Essays on Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was a dramatic style that flourished through Europe in the 1890s. It was unlike anything seen before as history was replaced by nature. Art Nouveau designs derived from organic forms, and used the theoretical background of plants and sinuous natural objects to create...

The Gilded Age (1870s-1917) was a time of desire, advancement, and class in America. A solid feeling of national pride and reason won, it was an intricate time in United States history. After a twisting Civil War, the nation was on an ascent to power...

Everyone has a different view and preference for art, but that does not mean not all art is beautiful just because you do not like how it looks. This is what the textbook discusses in chapter two, “What Is Art?”. The chapter starts off by...

 What is art? Art can have many purposes: it could be used as propaganda, it could have a specific function, or it could simple be something nice to look at. For these reasons the true purpose and definition of art which is set by the...

For my literature analysis, I chose the work, “Tears, Idle Tears,” written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1847 (Tennyson, 1847). The poem is non-rhyming, and in blank verse, with the same phrase at the end of each fifth line, “the days that are no more.”...

Building a Home for Academia As a campus established in 1919, the University of California, Los Angeles, gained the opportunity to create a new educational tradition. With the construction of each new building, the growing campus distinguished its own identity, creating environments modeled after conceived...

Egon Schiele Every generation has their punks. Be they musicians, writers, or artists, those individuals ahead of their times – while infamous during their lives – create legacies that last years after their deaths. Austrian painter Egon Schiele is certainly one of these controversial and...