How do you perceive art and what does it mean to you? For me, art is a way for me to fully express my feelings toward a subject and lose my mind in a void of fantasy and reality. Art has no format and is very unique. A time that I enjoyed viewing some exquisite pieces of art was at the Dali Museum j...

Dave Hockney is often regarded as one of the most influential artists for the twentieth century. His imagination was not limited to photography for he was also a painter, a draftsman, and a set designer. Born July 9th, 1937, Hockney\'s interest in art was evident from a very early age, and he pursu...

Francis Bacon was a firm believer of the theory that true knowledge derives from experience. Reading his works my first impression is how he was not afraid to be cynical in what he is writing about and perhaps slightly exaggerate the extremity in his point of view. In the essay "Of Studies&quo...

The Fearful Symmetry Symmetry is defined as correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line. This definition applies to the abstract geometric shapes and all the man-made objects that are based on the impeccably symmetric geometric model. This kind...

In Percy Shelley's poem "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", he writes about many abstract powers. Through his usage of similes, the reader is able to get a sense of what his relationships are with abstract thoughts, in particular Power and Beauty. We are especially able to get this feel by looking at ...

Mr. Holland?s OpusIn the late 1980s and early 1990s shortages of funds caused public school districts to drastically reduce spending on arts and music education. Many parents, students and educators felt that this was shortsighted. Arts education has many positive effects, teaching children discipli...

Plato's educational system is based on an ideal aristocratic society. According to Garth Kemerling's website, www.philosophypages.com (2002), Plato's aristocratic government is one that is ideally efficient. Under such a society, its guardians, the potential leaders of society, are &q...