What is Art? Art is only what the viewer brings to it whether it is sadness or enjoyment. Art exists as a sort of language, a means to communicate that, although less direct & specific than written or spoken language, is inclusive of more facets of human experience. Art is, therefore, less restrict...

For many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events, whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific person\'s life, such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions instead of painting, drawing, or sculpting is quite simple. ...

Existentialism and Art With the philosophy of Existentialism, mankind defines itself through the act of living. A man or a woman exists, and then spends a lifetime changing his or her "essence". Essence is basically what we make of ourselves. Without life there can be no meaning; the...

Prior to the fifteenth century, very few works of art were signed and virtually no information on their artists, male or female, was recorded. However, beginning in the early Renaissance, the identities of artists and their stories begin to be preserved. Any study of the art of this period will undo...

Vegetarianism has been around for a long time, but how did this dietary option come about, and more importantly, why? A vegetarian, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is a person who abstains from eating meat, poultry, or fish. The motives to become vegetarian are plentiful; some of which a...

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...

Commercial architecture from 1910-1920 was very different from buildings today. Thanks to the advances in technology, bigger and better commercial buildings are able to be constructed. Many companies built offices or factories during the period of 1910-1920, and many still exist today. These buildin...

good death"; however, the word "euthanasia" is much more difficult to define. Each person may define euthanasia differently. Who is to decide whether a death is good or not? Is any form of death good? All of these questions can be answered differently by each person. It is generally taken today t...

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...

International Day International Day was a day where the students from foreign country’s get to share there pride in there country and culture and that’s exactly what they did. This international day was the first one I’ve ever attended and I will attend them from now on. I...

The Dark Realm of the Valley of Ashes In the twenties, the era of glitter and gold, counterfeit wealth and artificial success obscured the vision of a disaster foreboding: The Great Depression, the Red Scare, the crash of the stock market, and many others. New York City, the "capital of the...

Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau, France in 1869. He was the leader of a movement entitled Fauvism. In the book called Matisse (a collection of color plates compiled by editor Jose Maria Faerna), he describes the artists of this movement as, \"[developing] a very freestyle of painting, using vi...

For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand, non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger their life. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other seriou...

Cigarette Smoking For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger there life. Smoking causes heart disease, l...

A patient, lethally ill or in very bad pain, does not have the right to commit suicide or die with the help of a physician. This, of course, is my opinion and I believe that you should always try to keep them alive as long as possible. If you are suffering and are lethally ill, then that is the way ...

"Addiction Disorders and Homelessness" published by the National Coalition for the Homeless in April of 1999, talks about the controversial relationship between the homeless of America and alcohol and drug addiction. The article talks about how addictions are not the direct cause of home...

"Addiction Disorders and Homelessness" published by the National Coalition for the Homeless in April of 1999, talks about the controversial relationship between the homeless of America and alcohol and drug addiction. The article talks about how addictions are not the direct cause of home...

Attention Step Second-hand smoke is the third major preventable cause of death trailing only active smoking and alcohol. As you can see, second hand smoke is not something to be overlooked. Second-hand smoke is the smoke that many pedestrians as well as others who attend many public places where th...

Reform movements during the years of 1825 to 1850 sought to expand several democratic ideals. Democrats desired a better quality of life for the common man. Drunkenness, ignorance and inequality were viewed as sins that needed to be removed to improve society. Many reform movements addressed the...

Part 1 The first inhabitants to occupy the Americas were Europeans from Spain and England. These settlers had the greatest deal of diversity spread through cultures and over the land. Each in itself created its\' own powerful empire and ruled and governed its people. These two groups also fought for...

Alexander Calder Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, a suburb of Philadelphia, on the date of July 22 1898. He was named Alexander after his father, Alexander Stirling Calder, and his grandfather Alexander Miline Calder. With all three of the Calder men being named Alexander, they needed s...

- Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. - Born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. - He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, from 1892 to 1897. - In 1908 he began to take annual trips to Domburg in Zeeland. - His work was naturalistic, incorporating successive i...

When you go to the theater you may never see your name in lights but your role as an audience member is just as important as the star of the show. A play never really exists until it is performed in front of an audience. That makes an audience what the art of playwriting is all about, it's th...

The New Negro Review The New Negro by Alain Locke is the type of book that breaks all grounds. It uses an opinion to the extreme and makes the point it wants to make very clear. This book was published during the Harlem Renaissance, the African-American cultural revival of the late 1920's.Th...

The evolution of Greek sculpture has been relatively long and quite dramatic. Taking its roots in ancient Egyptian stylization, and evolving into naturalization and clarity of human form, Greek sculpture has made an enormous impact of the art of modern day. The early kouros figures were very simil...