Art Essays

Jonathan Crary’s essay “Modernizing Vision” raises a new perspective to the history of vision. Instead of looking at it in continuum which is how it has traditionally been viewed in the Western culture, he points out a rupture in the history of vision in the 1820s and 30s and how …

For most companies, identifying what a learning organization should be and actually becoming one is tricky at best, impossible at worst. One way that manager’s and companies can promote the concept of being a learning organization is to assess whether the company is in need of a short-term fix or …

Caravaggio worked in the style of realism. Realism is when artists use different techniques to make paintings look like photographs or sculptures to look like real people. Most of realisms subj3ect matter is based on the world around us. This basically means what you see is what you get. The …

As I entered the gallery where the Bust of Queen Nefertiti was displayed, my attention came to a complete focous on the work. The lifelike beauty radiating from this work of art has the ability to capture all attention in the room. I could only imagine that Queen Nefertiti had …

Braque made this claim after his involvement in the First World War. The definition of art is “the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, especially through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture”; the definition of science is “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study …

An analysis of the picture painted by Grant Wood American Gothic was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. When looking at the painting you can see two persons that obviously appear as how two persons would have looked like in the 1930s. They are simple living people, dependant on their …

The ad that I choose to write about in my analysis is a car ad. The reason I choose this ad is because as I was flipping threw the pages it caught my eye. It looked like an expensive car, but I realized it was a Mazda and that the …

Although computers do not have a long history of relationship with humans, but now life without computer seems impossible. As the computer has touched almost every aspect of human life, definitely art has no exception and graphic designing has given a new shape to the field of art, in fact, …

Many people view the human body as an apartment rental rather than a house: They have the use of it during the brief season of their tenancy, but most are loath to initiate any permanent modifications beyond those dictated by nature and necessity. The tattoo and body piercing have long …

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the author uses the story of a sailor and his adventures to reveal aspects of life. This tale follows the Mariner and his crew as they travel between the equator and the south pole, and then back to England. …