1. Jehan-Georges Vibert's
Views on Death Distinguishing a poets" rhetoric styles on death such as, "Death, Be Not Proud," by John Donne, shares his view on death as a transformation into eternal life. "Ozymandias," by Pearce Bysshe Shelly, uses his poem to describe what was once a powerful figure now has all been forgo...
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...
Both Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park" and Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" send a clear message to the reader that art can exist in the modern world; however, for each poet, it exists in two entirely different manners. ... That is not the case in Auden's "Musee Des Beaux Arts." ... After close examination of the two poems, "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "The Hunchback in the Park", characteristics of each man's slanted view of how art can exist in the modern era leap at the reader, the most obvious of which relates to the idea of suffering in the modern world. ...
Henri Matisse, celebrated as one of this century's greatest colorists, is also now recognized for the brilliant invention he brought to his sculptural compositions. Born in La Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France, Matisse first studied law before taking up painting at the age of twenty-one, and in...
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. ....
Two of the most famous and elite schools of art that accepted, and still accept, women pupils are the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (the PAFA). ... Yet another art school that changed the education of women artists is the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. ... It is the oldest art museum and school in the nation (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). ... The Academy's primary instruction when it was first incorporated was the study of casts of classical statues in the Louvre (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). ... A most ...
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...
George Braque was born in France on May 13, 1882. While growing up in France, Braque decided that he wanted to follow his father's path in becoming a painter. For about two years, Braque studied painting at the cole des Beaux-Arts, were he succeeded in artistic painting. He decided his best choice f...
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...
In the mid-nineteenth century, when Paris was undergoing change, the Académie des Beaux-Arts was in control of French art. The Académie ensured that they always preserved the traditional French standards with regard to the style of painting and content that was being produced. Acceptable conten...
