Artist Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (808) essays
Artists essays:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
... Bern, Switzerland. However, the family did have a good library, which he used to advance his learning. Human freedom is the central theme of modern political philosophy, and Hegel offers perhaps the most systematic modern attempt to understand the state as the realization of ...
An Application of Hegel's Dialectic on the Development of the Critics' Beliefs
... of predicting the development of literature and criticism. This development is discussed in this paper depending on the dialectic theory which was contributed by Hegel; and then it will be applied on a group of critics to understand how their beliefs were developed. The critics are Plato, Aristotle ...
Art Modernism Essay. A structured essay on how Modernist Painters looked at the world in a new way.
... definition of Modernism was the rejection of Victorian ways. Victorian culture emphasized nationalism and cultural absolutism. Victorians placed humans over and outside of nature. They believed in a single way of looking at the world, and in absolute and clear-cut dichotomies between right and ...
Gustav Klimt Personal study
... of 'Victorian values', the result is a contrast between formal respectability and erotic ardour, or in Freudian terms between the world of consciousness, directed by the Super-Ego and Ego, and the dangerous forces of the ID, identified with the unconscious. Even the notional setting of the ...
M.C. Escher : Mathematician first, Artist last
... of distorted geometrical shapes, tessellations and spatial illusions creating a unique art form that was admired by artists and mathematicians. Through these works of art he contributed to the world of math without having any extensive training or high academic achievements, but yet and ...
The essay was written from the artist's prespective. I had to put myself in the shoes of an artist and describe what I thought was the value of art.
... looked comfortable it wouldn't have seemed like such a sacrifice. I came to this realization and when Medici commissioned a bronze statue of Judith and Holofernes6 I designed it with the humanism that I believe art should illustrate. Without art would the Christian ...
In what ways can Cubism be considered a 'realist' response to early twentieth century modernity?
... the Cubists carried on and experimented with the realist ideas of Cézanne and Courbet. And it was a gradual step towards abstraction. 'Cubism was a completely new pictorial language, a completely new way of looking at the outside world, a clearly defined aesthetic'. Apollinaire stated: ' Out of ...
Duane Hason.
... look alive and are convincing in their statement and emotion. The sculptures of Hanson are not merely for looking at, but make a social comment. Duane Hanson has fulfilled the goal of twentieth century art--to not only produce art which is visually pleasing, but which influences our society ...
Romanticism & Eugene Delacroix: Also a Look at the Death of Sardanapalus and Liberty Leading the People
... the more radical forms and styles of art. Eugene Delacroix impacted the world with his use of color, dramatic paintings, and unique subject matter. His paintings were not only expressions of what can be seen in the physical world, but of what can be felt in the heart and imagined in the ...
Art History
... tradition. Everything is very detailed, it seems like you look at photograph of those flowers not at their actual painting. The tones are very clear, no mixing and very clear definition of the different colors. Even the flowers are so beautiful, the ...