Two Truths and a Lie: An analysis of the Scaffold as a symbol in The Scarlet Letter Two truths and a lie have been a common team-building exercise used for various types of collaborative groups. The purpose of the activity is for people to get to know each other in a fun way, by deciphering what is truthful and what...
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Personal Identity. We all have it, but we don’t all know what this actually is. Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personalities, and attitudes that make a person or group. We’ve all heard of “the Dreaming”, but what does this term actually refer to? The Dreaming is the Aboriginal World's central and deepest reality. For Aboriginals, Dreaming plays a significant role...
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Introduction Art is the process of making or creating something different by using our skills, thoughts, and feelings. Art plays a crucial role in our society as it helps us to remember the events that had happened in past, identify one’s religion, and in understanding the various socially constructed concepts. Art can be expressed in paintings, sculptures, or any other...
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Since the dawn of time moments, modern society has evolved over decades of history, ever-changing ever-growing, but some larger historical events and periods have aided the advancement and further development of modern society today. The Age of The Enlightenment was the dawning point of multiple subject shifts that can be traced to now such as Religion, thought, politics, science/technology, and...
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On September 19th at the Orpheum Theatre, I saw Hamilton, The show follows the remarkable life story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, retells the tale using rap music and lyrics that tackle even political deal-making: “Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room/Diametric’ly opposed, foes/ They...
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Since the mid-late twentieth century, Postmodernism is more commonly referred to as the most controversial of all the art and design movements of that era, exhausting all concepts of innovation, individualism, and style. The definition according to the Oxford Dictionaries for Postmodernism is a late-twentieth-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism...
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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk showcases the miniaturist tradition, in Istanbul during the 16th century Ottoman Empire, which navigates the fine line between Western and Eastern art, and that of art and religion. The novel also touches on societal problems that stem from the beginning of westernization starting from the Ottoman art style. The novel is about the...
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The origins of art are as perplexing as the inception of language itself. Once upon a time, writes James Elkins in On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, in every place, and in every time, art was religious; for about eight thousand years ago, Asia, Africa, and Europe were full of sculpted deities and totemic representations: “According to...
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Musicals are a popular form of visual arts with over 11 million people attending a show on broadway last year. They are a performance where people tell a story with the aid of singing, dancing, and acting. Musicals can transport you across the world, you could spend an Arabian night in Agrahba in the musical Aladdin, spend a day under...
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Write an essay that compares and contrasts two works of art that may have aided the Dutch in developing ways to manage some of the tensions of religious diversity. The intersection of art and religion is a topic of debate in Dutch culture, as a significant part of Calvinism involves a lack of idealization for specific images of religious characters...
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Unknown Artist, Shiva Nataraja, Art of Asia, India 11th century. Bronze material 34 ½ * 28 ¼ * 9 ¾ in. Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX. Formal Analysis The time when I entered the Dallas Museum of art, I was so amazed by their artwork and paintings. It was tough work to choose one subject for my art paper, but...
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In My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, the main character, Asher, is born a Hasidic Jew with devoted religious parents. Since childhood, he was placed in a difficult situation where he was torn between following his religious views or pursuing his passion for art. Being a Hasidic Jew means abiding by the Torah and adhering to the lifestyle...
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Classical Greece was a period where war and conflict thrived, between the Greeks and the Persians to the Athenians and Spartans. Throughout this time the religious culture in Greece flourished. The Ancient Greeks were fixated on gods and goddesses which shaped their culture including drama, art, and architecture. Art pieces often resembled images of these gods and goddesses. Whilst there...
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Sixteenth-century Venice viewed and treated women with restrictive and symbolic societal expectations, and this is a theme prevalent through the art and architecture of the period. Through the Casa delle Zitelle, Veronese's Apotheosis of Venice, and Andrea Vicentino's Disembarkation of the Dogaressa Morosini Morosini Grimani from the Bucintoro and Her Progress Toward the Triumphal Arch, the Venetian social expectations of...
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As Empires fall and new empires evolve, new religions and ideologies appear. In order for people to adapt to a new belief system easier, there should be similarities between the previous and the new one. From early Egyptian times to early Christian times, several religious motives showed similarities. The Sun, one of the most used religious motives in art, was...
