Essays On Aesthetics

Raja Ravi Varma was born on 29th April 1848, in Kilimanoor, a small town of Kerala. He is known for his amazing paintings, which revolve mainly around the great epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana. Raja Ravi Varma is one of the few painters who have managed to accomplish a beautiful unison of the Indian traditions […]

Jane Austen’s novel Emma portrays the values of social hierarchy, romantic relationships, and aesthetics within the early nineteenth-century society of England. Amy Heckerling’s teen-pic Clueless adapts and explores dominant attitudes, specifically the value of wealth and status, to fit the high-school culture of the late 20th-century. By transforming Austen’s novel Emma into a film and […]

Fashion illustration is not just visual, as is any other stylized illustration or art-form. When artists create or view art, they automatically give justifications about their work and also analyze other creations. When studying graphics, we as future artists have to learn how to create, understand and analyze works of art. Patrick Boyer is an […]

Born in Limoges on February 25th, 1841, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a renowned French artist of the 19th century. Despite coming from a middle-class family background, he became an important figure in the art industry. Although Renoir’s family struggled after relocating to Paris in 1845, he eventually achieved success as an artist, creating an estimated 6000 […]

When I initially observe this artwork, I perceive a piece of fabric levitating in the air. However, upon closer examination, I realize that it is suspended by strings and that there is a glimpse of an individual positioned behind the fabric, evident through visible arms and a foot. This painting evokes thoughts about my own […]

There is much debate regarding whether Roy Lichtenstein’s work qualifies as art. Despite being labelled by a critic of the New York Times as “one of the worst artists in America” (Tomkins/Adelman), Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art is beloved by a group of museum officials, collectors, and critics who find it both fascinating and beautiful. While […]

Through an examination of postmodernism theory it can evidently be seen that it is fundamentally an aesthetic that has derived through the cultural movement of modernism. Through the differences between the movements, however, the characteristics of postmodern aesthetics, such as fragmentation of the individual subject, impossibility for originality, pastiche, self reflexivity, appropriation and bricolage, can […]

There is a distinct contrast between the appreciation of art in African culture and in Western society; the Western concern with the conservation, preservation and appreciation of art within a home, museum or gallery setting, compared to the African sub-cultural concept of its relative use in everyday life. This is perhaps the primary reasons that […]

1. IntroductionThe England-based Georgians had been attacked by the modernists as “unoriginal and slack in technique, shallow in feeling, slight in intellect… and weekend escapism” (David 1976, p.204). The American-based Genteel Mode, on the other hand, was also criticized as “… in its Romantic spiritual elevation it did not grapple with experience…”(David 1976, p.204). Modernist […]

There were many different art movements through out the centuries, some that were similar to one another while others were In contrast. Movements Like the Baroque movement in the 17th century and Impressionism in the 19th century were significant in the history of art. Some of the well known artists of the Baroque were Carving, […]

Nancy Etcoff. the writer of the “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty. ” sought to admit how aesthetics influence human behaviour. As a psychologist. prosecuting in go oning instruction in the field. peculiarly in countries refering beauty and aesthetics and its dealingss to the workings of the head. and in the application of […]

I walk into a room in which light disseminates evenly throughout. The walls are covered with frames like patchwork, each fitting strangely into their oddly-shaped neighbors, but separated so that the perfectly white wall beneath creates seems around them. Somewhere within the borders of each canvas, there is a circle outlined in black. The circles have numbers in […]

The current exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle offer two distinct types of art. One of them is Liu Ding’s exhibition titled “Take Home and Make Real the Priceless in Your Heart,” which stands out for its unconventional approach. Unlike traditional exhibitions, it showcases works that are still in progress. These works are […]

Documentary films are said to be an attempt to capture the reality. Before its wide acceptance and production as of today, documentary films are simply regarded as personalized films, such as a travelogue.

The age of Enlightenment is characterized by the emergence of a value system that is based on reason, and it was a reaction against what was judged to be Church dogma.

Raymond Williams suggests three broad definitions. First, culture can be used to refer to ‘a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development’… second use of the of the word ‘culture’ might be to suggest ‘a particular way of life, whether of a people, a period or a group’… Finally, Williams suggests that culture can […]

Impact of Industrial Revolution on Modern Art at the turn of the 20th Century. To understand most period and movements in modern art, one must first understand the context in which they occurred. When one looks at the various artistic styles, one will realize how artists react to historical and cultural changes and how artists […]

Mary Cassatt created her oil on canvas painting In the Loge in 1878. The two dimensional painting measures 81.28 x 66.04 cm / 32 x 26 inches and is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The painting’s subject is a young upper class woman at the opera in Paris. The sitter […]

In the article, “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music”, Simon Frith tries to show the aesthetic value of poplar music in the sociological field, while most of the academic musicologists think popular music, submitted to social forces, is aesthetically worthless. There are two different sociological approaches to judge the value of music. First is technique […]

The Palette of King Narmer is a very small, flat 64 centimeters tall, shield shape palette that is believed to be used for holy ceremonies. Sculpt from smooth leveled siltstone. The siltstone is a soft yet dim color of gray. Small in scale, the palette is created with numerous intriguingly beautifully detailed carvings, and illustrations […]

Artist David Hockney’s arguably most famous works are those that portray the sunny environs of Califonia. But within his California paintings there is a large variety of tones and moods. In this essay I will compare and contrast “Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio” painted in 1987, and “California” painted in 1987. Hockney is […]

Laura Cummings in her 2006 article ‘Facing the Truth About Portraiture’ claims that ‘The desire to look at portraits is absolutely fundamental: to be face to face, eye to eye with our fellow beings.’ How much does this apply to such stylized works as this? Introduction This unusual acrylic on canvas double portrait of Fred […]