Essays on Artwork

The article All Animals are Equal advocates for the rights of animals in the society. Written by Peter Singer, the text suggests that human beings ought to treat other animals with car, and provide them with a treatment that is akin to that which is extended to other human beings....

Pietas and Its Meaning Pietas means a sense of duty or religiosity and is a creation by an acclaimed artist named Michelangelo. He created the concept in 1497 under the directives of a cardinal named Jean De Billherrez and it resided at the St Peters Basilica in Vatican City (Platner 390)....

Visual art analysis Visual art analysis is concerned with an objective evaluation of an artwork's formal elements such as visual attributes like color, line, texture and size (Van-Leeuwen and Jewitt 4). The aspects of the art's historical context, the artist's intended meaning and an objective critique of the art also make...

Van Gogh dedicates himself to addressing man’s inner spirituality and nature through his self-portrait and the celebrated Starry Night. The two themes lead to a fusion in style and content which result in rhythmic, dramatic, creative and emotional paintings that convey way more than the sheer look of the particular...

This is an essay written by Vincent Giroud explaining the beginning of the Italian Futurist movement. Detailed analysis of poet F.T. Marinetti. Parole in libertà means “words in freedom.” It explains the reasons behind Marinetti’s idea to make words liberated. Giroud also talks about the literary movement of futurism: “futurist...

Cave art emerged during the Upper Paleolithic period, with France and Spain (especially Cantabrian region) providing the most numerous and famous cave art. Cave art spread rapidly around the expansion of Homo sapiens throughout the world (although artistic expression in Neandertals is being disputed), which was around 40,000 years ago....

Otherness is a concept helps to highlight how communities create a sense of identity, belonging and social status through the construction of social categories. The notion of otherness is also used to break down the resources and ideologies that are used by groups in maintaining their social identities. In the...

During the periods of 1938, Frida Kahlo painted an art. The painting by Frida depicted a picture of a small little girl which was believed to be herself as she was at an age of four years wearing a mask of the skull. The skull mask that she wore on...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a museum with rich and high-quality collection of art objects of all historical periods. The objects are nicely presented within the framework of their origin, meaning, role in society, temporal affiliation. Here, the accent is put on the painting section. Regarding the permanent...

The painting “Starry Night over the Rhine" is one of the arts' works which made Vincent Van Gogh popular in the arts arena. The painting is a representation of how Gogh viewed the Rhine River from his rented house in Lamartine (Naifeh and Gregory 34). Even though Starry Night was...

Out of the works listed for this course, I finally settled on researching Rosa Bonheur s The Horse Fair (1852-1855). I have always been drawn to arts composed during the period of Realism since they do not only give the real impression of the beginning of modern art but also...

Gentle rolling waves wade through the air; stirring up sea and sand, The sun glistening water gleaming like satin sheets, reflecting the blue sky, As slow blowing wind, blusters the cloth on the mast, swaying the boat hard, All is peaceful and calm with Pearl Kite chirpings, a day to make merry. From a...