In her book, \"The Creative Connection,\" Natalie Rogers states that \"a connection exists between our life-force – our inner core, or soul - and the essence of all beings.\" I believe that the overall question posed in this book was directed towards two audiences in a way. One audience being reac...

Statement of intention: In response to the selection of Australian poems on the theme of art and the artist I am going to write about an artist's need to create art. I will attempt to answer the question of why it is so important for an artist to create, incorporating my interpretation of wha...

According to The American Art Therapy Association, "Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages. Through creating art and reflecting on the art products an...

Literature and art have led a close and mutually influential relationship through the ages. Literary works have influenced a predominant majority of artists from the great to the lesser and common. Michelangelo is considered by many as the greatest artist of the Renaissance and one who was also grea...

Darwinian Creativity, fact or fiction? (The Evolution of Kids Stuff.) In his paper, "Could there be a Darwinian Account of Human Creativity?", Daniel Dennett ponders the origins of what society deems art, and whether art has evolved from more primitive acts of construction, or, ...

Every moment of every day art is created. A person can look at anything for a period of time, and eventually find some artistic quality to it. Will that quality that he or she finds be the same as the artist's, or even the same as the person standing right next to them? Of course not. But ...

The \"reintroduction\" to the arts in the curriculum has been a slow process with many detours along the way. It has also been compared to Gardner\'s theory of multiple intelligences in this way: \"Three important truths are woven together in Gardner\'s characteristically perceptive trope. First is ...

Art is an expression of a particular person or group of people. It can have a large effect on culture, as it can be symbolic of current traits, morals, and religious norms. An artist is defined as \"a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.\"1 That sensitivity and imagination ...

In both "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats and "The Oven Bird" by Frost, the bird represents the art of poetry and its value. In "Sailing to Byzantium" Yeats realizes that the value of poetry has been diminished and lost, and therefore wants to go to Byzantium in hopes of...

Plato\'s belief was that art is fundamentally based on imitation. It was this imitation which made art inferior, combined with the unsuitable moral content of some art. Plato\'s condemnation of art is seen by some as too rationalist and \"depriving it of all its charms\" (Otto Apelt). Modern obje...

Essay quotations Daniel Haq (1)When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to loose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain. ' 'dale carnegie'' This quotation has a very practical importance. I think that, sometimes, many people come to s...

Artsy Perspectives Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens describes the life of her African American ancestor, a woman who lived on American soil, as art. She portrays their difficult lifestyle as a form of art, created continuously as their days went by. I think tha...

Within John Ruskin\'s book \"The Two Paths\" he discusses many of his ideas, concerns, and theories on art and art culture. I will cover four of what I think to be the more interesting concepts. Balancing true representation of form and \'abstract\' human expression in an artwork. The effect art has...

In his famous \"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2\" (1912) Marcel Duchamp used a limited cubist palette and faceting of forms but completely contradicted the cubist esthetic in his choice of an ironic title and stress on actual movement. When this painting was exhibited at the Armory Show in New Yo...

Artists in this century have a long and rich, and problematic heritage on which to draw. As an artist I have been influenced by others before me and by the world around me. The technology that has been introduced into art is both a problem and a challenge for artists as it changes the meanin...

Artist and humanist, Albrecht Dürer, 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 capturin...

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...

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...

Why is art necessary? \"It is necessary for us to give physical form to things we feel, think, and imagine.\" We use art in everyday living such as communicating information, day-to-day living, spiritual sustenance, personal expression, social and political purposes, and visual delight. Art can ...

Oscar Fingal O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the Decadence, a loosely affiliated coterie of writers and artists of the 1890s whose lives and works manifested a highly stylized, decorative mann...

There are two main areas of which knowledge can be obtained; they are from a scientific and artistic point of view. It has been argued that the true form of knowledge is acquired from science, but artists also play an important role in understanding the world, which surrounds us. The scientific vi...

Art is like an onoin, it has layers upon layers creating a complex structure that when opened will make the strongest of person cry. To analyze art's structure is to box creativity, understand mystery, and harness society. Never the less art must be dissected to better understand its process and fur...

Graffiti is an art form. The reasons as to why it is an art form far outweigh the criticism of its illegality and nonstandard presentation. The purpose of this paper is to explain how graffiti art overcomes these concerns and should be considered a legitimate art form. Suppose that Leonardo, Monet...

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...

The period of Neoclassical art began in the 18th century and overlapped with the 18th century Age of Enlightenment. The Neoclassical art period continued into the 19th century and embraced stylistic characteristics that often resembled art from the ancient Greco-Roman society. Neoclassical art was ...