Our photography and arts essays cover a broad range of topics, spanning arts and visual culture, art histories, the classical world, theatre, creative writing, photographic fine art practice and more.
The depiction of beauty of the black female in the past has typically been concealed behind the dormant social issues that they’ve always faced throughout history. Eldzier Cortor challenges this by separating the black female from these social problems and representing them independently. Eldzier Cortor developed a unique style where he represents the beauty of … Read more
Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present Past and present merge in the 2018 exhibition Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists. In the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the intergenerational group of women artists of American Abstract Artists, Blurring Boundaries traces the history of the group’s female founding artists … Read more
Art is a powerful mode of understanding knowledge of the past and transmitting it to the future generations. Literature on the other hand is a way of recreating the experiences of the past. Thus Art and Literature both reflects life and cultures and are integrated with each other. Bryan in his book Don Juan elucidates … Read more
Art can place a huge role in the history of the world, it demonstrates how life and past events came to be as we were not present during that time period. It brings us more knowledge about the events and helps us grasp an idea of how different the world was in the past and … Read more
Introduction In the human experience, it is so easy to fall for simple tricks that seem like acts of kindness. One way to prove this is the mythological creature the siren. The sirens sing a beautiful song, which seems like an act of kindness, but they sing it for evil. The song traps sailors on … Read more
Throughout the history of art there have been many movements that have changed the way art was presented. With each new movement artists had to change the way they approached their work. Many of them had their own thoughts about a movement known as pop art. This movement started in the mid-1950s in Britain and … Read more
The essay title that I have chosen is: “The tensions between dominate and subordinate groups can be reflected in the surfaces of sub-cultures – in the styles made up of mundane objects which have a double meaning”. I have chosen this essay title because, I find the subject matter very fascinating. I am very intrigued … Read more
In February of 1916, at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich Switzerland, the first Dada performance was held. Known for its reactive, absurd, humorous, and random nature, Dada is often presented as a manifestation of a fascination with the irrational, like in the 1936 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism, or classified … Read more
The painting I’ve chosen is called “St John The Baptist Preaching” painted by Mattia Pretti in 1665. The medium for this art piece is oil paint on canvas. This art piece was from the Italian Baroque period in the 17th century and was a Counter Reformation art in Italy. The painting is currently in the … Read more
DIGITAL ART HISTORY: POTENTIAL OF MALTESE RENOWNED ARTISTS, ITS RESEARCH CENTERS AND DIGITAL ART SCHOLARSHIP Why This Topic? As a historian and artist myself, this topic has attracted my attention to examine the might and plight of the digital and contemporary artists. I have picked it up out of the variety of historical research topics … Read more
Encapsulating a snapshot of this scene of a barmaid at the Folies- Bergère, Manet has tried to create a whole sense of space, however the scene continues, only a fleeting moment was captured. Manet clearly has an impressionist style of mark and structure (despite him never joining the movement), but the work can also be … Read more
Flemish Renaissance art is exemplified by a specific style, iconography, and reception exclusive to the form of contemporary Renaissance art purported at that time, namely works of Biblical interest. Two examples of this type of artwork would be Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Last Judgment’ and the Isenheim Altarpiece. Although the two works cover different Biblical stories and … Read more
This photograph, Ellis Island of the West, from the National Archives, Records of the Public Health Service shows just a few of the many Asian immigrants that came to the United States via the Angel Island. Angel Island, which is located on the San Francisco Bay, was an United States Immigration Station from 1910 until … Read more
The title chosen title for this assignment is ‘Installation Art in Ireland’. In this essay there will be a critical analyse on the art form itself, the issues surrounding it, the main artists associated with it, and what they are doing. Installation art is defined as being “Art that is created for a specific site, … Read more
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland (source the book/website you found this piece of information from)(North Europe) in 1853. He grow up in a big family of six children, son of Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Reverend Theodorus Van Gogh. When he was little he didn’t show any interest in art. But at sixteen years … Read more
