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Impact of Social and Sexual Changes on Art

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

17 Pages (6,620 Words)

Hair has traditionally been cited as a discernibly female expression of sexuality and beauty, an aesthetic composition that exacerbates a woman's ability to attract members of the opposite sex while acting as a visual demarcation line between the male female divides. Conversely, the fact that men often begin to lose their hair during the middle stages of their life adds further mystique to the power of ...

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Influences of Technology on Contemporary Abstract Art

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

15 Pages (5,711 Words)

In order to establish an informed understanding of how contemporary abstract painting is situated in the art world today, this dissertation will investigate how painting has been questioned by artists since the 1960s'. It will discuss how contemporary artists have been influenced by the expanse of the technological world and how they are influenced by or reflect upon this in their paintings. Another important area of ...

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Conceptual Art: Responses to Capitalism

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

24 Pages (9,205 Words)

When Situationism evolved from the Letterist movement, in the middle of the last century, it set itself up in opposition to two other two other politically motivated groups: Dadism and Surreallism. Situationism, however, was only incidentally political, and rather than subverting the art world, aimed only to redesign its context, including the attitudes of the public, so that art could become something anyone could do or ...

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History of Artist Expression in Comic Books

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

14 Pages (5,335 Words)

Comic books, like many art forms, have been co-opted by a hungry consumer capitalist economy which makes a Faustian bargain with its artistic meals: give me your subversive art forms and ideas, this economy says, and I will communicate them to a mass audience beyond your wildest dreams; however, in exchange, your art forms and ideas will often simultaneously be stripped of their dignity and uniqueness ...

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Origins of Visual Expression in Art

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

4 Pages (1,282 Words)

In this dissertation, I will research the origins of visual expression, firstly asking why was it made, and who was it made for? I will then be looking for the earliest examples of where visual expression was found and then be moving onto how western art was developed and controlled though the early centuries in Europe. Then focusing on how one artist (Marcel Duchamp) chanced how ...

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Analysis of Joseph Cornell's Boxes

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

27 Pages (10,442 Words)

Introduction My dissertation explores the power of engagement exerted on the viewer by the boxed constructions of Joseph Cornell. These boxes have fascinated me for many years, giving me an irresistible urge to satisfy my curiosity. I feel compelled to respond to the invitation to look into each boxed frame, and I am lured into the world within Cornell’s boxes. When I look into a Cornell ...

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Characteristics of Chinese Culture in Online Games

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

40 Pages (15,706 Words)

Abstract Game industry is a kind of globalizing market. This research is investigating the relationship between game art and culture. Due to each culture has an original root which influences particular cultural forms. Therefore, cultural barriers play a crucial role in the game design. In some ways, cultural barriers prevent games from globalization market. The society of online games is formed by players who come from ...

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Russian Folk Dance: History and Relationship with Ballet

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

13 Pages (4,977 Words)

Introduction 1.1 Background Information Russian people think that the Russian dance is a celebration of their lives. Russian folk dance and folk music discloses the feeling and an expression of spirituality. The visit to Russia is becoming an experience of this new land. Russia is known as an attractive destination due to the scary size along with an interesting history of Europe. It is considered as ...

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Egon Schiele: Influences on and Impact in Art

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

17 Pages (6,764 Words)

Was Egon Schiele ahead of his time or just in touch with it? A master of expressionism or practising pornographer and paedophile? What was the driving force behind his most memorable images; those being his nudes and self portraits? Looking at economic, social, personal influences, was he milking the times and environment for self gain or was he a hormone raging self absorbed youngster finding himself? ...

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Nature, the Environment and their Uses in Art

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

27 Pages (10,603 Words)

“I name that man an artist who creates forms… I call that man a craftsman who reproduces forms.” Malraux is talking about artists and craftsmen, but might as well be talking about artists and designers. The audacity of the lowly “reproducers” was penalised by the iconoclasts, and perhaps we harbour the same fundamental suspicions about designers, people paid to build and sell us dreams just as ...

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'Do You Call That Art?' a Conversation

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

16 Pages (6,172 Words)

T: Do you call that art? I just don't see how something like could be called art, I just don't see it. Where is the form, where is the beauty? Is that not what art is for; to hint at universal truths, to uncover answers to fundamental questions about our human condition? To make us experience a kind of immortal truth, Beauty is truth, truth beauty ...

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Irish Troubles Political Cartoons: An Analysis

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

25 Pages (9,833 Words)

The political cartoons about the Irish troubles drawn by a number of prominent cartoonists in the early 1970s differed sharply from the cartoons produced by artists during the peace process in the 1990s. Arguably this could be down to a number of factors. Firstly, cartoonists in the 1970s were much more likely to attack specific groups of people – the Irish themselves have been targets of ...

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Ambient Occlusion Shader

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

15 Pages (5,710 Words)

This dissertation is to simplify the ambient light in contact shadow using Maya embedded language (MEL) which can be useful for all lighting artists to get a global illumination effect in simple steps and to reduce process of render time and they can connect and disconnect the ambient shader and adjust using GUI (graphical user inter phase) all the buttons will be in GUI itself. These ...

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Overview of Assessments in Postgraduate Arts Degree

Published Date: 05 Feb 2018

41 Pages (16,209 Words)

The first semester started with an individual challenge to the Master's students. It consisted of an introspective project where one had to create a self-portrait piece, which could be in any possible platform or support. A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until ...

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