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Self and Identity in the Art of Trish Morrisey and Cindy Sherman

Sherman Cindy Shermans work has often been noted as focusing on issues and questions of identity through a sort of self-por...

George Harrison's Life and Music

commitment to studying the guitar, which he relentlessly pursued at the Liverpool Institute (Friedlander, 1996). With a new elect...

Abstract Art Meaning

colour, but intended to embody meaning in their works....

Ancient Civilizations, Art, and Propaganda

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

Crucifixion and Last Judgment Painting by Jan Van Eyck

is simply the "launching pad for an awesomely stark drama" (Perl, 1998). In the foreground on the Crucifixion panel, heavily drape...

Renaissance Art's Changing Aspects

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

Marisol Escobar and Modern Art

Marisols father moved the entire family to safer climes. These tumultuous times had to have made an impact on the impressionable t...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...

Renaissance Period Embodiment of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

of interests, which included mathematics, music, science, and artistic design (Craven 85). When his lawyer father showed his sons...

Ofili and Dalwood's Celebrity in Contemporary British Art

of the artist. Dalwood has, in effect, set himself up as the "visualiser" of the publics imagination: this, he says, is what the o...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

Identity in the Work of Cindy

Sherman Cindy Sherman is a noted photography, with her work often categorizing her as an artist. In her work she presents images w...

Roman Art, Use of Myth

This essay presents the thesis that Roman artists used mythological subjects to symbolize ideals and virtues and examines analysis...

Representing American Achievements in Art

unknown territory to most of the country. The reason that I selected Cole to be included in this discussion was first the drama...

Poets or Writers, Realists or Romantics, Similarities or Differences?

In five pages the labeling of creative artists and its contradictions are considered in a comparative and contrasting analysis of ...

Life and Art of Michelangelo Buonarotti

In ten pages this renowned Italian Renaissance artist and true Renaissance man is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

Text Function of Artwork

Art. The Postmodern artists discussed will be Cindy Sherman and Philip Pearlstein. Post-modernism According to Strickland (1992...

Works of Michelangelo Buonarroti

kind. He is best known for how he illustrated the human body both in his paintings and in his sculptures. There is a sense of powe...

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...

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...

The Life and Art of Armando Morales

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Iris Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

that "the Impressionism is a lot more a state of the mind than a technique; thus artists other than painters have also been qualif...

Descent from the Cross by Rembrandt

his most moving works of art (Skira and Benesch 8). Many of Rembrandts paintings would depict his beloved mother either reading t...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Assessment of Graffiti Through Qualitative Research

same wavering existence. Q. Why art and not some other form of expression? A. Art is a cultural expression, one that does not rec...

Electronic v. Conventional Music Distribution

In five pages distributing music electronically through Internet download sites rather than by conventional means is critically an...

Genre of Performance Art

In five pages this paper defines performance art in a consideration of such artists as Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Vito Acconci, Carol...

Comparison of Rococo and Baroque Art

In nine pages the social and political backgrounds of these artistic periods are discussed along with differences and similarities...

New Music Album Marketing

In seven pages this paper examines how an artist can market a music album that is independently produced. Thirteen sources are ci...