English, the word "love", for example, can have meaning only in the auditory medium. It's only when it is read and heard that it has meaning. The shape of "love" itself has no meaning. Nor do the shapes of any English alphabet. So, Egyptian alphabets are symbols of both sound and sight. This interplay between the auditory and the visual can make very interesting effects such as multilayered puns with multiple meanings (1)."
Abstract Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is widely considered to be one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists. This paper discusses him as a photographer, painter, designer, writer, sculptor printmaker, film-maker and teacher. It shows how his influence reached into many aspects of the arts, from his native Eastern Europe, to the Western part of the Continent, across the Atlantic to the United States. The paper also explains how Moholy-Nagy was an important figure in the Western European Constructivism movement.
From the Paper "Moholy-Nagy was born in 1895 in Baac?s-Borsod, Hungary. He left school in Budapest to fight in World War I in 1916. It is during the war that he began sketching and taking his work as an artist seriously. In 1917, while recovering from a wound, he founded the artist group MA and started a literary magazine called "Jelenkor". In 1919 he moved to Vienna. It was there he began to make photograms and collages."
Tags: art, paint, designer, photographer, hungary, jelenkor, collage, war, sketch
From the Paper "The paintings "Ponts des Arts" by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1865) and "The Artist's Garden" by Claude Monet (1881) depict scenes appealing to the sensibilities of the respective artists, and each places the viewer in the position of observer, much as the painter was when the work was first made. The Monet work is more involving, probably because the subject matter is more personal to the artist, this being a depiction of his own garden at Vetheuil. The site of the Renoir painting may have had import for the artist, but it is still not as personal a meaning as the garden had for Monet.
Monet was known for paintings of sun-d renched, flower filled gardens. Vetheuil was a small town on the banks of the Seine, and Monet lived there in 1881. His garden was dominated by tall sunflowers and was terraced from the house down to the river, as can ..."
From the Paper "Pablo Picasso's 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein and Willem de Kooning's 1944 painting "Woman" are both fascinating in themselves and at least somewhat anomalous in terms of each artist's canon of work, especially in terms of their depictions of women and the human form. The essay examines these two work, after providing a very brief overview of the artists? background.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso was prolific both in terms of absolute numbers of works ? having created more than 20,000 pieces ? and in terms of creativity, as an innovator of styles and techniques, as a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artists in history.
Picasso's genius manifested itself early: at the age of 10 he made his first paintings, and at 15 he performed brilliantly on the entrance examinations to Barcelona's School of Fine Arts. "
From the Paper "The reasons for the extraordinary flowering of art in fifteenth-century Florence are extremely complex and range from the prosperity and cosmopolitanism of the city to the humanists' new ideas about humanity and new relationship with antiquity to the earliest stirrings of the modern concept of the artist. One undoubted source of the sheer volume of Florentine art and its innovative nature is the demand formulated by the city's patrons--guilds, confraternities, churches, religious orders, civil government, and, above all, the Medici Family--with its special devotion to the ideal of magnificence--and the many other wealthy Florentines who imitated them. In the midst of their prosperity and under the influence of evolving ideas fifteenth-century Florentines became a new kind of consumer and their patronage facilitated the extraordinary performance of art as "it underwent.."
Compares & contrasts 2 photos with similar subjects in terms of form, content & technique: "Migrant Mother California" (Dorothea Lange) & "Tomoko in Her Bath" (Eugene Smith).
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, 2001, $ 55.95
From the Paper "In the United States, photography has for several decades served the aims of both art and social documentation (Adams, 1994, p. 489). As an art form, photography can present compelling, challenging images that engage viewers in both form and content -- as well as opportunities for photographers to experiment with form, content, and techniques of representation. This brief essay will compare and contrast two photographs with a similar subject matter (i.e., mothers and their children) that were taken by two very different photographers in two distinctly different historical periods. The first photograph is Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother, California" (1936), and the second is W. Eugene Smith's "Tomoko in Her Bath" (1972).
Dorothea Lange was one of several American photographers for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a "New Deal" federal.."
From the Paper "The principal impression in any encounter with the full span of Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) immense body of work is that he had looked at everything that preceded him. This impression is so overwhelming, in fact, that it is not a surprise that scholarship on Rodin's influences and sources is quite sparse. In part this is a function of the rapid decline of Rodin's critical reputation after his death and, perhaps, of the fact that the popularity of his most famous work has never diminished. The more salient factor may be, however, that Rodin's oeuvre seems to be the culmination of the tradition of, primarily nude, sculpture that reaches back at least 2,000 years. Realistic, even idealized, nude sculpture simply seems to end with Rodin and the few direct influences on eminent sculptors seem to point up their irrelevance rather than Rodin's importance. Aside from the..."
