Essays on Artwork

Role-Playing Games are a type of game wherein players play as fictional personas and assume their characters to interact with a fictional setting. Tabletop Role-playing Games are games enacted through speech and spoken description, with the outcomes determined by the game's system and supervising player called the Game Master. Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games wherein a group of player characters come together as adventurers in a fantasy realm that ...

If I could visit with one person from the Italian Renaissance, it would most definitely be Michelangelo. He was born in Caprese on March 6, 1475. Even though he was born in Caprese, he grew up in Florence. I would choose him not only because he is the greatest Italian artist in the Italian Renaissance but also because of at the age of 13, he started his career. Being so young, he wasn't expected to have the great talent and natural born talent he is known to have today. Michelangelo was ...

During World War II numerous pieces of art from Jewish painters and art collectors were either stolen by Nazis or left behind as people from the Jewish community decided to flee Germany. At the time Germany was ruled by Nazis who took away all rights that resemble the civil liberties that we American citizens have which are protected by law. Today over 1500 pieces of art stolen by the Nazis have been discovered in a Munich Apartment owned by a man named Cornelius Gurlitt and there is much ...

From Shakespeare to Aeschylus and Aristophanes, there have been many films that have been adapted from plays. Chi-Raq directed by Spike Lee was made to be a modern adaptation of Aristophanes play Lysistrata. Using rap and hip-hop, the film addresses important social issues, like Gang and gun violence plaguing the city of Chicago. In Lysistrata, the protagonist is desperate to end the bloodshed between Athens and Sparta. In Chi-Raq, she is desperate to end the senseless violence killing ...

In 1976, the earliest sign of modern graffiti was found. A highschool student began drawing graffiti on building walls to get a girl’s attention. Eventually graffiti was becoming more widespread from the young couple’s romance coming to light. Graffiti art began to catch people’s eye, and it became apart of pop culture and it was “cool”. In the 1980’s graffiti was put into museums as an art and was admired but all types of artists. Since graffiti is well known today, more graffiti artists are ...

Artists create artworks with the intention to communicate meaning and represent their ideas with the audience. The intentions may be to share something personal about themselves, it may be to express their point of view, it may be to reflect the world they live in, but no matter what the intentions are, the concept behind the work is the driving force for the artists to communicate their meaning through process, material, the body and/or even time-based practises. for the artists to ...

Comparative Artwork Visual Analysis Large pieces of artwork are difficult to create. They can take years to make and properly assemble a meaning within. One of these large works My World and Yours (1954), by Irving Norman is an oil on canvas which represents a utopian view on the creation of the human race. It was made soon after the discovery of the double helix. Strikingly similar is the The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) which is an oil on oak panel made by Hieronymous Bosch of the ...

The Flatiron is the one of the most definitive images of the New York city. It was captured by Alfred Stieglitz in 1903. The name of this photograph is The Flatiron. This photograph gained its name from the building Flatiron which is in New York. Alfred started his early education at Charlier Institute in 1871. After that he decided to move to Europe for the better education. There Alfred was enrolled in real gymnasium. After that, in 1882 Alfred studied mechanical engineering at Technische ...

The theme I chose for my artworks for the grade 11 syllabus was “Extraordinary, ordinary”. I had varies subthemes I wanted to explore such as extraordinary love, which is where I wanted to show love without boundaries and extraordinary women, which is where I wanted to create artwork to praise women all over the world but stuck with “Extraordinary style, extraordinary people”. This subtheme is one where I explore the extraordinary within ordinary people. Such as the human emotion, biological ...

‘Who is it that can tell me who I am?’ by Althea Thauberger is an art exhibition going on at SAAG from September 29, 2018 to November 24, 2018. This exhibition explores the political, social and institutional power dynamics in Karachi, Pakistan. The exhibition presents a series of works such as the film ‘Mad Mad Mad Mad Filmy World’, and a performance titled ‘Marat Sade Bohnice’. The gallery also features some previous works which include a photographic mural extended across the wall of the ...

This photograph was taken by Mike Wells in Uganda in the year 1980. The photo is a low close-up shot. It is lit from the top which brings focus to the subject of the image; the contrasting hands. I feel this picture is a powerful image even after being taken years ago. The photographer’s intention was to share the feelings with his audience. This photo can be seen from two perspectives: From the racist perspective and the helping hand perspective. Seeing this photo at first, the word “racism” ...

The name of the artwork is “The Last Supper” (disambiguation). Leonardo da Vinci created this artwork. Da Vinci was referred to the place he lived. And Leonardo di ser piero da Vinci was the given name(The Last Supper). He was called the father of paleontology, ichnology and architecture and is widely considered as the greatest painter of all times. In 1480 Leonardo was working in Pizza San Marco in Florence. From 1482-1499 he worked with Andrea del Verrocchio, (the leading Florentine painter ...

‘Postmodernism’ is a style of the late 20th century, which involves the intentional influence/use of past artist’s work styles and conventions. As a characteristic of postmodernism, ‘appropriation’ occurs when artists deliberately borrow pre-existing art features/images adding little to no variation. This occurs in order to clearly represent these borrowed features in a new context and is known as 'recontextualisation'. For instance, artist, Emanuel Phillips Fox painted ‘Landing of Captain ...

Rachel Whiteread is an artist who makes sculptures and uses plaster, concrete, resin, rubber, and other industrial materials to create an interior mold of everyday objects. She has done intimate, monumental pieces and anything in between. Whiteread was born in East London and studied sculptures and the Slade School of Art in London. Her work has taken a distinct view of London and the politics of development, life, and organization in the city. Untitled (House) was used as a way to counter the ...

Banksy is a renowned artist known for his infamous street art all across the world. One big influence of banksy’s street art is surrealism. Surrealism is a whimsical type of artwork with abstract images. These paintings usually juxtapose one another. Banksy’s earlier artwork during the pop art movement has had the greatest impact on society. His take on art, using graffiti, sparked an international phenomenon and movement. Pop art re-exposed familiar objects in a controversial way to everyday ...