Academic papers on Art & Architecture

Impressing the Impressionists - Japonisme & French Art in the Nineteenth Century
An 8-page paper that examines the influence of Japonisme, a trend stemming from the work of Japanese ukiyo-e artists, on the works of French artists during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are Japanese master painters Hokusai...
View Essay Topic

The Future of Graphic Arts
This 10 page paper takes a look at what graphic arts might be like in the twenty-first century by first looking at its past. The changes which have been effected by technology are highlighted. The artist's role in the advertising industry is...
View Essay Topic

The Acropolis
(11 pp) In the Classical period of Greek history (500-336 BCE), Athens reached its greatest political and cultural heights: the full development of the democratic system of government under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building of...
View Essay Topic

Salvador Dali: Christian Themes.
( 10 pp) in 1941, Dal
View Essay Topic

The Barbizon School of Art
( 8 pp) The Barbizon School was a group of naturalist landscape painters who worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s. These artists rejected...
View Essay Topic

HIERONYMOUS BOSCH: Garden of Earthly Delights
( 5 pp) Hieronymus Bosch was born in 1450 in Flanders. In these Pre-Reformation times there was a great deal of public hysteria against heresy, sorcery, and magic. Public tortures and executions were common. Hieronymus Bosch's work ,...
View Essay Topic

The Enduring Contributions of the Greeks and the Romans
A 10 page paper which compares and contrasts the enduring contributions of the Greeks and Romans. The paper discusses art, architecture, and other more obscure or less noticeable influences felt from ancient Romans and Greeks. The point presented...
View Essay Topic

One Part Art, One Part Animation - The Role of Computer Generated Imagery in Film
An 11 page paper that examines the invention, development and progression of computer generated imagery in the film industry, concentrating on the special effects that began to be used in the decade of the 1990s. Included is a short history of the...
View Essay Topic

Roman Art and Architecture: The Influence of Politics and Religion in the Fourth Century AD
An 8 page discussion outlining the connection between Roman art and politics in the Fourth Century AD. Describes the intense control of art sought by Rome and the final triumph of Christians which resulted in their art in moving from the hidden...
View Essay Topic

Sandro Botticelli
(5 pp) The most humanistic of the Renaissance painters, Botticelli was at first apprenticed to a goldsmith; whether working in this sensuous metal influenced him we can not be sure, but we can easily say that Botticelli was one of the...
View Essay Topic

Picasso - the legacy lives on.
(5 pp) If there is any artist who epitomizes the genius of our century, it is Picasso. Long-lived, endlessly inventive, prolific in his production, wanton in his sexual appetites as well as his artistic creation, an alchemist who could...
View Essay Topic

The Enlightenment: Artistic Evolution
A 5 page discussion of the changes in artistic style which occurred during the period known as "The Enlightenment", or variably as "The Age of Reason" or the "Age of Rationalism". Relates the changes in art to the changes in the way Europeans...
View Essay Topic

Caravaggio's Conversion Of Saint Paul
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the artist, Michelangelo Merisi (called Caravaggio), began to paint in a manner that was at once new and exciting as well as echoing the best of the Renaissance Masters who had come before. This 20...
View Essay Topic

Alice Neel (1900 - 1984).
(5 pp) Alice Neel's daring, endearing, disturbing portraits of people and places are among the great treasures of 20th-century art. A retrospective of her work opened in June of this year (2000) at the Whitney Museum in New York. ...
View Essay Topic

The Continued Impact of Michelangelo
(5 pp) The impact of Michelangelo upon the art world, and the world at large has been profound, and continues to be so today. In his own day he was work personified and professionalized. The artist challenged his Patron, even if it was the...
View Essay Topic

---

Records 361 to 375 of 1772