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Prometheus: Painting and Myth, 2002.
The representation of the mythical story in the painting "Prometheus Bound".
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the work, from the Baroque Era, of Peter Paul Rubens, whose "Prometheus Bound" is seen as one of the finest examples of a myth being used to tell a contemporary story. The meaning of the myth is examined through an analysis of the painting's light, form, style and images.
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"Myths are the stories that lend meaning to the unexplained. Why does season follow season? How did humanity come to be? What is the origin of fire? These are but some of the mysteries explained in countless tales, plays, and works of art. Medieval man sought meaning in the Bible. The cathedrals of Europe glistened with windows of stained glass, each jewel-like work telling a different instructional tale. In the Renaissance, Europe rediscovered the world of Greece and Rome, and the learned found new meanings in classical myth and legend. Kings and princes likened themselves to gods and heroes, and artists explored the interplay of fantasy and reality. Mythic stories were used as illustrations of the human condition. In brilliant color and bold form, painters captured the heart and soul of their world, the figures of myth and fantasy serving as representations of popular belief. This age of allegory reached its height in the Baroque Era, the era of Peter Paul Rubens, whose Prometheus Bound is one of the finest examples of a myth being used to tell a contemporary story. It is also an image of the entire Baroque world."
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Jackson Pollock, 2002.
An essay on the life and work of American abstract painter Jackson Pollock.
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of Jackson Pollock, who is one of the central figures in the development of the strictly American art movement called Abstract Expressionism. The paper includes his biographical information, description of major works, quotes from Pollock and his critics describing his innovative drip painting style, and an "art inventory" of the 1953 painting called "Easter and the Totem."
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"American painter, Jackson Pollock, born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, was a troubled genius who became known as a quintessential abstract expressionist in the art world of the twentieth century. Pollock, a freedom seeking rebel, was instrumental is the development of the distinctly American abstract expressionist movement in the United States. He became notorious for his drip painting methods and his huge canvases layered with paint and embedded objects. Pollock, known for his emotional volatility and heavy drinking, seen as a phony by some, and a hero by others, used his innovative, individualistic and uninhibited style to birth a new artistic genre in post World War II America. "
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15th Century Spanish Art, 2002.
An exploration of the art of 15th Century Spain.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper takes the reader on an exploratory journey through 15th century Spanish art. The writer examines different works of art from the time period and relates them to styles that were used by the artists of that time.
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"Art has been a part of mankind since the beginning of time. Throughout the centuries and the cultures there have been eras in art that have affected what was popular and what was not. Art styles have been individual to the artist who created the work, however there have been definite ideas and preferences that have been heavily influenced by the era in which the patrons reside. Spanish art has been particularly interesting because of the metamorphis it has experienced throughout its history. Parts of the changes were triggered by political changes as well as religious surges. Spanish art in the 15th century was also heavily influenced by the Gothic era."
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Joseph Heller: "Picture This", 2002.
This paper reviews the novel ?Picture This? by Joseph Heller, American novelist and dramatist.
640 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 22.95
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The author describes ?Picture This? as a work of fiction about Rembrandt's painting ?Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer?, which was sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1961. The author considers the book to be more than a pure novel, as Heller takes the reader through history from Plato to Rembrandt and through the history of the painting itself. The review states that Heller in ?Picture This? has written one-liners for comic effect that sometimes appear to be incoherent.
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"However, scattered through the book, the writer has given a good deal of material about the canvas painting itself: the model who posed for Aristotle, the circumstances of its creation, the bust of Homer, the commission that directed to this picture and much more. Furthermore, its lineage, which is the list of people who consecutively owned it as it made its way from Amsterdam to Sicily to England to the Metropolitan, has also been discussed. However, the book overall is more or less directly about the painting."
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Malevich & Popova, 2002.
An analysis of the artistic works and influences on the art world of Kazimir Malevich and Liubov Popova.
1,660 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper provides a discussion of the careers of Malevich and Popova. The development of Malevich's style, through abstract art and Suprematism, is outlined. Popova's artist development, during which she joined Malevich?s Suprematic movement, is reviewed. The Cubist influences on their work, their architectonic painting and figure sketches are examined.
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"Until the start of the twentieth century, drawings, paintings, monuments and all other forms of artistic creations were based on the subjects and compositions of real world thoughts and dreams. This representation was always pictorial based reflecting clearly the real world ideas. However, with the emergence of science and technology and increasing use of machineries in the life of a common man, artists began to interpret the new emerging world in a different manner. The earlier decades of the twentieth century can be termed as an era of extraordinary development in the artistic world. Several movements lead the modern art to particular new directions. Movements like Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism guided the artists of twenty first century to explore new avenues and to reassess the role of art. Movements like Suprematism and Constructivism stemmed from the materialism of the machine age. Although, these movements were comparatively short lived, they had a deep impact on the development of art in the coming days."
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David Wiesner: The Author and Illustrator, 2002.
An analysis of some of Wiesner's literary works with emphasis on the illustrations.
