Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Portraying the elderly in mass media can be a challenging task, especially the development of roles that are non-traditional in terms of not being stereotypical. The media, in general, tends to be very unforgiving and does not allow people to age gracefully. On the other hand, in the United States, a culture of youth is strongly encouraged. 

Anna Mae had always been gifted. But her prospects skyrocketed upon being discovered by Ike Turner when living with her mother who had abandoned the family to live in St. Louis. Ike was already established as a performer himself, as well as producer/songwriter. (Maslin, 1993) 

One of the earliest dated artefacts from this collection from the Australian Museum was documented to have been acquired near Wagga Wagga in the year 1865. It is an assortment of various types of artefacts. It is worth mentioning, that some of them are illustrations of early European settlers in the neighbourhood.

Henrik Ibsen is known for his plays that portray issues regarding morality. Ghosts are also one of the plays that represent 19th-century morality through their characters. This is a story of a woman Helen Alving who is about to establish an orphanage in the memory of her dead husband. Mrs. Alving consults her spiritual adviser Pastor Manders as well.

The definitions of dialectic words, which may be further read in the end of the short, reflect the appreciation of the mystique of their national identities. Another important feature of Vieira is the fact that he positioned the main characters of the short story from the musseque as integrative elements of the plot of the story.

The Myth of Venice was the idea that the Venetian city was an exceptional city due to religious and commercial life led by a government made up of noblemen, monarchs, and republican liberty. The visual arts and architecture of Venice only added to the Myth of Venice. An example is the buildings around the Piazza San Marco. 

It can be attributable to a particular person who in turn may relate to specific events and occurrences within their society (Kassing, 2007). This argument is significantly evidenced in the United States where a significant aspect of the American culture is the fast growth in dance; not just as a performing art but as a form of creative learning.

For example, most of Edward’s photographic images were metaphorically designed to represent the balance between nature and our modern existence. The current debates regarding global environmental conservation and sustainable living have substantially drawn inspiration and encouragement from Burtynsky’s images and photographs.

Many renowned names have served this field and have given human’s wisdom, to explain their ideas and thoughts through it. Hannah Sawtell is one of the emerging names in this field of arts. The British artist has been famous for making three-dimensional artworks. She has been producing revolutionary mixed media three-dimensional artworks with the help of small three dimensional objects.

The vase was made of silver gilt and was approximately four feet high from the base all the way to the top. It was designed with two handles each made of vine-stalks and attached to the rim of the vase’s neck and having lion’s heads as support on the other edge. Furthermore, the neck of the vase was elaborately decorated with a civic crown whereas the bottom was elegantly enriched with ornamental aquatic leaves, sugarcane stems and coffee-tree.

The breaking of traditional gender roles can be seen through the character of Miranda. The feminist theory above states, that women could be suppressed based on economic, social reasons, the character of Miranda allows no suppression and instead evolves into a career-oriented professional woman, with economic aspects aiding in her growth.

The character of Batman was in shadows and did not appear until the rate of crimes in the city again starting to swell. The Cat woman tries to get rid of her criminal career with the help of a mercenary named Bane, who asks her to hand over Batman in return.

I do greatly agree with Alain de Botton's idea of beauty. Actually taking into consideration our houses, for example, one will look for a good design for is house. Looking at the inside part of the house one will look for beautiful curtains, furniture to furnish the house and generally, all this lies within the bracket of design. 

futurism is more popular as the movement formed in the early 1900s in Milan by one Fillipo Marinetti. Marinetti’s movement displayed a strong loathing of old elements such as artistic and political norms and traditions where in his manifesto, he openly wrote against such stating that they needed nothing to do with the past and referring to themselves as strong futurists.

In other words, the creation of a physical atmosphere was the most fundamental aspect in terms of using theater equipment in filmmaking. Therefore, while in modern times the creation of a suitable visual concept for production could be simulated using computer software, in ancient times, only sound effects were important.

The Asian American people are a great threat to the Americans due to their powerful potential, and that the American government is also highly risked. This is due to the Asian Americans and Asians masculine nature and that most Asians and Asian Americans have strong muscles (Flood, Gardiner, Pease and Pringle 30).

