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Pollock and Rothko, 2006.
A comparative analysis of the art and lives of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines how the work of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock can be considered representative of modern American art. It shows that while the paintings of these two artists could never be mistaken for one another, in a sense their content is a reflection of their trouble lives. Pollock was an alcoholic and Rothko was mentally ill.
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"What both men had in common, however, was a personal investment in their work- whether it would be considered "surrealistic" or "abstract" or, as one critic dubbed Pollock's work "global". Pollock, once, when he was asked how people should look at his work said: "I think they should not look for- but look passively- and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or a preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for." The problem with the average museum-goer, staring at a typical Pollock work was stunned by the intricacy and the symbolism of the lines, crossing, intersecting, encircling in bold, brash colors. "He was certainly more than a hit or miss painter, who sloshed his paint about without awareness of the consequences...He was a radical painter..." "
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Georgia O'Keeffe the Artist, 2006.
This paper focuses on the life and work of prolific artist Georgia O'Keeffe.
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper details the life and many accomplishments of acclaimed artist Georgia O'Keeffe and probes her brilliant use of every color on the palate. The writer also discusses how O'Keeffe's unique artistic methods are currently used in art teaching on every level from elementary schools to the finest universities throughout the world.
Topics covered in this report include:
Thesis Statement
O'Keeffe's Theoretical Context of Post Modernism
The Impacts of O'Keeffe's Use of Color
O'Keeffe's Treatment of Gender and Sexuality
Georgia O'Keeffe - The Artist's Context and the Person
Bibliography
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"However, with undaunted enthusiasm from 1950 through 1964 she did continue to produce works albeit not many with the zeal and fire and passion of her earlier works in the formative years. And, when loss of eyesight handicapped her further in the early seventies she began working in three dimensional art works in clay and with the assistance of Jaun Hamilton reentering the art world in 1973."
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Joe Satriani: A Guitar Hero, 2006.
A review of the life and music of guitarist Joe Satriani.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper studies the musical stylings of guitarist Joe Satriani, whom Entertainment Weekly has called "a guitar hero". By critiquing Satriani's various records, as well as examining the personal and professional milestones of his life, the paper provides a well-rounded insight into the man and his music.
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"In these first years of his career, Satriani was entirely self-taught. It wasn't until 1974 that he began taking lessons in Queens and Glen Cove, New York, with Lennie Tristano and Billy Bauer, respectively. [2] Once he outgrew that scene, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California, where he began teaching guitar at a studio called Second Hand Guitars. Here he also instructed other notable guitarists such as David Bryson from Counting Crows, Metallica's famous guitar shredder Kirk Hammet, Primus' Larry LaLonde, Alex Skolnick of Megadeth, Slayer and Judas Priest, as well as the upstart jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter. [3] This teaching stint occupied another ten years of Satriani's life and was a critical time of development and learning."
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Jan Vermeer, 2006.
Examines the life and career of renowned Dutch artist and landscape painter, Jan Vermeer.
6,487 words (approx. 25.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 149.95
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This paper briefly presents biographical information about Dutch artist Jan Vermeer and then goes on to discuss many of his most famous works. The paper explains that Vermeer was the foremost colorist of his time and discusses his elegant use of light, composition, tonal values and perspective.
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"His paintings are exquisitely depicted with luminous blues and yellows, pearly highlights, which allow him to achieve subtle graduations of reflected light. He was a master of composition, particularly with regard to the representation of space. The paintings feature the arrangement of tonal values and perspective from the foreground, into the middle ground, sometimes continuing farther into the distance in such works as Girl Asleep at a Table. In The View of Delft and other works, he demonstrated mastery of the effects of light with a subtlety, delicacy, and purity of color, that have never been surpassed since."
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Pablo Picasso, 2005.
An overview of the life and art career of this famous painter.
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous artists in the history of art, was greatly concerned with social justice and the condition of man, becoming a self-avowed communist early on. This paper shows that Picasso continued to produce works of art throughout his lifetime, frequently returning to basic themes to which he continually brought new insights and methods of conveyance. The paper shows that by the time of his death at age 92, Picasso had left an indelible mark on the world of art, ensuring his place in history.
