Essays on Visual Arts

In Carolyn Dean’s article, “The Trouble (with the term) Art”, she conducts an inquiry into what exactly the qualifications of art truly define. She argues that the term art is too widely and generally used. Specifically focusing on “non-western art” also referred to as “primitive…

‘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…

For over a century, France has been a massive influence on the film and cinema industry and continues to be one of the greatest producers of films in the modern world. The French cinemas can be seen as a platform for various levels of film,…

Dating from prehistory, the practice of visual art has evolved significantly through the use of new technologies. First recognized as an artistic discipline in the 1970s, installation is loosely defined as any three-dimensional work comprised of objects arranged within a given space. However, recent installation…

INTRODUCTION Background According to Cunningram (2016: 01) a tender is a term used to describe a contractor’s priced offer to construct the work. Whereas Hackett & Statham (2016: 65) explains that the purpose of any tendering procedure is to select a suitable contractor at a…

Zekkyou Gakkyu, Ishikawa Emi’s Manga, is a compilation of horror one shots. Each chapter has different characters and plots, but the main focus is that horror is added in the mundane events and lives of Japanese high school students; some were of life in school,…

Swedish cinematographic history dates to 1896, when the first moving pictures in Sweden were presented in Malmö which were regarded as something completely inconceivably different and sensational. That occasion can be considered as the early beginning of the Swedish film history. Moreover, in the first…

The rise of mobile technology with camera integration has given way to a new type of communication and understanding of the world, Augmented Reality (AR). AR is defined as “a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus…

“Comics communicate in a ‘language’ that relies on a visual experience common to both creator and audience. Modern readers can be expected to have an easy understanding of the image-word mi and the traditional deciphering of text. Comics can be called ‘reading in a wider…

What is it about these moving pictures that keeps its audience glued to the screen for hours on end? We may watch them simply because we enjoy the art of cinema and the entertainment of others creating stories of things we dream about. We watch…