The video was titled ‘Asians in the Library’ and had a run time of three minutes only. Wallace video also went viral because of the popular culture of personal posts among the youths. It went viral because it was odd, and it had the buzz content that it had. It gave people what to talk about. There were several issues. All these gave people what to comment about and criticize.

Laura Mulvey’s essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema can be described as an influential text owing to the debates it aroused in various contexts of society. In her creation of the gaze, she simply represented the perspective at which men want, or are made to view the women. She implied that men have been made to believe that women are meant to be pleasing to their eyes.

The horror film is the ultimate unsettling genre because it thrives on the worst of people’s fears and nightmares thereby provoking a sense of fear, panic, alarm, or dread in the audience; the horror film remains attractive and entertaining the audiences in a cathartic experience. The horror film seeks to upset its viewers by undermining universal ideas.

The analysis of Vanni’s and Cimabue’s pieces presents certain information that is crucial in understanding the motive behind the subtle refinements of each painting, permitting a better discernment of the altarpieces. The prophets are a representation of the order of the cosmos in the sense that the prophets are portrayed as the masters of knowledge, which has been given to them by God. 

The seated Buddha statue as implied is a carving of a seated Buddha. The carving is made out of schist which allowed for fine detect. The material enabled the statue to be impressively done even up to the fingernails. The posture adopted by the Buddha is one among the many standard Buddha poses. The posture depicts the Buddha as being a teacher turning the Dharma wheel in motion.

Christ the Redeemer is an interesting piece of art. Even though there is little literature to the fact that it is a Renaissance art, considering the fact that it has been around for over eight decades and visited by several world figures such as President Barrack Obama of the United States and former pope John Paul II, it is more of renaissance art, rather than contemporary art.

The present study is interested in exploring the significance of the claim that the “female body in high fashion advert is still represented from a male point of view. The study has also comprised the concepts including nudity and pornography because of the growth and development of both these notions in modern era advertising campaigns.

For many nations, it kicked off in 1930 and lasted through the late 1930s or mid-1940. In the United States, the crash of the Stock Markets in 1929 triggered the event that soon affected most Americans. At the peak of the depression, approximately 25 per cent of working Americans were out of jobs. Many more were barely surviving.

The next task was my FMP or Final Major Project where I chose “Moods In colors” topic as the photograph series. In this series, I connected the colors with various moods of people and their significance. The main ideas behind this were to illustrate the sentence that an image conveys mood without the words.  

In the movie The Whistleblower, human trafficking is shown to be encouraged by both the formal and informal custodians of power. At an informal level, in the movie, sex slavery existed because there existed Western personnel in the area who were not only rich but who also intended to exploit the victims of sex slavery. Sensitizing people about human trafficking requires concerted awareness and efforts.    

In my opinion, the attempt by Seurat to employ the use of the rather highly scientific technique of pointillism so as to try and better illuminate the painting is largely successful. Looking at the painting, one can be able to clearly see the sunlight streaming over the Parisiansthat were out on that Sunday Afternoon. 

Finally, Reach Out is reported to be a collaborative workshop with BP Art Exchange which allegedly aims to “explore democracy, communication, and how we use gesture, touch, and generative ideas to reach out to others across the globe. Video and photography seek to illuminate the participatory process”.

The majority of film directors began shifting their general focus by addressing more of democratic issues that impeded growth and expansion of the Korean film industry in the 1980s. The authoritarian government/regime of that period strictly controlled the local film industry, adopting certain entry barriers and censorship. 

The most important instance of the gaze in this scenario is when the viewer meets the gaze of the woman on the right. First, the woman is the only one who is facing the viewer directly and does not seem to be engaged with any other figure or object in the gallery like the other figures but rather, is looking at the viewer. 

The artist was using images or photography in the transmission of his message. The use of the illustrative suitcase having a woman at a luggage terminal in a German airport is highly informative and is beyond textual representation. An old say goes, and an image is worth a thousand words. The use of images attracts close to 94% number of viewers.  

Almost all pilgrim art played the role of guiding the faith of the early Christian church. Like most religions, Christianity is centred on the belief of an existing spiritual realm that is connected with the physical world through different mediums. One such medium is divine artworks which dominated the places of worship of the Pilgrims. 

