Artists Essays and Term Papers

of the Critics' Beliefs In order to understand our modern literature, there has to be a complete comprehension of the earlier writings and their authors, since understanding the founders of literature will help in achieving a better realization…

Aristotle's points and ideas on characters on a tragedy play, and explaining what should be avoided according to Aristotle. The tragedy play that is going to be the focus of this research is The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which is in some way considered…

20th century. He was born to Roman Catholic Czech immigrant parents and grew up near the mills in Pittsburgh PA. About the age of nine he had a nervous breakdown and as he grew older, realized he did not like his appearance. Always fascinated with…

during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was an unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style, an attempt by artists to record visual reality using transient effects of light and color. The Impression movement name came from one of…

prodigy in music. By his fifth birthday, he played the piano. Before he was twelve, he had composed several sonatas, concertos, and symphonies. During his teens, he mastered the piano, violin, and harpsichord and performed his first major opera,…

who both came from famous wealthy families who had lived in Athens for generations. While Plato was a young man his father died and his mother remarried. Plato left Athens after Socrates had been executed and traveled in Egypt, Sicily and Italy. In…

rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. They were among the few artists of any authority that were at the same time the best at what they did, and the most popular at what they did.…

- 1510, better known as Giorgione, was a Venetian painter of the Italian High Renaissance. He lived a short life, passing away from the plague during his thirties, leaving behind a small, but beautiful compilation of compositions. One of his most…

of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's Self Portrait 1790 is undeniably the artist herself, and the art of painting. In this composition her face lit by bounced light Vigee-LeBrun looks towards the spectator, she is seated upright, posed and poised very much…

associated with political theories and the male body. They represented classic Roman virtues such as the civic trait of self-sacrifice, suppression of emotion, devotion to public duty, honesty and austerity. A classic example is Jacques-Louis…