Art History
Essays

Roy Lichtenstein -- Stepping Out is a painting done in oil and magna on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein. (Magna is a plastic painting product made of permanent pigment ground in acrylic resen with solvents and plasticizer.

Marxism: Principal Ideology in Russian Constructivism and Mexican Mural Movement

The 'Self' Concept in Abstract Expressionism Movement

¶ … smells of the old library surrounded me when I entered. I could smell the passage of time in there, where dusty wooden shelves housed thousands of books. A hundred-year old door creaked behind me and shut with nary…

¶ … Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy by Michael Baxandall. The paper presents the thesis of the book, evidence of the arguments put forward by the author to support his thesis, details of the structure…

The Ognissanti Madonna by Giotto, from around 1310. Tempera on panel. Located at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

The Functions and Dysfunctions Mass Media advertising and Elitist vs. Popular Art in John Berger's "Ways of Seeing"

Post-Impressionist artists were interested in the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, particularly in his concept of the Ubermensch, a superman who would be capable through intense struggle of surmounting the lower forces…

Perhaps the best introduction to Provence, other than that it is a melting pot of influences and cultures, is its touristic value. Valuable treasures and architectural monuments from the Antiquity and the Middle Ages are located in Provence. These include the Roman arena in Arles, one of the largest in Europe, the Papal Palace in Avignon, where the Popes lived for several decades during the 14th century, and the Castle of Tarascon. Finally, if these haven't had a chance to convince you yet, even if there is more to this letter that can, two words: Cote D'Azur! As mentioned, Provence, among other things, is particularly interesting as an object of study for its history. Human life in Provence has been identified, because of the different tools and instruments that were discovered, as early as 1-1.5 million years ago, making Provence one of the earliest known place in Europe where signs of life were discovered. Closer to our times, from the 10th century BC, Ligures and Celts dominated what is now Provence, but there were strong influences from the Greeks as well, who settled on the coast during the 7th century. The Greeks established the town of Massalia, which is now known as the port of Marseilles.

Modern culture in the 20th century characteristically subsists to techniques of structuralism and semiotics, which introduces a new scientific rigor to art criticism. This is because both fields of study provide…