Arts Essays
Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrume
Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrume "Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification of disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements... Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of the best government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guise of harmony in the universe, of lawful government in a state, and of a sensible way of life in the home. It brings together and unites." - The Pythagoreans Eve...
Painting Nude Figure By Pabblo Picasso
Painting Nude Figure By Pabblo Picasso Nude Figure By: Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. Pablo was the son of a respected art teacher, and due to his father's influence, young Pablo entered the Academy at Barcelona at age 14. This was where he painted his first great work, "Girl with Bare Feet". After two years of schooling, Picasso transferred for even for advanced tutelage. This did not hold Picasso's interest, so instead he spent much of his time in cafes and...
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost Paradise Lost: an Essay Upon viewing the documentary, �Paradise Lost�, one of my first impressions was a feeling of shock at the hysteria surrounding the case, and how heavily it impacted the trial. Another area of concern was the tenuous (or nonexistent) evidence tying these youths to these horrible murders. The entire essence of the prosecution�s case was a confession of questionable authenticity by Jessie Misskelley, Jr, coupled with a community-based fear of a sa...
Parthenon
Parthenon Wow this is a nice day to be out in the agora wondering around the market places. I love walking past the Parthenon, you know this is the proudest building we Greeks ever built. If one-structure sums up our history and our superiority in architecture it's this building. These might have been some of the thoughts that ran through the mind of the Greeks during this time period. The one thing that gave the Athenians great pleasure was the temple they built, which was also a cause of e...
Perception and Plato’s Theaetetus
Perception and Plato�s Theaetetus Plato discusses theories of knowledge throughout his famous dialogue, the Theaetetus. He discusses many different ways of learning and attempts to define knowledge. Plato does this through a conversation between a few characters: Socrates, the famous philosopher; Theodorus, an aged friend and philosopher of Socrates; and Theaetetus, a young man who is introduced to Socrates before a discussion. One aspect of knowledge which they review is per...
Philadelphia
Philadelphia The movie, Philadelphia, was an excellent example of the severe discrimination many people with Aids are exposed to. In this instance the main character, Andy ,was also gay. Unfortunately, in our society, he was faced with a double whammy. The gay iss is controversial enough, but to compound that in the work force with having Aids would be almost unbearable for any person to cope with. Tom Hanks played Andy with a serious need to communicate to the viewers how everyday life, wor...
Photographic portraiture
Photographic portraiture -Recent and Current Trends and Influences in Portrait Photography- Many photographers in the past have had dynamic careers that have influenced many up and coming photographers and will for years to come. Because their work at the time has been preserved in inspirational and innovative images of their eras rock legends and cultural icons, similarities yet progressions can been seen through a comparison of photographers such as David Bailey, Anne Liebovitz and Ra...
Phsyslogical thriller The 6th Sense
Phsyslogical thriller The 6th Sense On the Edge After seeing the new psychological thriller the 6th Sense many people seemed to sit in their seats for a few minutes as the credits began to role. Did they fall asleep probably not, they were trying to figure out watch just happened in the last five minutes of the movie. It shocked audiences because the story line was easy to follow and just when you were ready to call it a night the shocker is revealed. In many other types of movies the ...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile Dramatic Criticism
Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Dramatic Criticism Picasso at the Lapin Agile From the time you enter the Falk Theatre, until the curtain rises and falls on the Stageworks productions of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, you are in for a treat. The play is an original work by Steve Martin with a running time of 90minutes, which feels more like 30minutes. Aside from the uncomfortable seating, this production is nothing short of wonderful. The Theatre has been transformed from a long movie Theater a...
Piranesi Carceri xi
Piranesi Carceri xi Carceri D'Invenzione - print 11, second edition This intaglio print was made by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the 1760�s. It was the eleventh in a series of fourteen, entitled �Carceri D�invenzione�, or �Prison of Creation�. Piranesi had much architectural influence, his father being a stonemason and brother an architect. The prison scene was a relatively common subject in surviving designs for eighteenth century stage sets. Examples of this can be found...
Pirates of Penzance Critique
Pirates of Penzance - Critique Pirates of Penzance - Critique The Pirates of Penzance was an opera performed by the Southwest Texas Opera Workshop. The Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert & Sullivan, is a light-hearted parody of the traditional opera. This opera takes place somewhere in the British Virgin Islands. It is about a boy, Federic, who is to be apprenticed by his nurse, Ruth, to become a pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of p...
Play report on Kiss of the Spider Woman
Play report on Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman The musical, "Kiss of the Spider Woman", was very enjoyable to see. The characters in the musical were played very well. The main characters in the musical were Molina and Valentin. These characters went together rather humerously and made the musical worth seeing. Even though it was very well put together production, I regret that towards the end of the play I was just ready get out of there. Molina was the main ...
