Essays on World Arts

Art has existed for a long time and has influenced us in many ways. It helps us understand who we are, it tells us stories from centuries and give us the details of the life of the past. Back in the ancient times, art was...

Throughout Gainesville, there are many opportunities regarding diversity that tie into the art that is shown in the Harn Museum here at the University of Florida. Specifically, the African Art collection within the museum offers multiple pieces of art that act as both beautiful lessons...

Being that the University of Florida is home to a large and diverse population, it comes to no surprise that the Harn Museum of Art, located on the outskirts of the university’s campus, successfully captures, and represents the diversity found within the university through its...

Japanese art is very rich and includes many styles of art and media such as pottery, ink painting and calligraphy on scrolls and silk, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, and ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world”, modern manga comics and anime cartoons, and many...

Introduction Though comics have been enjoyed by the general public for decades, it was not until the first official comic book was released in 1933 that the game changed. (South Florida Reporter) Since then, the world has been graced by the presence of comics in...

Introduction Japanese art is one of the most popular and most collected ones all over the world. The paintings, composition of the history, clothing, and color combinations, all are unique which is why the country is observed to be quite different from its fashion. There...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the United States, it is a 2.2 million square feet museum with more than 2 million collections of work. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, wasn’t originally so enormous, as the...

Architecture is not just a building, street, or a space. Architecture forms a specific theme for a place and gives it its own personality. These details become part of that space and grow with the people who use it. Architecture is considered one of the...

Islamic art comprises of cultural and religious art forms that subject to a wide range of geographical influences. The purpose of this paper is to study four different artists to identify their signatures and attributions in two museums. The two museums that I chose is...

Decolonizing the mind is the fruit of a long debate about which language African literature should be written in, which continues today. The writer argues that the assumption of the language of the colonizer meant accepting his vision of the world; “Language was the most...

“She went upstairs and got the storeroom key, which was made of bronze and had a handle of ivory, she then went with her Maidens into the storeroom at the end of the house, where her husband’s treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were...

“Africa’s not a continent, but a country.” Often people refer to African food, African culture, African language or even the African art. Many individuals make assumptions that Africa is a single country, such individuals are not aware that Africa is the second largest continent in...

Africa, as a continent, has been of very little appeal and remained very much unnoticed. The Portuguese search, on route to the Indies and East, led to ‘modern’ European interference with the African continent, around 1450. The Dutch, the Spaniards, the French, the English and...

Literature started to evolve since people started to write and express their ideas. Not everything that is expressed in words is considered as a work of art, but when the ideas are collected and written in an organized manner it is counted as literature. 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...

During the Roman Empire, mosaics were built in large rooms to make those rooms look more admirable and exciting. There was an architect that wrote a book about mosaics and how they were designed but this book did not include how the check (a pattern...

Judo had its origin in the ancient Japanese art of jujutsu, a system of hand-to-hand combat. The bushi of feudal Japan (samurai) are usually credited for developing jujutsu (at their time the art was known as Yoroi kumi-uchi, a grappling method for fighters fully clad...

In Japan, a country known for its creativity, art and its concepts can be put in one category called aesthetic. Aesthetic is the philosophical approach towards art. (Basinski, 2009) It is concerned with its beauty and value as well. Thus, there are different approaches towards...

‘One fine day’ in 1854 an ominous black ship sailed into Nagasaki harbor, prying open the wall that stood between the East and the West. On another ‘fine day’ in 1904 European audiences saw the premiere of what was to become one of the most...