Category: The Arts

  • Five Most Popular Streaming Shows

    Five Most Popular Streaming Shows

    The world of streaming television has exploded in popularity in recent years, with hundreds of shows available to watch at the click of a button. While it can be overwhelming to choose what to watch, there are a few shows that stand out as the most popular. Here are the top five streaming TV shows…

  • Eddie Murphy Essay

    Eddie Murphy is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented comedians and actors of his generation. With a career spanning over four decades, Murphy has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stand-up comedy specials, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Murphy was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1961,…

  • Laurence John Fishburne III Essay

    Laurence John Fishburne III, also known as Larry Fishburne, is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors of his generation. With a career spanning over four decades, Fishburne has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Fishburne was born in Augusta,…

  • Jamie Foxx Essay

    Jamie Foxx is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors and musicians of his generation. With a career spanning over three decades, Foxx has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Foxx was born in Terrell, Texas in 1967, and grew…

  • Will Smith Essay

    Will Smith is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors and musicians of his generation. With a career spanning over three decades, Smith has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1968, and grew…

  • Samuel L Jackson Essay

    Samuel L. Jackson is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors of his generation. With a career spanning over four decades, Jackson has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1948, and grew up…

  • Denzel Washington Essay

    Denzel Washington is a Hollywood icon and one of the most talented actors of his generation. With a career spanning over four decades, Washington has appeared in numerous films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Washington was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1954, and grew…

  • College Essay on Morgan Freeman

    Morgan Freeman is a Hollywood legend and one of the most respected and beloved actors of our time. With a career spanning over five decades, Freeman has appeared in countless films, television shows, and stage productions, earning critical acclaim and numerous awards along the way. Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1937, and grew…

  • Contrasting Berthe Morisot and Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck was an early 15th century Netherlandish painter, considered one of the greatest painters in his time. He is commonly known as the “father of oil painting,” due to his complete mastery of the medium. Berthe Morisot, was born in 1841, and is now held in such high regard as Edgar Degas, Paul…

  • Intentism – The Resurrection of the Author

    Since the 1920s, a certain view regarding meaning in art has dominated the Anglo-American universities and became almost dogma. This viewpoint insists that works of art should primarily be understood by how minds receive them rather than by the psychology that created them. Such an understanding of meaning in art essentially relegates the artist to…

  • Apollo ‘s Enchantment

    Apollo ‘s Enchantment is an oil based on canvas, That is 43 3/4 x 56 in wide with a wooden frame around the paining. It is a circle of mythology Greek gods around one their our.

  • Comparison of “Twittering Machine” and “Antenna with Red and Blue Dots”

    The two artworks I choose are “Twittering Machine” by Paul Klee and “Antenna with Red and Blue Dots” by Alexander Calder. “Twittering Machine” was created in 1922. This work is an adaptation of a previous piece entitled “Concert on the Twig”. A year later, Klee created “Twittering Machine” which placed the same scene into a…

  • Indian Art Work: “Harpoon”

    This paper is a study to further research “Harpoon” C: 1500-1200 BC, Indian, bronze, approximately 12”x 4”, currently shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The study will cover the classification of this type of art as a whole, the technique in which it was created, the artists who created this type of art,…

  • The Great Sphinx of the Giza Plateau

    On the Giza plateau stands the one and only great sphinx. The Sphinx was carved from the bedrock of the Giza plateau, the Sphinx is a mysterious marvel from the days of ancient Egypt. With the body of a lion and the head of a king or god, the sphinx has come to symbolize strength…

  • Ancient Egyptian Art: Osiris Statue

    This paper will discuss how the New Kingdom Egyptian statuette “Osiris” typifies traditional Egyptian funerary art, specifically statuary. The first aspect discussed will be the materials typically used in Egyptian funerary statuary, and why those materials were used. Secondly, a look will be taken at the specific pose the statuette takes, and how that specific…

  • Mae West and 1930’s censorship

    Nowadays, we probably take for granted that the majority of films created in Hollywood have no moral or content boundaries whatsoeverAlthough today the boundaries might seem a little blurred, it was not always like this. The censorship process in Hollywood films (as well as in many other media) is a process that has grown and…

  • Gladioli by Monet

    Painted circa 1876, by Claude Monet, Gladioli is an oil on canvas and it is currently covered with protective glass. The painting’s dimensions are 22 x 32.5 inches and is surrounded by a ten inch thick ornate gold frame making the entire work measure a substantial 30 x 20 x 3 7/8 inches. The painting…

  • Initial and Current Museum Policies of Istanbul Archaeology Museum

    Founded in efforts of Westernization, in the most difficult times of the Empire politically and economically, Istanbul Archaeological Museum (IAM) was the first museum of the Ottoman Empire. As an imperial museum, IAM had different connotations for the West and the public, implying sovereignty of the state over the historical artifacts in its territory as…

  • Critique of Discobolos (The Disc Thrower)

    The piece of art I have selected to critique is Discobolus, aka The Disc Thrower currently on display in Rome, Italy. This majestic Classical period piece of art is the perfect portrayal of a finely tuned athlete at the peak of immense concentration prior to his release of a discus into space. The symbolism of…

  • Venus of Willendorf – Most Famous Women

    The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called “Venus” of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube river near the town of Willendorf, Austria.

  • Museums Hold Our History and Culture

    Museums are places that we like to go to learn about our history, our culture and our very existence. Most of the things we learn in school are condensed into this place full of various artefacts and pieces of our identity. Reflecting on this, it’s hard to think about what you’d put in a museum…

  • Darkness and Light: Two Paths to Sorrow; “Young Goodman Brown” and “Patterns”

    The use of descriptive scenery in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown” and the poem, “Patterns”, by Amy Lowell, is extremely vivid. At first glance it appears as though the descriptive scenery in each is completely contrary to the other, but a closer look reveals subtle similarities.

  • The Targeddy of Julius Ceasar

    The adopted son of Julius Caesar, Augustus (63 B.C. – 14 A.D.) became the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C., founding the Julio-Claudia dynasty. Many portraits of Augustus were erected throughout the empire in order to convey his political and social beliefs and to validate his claim to power. To distinguish his rule from…

  • Indian Marriage Necklace – Research Paper

    This paper is a study to further research “Marriage Necklace” kalata uru/thail C: 19th century, Indian, gold, approximately 1’x2’, currently shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The study will cover the classification of this type of art as a whole, the technique in which it was created, the artists who created this type…