From the Paper "The AIDS Quilt represents an unprecedented example of grass roots political organizing. The quilt, also known as the NAMES Project Quilt, makes both personal and private statements about mourning, community participation, and activism. The AIDS Quilt is unique among public monuments because it is a collaborative memorial, the organizers of which have vowed to continue the project for the duration of the AIDS epidemic.
A stunning feature of the AIDS Quilt is its explosive growth. The quilt was first publicly displayed in 1987, when it consisted of slightly less than 2,000 panels. At a public exhibition in 1990, the quilt comprised 10,000 panels. By 1992, the quilt included more than 20,000 panels, with an additional 4,000 panels brought to a demonstration in Washington: "The steady rise in the number of panels over the past five years..."
From the Paper "This paper will discuss the career and personal style of designer, Laura Ashley. The discussion will include a brief background on the designer, and will show the type of business that the designer ran, as well as explain how her company lasted for five decades. Finally, the paper will illustrate examples of the designer's products and look, as well as explain why this designer is important.
The apparel and furnishing designer, Laura Ashley, began her career in fashion and interior decorating by selling tea towels. Ashley first started silk-screening linen dish towels with her husband, Bernard Ashley, on their kitchen table in 1953. Mrs. Ashley was experiencing a difficult first pregnancy and wanted to pass the time until her child's birth by making patchwork home furnishings. Ashley was ..."
Examines Roman creations from J. Paul Getty Museum as examples of earth-and-human-centered belief which made conversion to Christianity extremely difficult.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, 1996, $ 47.95
From the Paper "Jesus Christ was born into a Roman world. As Luke tells us, "a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled" (Luke 2:1). In the Romans' view, they and their possessions were the entire world. The Romans had gone on endless military campaigns to subdue their enemies and exert their influence in every accessible corner of the Mediterranean and European worlds. Then, in a similar but more peaceful fashion, Christ's followers went out to spread the word throughout the Roman Empire. It was not until they finally succeeded in acquiring the Roman Emperor Constantine as a convert to Christianity in A.D. 312 that the new religion triumphed and the history of the Western world was transformed. After that "the empire that Constantine ruled as a declared Christian, from 312 to 337, was profoundly different from the classical urban..."
From the Paper "Most colonial furniture was the product of the settlers' practical need for the basics of existence. On their arrival the first colonists had to cope with the problems of survival and the difficulties of the voyage had allowed them to bring very few of their possessions along. At first they were unable to concern themselves with any but the most basic uses of "time and precious human resources" and furniture makers' skills were needed elsewhere. But they did carry with them their "deeply embedded habits, customs and tastes" and the "old forms and the tools needed to make them were reproduced virtually unchanged and persisted long after they had been abandoned 'back home'" and were to be the basis of new, specifically American versions of European furniture styles. Within the broad field of colonial furniture styles it is possible to select a few topics that..."
From the Paper "The traditional view of Western influences on Chinese painting has been that the first influences derived from Chinese artists' observation of the work of European artists in China in the eighteenth century. These influences have not been regarded as being of much significance and, in fact, were usually just dismissed as the aberrations of a few painters who placed themselves outside the long Chinese tradition. James Cahill and others have proposed, however, that earlier influences of a more substantial kind are to be found in the work of landscape painters of the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods. An examination of Cahill's claims shows how the European influence was integrated into the work of certain painters and eventually passed on to others who followed them. These influences do not include outright changes in subject matter or blatant alterations..."
From the Paper "Introduction
Eastman Kodak once dominated the consumer photographic market, but has recently lost some market share to Fuji film in photographic supplies, and to Polaroid in instant cameras. The high rate of usage of 35mm cameras also meant a loss of market share as consumers moved away from Kodak's flagship instamatic cameras and to the higher quality (but now easier to use) reflex cameras. This research considers the current strategies in place at Kodak, the competitive environment in which the company operates, and evaluates alternatives the company might follow in coming years in order to ensure its success.
Company Background
Kodak develops, manufactures and markets consumer and commercial imaging products. The consumer imaging products are used for capturing, record.."
