Arts Essays
Movie Analysis Sand Pebbles
Movie Analysis - Sand Pebbles The movie Sand Pebbles focus was on the flag. The flag was not only a symbol of a nation, but of nationalism, militarism and imperialism. During the 1800's and early 1900's there was a severe foreign influence in China. During this time period the European nations wanted to trade with the Chinese, but the Chinese had no interest in the European products for at the time China was self sufficient. The European nations in order to keep from losing all of the money ...
Movie the Sand lot
Movie the Sand lot The movie The Sandlot was directed by David Evans. It takes place in a small town in the early 1960's. A young boy named Scottie Smalls moved into town with his family. All the local boys make fun of him. Scottie follows them to a baseball field they call the sandlot. Somebody smacked one out in to the outfield where Scottie was standing. He ran and got the ball and threw it back to them. He couldn't throw it very good so all the boys laughed at him. A few days lat...
Mrs
Mrs. Cage (a play) Thesis Topic: Caged Birds Gone Mad Women today tend to speak assertively for their rights. However, the social structures in which we live sometimes still make it difficult for us to actualize the full range of our creative abilities. In literature as dated as fairy tales and Greek mythology, writers have used characters who exemplified the caged woman. In the fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty is "caged" behind a wall of briars and Snow White is trapped inside a glass co...
Multiculturalism in music
Multiculturalism in music Visualize in your head a rock band, and a rapper. What kind of clothes are they wearing. What lyric styles are they singing in? And what color are they? Ongoing stereotypes suggest that the rock band is a group of white musicians and the rapper would be black. However, examples from the past and present shows that these stereotypes are untrue. Music is defined as �The art of organizing tones to produce a coherent sequence of sounds to elicit an aesthetic res...
Music and Censorship
Music and Censorship Music and Censorship In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind of censorship. Censorship makes a person realize tha...
Music in the Romantic Period
Music in the Romantic Period The Romantic Period, lasting from about 1825 to 1900, saw the beginning of great individualism in music styles. The era consisted of great contrasts in both musical literature and musical esthetics, the branch of philosophy that deals with beauty and taste. The Romantic Era was the period marked by distinctive character of such music forms as the short intimate preludes, music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera, and the extraordinarily big c...
Musician 2
Musician 2 Musician There are many different types of musicians. Mainly, musicians are people who play musical instruments for the enjoyment of others. In addition to playing music, many of them write their own. Some musicians sing or conduct groups. They can also play alone or as part of a group. Musicians often perform before audiences or in the studio for recording. All musicians must spend many hours practicing. Instrumental musicians may play an instrument in an orchestra...
My Darling Clementine The Ef
My Darling Clementine - The Ef My Darling Clementine to me didn't stick out as a particularly dark movie. I will agree that there were a lot of dark scenes in it but not enough to distract me toward the idea of this being a particularly dark film as a whole. However the dark noir lighting style that was used to bring the night scenes to life certainly added something to it. Usually when I think of film noir, I tend to think of movies like Batman. There the lighting reflects the moral and phy...
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady My Fair Lady My Fair Lady (1964) this musical is about Eliza Doolittle's magical change from a lower class flower girl into a fine lady. My Fair Lady became a highly successful movie. It received 12 Academy Award nominations in 1964 and won eight Academy�s. It is a comedy but the movie has romance and heartbreak. There are romantic songs like �I could have danced all night� and humorous ones like �I�m just an ordinary man� Meeting Eliza Doolittle, Colonel...
Mythology of Indian Dance
Mythology of Indian Dance Like many Indian arts, Indian dance also has its root in religion. Without the religious and cultural background of India, the growth and beauty of Indian dance is not possible. In �Natya Shastra�, there is a small story about the origin of Indian dance. According to Hindu mythology, dance first existed in heaven. There was always a constant conflict between the Asuras and the Devas for wealth and power. The Devas were tired of the Asuras� greediness and ...
Native American music
Native American music Native American music has many different musical styles. Within every Native American tribe there is a variety of musical styles and instruments. In response to the research that I have conducted, there are three main musical styles that are going to be my point of focus. The Sioux Grass Dance, the Zuni Lullaby, and the Iroquois Quiver Dance are the principal methods which contribute to Native American music. The Sioux Grass Dance is considered to be the mo...
Natural Born Killers 2
Natural Born Killers 2 Natural Born Killers is a story by Quentin Tarantino who sold the screenplay to a friend who latter sold it to Oliver Stone. Stone and his fellow screenwriters rewrote the original script. This doing horrified Tarantino, so with a private meeting they both met and resolved the conflict to the two scripts. In there finial edit they wrote the characters to fit certain movie stars. Natural Born Killers stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, with Robert Downey Jr., ...
