Essays on Art

In the article, Ted Gup notes that his nonfiction writing class is “…a sanctuary of free speech” (Gup 2). What such an expression means is that his students are at liberty to utter absolutely anything during his class including even the N-word and the F-word. According to him, words should...

Wimsatt, William. Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip-Hop's Moral Center. Soft Skull Press, 2008. The word of hip-hop and rap is growing immensely drawing large interest from a wide section of interested parties. The hip-hop music genre is known to go with a cool mix of...

My name is Fatma Amina and I am an illegal immigrant in this county. I am a female, Somali, Muslim, international student and upcoming journalist. I arrived in the Minnesota in the recent past. However, prior to that, I have cultural barriers in terms of dressing, food, and religion. Minnesota...

Banshee is a monster, famous in Ireland and Scottish Highlands; essentially, it is considered monstrous due to its appearance. The creature takes the form of a woman with and emits a shrill cry of lamentation. According to folktales, the supernatural being wails when an individual is about to die, alerting...

The “Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture”is a nonfiction book by Ross King that describes the city of Florence at the beginning of Renaissance era.  The author uses Filippo Brunelleschi to describe the history of Florence.  Primarily, the book focuses on the building of Santa Maria del Fiore’s...

In the address to the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society, Frank Lloyd Wright writes about William Morris, a respected artist in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and his opposition of the machine’s role in the creation of art. The great architect seems to first praise the work of William Morris...

This section analyses calculated values of time constant and capacitance. The current and voltage of discharging capacitor are measured for a period of 90 seconds and listed in Table 1.1. From this table, voltage is plotted against time as shown in Figure 1.9. Analysis of errors and uncertainties was not...

Historic Royal Palace was initially a government established charity organization in the United Kingdom. It was established originally in 1989 as the Environmental Department executive agency to care for the five royal palaces. In 1998, the agency became an independent charity which was then caring for the UK’s unoccupied royal...

Historic Royal Palace was initially a government established charity organization in the United Kingdom. It was established originally in 1989 as the Environmental Department executive agency to care for the five royal palaces. In 1998, the agency became an independent charity which was then caring for the UK’s unoccupied royal...

The product described here is the free contemporary art advanced by La Machine-  a street theatre firm which has given the city of Nantes’s shipbuilding warehouses and old docks a new look. The arrival of Jean Blaise in the mid-1980s marked the beginning of art and culture promotion.  Blaise, the...

On June 4, the Supreme Court on the narrow ruling case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission sided with Mr Philips the baker who turned away a gay married couple (Liptak). The case is a perfect example of the tension between religious faith and the same-sex marriage debates that...

To begin with, the majority of people who take part in the arts have a tendency to reason that the government ought to provide financial sustenance. The fact remains that, the display of these art treasures is of great benefit to the state itself. First and the foremost, the artistic...