Essays on Art Movement

The modern representation of the garbage that comes in and out of humans mouths. In Philip Guston’s painting “Painters Forms II” laid out with oil on canvas (75 X 108 inches) with images of a big open mouth and teeth, what looks like soles of…

At the entrance of the gallery dedicated to the evocation of the Assyrian artistic period in the great Metropolitan Museum of Art, huge reliefs engraved in the walls are certainly the first to notice. Of those reliefs, two mythical creatures stand out, winged lion and…

This essay focuses on Edward Said’s critique regarding the study of the orient done by Western colonialists. This means critically analysing Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism which is the study of Arabs and Middle Eastern cultures performed by western scholars. This includes an analysis on…

Art has been around for thousands of years. It has come in many shapes and sizes and different forms. We now have so many ways to create art from colored pencils to graphite. These media have their own individual history of how they came to…

The year 1994 marked a socio-political change in South Africa, as well as becoming a clear separation in the cultural experiences of both white and black South Africans. The world celebrated this movement away from a hegemonic, racially dominated society into this new, inclusive Rainbow…

Art is a social metaphor. It has been deployed, since ages, as a tool to rethink on all arenas of life like gender, caste, economics, politics, religion, war, language, culture and one’s sense of self. It establishes an analogy of everyday life or reflects a…

Humans have told stories since the beginning of time but it wasn’t until recently that we have been able to manipulate the way people feel about our stories. Film is an art form that captures the audience and has the ability to manipulate our emotions…

Photorealism which can also be identified as Superrealism, Hyperrealism, New Realism, or Sharp Focus Realism, is a type of art that incorporates graphic media, drawing, and paintings in which the artist replicates a photograph onto a canvas to make it as realistically as possible. The…

Aristotle is known as the father of Realism. To understand fully his work, we should at least have a glimpse of his life in his early days. He was born in 384 B.C.E. in Stagira, Greece. He is a son of a physician at court…

Friendship is one of the key themes in the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which takes place behind the German frontlines during World War I. Erich Maria Remarque uses symbolic events in order to portray the importance of relationships between soldiers and the…