Category: Art

Where would we be today as a society without the humanistic approach brought by the Renaissance? It’s a fearsome thing to ponder, but also a very relevant inquiry. We could very well still be enduring the Middle Ages, making very few intellectual and societal advances while mostly relying on the Church for everything we desire…

The Renaissance shapes Europe and helps Europe become the superpower they are now. The renaissance leads to new inventions and new lifestyles centered around enjoying life. The Italian renaissance and the northern European renaissance are both very difference but influence each other. One example of influences, in Flanders, where the northern Europe renaissance began, oil…

In order to convey ideas or meanings to readers throughout their pieces of work, authors use different literary techniques. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien employs a multitude of different devices to immerse the reader in his experiences during the Vietnam War. To depict the brutality and barbarity of war, O’Brien evokes images and…

Aphrodite, Artemis, Sappho, Persephone, Medusa, and Helen of Troy. These are only a few examples of the notorious female figures that were once established in ancient Greece. When I was in elementary school, my friends and I were obsessed with Greek mythology. During recess, we would go to the playground and pretend to be Greek…

“Leonardo da Vinci began working on the Mona Lisa in 1503, and continued to do so until he died in 1519. The painting itself is rather small, and the sitter depicts an average looking woman, with no jewels, and plain dark clothing. He used layers of glaze to enhance the reflection of light from the…

James Brown, Michael Jackson and Chris Brown are popular dancing icons that influenced and have inspired dancers from all around the world. While their dance moves contain an individual race and style, each gained great popularity with signature moves that spread like a wildfire. Although there were obvious differences in their styles, like James Brown’s…

The word romanticism was initially used to describe new ideas in literature and painting. Afterward, the term “Romanticism” stood for the most famous intellectual movement that originally generated in Europe toward the end of the eighteenth century (Cranston M. W., & Cranston, 1994). At the end of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth…

Dance is an art, in my word. Art is the window of my soul, is the tool for the communications with others, and the magic thing about dance is you can use the beauty of your body language to express your feeling and convey your message to the audience. Dance is the language hidden in…

Even after centuries of Leonardo da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa, it still is the most famous piece of art work of all times. The painting of the Mona Lisa still hangs today in Louvre Museum in a bullet proof glass. Da Vinci’s masterpiece interests thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world…

Edvard Munch: The Scream. This picture contains everything that is so close to our soul: existential horror, despair, doom. It’s time to get to know this picture of the Norwegian artist – closer. The painting depicts a human figure screaming in despair. The man is depicted against the background of the sky, which is blood-red.…