Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays and Research Papers

Despite his insistence that he was not trying to portray a historically factual documentary regarding the assassination, Stone utilizes several real-life players in depicting his version of events. Key among these is President Kennedy himself. By refusing to recast the president, Stone not only proves his talent as a director working with limited available footage, he provides a sense of reality into the story. When he uses the Zapruder film, Stone is able to inject a somber mood of…

He is not primarily a pinter of the figure, as Millet was”, writes critic William Coffinin The Century Magazine.2 Later Coffin adds, “Homer has not made much of the figure part of his compositions, except in a few cases, but in so far as he painted figures he has treated them synthetically, as Millet did. But he has much less grasp of form. His best works are pictures of the sea”.3 He later took to oil painting much later. But his best works were almost exclusively in watercolor. As…

According to Dali, “People only see stereotyped images of things, pure shadows empty of any expression, pure phantoms, and they find vulgar and normal everything they are used to seeing often, however marvelous and miraculous it may be” (1). Hence, it is apparent that Dali’s objective is to revive reality as awe-inspiring, and this implies portrayal in a paramount vividly naturalistic manner he could master: commonplace, usually identifiable items, in plain radiance, casting brilliant…

INSERT HERE INSERT HERE INSERT NMBER HERE INSERT HERE Art Criticism: Anne Vallayer-Coster - An Artistic Trailblazer In the midst of seemingly endless and constant political, social, and economic revolutions, the art community and its contributions to providing glimpses of decades-past have remained a staple for expression and reflection. No matter how a society’s structure may be altered, expression of the very soul of the people can always be found in art works of the period. Anne…

This trend has been noticed on the big screen before in the movies of directors like Robert Altman, John Sales, Spike Lee, Lawrence Kesdan (in his film “Grand Canyon”). Don Cheadle plays Graham, the police detective who becomes involved in the car accident at the beginning of the film. Jennifer Esposito portrays Ria, his girlfriend. Chris Bridges acts as Anthony and Larenz Tate pays Peter, the two black youths who receive inhospitable treatment at the restaurant and carjack the white…

I am going to conclude with some reflections on cross-cultural “othering” and the prevalence of stereotyping. In analyzing my selected Chinese-American works, I draw from Benzi Zhang (4), who wrote as follows: ..cross-cultural readings are fraught with dangers. One of these dangers is our habit of reading the third world in terms of what, from our point of view, it does not have but wants to have" (83). Moreover, there seems to be a "tension between the raw material of the filmic text and…

The expansion of the Roman Empire took mosaics further afield, although the level of skill and artistry was diluted. When you compare Britain with Italian pieces, there is a clear distinction shown by the British examples being simpler in design and less accomplished in nature. Typically, Roman subjects were scenes celebrating their gods, domestic themes and geometric designs (Bowersock 25). Egyptians were the first to discover fused glass.  They created a flourishing industry and began…

The movie has presented an anti-war concept portraying the soldiers as cruel and brutal people who only aim to chase the company dollar. All soldiers are males except for a female pilot, who rejects the violent actions against the native population of the Na’vi. Many critiques have not mentioned the topic of gender in the movie but it is worth mentioning. Jake Sully is the main character of the movie who is a Marine. Because of his protagonist status, and that of his avatar, he is shown to…

This was through experiments in writing using unconventional methods and skills that were known to the world at the time of its invention, this period was during and after the First World War. He was a French writer who founded the entire concept of surrealism following the coining of the word surreal by prior artists of his time. The writing of the manifesto of surrealism in 1924 followed his experimental works, which carried the definition of the term surreal and the concept behind it. In…

How Movies Portray Identity and National Past Number Department Introduction Some of the movies that remain personally intriguing in the manner in which they represent identity and national past are Good Bye, Lenin! and The Seventh Seal. The former is a German tragicomedy film which was produced in 2003, having been directed by Wolfgang Becker (b. 22 June 1954), while the latter is a Swedish film which released in 1957, having been written and directed by Ernst I. Bergman (14th July 1918- 30th…

