Many authors have voiced their ideas about how human suffering is not only all over the world, but is largely ignored by people who are not affected by it. W.H. Auden's Mussee des Beaux Arts is a prime analysis of this theory of suffering and other people's attitudes toward it. It uses several small...
Traditionally, the arts have been divided into two categories, the fine arts and the liberal arts. ... The fine arts, a translation of the French beaux-arts, are more concerned with purely the aesthetic. ... Another traditional system of classification, applied to the fine arts, establishes such categories as literature, the visual arts, the graphic arts, the plastic arts, the decorative arts, the performing arts, music, and architecture. ... The distinction between artist and craftsman hardly appears before the Renaissance, and the term fine arts, does not appear until the mid-18th century. ....
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Standing naked on top of a cliff, Howard Roark envisions what the trees and granite around him can be made into. He is an architect, ingenious and creative. None of like any other at the Stanton Institute of Technology. He had been pondering about his life and the ev...
In Burnham's later buildings, such as the towering Flatiron Building in New York City, the steel frame was hidden by traditional beaux-arts facing. ... After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he spent a year in Paris at the École Des Beaux-Arts and in the office of a French architect. ... Concerned with fine arts and beauty as well as being a working architect, he 7 expressed his ideas in lectures and writings, including the classic Autobiography of an Idea. ...
The goal of this paper is to contrast the different colors that Cezanne used in his work, to the events that were happening in his life. Unfortunatly, Cezanne usually stuck with the same dull colors throughout his lifetime. I will mostly talk about his self-portraits, because he usually painted th...
Drama seeks to convey a representation of life. During the Restoration period, society influenced the plot and the characters of the Restoration Theatre. Restoration Theatre was a drama or a comedy performance that contained heroic tragedy and tears (rather tragic pity), or humour, wittiness and upp...