Woodstock, as well as Janis's life in general, was like nothing the world had seen before. Both impacted the culture through artistic expression and a powerful social message. Each combined aspects of sexuality, feminism, politics, and powerful words to produce musical experiences. Janis&apo...

Art critics and art historians use different styles of writing when evaluating the different aspects of an artist and their artwork. Critics influence and govern the reception of artwork in terms of its meaning and value, while historians place value on artists and artworks, suggesting their importa...

Artist and Humanist, Albrecht Durer, is one of the most significant figures in the history of European art outside Italy during the Renaissance (Gowing 195). Portraying the questioning spirit of the Renaissance, Durer\'s conviction that he must examine and explore his own situation through capturing...

Looking at Pictures (Berger) Final Draft Upon receiving the assignment to visit the Museum of Fine Arts and pick a painting that "seems silent and still yet invites conversation" I was originally frustrated and wanted to just get it over with and pick out the first painting I saw. Ho...

Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin was born on November 12. 1840. Auguste Rodin was the second child of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer. Like many artists, he was not an overnight success. He was rejected numerous times from art schools; nevertheless, he prevailed in the end. Rodin got his inspiratio...

Winslow Homer is widely regarded as one of the forerunners of the great nineteenth-century American Painters. Homer was a New Englander by birth and had long ancestry. Circa 1636, Captain John Homer, an Englishman living in the west of England and active in maritime shipping, immigrated to America...

Keith Allen Haring was born to Joan and Allen Haring on May 4, 1958. He grew up in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a Dutch farming community, the oldest of four siblings. His artistic leanings were evident from a very early age. He had dreams of being a cartoonist and illustrator as a kid which derived f...

In 1872, Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands. He grew up interested in painting and the surrounding environment. Following the standard painting style of the time, which was impressionism Mondrian, began painting. He studies at The Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts. He started off painti...

Magdelana Abakanowicz was born in 1930 near Falenty, Poland. Between 1950 and 1954, she studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and sought to escape from the conventional art forms through weaving. As an artist, Abakanowicz has gone through many significant artistic changes. From 1954-1960, she ...

Artist and Humanist, Albrecht Durer is one of the most significant figures in the history f European art outside Italy during the Renaissance (Gowing 195). Portraying the questioning spirit of the Renaissance, Durer's conviction that he must examine and explore his own situation through capturing t...