In view of this, design may contradict the principles of efficiency and utility as well as taste and profit. In regards to architecture, it is from the viewpoint of humanities and sciences that we can position the concepts of aesthetic and social theories; but there is also the legal norm and client relations, which can be positioned in the viewpoint of profession. In the field of architecture, these issues are highly debatable in the present-day world. The theory that supports architecture…

Curating a Weekend Film Festival s: CURATING A WEEKEND FILM FESTIVAL List of Films Louisiana Story release: September 28th 1948 Director: Robert Flaherty Starring: Lionel Le Blanc, Joseph Boudreaux, Frank Hardy 2. Nanook of the North Date of release: June 11th 1922 Director: Robert Flaherty Starring: Cunayou, Allakariallak 3. Man Aran Date of Release: October 18th 1934 Director: Robert Flaherty Starring: Michael Dillane, Colman King, Maggie Dirrane 4. Moana Date of Release: January 7th…

Artist own body, for instance, Ana Mendita used her body together with an element material such as water. Through subsequent artist have used everyday materials for a different reason every day, ‘real life ‘objects have a history, whether personal, political or social, which can be appropriated to imbue an artwork with a specific meaning, for example, place it in a creation context or evoke particularly associations. The following slides exhibit the use of materials, and other elements…

The paper "The Effects War and Turmoil Always Bring on the Society" is an outstanding example of a movie review on social science. Produced by Ng See-yuen, Megan Ellison, and Wong Kar-wai, the film begins with a scene where Ip Man reflects on martial arts followed by a rain fight with a dozen combatants whom he defeats.…

The essay is expected to contribute in providing some new and useful information as it aims to represent the relevance of values and characteristics reflected in the advertisements. Consumer behaviors and Cultures The process involved in consumer behavior is defined by De Mooij as “the study of process involved when people use, purchase and dispose services, products, ideas and experiences so as to satisfy needs and desires” (DeMooij, 2010, P . 93). Everyone in society holds…

The feminists have been dismissing such claims as depictions of sexist norms and stereotypes. The Freudian perspective Freud’s critic was not based on gender, but concentrated on the psychoanalytical aspects of surrealism. He insisted that the movement was fully a conscious one, contrary to the opinion that it was unconscious. He insisted that it was very wrong to assume that surrealism was an automation mistake, yet all the works (literature and art) done by them had been propagated and…

Such an assessment would also be sufficient to the extent that it demonstrates the specifics of video art as a visual poem. To begin with, it is observable that video as a form of the revolutionary medium, keeps changing the process of human perception in both the inner and external world. It has revolutionized the media industry with innovations that have proved to be immensely valuable. For example, the low-cost, portative and technical simplicity video technology translates the world into a…

Introduction In the summer of 2004, just before the elections in the USA, filmmaker Michael Moore created and released a documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11. Fahrenheit 9/11 presents his personal view of how terrorist attacks in the US were used by the president George Bush to justify illegal was in Iraq and Afghanistan. This film is a very famous performativity documentary. It received widespread acclaim and its box office sales were the highest for any documentary ever in excess of 200 million…

The paper "Chinese and Japanese Film Industry" is a good example of an essay on visual arts and film studies. The animation industry in China has grown rapidly, as 435 pieces for television were produced in 2011, with a total of 4,353 hours and 44 minutes. The total was the longest in the world for the year, much longer than that for Japan, which represents 1,577 hours and 48 minutes.…

Narrative voice and focalization in The Third Man The Third Man, a British film, was directed by Carol Reed using the screenplay written by the renowned novelist Graham Greene, who subsequently came up with a novella of the same name. Released in 1949, the film starred Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard as principal characters. The film was a commercial as well as a critical success in both its release in UK as well as in USA, where an edited version was released. It is…

The toilet paper is not sensitive compared to other fine art categories like fine art pictures that require much attention when holding (Lecture notes, Design: Judging Design ). Image Styles The image style that is significant to my experience with the object is representational art. Representational art is where an object is clearly recognizable for what it is. The object indicates the relationships of a person to nature. Trees are used in the manufacture of the toilet paper through paper…