Category: The Arts
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Modernism In Photography – Art Essay
Modernism In Photography – Art Essay Edward Weston’s creative philosophy seems to be about internalising the camera process so that what the artist envisions and what the camera produces are as closely aligned as possible. Unlike pictorialists who
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Surrealism As A Method of Interpretation – Art Essay
Surrealism As A Method of Interpretation – Art Essay The basic idea of Rosalind Krauss’ Surrealist ‘spacing’ seems to be that it uses the fact that photographs are both indexical and representative, and in arresting the flow of what we see as the ‘real’, this shows how we see
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Combination Printing – Henry Peach Robinson Essay
Combination Printing – Henry Peach Robinson Essay In Henry Peach Robinson’s writing on combination printing, it is interesting to see that the methods designed to give “greater facilities for representing the truth of nature” actually mean that the full indexicality
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Carol Armstrong’s Birth of Photography Essay
Carol Armstrong’s Birth of Photography Essay When reading Carol Armstrong’s article, one is hard pressed to decide what the point of her analysis is. Is it really just perpetuating the reductive, gendered ideas of Cameron’s time, or is it trying to interrogate
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Anne Maxwell Struggle With Exploitative Photography – Essay
Anne Maxwell Struggle With Exploitative Photography – Essay While Anne Maxwell raises some interesting and valid points regarding the exploitative portrayal of indigenous peoples in colonial photography, it is
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Daguerre and Talbot’s Understanding Of Photography – Essay
Daguerre and Talbot’s Understanding Of Photography – Essay The metaphors used by Daguerre and Talbot (“the pencil of nature” etc) reveal an understanding of photography as a tool for the areas of art and science, rather than an artistic medium in its own right.
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Responce to Barthe’s Essay Camera Lucida – Photography Essay
Responce to Barthe’s Essay Camera Lucida – English In Barthe’s essay “Camera Lucida”, we see an analysis of the photo in terms of the studium and the punctum. The studium for the most part produces the unary photo,
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Local Artist From Rimersburg Show – Art Essay
Local Artist From Rimersburg Show – Art Essay The local artist from Rimersburg put together a lot of different pieces of art, mostly acrylic paintings although there were a few sketches and sculptures. The
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Sumerian and Early Byzantine Christian Cultures – Art History Essay
Sumerian and Early Byzantine Christian Cultures – Art History Essay The need for religious spaces and devotions has existed through many cultures, especially the Sumerian and Early Byzantine Christian cultures. The White Ziggurat Temple, built in 3000 BC by the Sumerians in the
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One Thousand Words – Visual Culture Essay
One Thousand Words – Visual Culture Essay Some time ago our culture realized that our eyes are much quicker at processing images than they do words. This realization has saved many from countless hours of paying attention to words and to then having to
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Comparing Toreador Fresco and Fowling Scene – Art History Essay
Comparing Toreador Fresco and Fowling Scene – Art History Essay The Egyptians and the Minoans used different forms of composition and form in their depiction of the human figure. Much of the differences came from social or cultural aspects of the daily lives. The main
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The Simpsons: A Yellow Family – Arts Essay
The Simpsons: A Yellow Family – Arts Essay Matt Groening’s undoubtedly most successful work is about to celebrate, next year, its thirteenth anniversary. Twelve years now of increasing world-wide recognition which have situated this sitcom in the first place in the best-cartoons-ever podium. This hasn’t been by chance. It is due to the hard job…
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The Seven Colors of the Rainbow – Art Paper
The Seven Colors of the Rainbow – Art Paper Introduction – Within a rainbow, there are seven colors –Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. If we exclude Indigo, the other six colors when arranged in a circle form the Color Wheel There are a range of different terms when referring to color. We…
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Sculpture Overview – Art Notes (200 Level Couse)
Sculpture Overview – Art Notes(200 Level Couse) •At is always a transformation of reality, never a duplication •Sculpture, along with painting and architecture, is usually, but not very usefully, classified as on of the visual arts.
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The History of Photography – Art History Research Paper (300 Level Course)
The History of Photography – Art History Research Paper(300 Level Course) What is a portrait? This is a difficult question to answer in photography. John Gere defined a portrait as “’an image which the artist is engaged with the personality of his sitter and is preoccupied with his or her characterization as an individual’” (Campbell…
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Review of Godspell – The Musical – Summary Paper
Review of Godspell – The Musical – Summary Paper A more modern day rendition of the Gospels of Jesus, John the Baptist is depicted as a clown who gathers disciples from the city streets of New York by blowing on a horn. He comes to baptize them and in doing so, Jesus comes to him…
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The Unromantic Ballroom of Romance – Arts Research Paper
The Unromantic Ballroom of Romance – Arts Research Paper In his beautiful, award-winning drama The Ballroom of Romance, Pat O’Connor brilliantly exudes the gloominess and individual hopelessness of Irish life in the 1950’s. Unlike previous films such as The Quiet Man (1952) and Far and Away (1992), the film approaches Irish life from a non-romantic…