From the Paper
"During his lifetime, Picasso went through a number of developmental stages including his aptly named blue, rose and Negro periods. Picasso borrowed artistic elements and gained artistic influence from varying persons and cultures, bringing them all together to create something that was uniquely his own. With Georges Braque, Picasso is credited with founding the cubist movement, in addition to being the originator of collage artwork. Picasso worked in a wide array of artistic mediums, with a seemingly boundless range and reach. While many of the themes Picasso addressed in his artwork were similar to those seen in classical painting (portraits, still lifes, landscapes, literary themes, old masters, love and death, joy and suffering, etc.) he is credited with having paved the way for art to move toward the more abstract, subliminal and subconscious. Picasso broke down convention, creating something new and revolutionary to take its place."
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Photography as Art, 2006.
A review of photography as an art form.
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper studies photography as an art form -- from the mundane, such as photojournalism, to the fantastic, i.e. interpretative artistic photographs. The author briefly reviews the history of photography, before delving into the scientific details of the art form. The paper then explores photography as an expressive art form, which does not require literal interpretation of subject matter.
The Science and the Art of Photography
Contemplative Photography
Photographic Presentation
Artistic Expression
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"According to U.K. scientist and photographer, Mike Ware (1993), the photograph is a way of enhancing observation. The viewer is presented with a view of a world that is seldom noticed. A moment is taken from time and frozen for the viewer to study and react to. This could be a scene as mundane as a street filled with businesses, or as fantastic as a complicated collage, with a profusion of images assaulting the eye. The artistic purpose remains to make the viewer see what the photograph represents and to bring an individual interpretation to it. Hidden beauty is exposed to the eye of the camera and thus to the eye of the viewer. In this way the mundane and the fantastic become one. Perhaps one could say that the mundane in photography could also be compared to its scientific aspect, whereas the fantastic parallels the final artistic product."
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Albrecht D?rer, 2006.
A study of the life and work of the great German painter, Albrecht Durer.
1,875 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper explores the life and work of Albrecht Durer, one of the great German painters of the Cinquecento, whose work was both influenced by and contributed to the spread of the Reformation throughout Germany. The author details Durer's personal history together with the historical developments in Germany and Christianity at the time. The paper also provides a detailed study of Durer's painting "The Four Apostles", which the author calls a culmination of his beliefs regarding the nature of God and the dignity of the human being.
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"The Germany of Durer's time was still burdened by the feudal system and by widespread illiteracy. A growing, prosperous middle class paved the way for the social, economic and religious revisions that would later be called the Reformation. Still, because of the lack of sufficient education, paintings were a remarkably important source of information for the general populace. Durer was a devotee of Luther and of his ideas of direct human connection to God, and thus Durer's work was an significant vehicle for the dissemination of Reformation ideology."
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Man Ray, 2006.
A look at the artistic career of photographer, Man Ray.
1,799 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper describes the photography of Man Ray, describing both his spirit of innovation and his enormous talent for the photographic medium. The paper discusses Ray's early career, his interest in photography, his work in New York and Paris, his surrealist and Dadaist works and his influence on the mainstream (and often upper class) dress fashions of the late 1930s.
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"Ray's interest in photography grew stronger in the 1920s. He showed a masterful control of camera and dark room skills, but he was most notably an innovator. He helped re-instate the cliche-verre method of making direct photographic reproductions of drawings on glass. He used a variety of methods to produce photographic images without using a camera by "placing translucent objects on sensitized paper, adjusting lights at various angles, moving objects and/or lights above and across the paper, and at times actually immersing objects in the developer during exposure." [Perpetual, p. 27] If photography was machine-art, then Ray's photographs without a camera were even harder to categorize, an unidentifiable realm of artistic mystery. Although not entirely of his own invention, Ray's experimentation with these forms of exposure led to a liberation in the modernist's way of interpreting reality."
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The Development of Art Throughout the World, 2006.
This paper reviews the history of various art forms in "Art in the Western World," written by David M. Robb and J. J. Garrisson.
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper examines the development of western art forms from early architectural designs through sculptures of the Greeks and Romans, the European art of the Renaissance period and into the 20th century as written about in "Art in the Western World," by David M. Robb and J. J. Garrisson.
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"Hendrick Willem Van Loon, traces the history of Art in The Arts. Van Loon follows the development of Art from the prehistoric period, the Minoan civilization, the Greeks and Romans, Gothic Art, Renaissance Art, Chinese and Japanese art into the Empire style of the early 1800's. He looks at art as a whole, discussing musicians as well as architects, sculptors and painters."
