Art Essays

Impressionism: Let there be color and light • Began in the Renaissance era • Born in Paris, France in the early 1860s • It’s purest form lasted only until 1886 • Departed from tradition by rejecting the renaissance (balanced composition, idealized figures, and chiaroscuro). • Represents immediate visual sensation through …

Where Lincoln’s Legacy Lives: A History of Ford’s Theatre When the site of Ford’s Theatre first started being used for theatrical performances in 1861, it was never expected to leave such a huge mark on American history. The location for the Ford’s Theatre has had a very diverse history. This …

A Clean, Well-Lighted place is a short story by American Author Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway uses his unique writing style to describe a story that starts off with a deaf man sitting in a dark café. The entire story unfolds in the small café with three dominant speaking characters. The old …

Passion of the Christ is a movie that depicts the last twelve hours of the public life of Jesus of Nazareth.  The motion picture is centered on his agony, arrest, trial, suffering and death.  Due to its explicit content, it garnered different reactions from different people and became a recipient …

His face is covered in rich, dark luminous tones, of raw minerals dug from the earth. The designs are elaborate and painted with extreme detail, showing his striking features. Shades of yellow surround his cheekbones leaving his eyes bare, full of power and masculinity. The festival has begun and he …

With only 13 years between the births of the two artists, we could say that Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh were born in the same period. They may have been born quite close together but both men discovered art was their vocations almost 20 years apart, which may have …

Bacchus is a marble sculpture approximately 72 ½ inches in height made in around 1497 by one of the High Renaissance masters, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. The sculpture itself shows two figures, a god and a faun or panisc: a half-man, half-goat figure in Greek culture. It is one …

“I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice. And what is the result? An abominable religion has settled among you. A man can now leave his father and …

Introduction: Orientalism has been defined as the reproduction or the depiction of Eastern cultures into the West. This has been brought up by writers and other persons. An orientalist is the person who engages himself in the activities of orientalism. He may also bee a scholar focusing on orientalist studies. …

An artist can create art work through a creative process. An element of this process is critical thinking. Artists’ creativity process begins with seeing. It then goes from seeing to imagining and from imagining to making (Sayre, 2009). This essay will provide an explanation of artists’ roles. The essay will …