Category: Art

Contemporary art is so unpredictable and outstanding in all its expressions that people tend to get extremely overwhelmed with emotions aroused by prolific artists. As such, one of the greatest and stunning contemporary installations is called Skyspace by James Turrell at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. Created by the space and light artist, this is…

Alexey Brodovitch was a famous photographer, designer, and instructor. His most prominent work was in the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar where he had been an art director for a quarter of a century. This incredible work for the magazine left its significant trace in the development of the whole designer culture in the world. The…

Table of Contents Symbolic Associations Linked to Colour Individual Differences and Colour Cultural Differences and Colour References The cover image from the American alternative rock band’s Foo Fighters seventh album called “Wasting Light” can be acclaimed as a seminal piece of design work. The image uses a high contrast of complementary colours in full saturation…

Joan Miro is a well-known surrealistic artist earning his international acclaim for a series of self-portraits written during varied periods of his mastership. The image under consideration in the following paper named “Self-Portrait I” is completed by Joan Miro in 1937-1938. The artist accomplished it in pencil and crayon on canvas. Currently, the picture can…

Tupac: Resurrection, which opens nationwide today, is a documentary with a curious, uncanny twist: it seems to be narrated, from beyond the grave, by its subject, the actor and rap star Tupac Shakur, who was shot to death at a Las Vegas intersection in 1996. The film shows us the inner life of Tupac Shakur:…

Before starting this essay, we should understand what a painting is. The word ‘painting’ is a noun as well as it is a verb. The act of making a painting (noun) is a verb (painting). In this essay, one is going to be concerned with the noun form of painting. So ‘painting’ is the outcome…

Table of Contents Introduction The historiography Self-portrait Hunting Visual Analysis Still Life Conclusion Portraits Reference List Footnotes Introduction The painting, Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with a Dead Bittern (see fig. 1) of Rembrandt van Rijn during the 17th century presents the modern or hybrid painting of the traditional paintings. Most of Rembrandt’s paintings show the idea of…

In spite of being a young upcoming artist, Ryan Lambright is a skilled performer and world-class Euphoniumist whose name is increasingly gaining fame in the world of Music. Over the recent times, Lambright has been furthering his career by advancing his music education major while intermittently using his music prowess to perform in live concerts—especially…

Table of Contents Formal perspective Technical perspective Cultural perspective Social perspective Reference List Figure 1: Chinese Vase with Peony Scroll, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) (Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013). Formal perspective This is a Cizhou-type Chinese vase, which relied on a complicated technique in order to create an outstanding decoration on a jar. This technique…

“Hocus Pocus” is a fantasy film with the elements of comedy directed by Kenny Ortega and first released in 1993. According to SUNDAY; Your Movie Planner (2010), it is “occasionally bewitching Disney comedy about three Salem sorceresses…Entertaining in spells and surprisingly gruesome “. This Walt Disney Pictures movie is rather fun, exciting and entertaining; and…