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Comparing "Maus" And The National Holocaust Museum

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

BIOMETRICS: MYTH AND REALITY

purposes: identification and verification (Watching You, 2001). Joano de Barros relied on the first known type of fingerpri...

Paul Klee, Francine Prose, and Roy Acuff

Following WWI he began teaching and his work was soon seen as "degenerate" by the Nazis and he soon moved to Switzerland (Artists ...

Sean Scully/Wall of Light

the formed of "learned communication" (Kuspit). As it is, Scully tries to recreate his lived experience for the viewer by offering...

Walton Ford: Biography and Work

work Dying Words seems innocent enough with South Carolina parakeets gathered around, beautifully colored and detailed in the styl...

Loren D. Estleman: Writing Style

on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...

The Body in Contemporary Japanese Art

approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

Aztec Influence: Mexican and Mexican-American Artists

joined with an interest in surrealism. Surrealism emphasized the role of dreams and the unconscious in the creative process. To th...

Kant And Sartre: Modern Philosophy Is Marked By A Spirit Of Man As Artist

have an otherwise broad range and potentiality; however, these aspects were often squelched by a need for systematic control. ...

Cimabue

that he was born to a noble family and that he obtained his early art education from Greeks who had settled in Florence, but that ...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Comparison/Contrast: Art: Harmensz, Velazquez, and Hals

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

First Abstract Watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky

1992; 143). He stopped what he was doing and just stared at it in amazement. He then suddenly realized it was one of his paintings...

Artist Pieter Aertsen According to Charlotte Houghton

the foreground. While the sight of a butcher shop would be quite familiar to Antwerp citizens, Houghton points out that prior to "...

Thought Experiment, Causality, and Logic

actually observed. However, this conclusion is also based on a string of assumptions pertaining to phenomena that was not observed...

Life and Art of Rene Magritte

of realism as though it were a sketch. There is not the boldness of lines and the use of color that would represent the work of Ma...

Graphic Artist Milton Glaser

Arts ("Milton Glaser," 2005). He would for the most part get his education in New York, but his stint in Italy likely broadened hi...

Artist Ana Mendieta

since by making the marks she is "preserving a finite ritualistic event and presenting it as a timeless work of art" (Wright, 2004...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

Analyzing the Walk in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' by Langston Hughes

young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...

Bellini, Durer, and Ribera and an Art History Examination

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Paintings by Tintoretto and Da Vinci on the Last Supper

focuses on the men at the table, with Jesus in the center of the painting. In Tintorettos painting it is as if we are looking in a...

Artist James Rosenquist

and wrapped them in cellophane and then photographed them. He said that some looked very sweet, others quite disturbing. He then i...