Arts & Humanities Essays and Term Papers

Cateau, France in 1869. He was the leader of a movement entitled Fauvism. In the book called Matisse (a collection of color plates compiled by editor Jose Maria Faerna), he describes the artists of this movement as, “[developing] a very free style…

was a general movement in the later 19th century that steered theatrical texts and performances toward greater fidelity to real life. The realist dramatists Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg in Scandinavia and Anton Chekhov and Maksim Gorky in Russia,…

only way to fully experience a work of art. By only looking at a painting or sculpture in a book or on a slide, you cannot fully experience the work of art. By going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was able to look at paintings that dated from…

originated from backgrounds that seemed worlds apart. Claude Monet, known as the "Master Impressionist" varied the themes in his artwork more than any other artist did. Monet's work "Impression Sunrise", of which the term "Impressionist"…

Truth: Freedom’s Messenger was written and performed by an extraordinary woman named Kemba. The theatrical performance was a portrayal of the life of Sojourner Truth. The overall theme was a reflection of the resilience of the human spirit despite…

Truth: Freedom’s Messenger was written and performed by an extraordinary woman named Kemba. The theatrical performance was a portrayal of the life of Sojourner Truth. The overall theme was a reflection of the resilience of the human spirit despite…

as each human being is, so is the autonomy of each individual’s art. Just as opinions differ, the many expressions of human emotions differ. In the mindset that art is everything and everything is art, one must look at every aspect, at every angle…

Location: Wallace collection Son The conditions in which the Dutch painters worked were somewhat different from those in other countries: there the artists were more dependent on commissions, thought from about 1630…

illustrator, and filmmaker was born in Pittsburgh in 1928. Andy Warhol graduated in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design, with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools. While in Pittsburgh, he worked for a department…

a Dutch postimpressionist painter. His works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. The great majority were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity interspersed with epileptoid seizures and despair that finally ended…