Category: Art

In the 19th century the Europeans were enamored by the exotic culture that they believed was taking place in the Middle Eastern cultures. The Europeans believed that this eastern world was a very eccentric, foreign, feminized and sexualized culture in this far away land. European artists began to depict this Middle Eastern culture in their…

During the 1920s, The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that provided a new way of life for African Americans. The Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was also a time of intellectual, social, and artistic awakening that was centered in, but not limited to, Harlem, New York. In addition to serving as…

I have chosen atopic-focused analysis. I will analyze the essay “Notes on “Camp” by Susan Sontag. The essay is about the imposition of meaning to a “Camp” rather than the surface meaning people are already familiar with. According to Sontag, a “Camp” is more than just the beauty of the world but the deeper view…

Sir Philip Sidney wrote a sequence of sonnets regarding the thoughts of Astrophel who finds himself in love with a woman named Stella. Within the few starting sonnets, Sidney provides a progressing thought process between Astrophel’s ideas on love in sonnet 5, poetry in sonnet 6, and then thoughts of Stella in a physical sense…

Vincent van Gogh, commonly referred to as Van Gogh, was a mentally tormented post-impressionist artist from the late 1800s. He was best known for his textured paintings that heavily incorporated color theory. Extremely emotional and opinionated, he used art as an outlet to express these feelings, as seen in his masterpiece, “Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin…

The Classical period and the Hellenistic Age were the milestones of art in ancient Greece. This essay compares and contrasts two types of sculptures: The Classical, the “Kritios Boy,” and the Hellenistic, the “Terme Boxer.” Throughout the analysis of the two sculptures, there will be a short explanation of the unique techniques used, including some…

The role art plays in any given society is truly open to interpretation. While I believe there are common connections people share regarding art, such as the simple fact that it pleases people with its beauty, the specific role it plays varies. There are different types of art: traditional, visual, performance, modern, urban, contemporary, etc.…

The short story “Borders” by Thomas King was a very interesting short story about a mom and her son who tried to cross the border from Canada to the United States to go visit the mom’s daughter who now lived in Salt Lake City but faced an issue. Every time the border security asked for…

The world can be a terrifying spot, and it is normal for individuals to need to ensure themselves and our loved ones. In any case, when you assemble dividers around yourself as well as other people you do not just ensure yourself—you close out the world. In “Raymond’s Run,” by Toni Cade Bambara, the hero,…

The 2003 romance movie, “Mona Lisa Smile,” directed by Mike Newell, portrays a recent UCLA graduate female art history professor named Katherine Watson. She is hired at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953 to teach an art history class to a classroom full of hardworking and demanding young girls, determined to make her feel…