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.
This research paper will address a dynamic problem within the textiles industry: How we care for our clothes, with a focus on inspecting the way in which we dress and undress our bodies. Through looking at artists and creators who document the process of dressing and undressing, I hope to provide analytical feedback and survey … Read more
The Awakening Conscience is a painting by William Holman Hunt. It was painted in 1853 with oils on a canvas. The picture portrays a woman with a awakened expression on her face and a man she is getting off of. William Hunt had a relationship similar to the one depicted, but it only happened after … Read more
From method acting to intense rehearsals, all actors and directors take measures to evoke a strong performance in their work. However, it is a one in a million performance that causes the audience to wonder if the actor has perhaps transcended acting and become the person they are portraying. In Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion … Read more
Pretty Woman, a film directed by Garry Marshall, describes a story between a prostitute and a wealthy businessman who fall for each other. Despite the unlikely pairing between the two, Vivian and Edward overcome significant backlash about their quick change in lifestyle. Vivian, a young woman is struggling to make ends meet and has no … Read more
This essay will firstly elucidate the various theories that discuss art and culture. Broadly, they are: (1) Kant’s Aesthetic Judgments, (2) Danto’s Art World, (3) Bourdieu’s Art and Modernity, and (4) Adorno and Horkheimer’s Culture Industry. These discussions are crucial to understanding: (1) the shifting definitions of art and culture, (2) the historical trajectories of … Read more
“You Can Make Everything Out of Anything” Friday, November 17, 2017 “Our first project this year has been a very progressive, multi-step, multimedia project that has evolved as we created! Our first project, when we got back from hurricane Harvey, was to release some stress with scribbling to music. Students spread out on the floor … Read more
19th Century France was one of the most populous countries in Europe. Contrary to England, industrialization found its place in Paris quite late, delayed by the Napoleonic wars. A large sum of the people occupied the country side, but with the rise of industrialization, urbanisation gradually kicked in. France had now transformed from a “country … Read more
In a low fake of salt-crusted and tussocky grass in an edge of Menemsha Pond on Martha’s Vineyard an immaculately set flight of stone advances flanked by a holding mass of fitted rocks prompts an easily cleared finding, an enlivened lump underneath a foot-significant pool of wind-knock bubbles. Who shaped this eminent stairway to the … Read more
Introduction. Since the 1970s, Feminist art practice has been at the very forefront of social and political discourse. From Carolee Schneemann to the Guerrilla Girls the targeting and exposing of inequality between male and female counterparts in Western Society has earned its value within the art world. Through my studio practice I focus greatly … Read more
In the turn of the century, there has been an advancement in technology that has shaped the way creatives go about making work, distributing it and presenting themselves. With the development of technology, it has a caused a friction between two ways of working – those being digital and analogue ways. Though an artist will … Read more
INTRODUCTION In this essay, I will be looking at two different works. ‘The Protector’ (figure 1) by Paul Klee, made with ink paper on board (Support: 300x487mm) in 1962, and ‘Drawing for Whamm!’ (figure 2) by Roy Lichtenstein made with graphite on paper (Support: 149x350mm, Framed:198x352x19mm) in 1963. Klee created The Protector’ during his time … Read more
Scenic painters are people that work under the direction of the set designer and scenic charge artist to paint sets, backdrops, and some props for stage productions. If the design calls for it, the painters also are responsible for the application of certain finishing materials. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds. Scene … Read more
Muralism is term which is used to identify an art movement which developed in Mexico in the first decades of the XX century which involve the production of large scale paintings known as murals. The term can also be used in a general sense to refer to a type of mural painting which deals with … Read more
Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, in a family of musicians, at the royal court of Cologne. His name was given after his grandfather, who was Flemish and settled in Bonn in 1732. He was a bass player at court, and later, starting in 1761, he became maestro of the chapel. Beethoven’s father, (undoubtedly talented) … Read more
For the average art viewer, the Frieze experience can be exhausting—a dizzying sensory overload. There is too much to take in, frenzies of people pushing past, startling art, and dealers trying to make a quick sale. Frieze exemplifies the grand, international, and money-driven art exhibitions that characterize contemporary art today. For less than a week, … Read more
