Evaluation Essays

Victoria and Albert Museum contains various items and collections including those related to fashion. Some of these fashion items include the Bugaku, which was created by George Balanchine after being inspired by the Gakaku (a group of dancers and musicians maintained by the Japanese Imperial Household), who visited the United...

Art is an important aspect of human life in both the present and the past because of the various roles it plays. As an art from Southern Asia and particularly India, Yama is a good portrait indicating the Indian God of Death dating back to 17th to 18th century. He...

Katsushika Hokusai - A Celebrated Artist Katsushika Hokusai is a globally celebrated artist that is remembered for manga, ukiyo-e painting, and woodblock printing. It is not very clear when Katsushika Hokusai was born but it is estimated that he was born on the 31st of October in the year 1760; his...

The Set Design The two videos “Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus – Don Giovanni” and “DON GIOVANNI Commendatore” have the same set. The videos are similar because they are based on a scene where the Commandant’s statue appears and states that he has come for dinner. The scene takes place in the dining...

Sophie Calle is a French photographer considered as acontroversial artist because of her non-conventional approach to photography. Born in Paris, France in 1953, Sophie Calle traveled and settled in California where she developed the passion for photography (Calle and Baudrillard 8). Calle returned to Paris in 1979 and enrolled in...

Late Antiquity Late antiquity was a period of transition, and it was characterized by political climates that were constantly changing, thereby causing shifting tastes in the standards of the society. This period presents a range of artwork which exhibits both a narrative storyline and symbolic imagery, presented as early Christian motifs. There...

There are divergent opinions concerning the success of Kate Chopin’s novel, “The Awakening,” in communicating its dominant theme of women empowerment and their subsequent ability to manage an independent life. While some readers regard Chopin’s novel a success, critics consider it a critical flop because it displays women as unable...

The 2017 Whitney Biennial and the 2017 Venice Biennale: A Comparison The 2017 Whitney Biennial is one of the most recognized events in the world as several artists tend to display their work in which people from different parts of the world tend to view. The shows are different from other...

Modern Art in Africa Modern art in Africa is understood to be the art that is created by the African diaspora artists as well as the artists in Africa during the post-independence era. However, the definition of this form of art is one that has recently been understood to represent post-independence...

Rebecca Belmore is a contemporary performance artist who is less in the visceral and puts much emphasis on poetry. Her exhibition, “Facing the Monumental”, curated at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), promotes the idea that her work has always been open-ended and non-pedantic.             Belmore’s work explores a range of...

In sociology, rationalization refers to as the substitution of traditional customs, emotions, and values as behavior motivators in the society with concepts founded on reason and rationality (Cherepanov et al., 2013). Types of rationality include; practical rationality which involves deciding on the best way to achieve predetermined results systematically. Theoretical...

Despite being a world power and one of the developed nation of the world, United States of America is going through a number of social issues. Some of these have slowly accumulated, while others are more recent. Everything that the government and people of a country do have an impact...