Friday, February 21, 2014, was the first time that I had the pleasure of sitting in on a piano recital in Merrill Hall. It was a concert by Hye Jin Cho, a young lady from Korea, performing three exten...
Pictorial Narratives – Time and Tales Essay
Art, paintings, images, sculptures serve to be an immortal representation of the lifestyles of the era and the region from which they originate. They are like windows, enabling us to take a peek into ...
Pictorialist Photography Essay
As photography grew in popularity, talented artists realized that photography could be used as a means to express emotions or convey a message, similar to artworks. After a tough period of artists tr...
Popular Entertainment, Performing Arts Essay
Evaluation of the meaning of Popular Entertainment Popular entertainment is “ideas, perspectives, altitudes, mess, and other phenomena that are preferred by an informal consensus within the mainstre...
Public Art and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Essay
Public art is a very broad term that encompasses so many different kinds of art and target audiences. The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is a program that creates public art in the form of murals. ...
Public funding of the arts Essay
If art is publicly funded, censorship should be allowed. Artists should be allowed to create anything their heart desires even if it offends people however, if their art is being funded by a public so...
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Sculpture was of great importance in the development of Renaissance art, of which two men, Bruneleschi and Ghilberti were major contributors (Great Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Page 38, and Lec...
Rocket to the Moon – Rocket to the Moon -Romare BeardenRomare Bearden Essay
There are many famous paintings in the world today that are created by different artists. Each one of them tells a story or narrative, the paintings are put together in many ways by the color, shape, ...
Biography Rogier van der Weyden (originally Rogier de la Pasture) was born in Belgium where he spent his life and created his masterpieces. As an artist, he was successful and well-known in his lifeti...
Romantism and Realism in Arts Essay
Three people have been credited with starting the Romantic Era. Some say it started 1798 when Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsmith published the Lyrical Ballads, poems written in the common d...