Essays on Art Movements

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An Analysis of Postmodern Blackness by Bell Hooks

1 page / 535 words

When the essay was first written during the 1990’s, the main point was that postmodernism was probably the most well-known trend with scholars and different academic people for its thoughts of "heterogeneity, the decentered subject...recognition of Otherness" which was just a number of different ways...

Postmodernism

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Poetics of Postmodernism in Kurt Vonnegut

5 pages / 2210 words

Postmodernism is dominant philosophical approach that questions and rejects the fundamental totality of human thought and homogeneous way of perceiving the outer reality of the world. , which is the main focus of present study with reference and application to Kurt Vonnegut’s The Slaughterhouse Five....

Kurt Vonnegut Literature Review Postmodernism

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The Period of Modernism in World War I and World War Ii

2 pages / 875 words

World War I and World War II brought mass destruction and destroyed traditional values. This complete demolition sparked the period of Modernism, it influenced people to open up their minds to new ideas of art, literature, and social aspects. This is displayed hrough the works...

Effects of War Modernism

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An Analysis on Balzac’s Status as The Pioneer of Realism, as Depicted by The Red Inn

4 pages / 1931 words

Oscar Wilde said, “The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac’s”. From 1822 until his death in 1850, Honoré de Balzac produced a vast body of work, including numerous short stories, essays, journalistic pieces, and several plays. His most famous...

Realism

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The Origins of Fauvism in Collioure, a Commune in France

4 pages / 1735 words

Fauvism, the first twentieth-century movement in modern art, was a very short lived movement between 1905-1907 that was the product of a rapidly and radically changing culture. Innovation and experimentation were becoming fundamentals in the art world as a break from traditionalism meant that art...

Fauvism

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A Study of Fauvism

2 pages / 1001 words

Fauvism For artists, the twentieth century began five years late. Late it might have been, but when it got going, it was decades ahead of it’s time. In 1905 nothing was as “modern” as modern art. It was to remain that way throughout the century....

Fauvism

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Futurism in The Early 20th Century

1 page / 658 words

Essay Futurism began in Italy in the early 20th century. A group of Italian artists were interested in Mechanical & Technological arena’s and the speed at which developments were occurring. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to...

Futurism

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From Modernism to Futurism: The Evolution of Artistic Movements

2 pages / 689 words

Modernism is the deliberate departures of traditional with the use of innovative formation of expressing distinguish in many styles in literature on 20th century. In arts, the radical break of the past and concurrent searches for new forms in expression (Rancheti, 16). Modernism has fostered...

Futurism

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The Italian Renaissance and Its Relation to Italian Politics and Economy

6 pages / 2638 words

In the late Middle Ages, the Italian peninsula became a battleground for the lords that rose to power in the region and the surrounding areas. This paper will discuss how an increase in Florentine wealth brought on by the rise of the merchant class eventually...

Italian Renaissance

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A Comparative Study of Northern and Italian Renaissance Art

1 page / 489 words

The Renaissance is the time period in Europe immediately following the Middle Ages. It was witness to the discovery and exploration of new continents, the founding of new ideas, and innovations to powerful tools, such as paper, the compass, and gunpowder. It is a time...

Italian Renaissance

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An Italian Renaissance Genius: Leonardo Da Vinci

4 pages / 1764 words

Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian renaissance genius born April 15 of 1452. Much of his early years are a mystery and are undocumented. His father was Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci and his mother was Caterina, a present from the Middle East....

Italian Renaissance

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Comparative Analysis of Kehinde Wiley’s "The Two Sisters" and Jan Van Eyck’s "The Double Portrait"

2 pages / 1050 words

While Kehinde Wiley’s “The Two Sisters” and Jan Van Eyck’s “The Double Portrait” are both greatly detailed portraits, each one contains its own style, form, content, and context that give the paintings a unique presence in its own way. Kehinde Wiley’s “The Two Sisters” is...

Italian Renaissance Painting Pop Art

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A Movement in The Decorative Arts: Art Deco

1 page / 448 words

Art Deco (1920-1940) also known as style moderne, was a movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s. Its name is short for Arts Décoratifs,...

Design Modernism

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The False Programs of Negation of Culture

1 page / 513 words

Habermas concedes that modernity has thus failed. However he refuses to abandon the project. Rather he insists on learning from the mistakes of those extravagant programs, which tried to negate modernity. So, the project of modernity should be continued to establish a connection between modern...

Modernism Postmodernism

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How Perspective Helps to Draw Realistic Pictures

2 pages / 744 words

Perspective – this is what makes the drawings seem realistic; even after knowing the anatomy and the structure of the human figure, figures or images might not seem realistic unless you can relate the various parts of the figure to the eye level or to...

Painting Realism

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The Darkness of The Philosophies in Jacques-louis David's and Francisco Goya's Works

2 pages / 889 words

The Darkness of the Philosophies The Enlightenment era made a very strong impact on art we create today. The Enlightenment era had three philosophies: neoclassical, romanticism, and realism. All three of these ended up tying together in immense ways. A revolution had begun in 1789,...

Artwork Enlightenment Romantic Era

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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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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