Leslie Van Houten

Night and Day Hong is largely seen as a master of the essay art films. The film, Night and Day, follows an artist, Kim Seong-nam’s journey in Paris after escaping the Korean government and leaving his wife behind. The film references three common themes of Hong’s style; an artist as a protagonist, an aspect of rebellion, and travel as an excursion. In the film, the artist’s escape from Paris as a result of using Marijuana represents deviance. The film uses romance as a style to further augment…

William Morris was an English painter, designer fabrics and furniture, book designer, a developer of typographic fonts, poet and socialist. He was behind the concept of synthesis, the key concept of the new art. Morris was the founder of the "Arts and Crafts Movement," which took shape as an artistic style in the second half of the 19th century. All participants in the movement united in the belief that artistically designed human environment - pleasing to the eye of the building, artfully…

Before the late 19th century, the classical music was performed for entertainment purposes as a result of patron-controlled music. This restricted design soon dissipated with the introduction of Beethoven and his symphonies. As a result of his independent musical career, Beethoven was given the opportunity to explore unregulated music. Decades later in the late 19th century, this meaningful music would further popularize and form the musical canon, a collection of great musical compositions that…

“The Vampire Diaries” Season 8, News Update: Is Stefan’s Promise to Elena His Motivation to Save Damon Season 7 finale of “The Vampire Diaries” left fans with a perturbing mystery. After Damon and Enzo were affected by the monster in the vault, every fan has been curious to know their fate. Theories are swirling around in good numbers and one says that Stefan’s promise to Elena has got a lot to do with his resurrection. Stefan is that one person who truly believes that Damon is still alive…

Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse Artists often are inspired and influenced by the people, places and circumstances surrounding them but artists each tend to imbue their own sense of personality and ideas into their works. For example, Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers. Beginning with the prominent piece that is to have influenced the other two works,…

disease, prescribe medications and perform eye surgery) that were available, so no one really did not know what the exact reason why Beethoven was gradually losing his hearing. Beethoven started to notice buzzing and distortion in his hearing (Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.), and that was around 1796 (26 years after his birth). Two years later,1798, is when the buzzing stopped as well as most of the sound surrounding him. By the time it was 1801, Beethoven had already lost more than half…

Painting and relevance: Jacques-Louis David’s “Oath of the Horatii” was painted in 1784 and it was commissioned by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on behalf of the Kind Louis XVI. The inspiration of the painting had to come by Corneille’s Play “Horace” which was being performed in Paris during that time. In 1785 the painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon. The painting shows a decisive moment of will as well as a great family tragedy resulting from political consequences. The…

Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 (Appassionata) Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 –1827) was a crucial character in the period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western music. He was also one of the most influential composers in the music history. Beethoven was born in a musical family. His alcoholic father was his first music teacher and later he was sent to Vienna to study under various teachers including Mozart and Hayden. In about 1800,…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a famous Austrian composer who earned world fame and became one of the most influential music writers all over the world. He had an extraordinary talent and left a large footprint in the history of classical music. Mozart is famous for writing his first acknowledged works when he still was a child. At the age of eight he wrote his first symphony and when he was 12 years old he already created his first opera. Mozart has got musical training in piano and violin from his…

John Cage was an incredibly impactful and controversial American composer of the 20th century. He was the forerunner for the avant-garde, significantly developing nonstandard styles of music such as electroacoustic music and aleatoric music (chance-controlled). His musical developments were largely influenced by Indian philosophies like Buddhism, and his internal anarchy was influenced by Henry David Thoreau. This and his works with modern dance, helped to distinguish him as a very pivotal…