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He lives in an apartment with his mother and two of his sisters all his life. However, according to his sister, he rarely speaks to them. Some critics suggest that the reason he lives with his mother might be due to Klimt’s strong bond to his mother. To some extent, for Klimt, this intimate affiliation produces a fear of forming a relationship with other women. He is fascinated by women and feared…

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock is known for being the “master of suspense”. Born on Aug. 13, 1899 in Leytonstone, England, Hitchcock was one of three children. It is said that he had a lonely childhood due to obesity, which left him isolate and sheltered away from others. His parents had unusual methods of discipline; and often times sent him to the local jail for the police to lock him up for misbehaving, and afterwards would…

believed that artists were able to use this stolen fire to create art and interpret truth in a way that normal people were incapable of doing. This view led to them being revered as god-like or even as demigods! There were also many critics who neither trusted artists, as they had allegedly used the stolen fire from the Sun, nor believed they were of any value in the public circle, viewing artwork as useless. In other words, “Art doesn’t have the honesty of reason nor the power of philosophy.”…

sexual desires. Anna Chave makes some valid points and explains the reason that painters chose to portray their images in this way gave me a new outlook into what they hoped to convey. The opening grabs the reader’s attention, “What is the modern art-historical equivalent of The Greatest Story Ever Told? What else but the monumental Demoiselles d’Avignon?” (Page 597). It seems that historians are both praising and criticizing Picasso for his painting of “the five rather alien-looking…

The two paintings I will be studying and comparing is Lavender Mist by Jackson Pollock and Mountains and sea by Helen Frankenthaler. Both paintings are a good representation of postwar American abstract expression art. These paintings exhibited new ways of creating art and how they’re portrayed to society. In this essay I will discuss the chaos and control in abstract expressionism through Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler’s works. I believe Jackson Pollock’s works are very creative and…

Art funded by local, state, and federal governments Art improves people’s moods, overall happiness, and outlook on life. Just imagine how many lives have been saved with art. Community members constantly seek out beauty from art, but art can contribute much more than it’s beauty to a society. Art can give a location, a ‘sense of place’, help seniors be healthier, and even improve test scores. Public art provides economic, cultural and educational benefits to a community. Therefore, art should…

A new artistic movement that materialized in the late 19th century was given the name impressionism. One of the founders of the French impressionist movement was Claude Monet. Impressionists depict in their art what they see and feel at that very moment. It is a painting style that concentrates on the general impression made by a scene or an object. The main reason Monet’s The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil, 1881 attracted my attention is because I have a great fondness for flowers and gardens. The…

German Romanticism is a movement in both the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century. Goethe’s Erlkönig, and ETA Hoffman’s The Sandman are both German Romantic pieces of literature. The creators of each of these pieces would view Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a German Romantic play even though it predated the movement. This is because Shakespeare’s Macbeth implements many of the same techniques which Goethe and ETA Hoffman employ throughout their works and which were…

He was born on the 21st of November 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on the 15th of August, 1967. It was in 1915, as a seventeen year old, when Magritte first began his career in art. He began studying at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where, despite the lack of attendance, he was introduced to art concepts such as Futurism, Cubism and Purism. It can be observed in many of his works the influence of these concepts particularly some of his earlier pieces. After studying, he served…

Music: The Benefits and Effects it has on our Emotions According to the dictionary, music is defined as “an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.” An art form of sound that no person can physically see, touch, or taste, though this art form affects the listener in the deepest ways. Human emotions are affected by all of our senses, though sound allows us to communicate and understand different parts of the world. From the moment we enter this world, our ears are…