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“For they do not look through to the soul, nor have a keen eye for virtue, but they stop at the outward excellencies of the body and admire daring, and strength, speed in running, and size, and consider these as fit qualifications for the purple robe and diadem” (Goodreads). In this quote, Anna Coleman portrays how society views others and...
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As Rome conquered the different towns in different places she did not only gain territory and subjects, but she also gained foreign ideas. Rome sucked foreign temples and obtained new ideas of religion and art. Those who were captured in war and were educated and civilized she made slaves and often Rome used them as teachers of Roman children and...
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Introduction The influence of religion in art has been abundantly documented throughout history. In the same way, all art is open to the audience's perspective, the paintings and other projects created here are also. It is hardly unexpected that art and religion have a close relationship, given how influential religion is in so many civilizations. This is especially evident when...
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Vincent Van Gogh was a very famous painter that still inspires many people today. He was one of the most influential artists in western art. In just over a decade, he created around 2,100 artworks. While Van Gogh seems like a super popular guy, he actually struggled with mental illness and remained poor throughout his life. He was not very...
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For millennia, the soul has been interpreted as an immaterial entity and this duality has been reflected in art. Spiritual art doesn’t always mean religious, it can just be otherworldly or spiritual-seeking. Music, painting, and sculpture take on spiritual meanings when they explore the meaning of life, death, and the infinite possibilities of consciousness. Spirituality is defined as the awareness...
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Introduction At only first glance, this artwork of Andres Serrano is seen to be very provocative and blasphemous. This controversial artwork is a photograph of a 13-inch crucifix being submerged into a yellow liquid, which is implied to be urine as the title would suggest, and it is most likely to be his own. For many, the Piss Christ became...
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Annotated Bibliography Cummings, Brian. Mortal thoughts: religion, secularity & identity in Shakespeare and early modern culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. This text is a collection of various essays in which Cummings explores the role that religion played in early modern art. While his discussion addresses a wide range of issues, he gives special focus to the manifestation of religion...
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Research the life of Frida Kahlo explaining how this impacted her artmaking Frida Kahlo was born in 1097 in Coyoacán, Mexico, and had seven siblings. She was extremely close with her father and grew up during the Mexican revolution, also contracting polio at the young age of six. After sustaining severe injuries at age 18 when the wooden bus Kahlo...
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Through shifting perceptions, instilling ideals, and communicating interactions through time and space, art has unlocked gates into the realm of religion. The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, the Blue Mosque, and the Ellora Caves; are some of the most famous works of art enriched by the history of religion. Religious art or sacred art, using divine inspiration and motives,...
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Over the past century, muralism, the art of social and political engagement, has become a staple of Mexico’s identity. Analyzing the visual, cultural, symbolic, social, and historical work of the three most famous Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco is an obligation when trying to understand the history of Mexico. Murals, to start...
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Renaissance was a great era of innovation and ideas that followed the Medieval period or the Dark Ages of ignorance and uncivilization. Renaissance can be defined as “Rebirth” in French because it was the rebirth and rediscovery of great ancient art styles, Greek and Roman, which can be seen in many art pieces from this period, for instance, David sculpture...
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This painting shows a bearded man running along a path in front of two houses, a cross, and a bloodied sword. One cannot distinguish his identity or whereabouts, because his facial features have been removed, the natural landscape has been transformed into an unearthly series of colorful stripes, and there are no other symbols or markers. However, there is a...
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Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity states that “everything is relative” (Einstein, 1920). It doesn’t just apply to physics or any particular phenomenon but to the whole world and ever-expanding universe. Narrowing down the focus to just the habitat of Homo sapiens, particularly the places where they live, work and eat which are called buildings. The utility, design, height, volume and...
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As one of the biggest influences in architecture, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 left a very imprinted memory on the city itself. The fire itself altered many aspects, from the rapid growth of Chicago to the changes in building codes that impacted on the birth of a new style that represents one of many American architectures. The Great Chicago...
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The movie ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is one of the most significant in the filmography of the director. His innovation lies in the fact that Kubrick was able to aestheticize violence at the audiovisual level. Using the technique of using classical music in ultra-violent scenes, the director creates something truly great....
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