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Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Art and the Impact of Industrialization

This paper examines how art was affected by the 19th century Industrial Revolution with works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and oth...

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...

A History of Performance Art

it still has a "middle," or whether we can contemplate that it will have an" end." According to Jack Bowman (1993), "1. A perform...

Similarities and Differences Between Arts and Crafts

us. With those thoughts in mind we shall proceed. A place to start There is a multitude of definitions, and yet no one is willin...

Performance Art and Humor

according to one of the creators, Blue Mans "role" was to "challenge the audience to accept that art isnt necessarily elitist, hum...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Graffiti as Art

an expressive message to the reader, whether it is a political, social or personal view" (South). Whether it is vandalism or not m...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Nonprofit Organizations and Grant Money

political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Mondrian and Martin

Mondrians. "Red Bird" is part of the collection at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, and it is on display on their website. Accordin...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Fertility Art of Ancient Times

forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...

Graphic Arts and its History

But in terms of its more commercial use as understood by modern people, it is a relatively new art form and should be thought of a...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

Art of Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Cultural Identity and Self

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

Science and Art of Management

smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for greater productivity has been insatiable (1999). ...

Life and Art of Jackson Pollock

reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Human Experience, Art, and Evolutionary Theory

within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...

Aesthetics and Marxism

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

Arts and the Views of Plato

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

Paleolithic Art Purposes and Meanings

the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...