Essays on Artwork

The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, or more commonly known as Michelangelo. The well-known painter of the renaissance era lived throughout Italy from 1475 to 1564. After being born in Caprese his family moved to Florence where Michelangelo’s art...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, known to most of the world as Michelangelo, was born in the small village of Caprese, Italy on March 6th, 1475. The greatest of the Renaissance artists died in 1564, but not before leaving a mark on fine art that is still appreciated...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6th March 1475 in a place called Caprese near Arezzo, Italy. This man was a painter, poet, sculptor, architect, and an engineer, a true jack of all trades. He has remained to be the most famous High...

The landscape of our earth has been interpreted differently by countless artists through many unique forms. Landscapes have been a common subject for art and are a way for artists to express how they observe the world through their mediums as well as to explore...

Claude Monet was a leading artist of the nineteenth century Impressionist movement. In fact it was Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise (1872), which is credited for the origins of the movement’s name. Monet’s various departures form the norm such as the use of color, light, and...

During the time both when Claude Monet was alive and now dead, he has had many opinions by different audiences. Some have been positive but some have also been critical. This was due to at the time of his original works, impressionism was still frowned...

The Highly decorative professional way of expressing something which can be understood by large group of people without specific knowledge is an art. Through the art civilization, happiness, sadness can be expressed. Social work is an academic discipline and profession which is concerned with the...

Gerald Lidstone, director of Institute of creative and cultural Entrepreneurship in Goldsmith University of London, highlighted two difficulties faced by art institutions in Hong Kong when carrying out cultural exchange projects, the first one is funding. With financial burden being a great concern when holding...

Introduction Slavery is a prominent part of American History and why America has been shaped the way it has been today. Many artists have captured the raw images of slavery in paintings during the time in order for us today to be better understand the...

“The most interesting thing about artists, is how they live”, quoted by a renowned French artist himself, Marcel Duchamp, whom had made works that of the representation of the unusual and in-understandable. You see artists, are somewhat similar to scientists. They are undermined geniuses whom...

I have chosen to base my personal study on psychedelic art and music during the 60s and 70s because I am extremely passionate about the art that came out of this time period, in the form of audio and visual work. I have grown up...

The two main inspirations for my artwork are David Padworny and Joshua Miels. They have inspired me in their style and their application of paint techniques. These artists, along with my own development have allowed me to express my interpretation of the theme of migration....

As a basic tool of human existence, memory determines our actions and reactions to stimuli, creating a link between what has passed and what is yet to come in search of patterns and similarities between people and events past and current. Memories can serve as...

In this essay, I would like to discuss how African art has changed and inspire European art. African art is a beautiful and deeply interesting kind of art, full of traditions and spirituality. During the time this art has influenced a lot of artists to...

Seen by most as just splotches on a paper, art has showed beyond doubt that its use is as magnificent as its grandeur. Art is used in many different ways all around the globe and now appears in various forms because of it. Art can...

The performing arts embraces a diverse range of performance environments and an endless number of styles and ideas. Freeing the imagination is at the heart of all we do. Creativity is manifestly important to SPAA. It is the core component of every course, of every...

Inevitably, India is a land of diversity. If you have started falling of India’s art, heritage, and culture, then it would be a terrible understatement to just say that “you are on the right path.” Admiring an art is an abstract which neither can be...

The definition of throughput Is a grey area. There are multiple definitions, the first being the dictionary definition. The dictionary definition of throughput is ‘the amount of material or items passing through a system or process’. However, this definition is quite different to what I...

Twelve different children. Twelve innocent yet motivational children. Children who stripped-off the layer of clothes for us to see the naked truth. The painting was portrayed by different kind of children from different story of life with Jesus as their center. Which of these children...

A day without Internet would feel like we have travelled back to the past, where we are so primitive, we are left with a great void, absence of Information. Technology has developed to a stage where we started feeling Incomplete without it, our engineers strive...

Types of drawing Freehand drawings, paintings or sketches – These are good for recording the general visual effect of a building or for making personal statements about how you feel about a place. They can be of any size and in any medium you like....

Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist who lived from 1475 to 1564. He changed art in the Renaissance by sculpting and painting with precision and detail that had never been done before, particularly focused on the human body. This change was revolutionary and has changed the...

Both Goya’s 3rd of May and Picasso’s Guernica are anti-war masterpieces and both represent tragedies in Spain resulting from attacks by foreign entities. Though born a century apart, these artists originated in Spain and chose to express outrage over the violation of their countrymen via...

Rebecca Horn is a contemporary artist from Germany who specializes in sculpture, with some paintings now and then. Her works of art often portray either the human body in “motion,” or Sculptures representing human consciousness, isolation, & vulnerability. The inspiration for her sculptures most likely...

Early Sunday Morning is famous art of Edward Hopper and is well known for its visual symbols. This painting was made in 1930 using oil on canvas to depict a typical Sunday morning in a marketplace of New York City. The original painting is currently...

As our class is almost finish. Instead of using books and whatnot, during this semester we have learned how to appreciate art in a diverse of way. Projects, such as, class discussions, presentations, online work and an analyzing several artworks. However, the readings that have...

A curator’s primary responsibility generally includes the acquisition, care, presentation, and interpretation of works of art in a museum’s collection. But curators also play a vital and essential role in our understanding of the art and culture of both past and present times. They challenge...

For this review I will be talking about the work of art by Wassily Kandinsky called Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). This work of art would be considered an abstract piece. The title “Improvisation” alludes to a progression of works that Kandinsky painted somewhere in the...

John Singer Sargent’s piece Rio di Santa Maria Formosa, was a near and dear painting he had created based off his many trips to Venice. Starting these trips in the 1880’s, he frequently painted watercolor scenery, often in a gondola. This painting in particular was...

The painting is based off the traditional catholic belief that the Virgin Mary was physically crowned the “Queen of Heaven” by her son, Jesus after her assumption, a moment which was popularly painted in 14th century Florence. Yet Tintoretto’s depiction of the coronation, in the...