There are a number of factors that divide the city and suburban areas from each other. According to popular imagination, these two regions have been classified by people as very different from each other. The city has always known to be a very exciting and fast-paced place where life seems to go by in an exhilarating manner.

Asian Americans are oftentimes portrayed differently in action films to spice up the camaraderie and spectacle that follows an orientalist framework which opens to racist imposition. With the advent of the hit all-girl group of spies in Charlie’s Angels, Lucy Liu has been treated as one of the hottest protagonist ladies in Hollywood.  

In the painting of death and life, the artist has used a grinning skull covered in a dark lobe with several crosses to represent death. Life is represented by several women, a man, and children lying on a beautiful flowerbed. The newborn babies signify new life and women are overrepresented to signify the source of life. 

Seen by many as influential artists in the making artistic expression touching on various contemporary issues, these two figures took the Renaissance influence to an all high level due to impressive detail to their work. The contribution made Renaissance-era achieve its famous artistic reality, making a shift from earlier forms of art.

Through the above discussion that was conducted between both parties, it has come to our understanding that the theme “Who Curates?’ allows us to find answers to many questions that are asked when it comes to a group exhibitions. It may be astonishing for people when two modernists discuss the workability of the curator in a very different array.

The episode serves an important role in introducing both the characters and settings to the audience. Among the key characters introduced in the episode is Dexter Morgan who is the key main character. Dexter is a serial killer; however, he kills other criminals who have eluded the law (Teuteberg, 2009). He specializes in tracking such criminals. 

‘Sight’ in human beings would be understood differently as oftentimes, the superficial appearance of things does not hold to the full interpretation that rationality in human beings derives from such an object. The article ‘The language of flowers’ is written and used distinctively to drive this point through the analogy of a flower and the meanings that arise from them.

In the background is a woman trying to run away with her child, before she can do so, a soldier in full armour grabs her by the hair and pulls her back. The soldier in the armour is also holding the lady on the far left by her hair with his left hand while holding the lady in the background with his right hand. 

The true history of the events asserts that the power of a consolidated Persia under the leadership of an autocrat such as Xerses meant that the power that this entity could wield over others was profound. The loose level of cooperation that existed between the Greek city-states meant that cooperation in and of itself was at a premium. 

The first part deals with the movie Tomorrow When the War Began and concentrates on the problem of little success in the space of the international film industry and worldwide audience. The second part represents the film Samson and Delilah and is based on the main ideas of the film, also the understanding of the way in which they are exposed. 

One similarity between Raphael and Lorenzo’s painting is the use of light. Light is shed mainly at the centre of the images, and the surrounding has dark shades. The technique helps the audience to focus mainly on the centered images. The images also reveal Madonna’s politeness, gentleness and loving character.

A far-off perspective may not provide any connection between Nietzsche’s claims about Christianity’s extinction and God being dead with Kubrick’s film. The reason lies in that while Nietzsche offers a direct claim of God and Christianity’s disappearance, 2001 offers no mention of religion. The representation of Nietzschean ideologies is evident. 

The effect of trauma may be in two categories. The first being a retaliatory attack and the positive effect being a peaceful resolution that is geared towards an amicable solution. Trauma in most movies is triggered about by violence The affected parties identify the social and individual effect of this violence and work on modalities. 

The documentary would target Chinese people, especially international students. For example, it is our goal that freshmen would visit the forum more frequently to get familiar with this place and find for the updated news. The senior students would check for deals or discount promotions regularly. So it is a good platform to distribute our documentary because it is easier to seek.

Go through this Ashford Week 1 Quiz Eng225: Intro Film essay to learn more about movies as you prepare for exams.

The Australian Culture Code in Jasper Jones tries to capture this era and what transpired in an almost realistic representation. The story is set in a fictional town known as Corrigan.

Some of the effects caused by the economic crisis in the world include environmental destruction, with millions of people rendered jobless.

Art in many forms has included sacred subjects from a very early period. Within Christianity in its earliest days meetings were in the individual houses of members, but once there were specially dedicated buildings, the believers began to decorate them, as described in 1947 by Walter Lowrie. From the earliest depictions of the Last Supper in the Roman catacombs, onwards Christian artists have wanted to express their faith for God.