Poem Dream
Poem - Dream Dream.... When nothing in life is as it seems, Quiet yourself, close your eyes, and dream. Take yourself to places no one can see, And become anything you want to be. Forget about reality for a short while, And set aside any burdening trial. Create your idea of a perfect place, That extends over vast and endless space. No limitations hinder what can be done. Fly to the stars or touch the sun. But when you've done all you wish to do, Open y...
Neil Simon Utilizing Charatter Exaggeration
Neil Simon Utilizing Charatter Exaggeration NEIL SIMON: UTILIZING CHARACTER EXAGGERATION "Neil ("Doc") Simon stands alone as by far the most successful American playwright of this century and most probably in the history of the American theater" (Litz 573). He has entertained audiences for over thirty years with many Broadway productions, screenplays and television scripts. "He has been hailed as the most formidable comedy writer in American theater" (Geitner 253). Despite his g...
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism Neoclassicism: Neoclassicism represented a reaction against the passionate and enthusiastic renaissance view of man as being basically good and possessed of an endless potential for religious and intellectual growth. Neoclassical theorists, by contrast, saw man as an imperfect being, inherently sinful, whose potential was limited. They replaced the renaissance emphasis on the imagination, on invention, experimentation, and with an emphasis on order, reason, on common...
New Trend For Horror Films
New Trend For Horror Films New Trend For Horror Film Horror movie fans should know that The Blair Witch Project has raised the standard for all future horror films. The makers of The Blair Witch Project made a hauntingly spooky documentary and before it's release promoted it as being real, which fooled most audiences into thinking it really happened. Taking the standards of the horror film to a new level in most horror movie fans' opinion. The promoters of this film made it look so...
New York New Music Ensemble
New York New Music Ensemble The New York New Music Ensemble began with a bang, literally. This ensemble has been around for twenty-three years and it is considered to be �the raising standard� in contemporary chamber music. On Thursday afternoon, I saw the ensemble perform three pieces: Trio, Nutturno, and Marxville Songbook. These three possess very similar tone color and composition. The ensemble�s first piece, Trio, was composed by Donald Martino. This musici...
Noh play Tsunemasa and Youchi Soga
Noh play Tsunemasa and Youchi Soga In the Noh play "Tsunemasa", the story was about the happening at the night of the salvation of Tsunemasa's soul. Tsunemasa, a certain prince of the House of Taira, who had died in the Battle of the Western. While Tsunemasa was still in the world, he really enjoyed playing his lute �the Green Hill�. Therefore, the priest Gyokei was bidden by his master to dedicate the lute to Buddha and to perform a liturgy of flutes and strings for the salvation of ...
Nonwestern Art
Nonwestern Art Nonwestern Art The fascinating Moche period was characterized by a number of developments. Ceramics, textiles and metalwork improved greatly, architectural skills allowed the construction of huge pyramids and other structures and there was enough leisure tune for art and a highly organized religion. The Moche culture, a culture that has left impressive archaeological sites and some of the most outstanding pottery to be seen in Peru's museums, is named after the...
Norma Rae a Labor Analysis
Norma Rae a Labor Analysis Norma Rae a Labor Analysis This film is based on the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton and her involvement with Ruben Warshovsky and the organization of the textile workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (Labor Films). Sally Field plays the lead role of Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) fighting poor working conditions at O. P. Henley Company in 1978. This company is a southern textile mill, working with a union organizer to ...
Objectism
Objectism Objectivism Objectivism can be broken into 5 main categories. They are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics. Each of these makes up Ayn Rand�s philosophy, which is called objectivism. Metaphysics is the belief that everything one knows they know only because they believe it to be true. Everything that is known can�t be truly proven to be true because it is based on our perception of things. If a tabletop is hard, it is only because one p...
On Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres
On Man Ray�s Violin D�Ingres Man Ray�s Violin D�Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals about what �strait photography� should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photogra...
Oriental Art
Oriental Art Oriental Art Oriental Art is very unique and interesting. It is based on life all around them, nature. In Hsuan-ho hua pu classifies paintings in ten groups: �h Taoist and Buddhist (tao shih) �h Human affairs (jen wu) �h Places and other buildings (kung shih) �h Foreign tribes (fan tsu) �h Dragons and fishes (lung yu) �h Landscapes (shan shui) �h Animals (chu shou) �h Flowers and birds (hua niao) �h Ink Bamboos (mo chu) �h Vegetabl...
Orion
Orion Orion "Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at his feet. His mighty club no longer beat The forehead of the bull; but he Reeled as of yore beside the sea, When blinded by Oenopion He sought the blacksmith at his forge, And climbing up the narrow gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun." ~The "Occultation of Orion" by Mr. Longfellow~ This poem was written about the Greek myth of Orion. The story says that Orion, the son of Neptune, was a handsome giant and a mighty hunter....
Oscar Claude Monet
Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet Oscar Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre, France. In Le Havre, Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boudin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of time in Paris around 1859. By 1860 Monet met a pre-impressionist painter, Edouard Manet. Monet also met other French painters destin...