Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The acting of this two-act play takes in Ybor City where there are many Cuban Cigar factories (Cruz 2010, p.1). The play’s actions take place in the year 1929 a period affected with economic upheaval because of the market crash. Among the expected themes in the play, include violence versus reason, tradition versus change, female perspective versus male perspective, literature, nature, acting, and love.

This essay explores the art of Henri Matisse. There are a number of different art works that can be used in a bid to describe each artistic work. For example; there are paintings, installation art, earth art, jewellery etc. For this case, the type of artwork that has been projected is a painting. Every piece of art has its own scene.

The story in the film revolves around the life of a young extraordinarily talented person, Will Hunting who belongs to a working-class neighborhood in Boston. The young man works as a janitor Massachusetts Institute of Technology and involvement in low-skilled jobs, fighting, hanging out with friends, and getting in trouble characterize his lifestyle.

Jiang Wen’s prior status as an actor did not hinder him from choosing the story line of the film Devil at the Doorstep, which carries violence and mental trauma faced by individuals in a closed society. The film was able to gain the jury prize at Cannes, but that did not help Jiang Wen as a director.

This side of the argument insists that eyewitness accounts have many times resulted into the resolution of cases based on testimonies, which could be subjective and inaccurate, instead of on the merits of physical evidences, which could be more concrete and objective

Whether heroes are born or made is a hotly debated issue. Heroes are made by the decisions they have had to make under tough circumstances. In some cases, heroes even come out by breaking the established norms and rules in their respective worlds. They decided to break the rules for a noble purpose and emerged as heroes.

This essay explores the relevance of Snapshot photography's evolution to contemporary photography. Given the complication of handling cameras and dealing with the aftermath of complicated chemicals on photographic film, photography was not for the ordinary person. The progression of photography gave rise to a new class of artists.

1. Desciption and History The “Pollard Birches” created by Vincent Van Gogh. In his sketch Van Gogh first used pencil. Over the pencil sketch he used pen in drawing his artwork with black ink which over the years faded that made it appear on its brown color.

This paper concerns the avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture. Pablo Picasso was one of the artists who pioneered the movement. In 1907, Picasso painted the Les demoiselles d'Avingnon. In this figure, as Picasso and McNeese argue, the painting involves the use of several views.

Her essay greatly contributed towards steering films to a more psychoanalytic approach. Film theorists including Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz had been striving to introduce psychoanalytic framework in their theories related to cinema. However, it was Mulvey’s essay, which established the connection between film theory, psychoanalytic ideas, and feminist approach.

This essay states the surrealism and dadaism movements. Dada and Surrealism are some of the most significant movements in art history. They challenged civilization, traditions, and culture by introducing materials and visual strategies that changed the vocabulary of art thus transforming art history.

1305 – 1310 (“Olga’s Gallery”). Rendered with tempera on wood panel, this amply dimensioned painting depicts Giotto’s version of the Virgin with her Holy Infant being surrounded by the angelic entities whose spatial orientation appears to enhance the already magnified theme by the enormous significance which Giotto necessitated for the size of the subject at the center to possess.

Trecatin’s rendering and narration of the movie A Family Find Entertainment is unorthodox. It is a departure from the typical structure of a film that is linear with a clearly defined character-bearing methodically developed plot. Rather, the movie is a muddle of frantic characterization of overdrawn expressions, compressed into frames.

 In many ways, the internet and the web have generally changed society’s view of societies and ways of interacting with them. It has become the determining factor of whom a celebrity is unlike in the olden days when this determination was a by a selected few. Additionally, the access to the internet by many people has created a danger to celebrities.

Primarily, in ‘Paradise Now’ two Palestinian terrorists, brothers Said and Khaled went to Tel-Aviv, and this geographical and historical context determined a plot of the whole story because they needed to behave themselves like standard Jewish people.

Egyptian revolution of 1952’s Impact on Egyptian Film’s Content By Your Name Class Name Instructor’s Name University Name Due Date The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 is probably one of the most significant events of the history of Egypt. It released a wave of change throughout the country and had a manifold effect.

The indifferences that are experienced in society are mainly based on the social classes that develop with time. The major cause of antagonism has been on the ownership of wealth and the domination of power. This was the situation in Britain that gave rise to the two antagonist groups. If one group tends to oppress, a revolution may arise.

It is needless to say that the lovers of the art of photo shooting and the audience across the world have equally praised his glory that stretched throughout the twentieth century. Any amount of congratulation and the height of honour bestowed to his creative craftsmanship will not be sufficient to reflect his excellence.

