Essays Tagged: "art historian"
An analysis of the book Frida Kahlo: A Biography.
eived help from the Graduate School of the City University of New York, as well as a grant from the Art History Program Dissertation Fund. Hayden Herrera, an art historian, intrigued by the complex an ... den Herrera has produced an exhaustively researched study of the Mexican painter's life, loves, and artistic ambitions.The turmoil that plagued her life early on affected her until the day she died. A ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
The Greek Slave of American Orientalism
Quoting the art historian Bernard Berenson, Walter Lippmann once wrote, "'what with the almost numberless shapes ... outlines so determined and clear that we could recall them at will, but for the stereotyped shapes art has lent them.' The truth is even broader than that, for the stereotyped shapes lent to the worl ... truth is even broader than that, for the stereotyped shapes lent to the world come not merely from art, ... but from our moral codes and our social philosophies and our political agitations as well." ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Thoughts on Modernism
tly from the previous Greco-Roman standards of being, thinking and living.In the perspective of the art historian, however, Modernism is a term which describes a particular movement in the arts which ... particular movement in the arts which began in the 1860's and extended through the 1970's, in which artists strove for a better understanding and progression from a humanist standpoint through various ...
Subjects: Art Essays
In Mary Sheriff's opinion, what is the subject of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's painting Self Portrait 1790 ?
As the art historian Mary Sherrif proposes, the subject of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's Self Portrait 1790 is u ... Mary Sherrif proposes, the subject of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's Self Portrait 1790 is undeniably the artist herself, and the art of painting. In this composition her face lit by bounced light Vigee-LeB ... suggests that at the essence of Vigee-Lebrun's self-portrait lies the act of painting, the will to art; where the artist's playing of roles; between artist and sitter testify simultaneously switching ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
How was masculinity constructed in post-revolutionary French art?
Before the French Revolution artistic themes were commonly associated with political theories and the male body. They represented ... ternative opinion in post-revolutionary France appeared to portray a realignment of masculinity. As art historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau suggests in her article Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representatio ... ed more with the relationships between men; though not necessarily homosexual despite the fact that art was traditionally produced and consumed by men, and where images of the 'feminized' male were us ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Vincent Price - Voice of Thiller - Michael Jackson
o play and were striking enough, they type cast him for theremainder of his career. Price did not start out with the intentions of becoming anactor but rather an art historian. He obtained degrees in ... the students seemed to know more than he did! Price returned to college totake his Masters in Fine Arts at the Courtauld Institute in London, he also studiedbriefly in Vienna.It was while in London I ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Papacy in Perugino’s The Gift of the Keys
Keys, it is important to note that the vast majority of my knowledge about the significance of the participants and architecture in the painting come from the writing of art historian Carol Lewine, wh ... be following her identifications, and adding to them my own interpretations of the contribution of artistic conception and composition to meaning and effect. What makes Perugino's painting sig ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
Nancy Burson
In this paper, I will present a brief introduction to the American artist Nancy Burson, who is best known for transforming our ideologies about identity with herNanc ... ic imagery through photography. While living in New York Nancy Burson became involved in the 1970's art and technology movement, and according to art historian Robert Atkins Nancy discovered one of he ... ulpture known as "A Friendly Gray Computer". In "Nancy Burson: Making Faces" Atkins notes that this artistic display of art and technology inspired Nancy to search for a way to alter pre conceived ide ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Modernism
tly from the previous Greco-Roman standards of being, thinking and living.In the perspective of the art historian however, Modernism is a term which describes a particular movement in the arts which b ... particular movement in the arts which began in the 1860's and extended through the 1970's, in which artists strove for a better understanding and progression from a humanist standpoint through various ...
Subjects: Art Essays