Art History

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  • Examples Of Misrepresentations In The Media

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    depending on the suspect’s race. For example, NBC News ran a headline regarding Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old African-American killed by authorities because it was assumed he was robbing a convenient store. This headline focused on his negative academic history, rather than his supposed crime itself, mentioning that the suspect

  • Biglin Brothers Racing Essay

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    The Biglin Brothers Racing was painted by Thomas Eakins, a celebrated post civil war American realist painter, in 1872. He created this painting while in Philadelphia during a time when rowing was popular. The painting depicts two rowers on the Schuylkill River,Philadelphia. Eakins captured the synchronized moment between the brothers, and emphasized still movement by repeating angles throughout the painting. The popularity of rowing and the details he included makes this one of his most famous paintings

  • Serrano Piss Christ

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    The art world during the 1980s was very artistically diverse and aesthetic contention was primarily eminent. Many artists stretched the comfort zone of themselves and their viewers. Creating controversial artwork during this time was not only eminent it was very popular. Many of these artists experimented with different mediums, including blood, urine, and other bodily fluids. One of the most famous artists using unusual mediums like these is Andres Serrano. Serrano is known for creating pieces of

  • Simplistic Analysis Of The Beach Boys Annotated

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    People often times overlook all the different aspects and characteristics that songs posses. Music is created through brining a variety of sounds together and overlapping carefully chosen lyrics on top of those sounds. Taking the time to fully analyze the lyrics and music that a song consists of will allow one to fully see the meaning of songs and why the artists created them. The lyric, “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys, became one of the most popular songs in its era due to its thorough creation

  • Analysis Of Truffaut's 'The 400 Blows'

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    Bordwell expresses ‘art cinema’ as a principal mode of narration that became popular as an alternative model during the decline of Hollywood dominance. According to Hayward, the term – art cinema, ‘refers predominantly to a certain type of European cinema that is experimental in technique and narrative’ (2013: 23). Hayward also outlines art cinema as ‘Second Cinema (European art cinema and the cinema of the auteurs)’ (Hayward 2013: 383), which incorporates various issues that were faced by post-war

  • Akhenaten Vs Menkaure Analysis

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    Works of Art ( MenKaure and His Queen+Akhenaton ) INTRODUCTION: The two ancient’s arts i.e. Menkaure and his queen and the mummy of Akhenaten are the two famous Egyptian archeological figures. These have various features which either common or contrast with each other. Ancient Egyptian architecture is world noted for the extraordinary Egyptian Pyramids, whereas alternative options dolizedistics to the art of Ancient Egypt consists its writing script supported footage and symbols (hieroglyphics)

  • Steven Spielberg Research Paper

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    Steven Spielberg is an American director most known for films like the Jurassic Park series, Schindler’s List, and many more. Spielberg is a well-known director and is today is quite popular and influential. Spielberg’s career transcends for more than four decades and have covered various themes and genres. Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his filmmaking, interacting with the cinematographers to create a visually stunning and eye catching film. Steven Spielberg also uses various motifs

  • Punch Drunk Love Essay

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    By the late 1970’s most styles of music had already been used to the point where some artist considered the idea, that anything that was worth doing had been done. This theory, that all discoveries had been discovered, lead to post modernism. Because no new styles existed, these post modern thinkers developed the concept of incorporating past styles in a variety of ways; utilizing scores and techniques that developed into a pseudo-neo-sound. Punch Drunk Love approached it’s scores by using the post

  • North By Northwest Music Analysis

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    Examine the radical use of sound or music in at least two films. The films that I have chosen to discuss and examine the radical use of sound in are “North by Northwest “(1958) and Alfred Hitchcock has been complimented numerous times by critics for his deliberate and calculated use of sound and music in his films . The use of sound and music in Hitchcock's films coupled with his strong visuals and his many editing styles gives the viewers a a very strong audio and visual spectacle. In recent

  • Bondoock Saints Research Paper

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    Throughout cinema history movies have always been made to entertain an audience by touching their emotions to keep them drawn to the screen. Traditionally there was always a protagonist (usually the good guy), and the antagonist (usually the bad guy). The good guy always won and the bad guy always lost, and that was what the audience expected. In more modern times a new style of films has become more popular known as alternative crime films. These films introduce new world views, don’t always achieve