Essays on Art Movements

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A Study of Pop Art: Looking at The Parallelism Between The Artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein

1 page / 450 words

Pop Art The pop art movement beginning in the mid-1950s was one of the biggest modern art movements ever, it is considered to have been the art movement that preceded postmodern art. Pop art is often associated with comics, Campbell’s soup can labels, and the...

Andy Warhol Pop Art

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A Study of The Methodology, Approach, and Patrons of Roy Lichenstein

4 pages / 1679 words

Roy Lichtenstein, a pop artist of the 1960s, became well-known for his use of comic strips as high art. Using comic inspired images, Lichtenstein would create emotionally taxing scenes of damsels in distress. Sometimes Lichtenstein would use actual comics and crop them so they only...

Pop Art

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Andy Warhol Biography: The Most Popular Character in The Pop Art Movement

2 pages / 757 words

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was an artist who was famous for his works in pop art. He was best known for paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans, and has also used various methods in creating artwork. His works focus on the expression of people, and also...

Andy Warhol Pop Art

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Feministic Art of Barbara Kruger

1 page / 606 words

Barbara Kruger. That is a name that many people recognize in today’s society. Kruger is a contemporary artist who focuses mainly around feminism. She specializes in techniques of production, visual formats, and verbal style. Kruger creates photographs and puts a sentence over the top of...

Contemporary Art

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The Understanding of Time and Place: Baroque Vs. Contemporary Art

3 pages / 1139 words

Transcending Time and Place: Baroque and Contemporary Art If not to convey the author’s way of seeing, then what is art? Some artists leave a meaningful impression with their viewpoints on certain themes. Two such artists who have left their mark through their artwork are...

Contemporary Art

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Renaissance Man: Definition, Characteristics and Examples

4 pages / 1964 words

When you hear the word “Renaissance Man”, the first name that usually pops up in a person’s head is that of Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci is the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal. He was not only an outstanding painter, but also an engineer,...

Art History Italian Renaissance Renaissance

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Personal Opinion on The Best Stage Art Development: Impressionism and Post-impressionism

1 page / 624 words

When we hear the word “art”, there may be several images that come to mind: an optically masterful painting made entirely of dots, an abstract piece with splashes of color, or even such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa. But how did all these styles come...

Impressionism

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Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and The Fabrications of Orientalism

9 pages / 4151 words

Western perspectives of areas outside of Europe are, more often than not, filtered through a lens of fantasy and imagination. This manner of examining the east is known as Orientalism, a word that Edward Said defines as the “constellation of ideas” that present eastern lands...

Orientalism

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A Response to Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and Edward Said's Orientalism

2 pages / 807 words

Orientalism Samuel Huntington predicts The Clash of Civilizations. He believes that as this world gets smaller and smaller, cultural communication becomes more and more inevitable and therefore more conflicts will arise and as a result, more compromises with cultural values will have to be made....

Orientalism

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Representation and Its Relevance for Political Theory in Postcolonial Constellations in The Point of View of Edward Said, Founder of Orientalism

5 pages / 2190 words

Edward Said may not be the most controversial figure in academia, but he certainly made waves when he founded the entirely new academic field of postcolonial studies. A professor of literature by training, Said’s influence extended into many different academic fields during his time. None...

Orientalism

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Leonardo Da Vinci and His Masterpieces

3 pages / 1217 words

Leonardo Da Vinci was a pioneer of many things and shaped the way the world is today. Leonardo Da Vinci was born is Anchiano, Italy. He grew up Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence Italy. His parents was Caterina da Vinci and Caterina da Vinci....

Italian Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci

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Review on Realism

2 pages / 724 words

According to realism, the world is in a state of anarchy due to the lack of a governing body or dominant power. States are the prime actors on the international stage. They solely engage with each other in order to maintain security and power. The...

Realism

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This is Your Brain on Technology: Don Delillo’s White Noise

5 pages / 2129 words

In DeLillo’s White Noise the new-found abundance of technology enters into human lives to create constant distractions and background noises. The protagonist, Jack, often refers to the television as the ‘voice’ from the other room. In the supermarket, the loudspeaker drowns out conversations between shoppers....

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Analysis of White Noise as a Real Dystopia

3 pages / 1247 words

Don DeLillo’s post-modern novel White Noise examines the relativity of meaning in a consumer and media-controlled society. A classic dystopia comments on society’s reliance on the media, and in White Noise, it creates character identity instability and hyperreality. However, White Noise does not completely portray...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Reality, Technology, and Simulations; Postmodernism and Post-structuralism in Don Delillo’s ‘white Noise’

5 pages / 2345 words

Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise is a text firmly situated in the modern world. Through the novel, part Postmodernist satire part Post-Structuralist understanding of the world, DeLillo presents an incredibly cynical view of the modern world through his narrator and protagonist Jack Gladney, the head...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Don Delillo’s White Noise: Modernity and The Nuclear Family

4 pages / 1982 words

Patched together from different marriages, various mothers and fathers, the nuclear family in Don DeLillo’s White Noise is nothing if not impacted and constructed by modernity. This explication of a typical American lifestyle does not examine the simplicity of daily life but rather the influence...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Ritualistic Consumerism: How Consumption Replaces Religion in ‘white Noise’

3 pages / 1442 words

Introduction The concept of consumer culture has garnered significant attention throughout history, with authors and philosophers delving into its various dimensions. In the context of the United States, consumerism often carries a negative connotation, particularly due to the country’s association with surplus and leisure, even...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Woolf, Eliot, Modernism, and The Faith of Early Feminism Versus Victorian Values

5 pages / 2404 words

The works of T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf represent the eve of first-wave feminism, where traditional Victorian principles have been challenged by controversy in the Royal Family, the more assertive role that women played in the First World War and receiving the vote for women...

Modernism Poetry

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Modernist Experimentation in "The Waste Land" Poem by T. S. Eliot

4 pages / 1842 words

Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is perhaps a prime example of the experimentation in poetic technique occurring during the period encompassing the Modernist movement. Loathed and adored by critics and students alike, the complexities of technique, language (or languages), subject matter and the sheer length of...

Modernism T.S. Eliot The Waste Land