Arts Essays

An Essay About the Harn Diversity Project
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Jan 2023
Introduction: An examination on the African art collection at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art....

An Essay on The Importance of Art in Daily Life
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Jan 2023
Introduction: Every day morning, many people enjoy sitting outside watching sunrise. They feel relaxed seeing the arrival of the sun with its pure light and the traveling of the night with its darkness. They consider that a new life will start as the sun starts her new life. ...

An Essay on the Art of Contemporary African Migrants
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Jan 2023
Introduction: This essay will explore ideas from African artists who address significant issues of dislocation and visually embed these stories within their artwork....

A Study on Diversity at the Harn Museum of Art
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jan 2023
Introduction: Diversity attracts many people who are curious to learn. Harn Museum of Art has a variety of art forms from different cultures, including Asia and Africa, creating a diverse atmosphere....

An Essay on the Artwork That Provokes China
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jan 2023
Introduction: How Ai Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds” and Xiao Lu’s “Dialogue” highlight the problems within China’s political framework....

Essay About the Origins of Celtic Christian Art
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jan 2023
Introduction: How Christianity influenced the origin and development of Celtic art in Great Britain and Ireland....

The Hypotheses Regarding Early Christian Art
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jan 2023
Introduction:  As Christianity was establishing itself as an official cult in the early centuries AD, it began to express its beliefs through a variety of sacred texts as well as visual representations. A...

A Brief History of Johannes Vermeer
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Dec 2021
Introduction: Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque period artist born in the town of Delft, Netherlands in 1632. He created some of the most beloved and admired paintings in art history, which only about thirty-six of his pieces are known to still be surviving today. ...

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Influence on Contemporary Dance
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Nov 2021
Introduction: In what ways have the practice and the choreographic work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker influenced Contemporary Dance?...

Mobility and Famine in Annibale Carracci’s ‘Straordinario di Carne’
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Nov 2021
Introduction: Mobility and Famine in Annibale Carracci’s ‘Straordinario di Carne’: Reconstructing Urban Space through Keplerian Astronomy....

A Comparison of Late Antiquity and Byzantine Art
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Oct 2021
Introduction: A comparison and contrast of art from the late antiquity and byzantine periods....

Comparison of Art from Different Timelines: David Battling Goliath and Terra-Cotta Soldiers
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Introduction: This research paper will introduce quite a few formal analyses along with quite a few iconographies that is based from two completely different pieces of art from different timelines....

Herrick versus Hopkins: Do We Need a Creator for Something to be Beautiful?
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Oct 2021
Introduction: Robert Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder” and Gerard Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty” both emphasize the beauty found in deranged or simplistic objects, which are often overlooked for more structured forms of artwork....

Rogier van der Weyden and Hans Memling: Similarities and Differences
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Oct 2021
Introduction: Rogier van der Weyden and Hans Memling, two masters from 15th century Northern Renaissance, were both commissioned during their lifetime to paint Last Judgement altarpieces. Although the works they produced have striking similarities, ultimately their dramatic differences create separate visions of the Last Judgement....

Effect of Altered States of Consciousness on Art
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Oct 2021
Introduction: Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary Japanese artist who is known for her extensive use of polka dots and her infinity installations (Cole, 2019). Suffering from a mental illness as a child, and thoroughly abused by her mother, she persevered by using her hallucinations and personal obsessions to create her artworks....

Constant Mayer's Painting Recognition: North and South | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Oct 2021
Introduction: In Constant Mayer's painting Recognition: North and South date; 1865 MEDIUM Oil on canvas. The dimensions of the canvas are 68 1/8 × 93 1/2 in. (173 × 237.5 cm) Frame (outer): 86 1/4 × 110 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (219.1 × 281.3 × 18.4 cm). The artist Constant Mayer is a French painter who migrated into the United States...

Post-Impressionism and Vincent Van Gogh
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Oct 2021
Introduction: In and around 1911, there were art critics that freely used the phrase “post-impressionistic” as a means to illustrate the work of several artists’ paintings reveal Impressionistic standards. Post Impressionism was a creative shift to follow Impressionism that was to break the Impressionistic style. ...

Majority Does Not Rule
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: ​In the play, ​An Enemy of the People, ​Ibsen challenges the idea of the ...

The relationship between Richard Artschwager's works and material
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Oct 2021
Introduction: Richard Artschwager, (1923-2013) is an American sculptor, painter and illustrator. Artschwager received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1948, although, worked a variety of jobs after graduating, such as a turner, a cabinetmaker and made and sold furniture. ...

Critical Discussion of Andy Warhol's use of Modernist Values
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will critically discuss the extent to which Andy Warhol upheld, adapted or rejected Modernist values which will further investigate how Warhol created ‘art after Modernism....

Paintings Commissioned by Tiziano Vecello
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: Tiziano Vecello, known in the English speaking world as Titian, was born in Cadore which is in the Southern Alps between the years of 1487 -1490. He was born into a family of lawyers and administrators and so enjoyed a relatively privileged upbringing....

Separating the Art from the Artist in the Age of the Me-Too Movement
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Sep 2021
Introduction: The question of whether or not we should separate artists from their artwork has acquired a new significance in the age of Me Too–it is now necessary to examine whether we can still watch and enjoy the films and TV series created by the wave of directors and actors denounced by the Me Too movement. ...

Concepts of Beauty in Art
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: John Keats famous statement on Beauty and Truth and their interchangeability poses a very important question in the postmodern era....

Four Breadth Areas in Liberal Arts Program
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: Ottawa University four breadth areas are Art/Expression, Social/Civic, Science/Description, and Value/Meaning. These areas are the areas students will work through....

Connection Between Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d’Avignon' and his Connection African People
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: This paper will analysis the connection between the modern primitivism painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) by Picasso to the artist’s historical connection with the African people....