Essays on Art Movement

Modernism and Post-Modernism Modernism is one of the most recent and influential literary movements in the history of English literature. The Modernism era began in 1890 and ended around 1930. It was often viewed as an era where authors rejected the Victorian styles. Most authors…

Banksy and Thierry Guetta The film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” by the street artist Banksy in the year 2010. Which shows graffiti as a form of contemporary art, in this way the authors of such works are expressed in an art called street art….

Summary The movie ‘Glory Road’ was set in El Paso, Texas during the Civil Rights Movements of 1966. The movie starts with Coach Don Haskins of Texas Western College trying to recruit players of any race to his basketball team. At this time, many basketball…

Introduction From first glance, American society during the mid-1900s was one of a new found creativity and pop culture. After the struggles of the Great Depression and World War II in the 1930s and 1940s, people in the U.S. found a relief in the new…

New Type of Culture Born in 1928, most of Andy Warhol’s adult life was spent during the years of an economic bomb and the growing cultural of mass production and consumerism. After World War II, the way production was conducted changed forever with faster and…

In just about every piece of literature, there is some form of symbolism. Authors, poets, and playwrights use symbolism to add deeper meanings and messages for the readers within what they wrote. The Glass Menagerie also has various symbols within its writing but the one…

The Lion King is an animated musical film which was produced in 1994. For this film to be specifically for a younger audience, the themes of the film are pretty mature. We see the battle of good versus evil. Although the themes are mature, they…

Edgar Allan Poe, a writer of the Dark Romanticism era, is known for his morbid and melancholy tales that reflect the popular beliefs of his time. He illustrates in his writings the dark side of humanity as well as man’s weaknesses in the face of…

By definition, a candle is a cylinder of block or wax or tallow with a central wick that is used to produce light as it burns. However, the symbolic definition of a candle is a production of light in darkness; it symbolizes life being produced…

My personal opinion on graffiti is mainly that it shouldn’t be defended. But on one hand I understand what the people preaching for grafitti as an art from is defending and trying to get across. It’s spoken of as an form of art, and a…