According to the paper One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is where Allan seeks the services of a local priest, Mozart, to make him the powder, which would enable him to understand the ritual. This is in an attempt to solve the vagueness behind the drug. This scene serves to bring out various key anthropology aspects.

Themes are not directly stated in the artwork but they are implied. According to Guetzknow (2002 p. 2), they are similar to a tread shown through the entire history of the art. This paper will discuss several themes of art that inspire different interpretations and meanings from different cultures and give examples of each.

Ancient Egypt is one of the countries that have rich history concerning sculpture and paintings. This research will portray the function of Egyptian arts as they preserve the present to be clear and permanent as much as possible. Similarly, this research paper will show other forms of arts, which represent extra ordinary time, and life that was lived in thousand years ago in Egypt.

In the second painting depicting the Maternal Caress, the baby is very happy and laughs in pleasure. They are only two beings in the portrait and this means that the mother is the sole source of her happiness and beauty. Again, the two portraits have a significant relationship with relevance to the impression aspect.

The history of art is rich in many respects as illustrated by numerous epochs. In order to have a better understanding of art, this paper will focus on the specific art periods: pop art and Harlem renaissance. The paper will discuss earlier art history, characteristics of the styles, social conditions that may have contributed to the advent of these styles.

The two reviews are somewhat similar with the main differences being in the detail each reviewer pays to the techniques used in the movie. While they both discuss the themes adequately, the latter review gives a better critique of the techniques employed in the movie. The two reviews are also generally positive with regard to the first installment of Elections.

This essay discovers the nature as a construct in the contemporary art. Captured in a quaint form, nature has also been a foundation of joy and pleasure. It is worth noting that nature is the measure of the whole when viewed as the typical inspiring object. However, there is something inspiring in the fact that each person is part of the world.

The Abyss builds political tensions associated with the post-war era, specifically the tensions between the US and the Soviet Union in the Cold War era. The narrative highlighting Cold War tensions presents a feeling of impending doom beginning with the USS Montana, a US war submarine.

This essay analyzes Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie's writing on fashion. As an editor of the magazine, Wilde determined the nature of the content often printing some of his own works while at times soliciting content from other writers of the time. He therefore interacted with top designers of the time and wrote for the women who consumed the very designed.

His main focus was painting of figures and portraits but he has also painted landscape. In his portrait painting, he focused more on the face and eyes. This is because he believed that the garments in a painting were not important as the eyes were the window to the soul and communicated a lot.

The play might have played a crucial role in French revolution given the fact that Napoleon Bonaparte asserted that it was its main cause. The plot of the play is based on the attempt by clever servants, Susanne and Figaro to get married and block the plan by Count Almaviva, their master, to lure Susanne prior to the wedding.

In the Islamic culture astrolabes was used to calculate the Qilba and knowledge of the Salat prayers (King, 1999). The Qibla is the direction that Muslims faces when in prayers during the Salat which is the practice of formal worship in Islam. The astrolabe in the world of art is a fascinating device that not forms part of the Islamic culture for the functional elements it was designed for but also beauty that radiates from the sight of the way it’s designed.

For instance, there is the case of Kenneth Trapp, the curator-in-charge at the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery, who declared that craft and the materials used for their production are “always concerned with materials, craft makers reference traditions, craft makes constant reference to the human body,” and that “all these attributes position craft outside the realm of high art and serve as the basis for the tensions between the two worlds.”2 This kind of attitudes and perspectives go against the very principle of aesthetics, which is essentially all about beauty and creativity.

The paper will take a generic approach to film analysis and highlight various contextual themes used in the film. This paper makes an endeavor to prove that filmmakers of the movie have been able to convey the message that love is ever lasting. Plot Bruce Joel Rubin has written the plot of the film Ghost.

It could be asserted that Gunning's purpose of the documentary impulse was to show a series of factual events with a line of continuity. His main emphasis would not have been on the breakdown of the family. It was an insignificant point. The onlooker would have become the witness. Jarecki's onlooker has become the judge.

This analysis determines how the artists utilized their site of work to influence the audience to respond to their works of art/ performances. By taking a few of their works as illustrations, the article tries to establish the methods adopted by these artists are in accordance with the conceptions of site specificity. 