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone�s Portrayal of the Effects of Violent Media When I was young the only time I willingly woke up early was on Sunday mornings. I would throw on a robe over my pajamas and run down stairs with my brother to the living room and sit myself in the middle of the couch, which was directly in front of our television. To me the best part of the week was watching the morning cartoons with the family while eating breakfast. We always enjoyed good laughs watchi...
Mesopotamian Art and Arquitecture
Mesopotamian Art and Arquitecture Mesopotamian Art and Architecture The arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century BC. Their art reflects both their love and fear of natural forces, as well as their military conquests. The soil of Mesopotamia yielded the civilization's major building material, mud brick. This clay also was used by the Mesopotam...
Metallica
Metallica �If you came here to see spandex and big hair, this ain�t your band�, Metallica�s �war cry� throughout the early eighties. While the rest of the hard rock bands wanted to get rich and a lot of women, Metallica, as in the words of former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, �Our hole existence pretty much was guitar, dominating the world and getting liquored up�. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a new wave a British Heavy Metal entering the cassette and ...
Method Acting
Method Acting The Application of Method Acting to Shakespearean Text Preface~ * I never really believed that acting could, or should for that matter, be taught. There is no concrete way to act. For some people, the ability to do theatre, and to do it well comes naturally; for others, it does not. I have always held the conviction that to teach acting is to rob the art of it's truth, it's beauty. Over the summer, I performed in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I was directed by ...
Mi Familia
Mi Familia The film I chose to write about was Mi Familia. Mi Familia is the story of events in the lives of three generations of a Los Angeles Mexican-American family. The theme of this story is that this country has been populated by millions of humans from around the globe. People from Mexico escape religious persecution, economic disaster, or warfare. And too many of these immigrants have been tragically abused by the system that was designed to welcome them and protect them. The time pe...
Mi Vida Loca
Mi Vida Loca Mi Vida Loca Mi Vida Loca means �my crazy life (as a girl).� The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo Park, a group of young Mexican-Americans show what it means to live in the inner city. The film looks at gang lifestyle from a woman�s point of view to un...
Michelangelo 2
Michelangelo 2 Michelangelo Buonarroti born March 6, 1475 in the small village of Caprese Italy. A sculptor, architect, painter, and poet in the Italian high renaissance. Michelangelo's father Ludovico Buonarroti had connections to the raining Medici family, Michelangelo studied at the gardens when he was 15 years old, shortly after he was invited into the household of Lorenzo de' Medici, the magnificent. Michelangelos future was shaped to a large degree by his life in lorenzo's household....
Michelangelo 3
Michelangelo 3 MICHELANGELO One of the most admired and successful artists of all time is Michelangelo. Although he was born in Caprese, a small village near Arezzo, Michelangelo grew up in Florence. His father was Ludovico Buonarroti, a Florentine official with connections to the ruling Medici family. At the age of thirteen, Michelangelo was placed as an apprentice in the workshop of Domencio Ghirlandaio. He then studied at the scuplture school in the Medici gardens. ...
Michelangelo the sistine chapel frescos
Michelangelo the sistine chapel frescos On the 10th of May 1508 I signed a contract to agree to fulfill Pope Julius�commission on painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I had bad feelings about thewhole thing from the day Julius commissioned me to paint instead of sculpt. I am anarchitect and sculptor not a fresco painter. It is not that I doubt my ability�s to completesuch a task, but I believe that there are other artists that would be much better suited for the job than I. ...
Michelangelo
Michelangelo Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelo�s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it�s natural state. Michelangelo�s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo�s sculpture brought out his optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and persevered through it�s many revisions trying to complete his visi...
Modern Music
Modern Music Music has been around for thousands and thousands of years. The caveman had originally started some type of sounds in which branched off into the music that we listen to today. This prehistoric music was started by the cavemen in order for them to express themselves, and the others who listened were affected in the same way that people are affected by music today. For example, if someone is upset they will listen to something that will get them into a better mood, perhaps some...
Monet
Monet Vie de Monet Oscar Claude Monet ou Claude Monet �tait l'inspiration de la movement Impressionism. Il est n� le 14 novembre 1840 � Paris. Beaucoup des autre artistes c�l�bre de le movement Impressionism �taient n�s pendant cette d�cade aussi. Son p�re, Claude Adolf Monet, �tait un �picier. Quand Monet a cinq ans, sa famille a d�m�nag� pour Le Harve. Le m�re de Monet est morte en 1857. Les relations de Monet et son p�re se d�t�riorerent de plus en ...
Monets Green Reflections
Monets Green Reflections Since the dawn of time, man has been inspired by the beauty of art. The Macquarie Concise Dictionary describes art as �the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance�. I interpret the word art to refer to the physical reproduction of the artists own perception of the world around them. A masterpiece is defined as �a consummate example of skill or excellence�. Therefore, when in search of a masterpiece of...