1,002 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper reviews four children's stories written and illustrated by David Wiesner: "Sector 7", "Tuesday", "Hurricane" and "The Three Pigs". The paper claims that although these works were intended for children, Wiesner has a talent at reeling in grown-ups too. This paper describes these four stories via the illustrations and the medium used by Wiesner.
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"Children?s literature can provide rich pictorials that appeal equally to adults as to children. David Wiesner is one author-illustrator that can be singled out for his talents at reeling in grown-ups. Some of his picture books are exactly that; containing few or no words, they feel more like surreal comic strips than children?s literature. Wiesner?s artwork, usually done in watercolor or colored pencil, is at once striking and subtle. The subject matter often seems eerie until the end of the story, which finishes on an upbeat note. Books like Sector 7, Tuesday, Hurricane, and The Three Pigs, all written and illustrated by David Wiesner, convey his mood and tone with pictures alone. Any accompanying text is ancillary to the illustrations and causes the reader to wonder whether the publisher demanded that some words be inserted for convention?s sake (especially in Hurricane). Wiesner?s illustrations tell the tale far better than any words could; in fact, Hurricane is the weakest of these four books because of the distraction of the verbal narrative. With a talent like Wiesner?s, words are redundant; in all these books the pictures drive the story line and themes, and they also help to develop and delineate the characters. David Wiesner is an author/illustrator that can be relished equally by adults and children."
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An Interview with Diego Rivera, 2002.
An interview with Mexico's leading artist Diego Rivera.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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A summary of Diego Rivera's work and style, followed by an interview with the artist himself. The painter answers questions regarding his shifts in style, mural art in Mexican history, his atheism and his inspirations. It is apparent how his paintings emphasize the power of art as a medium to bring about social reforms.
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"Diego Rivera was one of the leading artists of the 20th century. He was born in 1886 in Leon, Guanajuato. He had an inherent talent for painting (arts), which was evident when he started to draw even as he was just 3 years old. He went on to become one of Mexico?s leading painters. In the early part of his career he was a traditional artist but later on, he was influenced by Cezanne and the Cubist approach to paintings. This is clearly reflected in his works such Zapatista Landscape, Woman at the well, etc. However it was Picasso who made a great influence upon him and Diego produced many of his works predominantly reflecting Cubical style, which gives more freedom for the artist. His artwork ?Sailor at lunch? is typical of Cubism."
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The Works of Auguste Rodin, 2002.
This paper examines the contributions of Auguste Rodin to the world of art including his pieces "The Man with the Broken Nose", "The Thinker", "Adam and Eve" and "The Inner Voice".
670 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the many works of art by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. The author gives a brief biography of his contributions and feels that Rodin was responsible for the resurgence of the popularity of sculpture as an art form. According to this paper, the one common thread among all of his works was the realistic nature of his sculptures and the care he took in preserving this in all of his works.
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"The Kiss is another work created for The Gates of Hell project. The statue depicts Paolo and Fransesco, two lovers from Dante?s The Inferno, who exchanged a stolen kiss and were seen and stabbed. The Kiss depicts the lovers and this first kiss. The Kiss was originally in bronze but later had copies made in marble, with three of the statues existing. Ugolino is a bronze statue depicting Ugolino della Gherardesca, a character in Dante?s The Inferno. Ugolino was imprisoned in the Tower of Hunger with his children. Ugolino saw his children die of hunger and then ate their flesh before dying himself. The sculpture depicts Ugolino crawling over his children just after their death."
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Botticelli?s "Birth of Venus", 2002.
A study on the Italian masterpiece painting of Botticelli, "Birth of Venus".
1,220 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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This paper examines the sublime quality of Botticelli?s painting "Birth of Venus". The paper provides a summary of the artist?s life in 16th century Italy. The author writes that the theme of the painting is the goddess of love, which is universally understood for all humanity throughout time. The paper continues to describe the imperfects of the masterpiece, which creates an elevated design of Venus's figure.
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"Botticelli?s works are some of the most enduring masterpieces today. While many of the old masters? works struggle for relevance into today?s changed times, Botticelli?s works have actually gained understanding and critical acclaim as the centuries progressed.
"Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi in either 1444 or 1445."
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Dadaist Movement, 2002.
A study of the Dadaist movement in modern art.
2,440 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 74.95
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This paper examines modern art's Dadaist movement of early twentieth century. It looks at parallel movements of its time, hand made art and decorative craft objects and the emergence of consumerism. This historical period surrounding World War II, had a wonder for technology in terms of machinery. The author defines the immense influence of the Dadaist on Art and society today.
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"We all know the story of how Marcel Duchamp took a urinal, called it ?Fountain?, put it in an art show and then defended his action on the grounds that as he was an artist and he said the urinal was art, then it was.
This is just the sort of thing that has given modern art a bad name. But why should it have? Why should that urinal not be art?"
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The Work of Andy Warhol, 2002.