When a leader is leading a team with a clear focus, they can gain control of a group. People expect that the leader will have a clear focus and be able to bring the group back to that focus if they move away from the main objective. I think that it is important to support the team in their various ideas, but it is also important to keep the focus.

With the world growing smaller as technology progresses and the combined studies, interests and creativity of dancers and choreographers, various dance forms evolved to what is known ass modern dance. During the turn of the twentieth century, ballet gained much criticism because of its fixed and limited movements so that choreographers looked to alternatives that could make dancing more appreciated.

This waste of rainwater should be prevented. Product design could address this issue by proposing a way of collecting rainwater and also suggesting possible use. Rainwater 3 Critique of Rainwater Harvesting The very idea of rainwater harvesting brings to mind the agony of people living in arid conditions where water doesn’t literally exist.

This essay analyzes Earnest Etinne Narjot's art. In the oil painting "the mother and her child" there are several aspects of his painting that are worth an in depth analysis which includes the color, light, content, composition, line, and space. In a bid to sufficiently interpret and describe a given portrait in terms of content there are two areas.

Accordingly, she was born in Drezden, Eastern Germany, 1969. Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, she used to represent herself as a painter till the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography, 2005. Furthermore, her working methodologies, as they appeared in her works such as “The waiting girl,” 2006, “The rose garden,” 2001, “Study of a boy 1,” 2001, “At the window,” 2004, “Self-portrait,” 2000, and “The bride,” “Study of a boy 3,” “The wanderer,” “Study of a girl 2,” may be presented as a combination of painting, photo, and digital manipulation.

Ailey was keen on integrating styles in dance that are influenced not just by white or black America but by other cultures as well, including Asian and Latin American. It is because of this that he was able to establish a reputation as a genuine artist whose creativity in dance is unbound by stereotypes, traditions, racial discrimination and nationalism.

Puzo. It is a blockbuster crime story of an influential New York based family. The starring entails Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and Vito Corleone (Brando). MPAA classification, the movie has scenes of violence, succinct nudity and vulgar language. It New York City provided the right environment for its filming as evident in locations in Hollywood, Sicily and Las Vegas.

A metteurs-en-scene and an auteur comprise literary or cinema works. The work of an auteur portrays a semantic dimension since it is not purely formal, whereas the work of a metteurs-en-scene does not extend past the realm of performance, transposing a pre-existing text or scenario, book or play into special complex cinematic codes.

A film editor is a person who assembles recorded raw footage into a finished product that is ready for broadcasting. To achieve this, the editor selects shots and then combines them in a systematic order to create a finished film. Some of the raw footage includes sound effects, camera footage, graphics, dialogue, and special effects.

The "Into the Wild" movie depicts what possibly can happen if an individual sets off to make his wildest dreams come true. Nothing but a force can be so influential so as to cause a young man to abandon all his possessions, destroy all his credit cards IDs, and leave everything behind without having a word with even the people closest to him.

The main theme brought out in this movie is that of dedication and commitment. This is shown in the events and results of the races in which Abraham and Liddell participated. It is revealed that for an individual to have this strong drive of dedication there is an underlying reason. This is considered the main element that makes him strong.

The Malay dance was performed, mostly by people from Malaysia. It incorporated a diverse culture from the peoples of Peninsular and East Malaysia. In addition to that, Malay dance also comprised the incorporation of Hindu-Buddhist dance and drama culture. These were practiced in the early royal courts.

The close reading of the evolutionary processes of the art and sculptors evolved during Cycladic period in the Aegean civilization hints at its motifs and themes that evolved out of time. This essay intends to focus on the motifs and themes inherent in the structural dynamics and vibrant artifice of the Cycladic art during Aegean period.

For a long time, films have taken the role of both educating and informing society on certain important issues. The film industry, being on the front line in providing the world with important information has been proactive in this role. As such, filming addresses various social evils and social wrongs.

Four tall, slender, three-balconied minarets point to the heavens at the corners of this dome. The other buildings include a school, a library, and a theological college, which are not museums and they blend perfectly with the mosque. This UNESCO World heritage site is created with symmetrical repetitions, from the four minarets to the layout of the domes and half domes and finally the decorations inside and outside ("Mosque of Selim (mosque, Edirne, Turkey) -- Encyclopedia Britannica.").

Films are usually classified based on the genre that they belong to and as a result, this is deemed to be beneficial as well as a limiting factor when carrying out film analysis. A genre-based approach is thus helpful to the targeted audience due to the fact that it gives them an overview of what to expect giving them certainty.