Essays on Arts & Cultures

Day by day there are multiple people who are started to do the shopping for the diwali celebration and this will be the perfect comeback for everyone happiness. It is one of the traditional festivals in India and there is nothing that will restore the value of it at any time. 2020 becomes a hateful one because of the pandemic situation so that everyone eagerly waiting for the diwali celebration. There are different kinds of crackers and sweets are introduced for celebrating Diwali and there is ...

Many people from different countries have asked the same problem, “Is the caste system still exist nowadays?”. To answer this question, a journalist from Buzzorange asked five Indian friends in 2017. In terms of law, the caste system was abolished more than 60 years and the Indian friends mentioned that they would not discriminate people from any occupation and family. However, from the real lives they told the journalist, we can know that the caste system is still affecting their daily lives. ...

The world of art has been prohibited of its practical means and instrumental values, and of its free presence in human lives. Autonomy has been used in aesthetics in many different ways and aspects of life. The genesis of the autonomy of art has always been a debatable subject for years till now. Some might find it useful while others might not. Many different opinions have tackled the different levels on which art autonomy of art is conveyed. Each one of Kant, Schiller, and the Avant-Garde ...

Art is very subjective, yet very objective. When the topic of art in Europe is brought up, one draws their mind to Michelangelo or St. Peter’s Basilica. Those classic, yet timeless pieces of art are something that will forever be part of our modern conscientious and understanding of art. But the reason that art will be considered subjective and objective is that those two ideas are what people seek in art. People seek reasoning for why art is made, and if those reasonings align with the ...

The Rite of Spring was first performed in 1913 at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris. Composed by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, costume, props and scenery designed by Nicholas Roerich, commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and danced by the Ballet Russes, The Rite of Spring caused shockwaves which would go on to affect all aspects of the arts for many years to come. In the 1910’s, and pre-World War One, art and artists mindsets were shifting, modernism was making itself ...

There are many ways that the things the Greeks did that we still use to this day. These things do include their art, culture, stories, and so much more. I think out of all of them the stories have been the biggest impact on the modern world. I think it has because we learn about the myths in schools, read historical fiction books, and watch movies as well.Greek mythology is taught in middle school and in high school. At least that’s where I learned about these fascinating myths. I do think ...

I have named this piece Lyrebird after the Australian bird which is known for its ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds incredibly well, plus the AI software also named after the Lyrebird (Lyrebird.ai, 2019), which I have used in this piece.This piece is specifically created to be listened to using noise canceling headphones.Lyrebird is a sound piece created using binaural recordings of my own voice, sounds of the environment whilst walking and on public transport, and an AI produced ...

Since May of 2020 multiple protests have stirred up due to the killing of George Floyd. The latest victim is Jacob Blake; ‘’he was shot seven times in the back by a police officer’’. Even though Blake was able to survive the shooting, he himself still was paralayzed. These gruesome incidents have caused many Americans throughout the past few months to call for help. Many protests have started in all if not most states, to defund the police for their violent ways of patrolling. Defunding the ...

Written by Martin Luther King, Jr., while detained in a Birmingham, Alabama jail cell for protesting segregation, this open letter to members of the clergy was published in newspapers throughout the United States. The letter critiqued the idea that civil rights demonstrators should wait until a later time to pursue racial justice and that it was immoral for protesters to break the law. King argued that there are two types of laws—justs laws and unjust laws— and that “one has a moral ...

Children, being the leaders of future generations, have to fill in the gaps of those before them so it is fairly important that children are brought up with the right mindset.The environment of the youth has a great impact as to the way in which they behave especially the culture itself that they are brought up in.This can be displayed when analyzing the Japanese and Western cultures as they have varying differences when it comes to child discipline but as well as have a similarity. Child ...

On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King was arrested because of participating in demonstrations of non-violent civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama. On the same day, eight Birmingham clergymen published a letter to Birmingham News, which indirectly called out King and blamed the civil rights protesters, which made him wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Prison”, and it is very significant historically as it explains the rationale behind the King’s peaceful protest movement. He wrote a letter from ...

History is defined as the study of past events. In the paper, I would like to analyse the influence that Ancient Greek civilisation – being its culture as well as the ways of its society and life - has had on Western civilisation.The influence and contributions of Ancient Greece have played an important role in history as well as the evolution of civilisation since. This has carried forth to the extent where much of Ancient Greek culture has been considered as having hand in setting the ...

When people think of graffiti, they would most likely discard it as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished, but does graffiti deserve a place in art establishments? What exactly is graffiti? Is graffiti vandalism? Can it be considered a form of art that deserves to be praised and valued in art galleries and establishments or is it a mere act of anti-social behavior which is done to achieve attention? Art, when defined generally, according to ...

The artist succeeds at formally introducing all of the characters in the painting. Contextually, by lining the gods up in this order, the artist has successfully created a sense of movement that helps explain the historic roman myth. As with all myths, this particular story evokes emotions of compassion and beauty as the gods work together to bring about the birth of Venus.The artwork communicates the idea that beauty can act as a uniting force in the world. The seemingly unrelated gods are ...

Edward Munch’s painting looks as if it’s a scene from a horror film. One of his most famous paintings, The Scream, is a well known painting for the amount of expression given in just a single piece of artwork. The main image shown in the center of the artwork is associated with the movie, Scream. This painting automatically grabs the viewers attention and provokes questions dealing with the emotional state of the artist, Munch, himself. The reason the audience might have believed Munch was ...