Category: Art 2722

The division of artistic works into genres is a widespread classification applicable to any piece, and it covers all the possible forms of portraying reality. Its use facilitates the assessment of cultural products and the transmittance of the intended message through the means inherent in it. Hence, the analysis of any text with its plot…

The film Searching for Bobby Fischer by Steven Zaillian is about the childhood of a chess player Joshua Waitzkin. The movie is based on the real life of the chess player. When Josh Waitzkin was seven years old, his family noticed that the boy has a great interest in chess. Still, if the boy’s mother…

The Transition The Roman Empire had a huge impact on the artistic and architectural patterns of many places where the empire ruled. The artistic impressions that were depicted in the art and architectural forms addressed various forms of human activities and emotions. Roman Empire art and architecture reflected the value that was accorded to the…

Table of Contents Introduction The Origin Creative Fields Conclusion References Introduction The US in the 1960s was a country with a need for the people to express themselves in an extraordinary way. The classical art schools did not have the potential for divergent tendencies among the painters, sculptors, fashion designers, and musicians of that time.…

Nadia Athanasiou is an artist who graduated from the photography class at the Zurich School of Design. Since then, she has been working as a freelance photographer. Athanasiou was a member of the Documenta Natura Foundation, which created extensive photo documentation of various construction, transport, tourism and research projects in Switzerland; however, it ceased to…

Technological advances in electronic imaging and the proliferation of digital photography have greatly reduced the validity of the belief “the proof is in the picture.” Photojournalists depend greatly on this belief of the integrity of a picture, but in the age of today’s technology, there is a lot of debate about the validity of most…

The portrait depicts the slain Marat holding his murderer’s letter of introduction and the knife that had been used to kill him just next to his bathtub. In the picture of the return of the sons of Brutus, there is the depiction of a grieving leader (Brutus) mourning his sons whose execution he had ordered…

Being a comparatively recent thriller, “Midsommar” has managed to take both critics and viewers by storm with its unique premise and stunning cinematography. The film is filled with scenes that can be used as an example of stellar filmmaking. However, one of the scenes stands out particularly strongly, offering the viewer an unusual perspective and…

History’s Greatest Impressionists and History’s Forgotten Impressionists are episodes from the documentary series The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution. They were produced by the BBC and aired in 2011. The episodes are devoted to the age of impressionism in European art. The narrator Waldemar Januszczak speaks about the history of impressionism, its style, and the main…

Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram is a combination of painting and sculpture. The central element of Rauschenberg’s combination is a taxidermied Angora goat with paint on its face placed in the rubber tire. A black ping pong ball is placed behind the goat, meaning that the animal is defecated on the paintings depicted on the wooden platform…