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David Alfaro Siqueiros, 2005.
Examines the political and artistic career of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.
1,641 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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Perhaps with the exception of Andre Malraux, no painter affiliated with the arts has been involved in direct political action as heavily as David Alfaro Siqueiros. The paper shows that as a student activist, soldier, and a leader of an assassination crew, Siqueiros was also considered one the artistic masters of the twentieth century, a member of that great Mexican school of mural painting that includes Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Inventive, insightful, and always in search of new techniques and experiments with materials, Siqueiros frequently used pyroxylin, a substance related to gun-cotton, which dries with amazing speed. The paper shows that with the ability to produce art with remarkable efficiency, Siqueiros' career was prolific, deep and inspiring.
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"Released in 1964, Siqueiros continued as a partisan of international Marxism. A supporter of Castro's Cuba and a foe of U.S. intervention in Vietnam, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. And in the final decade of his life, Siqueiros set up a workshop in Cuernavaca and painted his most ambitious work, a huge mural called "The March of Humanity." When it was inaugurated, on December 15, 1971, President Luis Echeverria was in attendance. Because he had been blamed for the Tlatelolco massacre, that took place while he was interior minister, Echeverria was trying to project a populist image and mend fences with the left."
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Montage, 2006.
A description and history of montage as an art form.
1,767 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper describes the art of montage and how it began its involvement with photography. The paper also describes the original purpose of the montage and the origins of the term "photomontage". The paper further explains that, because of the political message in the photomontage artwork that emerged out of Nazi Germany, photomontage represented a move away from abstract, figurative painting and instead tried to create an image of shocking reality according to the Nazis. The paper then goes on to explain how the use of photomontage as a political tool also found its way into the message of the Dadaists and the work of John Heartfield who used photomontage to expose the evilness of Nazism. Finally, the paper looks at how photographer Sebastiao Salgado also used photomontage to provide an image of poverty that, while tragic, is also dignified in its sadness.
From the Paper
"Montage as an art form involves the combination of two or more different elements to create something new. This art began its involvement and combination with photography during the 1830's, shortly after photography itself had been invented. The direct contact printing of leaves, ferns, flowers and drawings can be seen as the predecessor of photomontage in its present form. The manipulation of the original photograph in its various forms, including double printing and composite photographs, were popular diversions during the 1830's. This was its main purpose at the time (Ades, 1976:7)."
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Song Dynasty Painting, 2006.
This paper details emperor Hui-Tsung's life, not only as an ineffectual leader but as an accomplished artist, specializing in delicately colored bird-and-flower paintings.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 26 sources, MLA, $ 124.95
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This paper contains in-depth research on the life of emperor and artist Hui Tsung. The author of this paper discusses Hui-Tsung as a sophisticated antiquarian, whose talent and vision became an increasingly important factor in Chinese art. What differentiated Emperor Hui-tsung's painting style and that of the Literati was the emperor's main focus on Taoistic idealistic realism. Numerous historians of art believe that the Northern Sung Dynasty period produced the greatest realistic landscapes in China's history. This extensive paper also covers in detail the different views and aspects on the history of art in China.
Topics covered in this paper include:
Introduction
The Northern Dissident Literati
Su Ch'e
Confucianism and Taoism
Emperor Hui-tsung
Li T'ang
Xia gui
Conclusion
Chinese footnotes
Bibliography
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"According to a translation from the German Tripod Mitgdeider Home Page, which includes an anthology of Chinese Poets of the Sung Dynasty, Ou Yang hsiu was an outstanding proselytizer and poet of the ' Northern Sung '. His pen name was Tsui weng, which has been translated as "the old gray drunk". Ou Yang's father died when he was four years old and he grew up in difficult conditions. It is said that his mother taught him reading and he was forced to write in the dirt, having no money to purchase paper. Later he took the civil service exams and became politically active. He belonged to the progressive fan Chung Yen and was eventually deported to a remote area of China. Despite this set back, he devoted himself to transforming the poetry and prose of his period. Although He was a devotee of the T'ang poet and the famous philosopher Han Uye, his work was smoothly elegant and unique having almost a musical quality."
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