Essays on Art

Migration is one of the most serious issues affecting the contemporary world, with thousands of people displaced every day. Today, there are several refugee camps accommodating people who have fled their homes and are not expecting to get back any time soon. Several issues account for the unforeseen global population...

It is a well known fact that symbols hold meaning both in the conscious and unconscious mind. Through the use of images, symbols, or pictures, an organic form of communication is developed. The origin form of communication has the ability to provide more information than mere words. Through the use...

Israel and Palestine have conflicted the nation of Israel were established in 1948. It has now been half a century since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories, and 11 years since the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip. Since Israel set the naval blockade on Gaza, the troops have been...

In response to the oppressive regime during the apartheid, South Africans developed an alternative type of socio-political activism, different from the street marching and protests, the use of documentary photography. The purpose of this research is to outline the role that documentary photography played in exposing the “Truth” of the...

Growing up, I have undergone numerous phases which saw me interested in different aspects. At first, I was over-enthusiastic about electronics. Kicking off my obsession with the then Dick Smith electronic kits, I could dismantle and reassemble small transmitters and components of the home stereos. To my parents’ astonishment, I...

For quite a long time, social class, particularly in ancient and medieval times, also determined children’s development. That meant that children who were ‘high-born’ or from noble families were likely to experience better physical, a cognitive, social, and emotional development than those from the low class. The social inequality was...

For my first task, I chose William Shakespeare's how do I compare thee to a summers day. My initial reaction to the poem is one that I felt connected to the poem; the comparison of love to seasons and how they are so alike in human nature and...

Document A: John Betjeman, in Architectural Review, 1933. Document B: Edward Thomas, from Poems, 1917. Adlestrop. Introduction In 1914, there was a demolition of a monumental part of railway infrastructure in London. Such act marked a new era of practice and research. Various buildings were demolished along the North London railway station. For...

Art Education in Prisons Art education provides a number of benefits that help in enhancing personal, interpersonal, as well as change and improvement in habit and character. Engagement in art education while detained in prisons can be useful to inmates as it helps in the establishment of new identities. The creation...

1.0 Introduction From a constructivist perspective, communication is the most critical social process through which humans rationalize their experience and construct social reality (Amineh and Asl 2016). According to some scholars, visual language has historically been the structural underpinning for cultural construction in many societies (Benoit 2016). Within this conceptual framework,...

In the 20th century, South Africa was under the rule of white minority who introduced the apartheid rule. This was a form of colonial rule that separated access of social amenities through a separate system based on race. Africans were not allowed to go to certain areas, use certain bus...

1.1 Study Background Barnard (2013, p. 12) argues that human interaction with graphic design is so ubiquitous that it often goes unacknowledged. The author notes that from the moment one wakes up, the interaction begins with simple acts, such as viewing text and symbols in one’s bathroom to reading nutritional information...