Essays on Art Movement

Street art first started in the late 1970’s, and people began using some private property and public transport to write or tag their names or street addresses. This trend was first found in urban places specifically in New York City. Street art is always in…

“Art isn’t the legality of something, but the creativity and meaning behind it” (Galan). There is plenty of graffiti and most people don’t normally think about the meaning behind it. You really can’t go a day without seeing graffiti. You will mainly see it on…

Art is a way for people to express their emotions or get a statement across. Artists do this by working with different mediums or surfaces to create their work. Some popular forms of art are photography,painting, sculpture, literature, music, dance. Although these art forms can…

“The Future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” (O’Leary & Spring, 2008). An expression of the untrained masses, Graffiti is also known, as street art is an expressive art form that is a reflection of people’s sociological issues of the…

Impressionism plays a critical part in the nineteenth century’s changing representation of the painting scene. At the hands of Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and others, this original movement (not called Impressionism until the late 1800’s) was initially rejected by many and later…

The short story, Barn Burning by William Faulkner is full of literary devices. The story is about a family who moves from farm to farm to get by in life and the father burns down barns, hence the name Barn Burning. Which leads the little…

In the novel Stephen Crane uses religious symbolism to convey how Henry’s experiences as a soldier are not relatable to people who are not soldiers and are seen as a spiritual experience. Crane uses religious symbolism through Henry’s surroundings. After Henry runs away from the…

Modernism is defined as a philosophical movement that arose from a host of cultural changes in western culture between the 19th and 20th century. Standards were changing, and art and literature had to adapt to the changing times. Modernism gave us multiple movements where art…

Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” explores the stubbornness of man. And the risk men take to achieve something even if it is not in their reach. The setting takes place in the woods during Yukon winter which is one hundred and thirteen degrees below…

During the Romanic period, many different forms of writing and thinking came into fruition. This 18th and 19th century movement brought many artists, authors, architects, and musicians into the light. In the late 1700’s the appreciation of nature was the main focus in literature, this…