A paper which examines the works of American artist Andy Warhol and what makes his art so popular.
2,045 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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An examination of the art of Andy Warhol and the reasons his work is so well-known. The paper explores his methods of production - mostly silk screen printing - and his 'series' - producing several images of a certain subject. The paper discusses how Warhol, in his various struggles to create art, was attempting to redefine and popularize American art by making it commercial and also by making the focus upon commercialism in his art a comment upon society.
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"Warhol?s art blurs the relationship between what comes first, the reality or the image. More and more people construct their lives around what they see on television. Warhol, in his own work, From a to b and Back Again, that: ?A whole day of life is like a whole day of TV.? (Warhol 5) Both, he says, are never ending and never shut off. The never-ending nature of life, Warhol also made use of in his epic, virtually unwatchable films. The intention by making such long films as Warhol did was to suggest that rather than art trying to change and reinterpret life, art should reflect life and be as much like life as possible. As life is no longer interior and private and personal, art should also be exterior public and impersonal."
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Art and Humanities, 2002.
An exploration of the relationship between the arts and humanities.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper studies the connection between the arts and humanities. It addresses the question of how the arts inform the way we act towards others. It looks at interpretation of literature and how both individual and collective struggles are portrayed in literature. The paper presents an panoramic history of the world and the way that artists of the time have tried to represent the events. At the end, conclusions are made about the proposed relationship between the arts and humanities.
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"The most exquisite expression of the self is through art, be it literature, history theatre, painting, sculptor and so on. From the wondrous Egyptian pyramids to the majestic statue of liberty, from eloquent Greek writer Homer ? who produced masterpieces like the Odyssey ? to 20th century literati like Palestinian journalist Edward Said ? who so brilliantly portrays the lives of the wretched and woebegone Palestinians ? to Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, every piece of art, all artistes depict one philosophy and that is Art for Life, representing Man?s struggle and how this endeavor has led to his evolution."
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History of Wilmington, North Carolina, 2002.
A discussion on the history of Wilmington, North Carolina with a focus on Wilmington's local artist 'Minnie Evans' and Airlie Gardens.
2,280 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The following paper discusses one of the many historical attractions in Wilmington, the famous Airlie Gardens. Designed at the beginning of the 1900?s, it encompasses some sixty-seven acres of post-Victorian European style gardens, including ten acres of freshwater lakes. This paper also focuses on the life and works of Minnie Evans, who worked as a gatekeeper in the Airlie Gardens, from 1948 to 1974, painting the scenery in the gardens whenever she had a break. This paper discusses the way in which her drawings of the Airlie Gardens helped her start her career as a well-acclaimed artist.
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?A descendent of slaves from Trinidad, Minnie was born in a log cabin in Long Creek, North Carolina on December 1, 1892. She and her mother moved to Wilmington in 1893, and there Minnie was raised by her grandmother. She completed the fifth grade, and then went to work as a sounder, selling oysters and clams door-to-door. Minnie always saw a world invisible to everyone else and throughout her life, even her childhood, her night dreams were filled with visions, and her days filled with sights and voices only she experienced.?
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Rauschenberg as a Reflection of Three Philosophers, 2002.
This paper discusses Robert Rauschenberg?s painting ?Persimmon? from the concepts presented by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Nietzsche.
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 6 sources, $ 61.95
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The author states that Rauschenberg?s ?Persimmon? does not look like a real subject, yet it is a real thing. From Heidegger, the ?strife? between the rational and the irrational is the key to art. From Merleau-Ponty, the strength of Rauschenberg?s work is found in its inherent irrationality. From Nietzsche, art represents the strife inherent in human condition.
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"Rauschenberg frequently takes subjects from nature (again, as is traditional in Asian art) and reconfigures them in a bright, compiled, collage-style form, so that the apparently surface perceptions of nature and color become slightly askew. One is cognizant of the fact that one is observing something simple and natural but not necessarily observing the subject as one might in so-called real life and in nature. One feels as if one is viewing the artist?s perceptions of what is real, rather than the thing itself."
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Gerhard Richter, 2002.
This paper looks at the life of German artist Gerhard Richter.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper examines the contributions of Gerhard Richter detailing with the different stages of his life, beginning with his involvement in Hitler Youth during WWII, his involvement in East German politics which enabled him to move to West Berlin before the Berlin Wall went up. Richter painted, but he used photographs as the basis for many of his works which are abstract in nature. The writer uses several examples of Richter's works to illustrate how he was constantly questioning the role of modernity in art and life.
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"Richter asks us again and again in his work to question these ideas, to ask if modernity in either art or life is precisely what it makes itself out to be. Modernity is a trope, an idea that a group of thinkers made up to try to understand what life meant in an age in which the machines had finally won, in which not only the heavy lifting would be done by mechanical devices but also the thinking would be done by computers and the art would be made by machines with no eyes. Work and freedom mean very different things in a world of machines, and modernity is above all else an attempt to come to an understanding of the relationship between the human body and the machine."
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