Art Analysis

The two works of art chosen for this exercise are – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Pablo Picasso’s Seated Woman (Marie Therese). Both these works are masterpieces of visual art and exemplify the defining features of their respective movements. What is common between them is that they are both portraits of women. But the […]

“The Ravine” is a landscape artwork painted in the post impressionism era by Vincent Van Gogh. Created in 1889 with oil on canvas, it was completed just a year before the artist’s death. In August 2007, an X-ray scan of “The Ravine” revealed another one of Van Gogh’s paintings titled “Wild Vegetation” (Digital Journal, 2007). […]

Guernica, an artwork created by Pablo Picasso, was a response to the bombing of Guernica by Italian and German warplanes. The request to paint this piece came from the Spanish nationalist forces in April 1937, amidst the civil war in Spain. The Spanish republican government commissioned Pablo Picasso to create a large-scale mural for the […]

Beginning from the Lady Macbeth’s speech analyse, I decided to write my research paper about Shakespeare and Cinema. When it is said that an author’s works have a universal appeal, what is meant is that his works are capable of striking a chord with readers all over the world, cutting across all kinds of boundaries […]

Only a ewe years later, her mother was committed in a sanitarium, where she stayed until she passed away. This left Elizabeth to be raised by her grandparents, in a very tiny town, where there was not very much outside communication; the entertainment came from themselves. The video’s dissection Of how her childhood affected her […]

Description of the painting. Most of these people are simple and poor, women with children, and the min rarity are rich. Their moods are very contradictory. Departure of Columbus to America was perceived in different ways by people. We see that people of different social statuses have entirely different reactions to his boy GE. The […]

The publishing of his novel Far From the Madding Crowd raised a problem that was going to reappear during his time: when it was published, some subscribers protested against one of the episodes in which a young woman is seduced. They wanted the writer to be more careful when dealing with such a subject (since […]

The Washington Color School was a significant art movement that emerged in the 1950s, following Abstract Expressionism. It is characterized by the use of stripes, washes, and fields of solid color on canvases. This movement was not only the first to originate in Washington DC but also played a central role in the broader color […]

Frederick Jackson Turner, in his book “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” highly esteems the concept of frontier in American history. He argues that the development of English colonization in the American Frontier played a crucial role in shaping the American continent. This can be compared to an artist who experiments and eventually […]

Seamus Heaney has identified the precise moment at which the process of writing poetry “moved from being simply a matter of achieving the satisfactory verbal icon to being a search for images and symbols adequate to our predicament. “1 It was the “summer of 1969”, when the “original heraldic murderous encounter between Protestant yeoman and […]

American Idiot is a song written by the band Green Day criticising America’s response to the September 11 attacks. They attack the government & the media even going as far as to call the government rednecks. I chose this song because it offers up several controversial topics such as September 11 and the media subliminally […]

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica is at once the most monumental and comprehensive statement of social realism and dramatic manifesto against the brutality of war. The 11 feet tall mural was painted to make a statement about the bombing in the town of Guernica in the year 1937 before World War II. This painting has made an […]

This piece by Salvador Dali is of his own mother, who appears to be in her late 50’s. She is positioned in a three quarter view and her chin is tilted slightly down. She is a slightly heavy set woman and of a light complexion yet with little bits of rosy undertones that give her […]

What makes a landscape? Landscape according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is defined as “a: a picture representing a view of natural inland scenery and b: 1the art of depicting such scenery. “1 Malcolm Andrews’ leads off the first chapter of Landscape and Western Art with the statement “A ‘landscape’, cultivated or wild, is already artifice […]

Raqib Shaw’s paintings are stunningly beautiful, with a natural, exquisite quality that is impossible to dislike. He incorporates an array of textural materials into his work, making it exciting and distinct. I am drawn to the mythical, mystical, and colorful style of his art. Observing any art that tells stories is truly fascinating. Personally, I […]

Late Classical Period (Dionysus and Pan) Based on the visual observations and analysis conducted on paper assignment one, I would classify the sculpture, Dionysus and Pan, under the Late Classical period. This sculpture depicts Dionysus, the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, together with Pan, his follower. It is sculpted from the finest […]

The musically vibrant, aggressive, and ever-raging socio-political quartet comprised of Zack Dela Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk is known as a force of heavy music and even heavier lyrics. The themes of their social and political views through song have spanned from stressing inequality among levels of society and communities to emphasizing […]

Throughout centuries of Christian history, topics related to the last days of Jesus life, Crucifixion and His following Resurrection were among the most popular in the West European art. Even being pushed back by Renaissance humanist interest to secular motives, they still attracted indefatigable attention of all noticeable European painters. The style and filling of […]

Mozart’s K 333 Sonata in B-flat Major was composed in November 1783. It was written in Vienna while Mozart was there for a period. He wrote this in his “early phase” while he was in Vienna. This sonata was not really written into a group of sonatas, but could be grouped with the other nine […]

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on 26 March 1874. He moved to New England when he was a teenager and attended high school there. He was honoured as an exceptional student. He fell in love with Elinor White and later went on to marry her. The two began a family while Frost worked […]

La Belle Jardiniere by the painter Raphael in 1507 it is an oil on canvas painting that is approximately 5 ft by 3 ft with rounded upper corners bordered by a wooden frame. Immediately you see three figures a mother and two children. Then you realize they are divine and wearing halos and that it […]

Alberti’s works can be seen as a series of experimental reinventions for modern use. Noteworthy among his works is the Palaccio Rucellai in Florence, Italy. The facade is unified by a delicate grid of superimposed pilasters and the three stories are of the same height. More so, its facade was one of the first embarking […]