Can I Learn To Like It? Can I learn to like this music and really want to listen to it? This question, or a question of similarity, was asked in my Music 100 class by a fellow student. He was asking our instructor if he could really learn to like classical music. Other students laughed at his...

When asked, \"what is art?\" many people will respond simply by referring to art as paintings. Art involves so much more than paintings. Almost anything in today\'s world if done in the correct fashion can be categorized as some form of art. Art includes but is not limited to paintings. It also incl...

Imagine if you will a world where rock musicians were no longer the superstars that they are today. Instead of headlining tours, dating models and making millions of dollars musicians would surround themselves in fine art. Through study and a liberal arts education these rock musicians would becom...

Walter Clark's short story, "the portable phonograph" is a descriptive tale. In his first three paragraphs, he describes a miserable, cold and harsh environment. The four characters that were described in this story were the only survivors of a brutal war. This story was written i...

The arts are commonly grouped into four categories, those of dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. Dance is the human experience translated by physical movement. It can be anything from the classic form of ballet to ballroom. Music is sound, how pitches relate to one another-composed to con...

What is Art Art can be said, as an expression of one's self and the feeling from the world around them. This does not only count the traditional forms of art, painting, music, sculpting, and drama. From my point of view along with the definition listed above, I believe that it is truly an e...

Dance, as we know it today, has evolved into a tremendously popular, aesthetically pleasing form of entertainment. It merges with other forms of art to create one masterpiece, a sort of melting pot of art. Before the time of Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe, dancing was not nearly as exciting and stim...

Although lithography was invented in 1798, it was at first too slow and expensive for poster production. Most posters were woodblocks or metal engravings with little color or design. This all changed with Cheret\'s three stone lithographic process, a breakthrough that allowed artists to achieve ever...

What creates controversy? Controversy is caused when an idea or a thought contradicts the traditional social norms. But without ideas, we would not be where we are today. Art has seen so much metamorphosis that comparing classical art and contemporary art one sees drastic differences. Thus innovatio...

Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20, 1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he studied piano and composition with two of Korea's foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean War....

Are the arts - namely music, dance, visual arts - so vitally important to a student\'s education as to receive as much emphasis as mathematics, science, reading, and other mainstream subjects? The speaker gives an affirmative answer to this question. However, although I agree that the arts play a ve...

Hypothesis: Scorcese's selection of artwork serves to not only act as a separate narrative that mirrors the development of the themes and characters but also, in some instances, actually foreshadows the fate of the characters. As a Martin Scorsese film, The Age of Innocence, stands apart ...

Medieval art is the art that was produced in Europe during the Middle Ages-from the fall of Rome in 500 CE to the start of the early modern period in approximately 1500 CE. Most medieval art and architecture is religious, but the Church was not the sole patron of art. In fact, much of the religious ...

The reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), experienced an emphasis on public righteousness and moral propriety. Victorian society was largely highlighted by the industrial revolution which had been rapidly transforming rural areas into industrialized landscapes. However, this development pushed the lo...

The majority of the focus through history has been on the humanistic form, and the concentration of this paper will be on that. Art was the first written language and to study the history of art is to study the history of civilizations and humankind. The Paleolithic cave paintings in France, when vi...

Since the beginning of humanity, women in art have been worshipped, venerated, treasured, and admired. They also have been defamed, condemned, and abused. Although there have been many woman artists, their ability has not always been respected. Today there are many great women artists. It was in the...