Essays on World Arts

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The Effect of Culture and Mythology on Japanese Art

5 pages / 2208 words

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...

Japanese Art

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Japanese Manga as an Art Form

6 pages / 2738 words

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...

Japanese Art

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The Most Collected and Popular Kind of Art, The Japanese Art

5 pages / 2286 words

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...

Japanese Art

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A Reflection on Visiting The Islamic Calligraphy Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3 pages / 1404 words

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...

Islamic Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum

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A Report on Islamic Art: Architecture

3 pages / 1490 words

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...

Art in Architecture Islamic Art

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Analysis of The Chosen Artists’ Contribution to Islamic Art

1 page / 525 words

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...

Islamic Art Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Decolonizing The Mind: African Literature

3 pages / 1426 words

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...

African Art Literature Review

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The Roman's Design of Locks & Keys

1 page / 475 words

“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...

Design Roman Art

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The Most Common Stereotypes About Africa

1 page / 666 words

“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...

African Art Stereotypes

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The Cinemas of Angola – Spaces of Hope

3 pages / 1314 words

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...

African Art South Africa

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History and Development of African Literature

7 pages / 2971 words

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...

African Art

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How African Art Has Changed and Inspire European Art

2 pages / 913 words

Introduction In this essay, I would like to discuss how African art has changed and inspired European art. African art is a beautiful and deeply interesting kind of art, full of traditions and spirituality. Over time, this art has influenced many artists, including Henri Matisse...

African Art Artwork Contemporary Art

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Roman Mosaics

1 page / 451 words

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...

Art History Roman Art

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A Study of The Origin of Judo and Jujutsu, a Japanese Art

4 pages / 1671 words

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...

Japanese Art

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An Overview of The Beauty Principle in Japanese Art

7 pages / 3062 words

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...

Japanese Art

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How Japanese Kabuki Art Has Affected Puccini's Opera Madame Butterfly

6 pages / 2817 words

‘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...

Japanese Art

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The Adoption of Greek Philosophy and Culture by The Romans

2 pages / 914 words

The Roman Empire is looked back upon as one of the most influential civilizations of human history. Their philosophical, technological, and artistic developments would remain outmatched by the rest of the Western world for over a thousand years after the Roman collapse. However, the Romans...

Roman Art Roman Republic

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The Concept of Prophesy in The Art and The Oracle by Alisa Lagamma

5 pages / 2312 words

African art is known to be different by any Western art tradition, simply because African art is created on the basis that the form and the aesthetic of the work come second behind the actual function of the work. A prime example of this is...

African Art

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The Role of Performance Art and Transitionalism in African Art

3 pages / 1764 words

Transnationalism and performance art are currently phenomena that have a major holding and influence on art in the contemporary era. The notions of transnationalism and performance art have an integral role in regards with both the content of individual works produced, along with the rationale...

African Art Art History