Category: Art 2722

Painting, as well as other forms of art, serves to convey the author’s vision of the world. The choice of the plot is never accidental because painters want to share with their viewers the stories that agitate and captivate them. However, production is not the final step of the work. The further fate of the…

The Demoiselles d’Avignon, an oil painting by Pablo Picasso, is considered a masterpiece work of art, from which Cubism began. At the same time, the faces of the nude female prostitutes that are depicted on the canvas have an undeniable resemblance to masks, which was typical of the African period in the artist’s work (Blier,…

HBO’s Iron-Jawed Angels offers a vivid, if fictionalized, look at the history of the American suffrage movement in the early 20th century. The struggle for the constitutional amendment guaranteeing female enfranchisement faced considerable opposition from within the suffrage movement as well as without. White and black activists from different social backgrounds had to wrestle with…

Human beings evolved in various stages, Paleolithic stage being one of them. They drew images on the caves’ walls where they resided and then used small stone lamps that they made from animal fat to view the pictures. The art was a way of keeping information for future reference, and the positioning of the lights…

One of the most remarkable artists of the Rococo period was François Boucher, and his works represent the paining style typical for the artists of that time. However, his belonging to the most known Rococo painters is conditional not only upon his talent but also upon the outside assistance. The influential person that helped Boucher…

For centuries, human beings have been considered the most advanced species on Earth. First, their sophisticated organization and intelligence form part of this advancement. Such superiority can be said to be a human being’s ability to express themselves through arts. Language, as one of the forms of human expression, has not failed to incorporate art…

For this assignment, I have chosen to examine the 2014 York College theatre’s rendition of a classic Shakespearian piece, Midsummer Night’s Dream. The performance took place in Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center, in Jamaica, Queens. This particular facility is affiliated with the York College and works with the aim of providing an opportunity to…

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought many issues to the world, while the theatre industry has demonstrated that it is possible to overcome every challenge with the help of creative decisions. Baylor University’s production of the play She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms that have been staged in 2020 is a suitable example. The anti-coronavirus measures resulted…

According to research Edvard Munch was born on 12 December 1863 in a town known as Loten found in Norway. He was the son of a military doctor who was well known as Christian Munch. Edverd did spend most of his life time in Kristiana or Oslo, the capital city of Norway. Edvard started attending…

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The painting Toy Pieta by Scott Avett was one of the first ones I saw after entering the website of the North Carolina Museum of Art. It grabbed my attention from the first second, and even though I spend a considerable amount of time exploring…