Essays on Arts & Culture

India is a land of culture and superstition. Maintaining the culture is like a prestige for all. Different cultures normally appear to segregate domains whereas in immigrant sensibility the impulse to transgress boundaries and to mingle cultures is inevitable. While the first generation immigrants acculturate,...

A school is a place where students go to learn different things that they may use later on in life or use in their future careers. It is a place where you have the opportunity to get an education or a degree. Growing up, I...

The Canadian Counter Culture in the 1960s – 1970s: it refers to an antiestablishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom and United States of America then spread throughout most of the western world. It was all started by the youth. Many people...

The 1960s and 70s were eras of bold cultural revolutions in America led by dissatisfied youth causing an explosion of self-expression expressed through fashion; breaking traditional barriers that had yet to be challenged. In this paper I will compare the decade of the hippies to...

The “Flower Power” famous historical image represents peace and protests towards the vietnam war in 1967. In the photograph a woman is holding a flower in front of a solders rifle protesting against the war showing that the flower symbolizes freedom and peace from the...

Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. He was born in Zundert, Netherlands and was the oldest of six siblings, he had two brothers and three sisters. His mother was Anna Carbentus, an amateur artist who drew flowers and plants. His father,...

Vincent Van Gogh was a very talented artist but was not appreciated for his talents when he was alive. He was born on March 30, 1853. He had many jobs that had inspired him to become an artist. Even though he only sold one painting...

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born to Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Carbentus on March 30th,1853, in the Netherland town of Zundert. He was the oldest of 5 younger siblings, one of whom was Theo Van Gogh. Despite being a successful student and earning high...

Vincent van Gogh’s art work is considered to be some of the best in the world, but his art work was not appreciated in his time. How did this dramatic change happen? Furthermore, what led Van Gogh to be the artist and person that he...

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential artists of all time; however, he spent hard times as a poor and obscure artist during his lifetime. The fact that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his brief life supports the...

Graffiti is an illicit activity that entails painting, or spray painting a message or picture onto a wall of a public building. It costs businesses 1.5 billion dollars in damages and repairs each year. Some people consider graffiti to be art, but in reality it’s...

The way graffiti has been examined over the years varies from its political role to its cultural significance and aesthetic value in the urban environment. As seen above, graffiti has an ever present role in society as the tool to examine the past through the...

“Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better” – Russell L. Ackoff. This quote serves as the best way of defining what art should achieve to be considered an art. Graffiti, as defined by the Cambridge...

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the 21st century. It differs from the modern art, which is art of a style marked by a significant departure from traditional styles and values. Contemporary came after the modern art. Contemporary artists work in a globally...

Nowadays, many major cities around the world begin to change their attitude with street graffiti artists and set aside some public space for their freedom of creation. Thus, many high-value creative graffiti artworks have been created, attracting local people and tourists, and becoming a collectible...

Frida Kahlo is Mexico’s most well-known, notorious craftsman. From her monobrow to her bloom decorated hairdos, her aesthetics gathered nearly as much intrigued as her craftsmanship that was overwhelmed by self-portraiture; of her assessed 140 works of art, 55 are self-portraits. Whereas numerous considered her...

Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous female artists in the world. She is considered by many to be one of Mexico’s best artists. Frida was a painter who is known for drawing inspiration from elements of Mexican culture. She is celebrated for her...

Frida Kahlo, 1907 – 1954, is Mexico’s best-known figure; an acclaimed artist, an activist, a feminist, a bisexual and disabled person who dealt with tremendous physical pain and personal turmoil in her life. In dealing with that she was able to uniquely transmute all that...

An important, yet, often overlooked aspect of nursing care is cultural competence. To achieve any level of cultural competence one must be open to learning and accepting other cultures. There are many features of a culture that are key to achieving cultural competence. Below, I...