Essays Tagged: "Abstraction"
U.S. Economy
he dictionary connotes an oppurtunity as a place where goods are bought and sold.(cite dict.) As an abstraction, a market is the possibility of sale. Goods 'find a market', and we say there is is a ma ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Mad max 2 critical analysis
a gothic, dystopic view of the near future with a hyper kinetic editing style and this near surreal abstraction of visual form and generic conventions. What makes the film so successful does not rely ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Georgia O'Keefe: Sky Above Clouds-- An essay about O'Keefe's 1965 painting Sky Above clouds IV.
hich suggests that she is still seen as a heroine in some people's eyes.Though, generally speaking, abstraction is not very popular in the art world today; "over the past 10 to 15 years, painting's, e ... r and Flemming (695) write that there was "a small but strong and steady current in America towards abstraction." And O'Keefe was a part of that current if not one of the forces behind it. Though they ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Procedures, Parameters & Sub-Programs
a number of much smaller parts, each accomplished by a procedure. Procedures also provide a form of abstraction as all the programmer has to do is know how to call a procedure and what it does, not ho ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Definition of Avant Garde with reference to Drama, Dance, Music and Performance. With the influence Richard Schechner had on our piece.
tic drama and production. Paralleling modern art movements, various theoreticians turned to symbol, abstraction, and ritual in an attempt to revitalize the theatre. Although realism continues to be do ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
How models, techniques and methods constructed or borrowed from Economic Theory or other Sciences respectively are used.
technique used to predict the consequences of policies or future trends is modeling. A model is an abstraction intended to convey the essence of some particular aspect of the real world. Most econom ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Globalization: A thesis on the WTO Doha Rounds.
h different nations could cooperate for the common good. International cooperation is not a useless abstraction. It has been a powerful and tangible force driving global prosperity. Today the internat ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Richard Wright's "Big Black Good Man".
rk. He was a down to earth man "The watery gray irises behind the thick lenses...gave him a look of abstraction, of absentmindedness, of an almost genial idiocy" (281). He is satisfied with his life i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Georgia O'Keefe's life and artistic interests.
pective and VisionGeorgia O'Keefe, through the use of charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and oil, blends abstraction and representation to form what she refers to as "that memory or dream thing" (O'Keefe); ... femininity (which she subsequently denied). She worked on two different but inter-related subjects: Abstraction, and landscapes. She monumentalized her subjects: her Abstractions were very distinct en ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Abstractions in Power-Writing.
Abstractions in Power-WritingThere are many abstractions in the Declaration ofIndependence. These ab ... the foundations of American society and havehelped to shape the "American Identity." Power, another abstractionthat reoccurs in all the major parts of the Declaration ofIndependence plays an equally i ... ration ofIndependence plays an equally important role in shaping "Americaidentity." One forgets the abstraction of power, because it appears inrelation to other institutions: the legislature, the King ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
A Biography on Famous Russian Artist, Wassily Kandinsky
sky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 4, 1866 and he was one of the first creators of the pure abstraction in modern painting. Wassily founded the Munich group of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
The main features of Fauvism, Expressioism and Cubism
rtist expressed a view or opinion to the viewer was often done with very personal use of colour and abstraction. The movement was influenced by artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Van Gogh's work was of ... d post expressionists. The use of vibrant colour would be the most notable. They also used a lot of abstraction and contrasting colours in their works. The main focus of Fauvism would definitively be ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Cubism
to see various views of the object at the same time. Later, cubism changed using a flatter type of abstraction, in which the complete pattern, becomes more important, and the objects represented are ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Juan Gris (1887 - 1927)
). His first works were post-impressionist still life but he soon eagerly followed the path towards abstraction right behind Picasso and Braque and converted to cubism. Cubism dated back to the beginn ... nts. Gris work followed that of Picasso and Braque, but his work however was not classified as pure abstraction: it was much more depictive. Nevertheless he was not a realist and one historian describ ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Dreams and Dreaming in Beloved in terms of Carl Jung's Archetypes
n's mind. 2-a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; daydream; fantasy; reverie. 3-The state, as of abstraction or reverie, in which such a daydream occurs. 4- a fond hope or aspiration. 5-anything so ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Jackson Pollock's influence on modern art
Cathedral 1947, is one of his first drip paintings. Such paintings were the first form of complete abstraction which Kandinsky and Picasso had previously used only to a degree. As it is pure abstract ... wall painting different from traditional easel painting even as it existed in Cubism and geometric abstraction, marked the final break from the Renaissance idea of painting as detached from the spect ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Antony and Cleopatra
ulate its thematic elements into a series of varying relations which operate at different levels of abstraction; from interactions between principles of flow and constraint, through the construction o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Language in Application to God
lation would in any way do justice to God's divinity, and the name God can only be thought of as an abstraction. Therefore, neither positive nor negative attributes can be credited to God.Maimonides i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Analysis Of The C++ Programming Language
ime. The key concepts if OOP, inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation provide the programmer an abstraction that models the real world of objects or things. These key concepts came from simulation ... design strategies that can be used. The strategies employ different design processes to achieve an abstraction of the components of a problem space or system. Components of this abstraction then are ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages
French Revolution
the affinity between the revolutionary and what he calls the classic spirit, that is, the spirit of abstraction which gave rise to Cartesianism and produced certain masterpieces of French literature. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution