Arts & Humanities Essays and Term Papers

by Rogier Van Der Weyden did not appeal to me. Unlike the other Madonna and child paintings, this portrayal lacked the visual excitement, and dramatic action. There was nothing in Rogiers work to make the painting seem to burst out of the frame.…

*BANG**BANG* of Edwin Drood *BANG* the work of the director was quite clear. I often have trouble trying to determine how much of an influence the director actually has on a production by observing acting choices and design choices. What made the direc…

all the way back to the ancient caveman scribing on a wall. That didn't start with just one prehistoric caveman; there must have been many around the world who evolved to the point of desire for bringing order out of chaos; in an effort to communicate…

the witches’ statement in Act 1, Scene1 that “fair is foul and foul is fair.” (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 10) This phrase aptly describes the macabre status quo within the character Macbeth and without. When Macbeth and Banquo first see the weird sisters,…

I had a tuff time, trying to find out who or what I was going top write on. I consider myself some what of an artist. But I don't draw skecthes or paint masterpeices. Im a writer, Im like most other artsist that paint. instead of seeing and images…

their lives. They believe that everyone’s life has its own destiny or course. According to Webster’s Dictionary destiny is a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency. (Webster’s Dictionary) In other words our…

inclined teenagers began to flourish in America, a young boy in Switzerland named Hans Rudi Giger was building “ghost rides” in his cellar and drawing deformed children on calendar sheets . Before his time, this artist went against the crowd,…

so that jewelry can be place in the holes. Body piercers do not make that much money. They are not paid by the hour; most piercers make about half of the money the piercing cost. Usually during the week it is slow and not many people want to get…

is an internationally known influential Swiss architect and city planner, whose designs combine the functionalism of the modern movement with a bold, sculptural expressionism. He belonged to the first generation of the so-called International…

European Paintings section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is Jules Bastien-Lepage’s 1879 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc). Although displayed in a long hall featuring a number of other paintings, reliefs, and sculptures, it draws a certain amount of…