There are very few young people today who know what careers they want to pursue. A student should never close doors that might lead to something significant, but if she or he has decent grades in art and has sustained interest in art-related activities, a career in art could be the right choice. Co...

There had been difficulties defining art, but as it was defined in general, it is the product of creative human activity in which materials are shaped or selected to convey an idea, emotion, or visually interesting form. Art can't easily be defined as simple as any ordinary object because it implie...

In his essay, entitled "Art," Clive Bell proposes that there is one element that coheres all works of art considered great in the world. "There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. What is...

Thesis Statement: What I hope to do in the following paper is compare the entertaining film, O Brother Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen. Perf. George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, Touchstone/Universal, 2000) to the classic epic The Odyssey (Crowell's Handbook Of Classica...

March is National Women's History Month and the Women Center at Kutztown University organized various events on campus to support the idea that women can inspire hope. One of these events was the presentation "Unexpected Journey" by Janet Kaplan. The speech discussed women's involvement in the S...

Caravaggio's painting "David with the Head of Goliath" is truly an important painting expressing a known fact that every painter paints himself in a clear and defining way. It was week one in our Reading of the Arts class when I first saw this painting. My immediate aesthetic response was that i...

As a young girl, I doodled on every empty spot on whatever paper I could get my hands on. While the sport of volleyball is my cup of tea, drawing and painting are, as they have always been, my passion. As an elementary school student, I cherished every moment of art class, even if I found the deman...

Mountmonk College has always held very high standards for students and staff. Mountmonk likes to consider itself better than the "other" schools at maintaining principles of traditional values as the alumni have done in the past. As the school nears its alumni weekend, we must take into consider...

Technology has advanced rapidly over the past decade and has changed the way that we live our lives. The introduction into our world of pcs, the internet, and mobile phones has greatly influenced the way that we live. Communication with people all over the world is a simple key press away. These...

In the beginning of Plato's work entitled Gorgias, he writes of a dialog between Socrates and Gorgias. In this dialog, philosopher Socrates meets with rhetorician Gorgias to discuss the true meaning of the art of rhetoric. Rhetoric is a term that is defined strongly on whom you are asking to de...

Are We Heading Toward Disaster? Here we are in 1999 in a world that is booming with technological advances. One would have to ask, "How did we come so far in such a short amount of time?" It seems as though it was only yesterday that we were traveling by horse and buggy. Now we travel b...

Ed Israel Reyes Senior Seminar Passion Paper What's a Passion? How does someone find his or her passion? Do you go to the bookstore and find a book on "Top Ten Passion's List?" Do you ask a friend for a good passion to get into? Is a passion something you guess? Is a passi...

A Time in History I've been asked before: "What time period in history would you most like to visit and experience the most?" And I would have to stop and wonder where exactly I would want to go. I use to have much trouble in answering this question. There are countless even...

Hip-Hop The Merriam-Webster Colligate dictionary defines Hip-Hop as "a subculture especially of inner-city youths whose amusements include rap music, graffiti, and break dancing; an element or art form prevalent within this subculture." This is a general and to me, a very discriminatory...

To properly judge any body of work, the first relevant question to ask is; did the creator achieve the objective or vision that he originally sought after? As director and star of "Pollock," Ed Harris had the challenge of bringing this extraordinary character to life as well as telling h...

Color Your World employee of the month Donna Lukas made the impression on her bosses and co-workers as the "paint lady." Donna will add yet another piece of her work this month to the Toronto Gallery of Art. She has earned the reputation of being the lady to go to when in doubt of colo...

Salvador Dali is considered the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of the art of the twentieth century. "Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904, at 8:45 in the morning." His birth name was Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domenech. Needle...

The Path to a Career A man named Thomas Carlyle once said, ABlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.@ I couldn=t agree more. In Kindergarten I thought I knew what I wanted to be for the rest of my life. How wrong I was. Over the years my career interests have chan...

Great Expectations Let desire be your destiny ... Director: Alfonso Cuarón Producer: Art Linson Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki Production Designer: Tony Burrough Music (score & soundtrack): Patrick Doyle Artworks: Francesco Clemente Writing Credits: Mitch Gl...

The Age of Reason The Age of Reason was a time of change. This Age, and the changes in it, was mainly brought upon by the Renaissance, along with some other technological inventions that made reasoning possible. But mainly, the Renaissance provided the historical roots for the Age of Reason. The...

Graffiti is defined by Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as "inscriptions or drawings made on some public surface" (10th ed. 1996). Graffiti appears on bridges, billboards, and signs across the nation. Some people may consider the inscriptions or drawings a work of "art." The masses, howe...

In the short story called "The Portrait," Gogol describes Russian society. Russian society has its effect on certain people and individuals changing the course of their lives. Gogol focuses on artists in Russia and how they develop their artistic talent. Good art will always be corrupted if Russia...

I finally went back to high school today, summer vacation having ended. It was just one week long this year, but it felt like an eternity to be away from the classroom that long. I don't know what to do with myself outside the school; I actually convinced my mom to set up a little table ...

Three Poets' view of the Poem: Macleish, Moore and Ferlinghetti. Poetry can supply a reader with a unique insight into the mentality of the poet. However, it is a very distinct experience when one can encounter a poets' view on what poetry is for the poet. To learn more about engin...

The Idea of the Muse in Hesiod and Homer The custom of appealing to the muses at the outset of a work is a curious one by today's standards; very few modern authors feel the need to ask a metaphysical being to help them write. It is important to understand why the Greek chose to ask for guidance ...