Art Essay Examples

The presence of the two pitchers on the table adds complexity to the visual conflict between the flatness of the table and the illusion of the woman bathing in three dimensions. Due to their limited foreshortening and shared edge, along with the rest of the scene, it creates a puzzling visual experience for the viewer. […]

tIn his enlightening paper on Realism and Hyperrealism Nicholas Oberly (2003) notes that: “The Oxford English Dictionary defines reality foremost as “the quality of being real or having an actual existence” and supplements this with a definition of real as “having objective existence,” and finally to exist as having “place in the domain of reality.” […]

The Mona Lisa is an extremely well known and controversial oil painting by the famous Renaissance inventor, artist, and scientist, Leonardo Da Vinci. He began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 and finally finished in 1519, a little before his death. Da Vinci created the now world renowned painting as a commission for the Gerardini […]

In “Weimar Cinema and After”, Thomas Elsaesser explains expressionism as not only the style of films created in the early 1920s, but as a “generic term for most of the art cinema of the Weimar Republic in Germany, and beyond Germany, echoing down film history across the periods and genres, turning up in the description […]

Joaquin-Torres Garcia was involved in the avant-garde art scene, where he embraced the styles of Art Nouveau and Symbolism. He developed these styles between 1896 and 1904 while incorporating scenes from everyday life and drawing inspiration from Antiquity. From 1904 to 1926, he shifted towards classical forms. Torres-Garcia embraced the emergence of cubism and was […]

It is only recently that female artists have debunked the patriarchal paradigm of artistic expression and American female artist have a special role in this advance. The America of the late forties and fifties represented a conservative, pragmatic, industrial and down-to earth culture that idealized public conformity. However, the 1960’s brought days of unbridled idealism, […]

Some claims that every literature tries to make a specific point. A good writer they say always associates her opinion, ideas and thoughts in her or his masterpiece. Moreover they incorporate literary devices for aesthetic purposes and to deliver the literature’s message in a more creative way.Some produce literature purely for entertainment stressing that life […]

As our world changes and evolves everyday, the things inside it are also expected to transform. This is because change has been the path that everything takes, and art is not an exemption. Art has been used mainly as an expression of the artist, or an outlet of his emotion. But evidently, art can also […]

The late 19th and early 20th century was one of greatest periods of technological advancement that the world had ever seen. The advent of flight, transportation by automobile, communication by electric phone, and development of cinematography and photography as an art form all progressed during this period. There was also great turmoil during this period. […]

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 […]