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Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Apartheid and African American Art

In five pages this paper discusses the influence of apartheid on African American artists and their art and the compassionate corr...

Politics and Art

In five pages the ways in which political climate has always been reflected in art are examined and includes various cultural work...

Art and Music A Reflection of and an Impact to American Culture

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

National Museum of African Art

this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...

African American Art and Cultural Expression

artist is photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson, who photographs the poverty and chaos confronting Blacks in America. These are exhi...

Period Art Describes After a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art II

Japanese, African, Roman, and Greek works of art are discussed in this reaction paper to a trip taken to the Metropolitan Museum o...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Influences of African American Art on Matisse and Picasso

in his numerous interpretations of both male and female characters. During this period, Picassos works began to shift slightly in...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Social Conditions and the Body as Reflected in Art

Finleys name with "the chocolate smeared woman, famous for her performance piece, We Keep Our Victims Ready, when she smeared her ...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

African American Contributions to Science, Politics, and Mathematics

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at important African American figures in the history of science, math, and politics. W.E...