Century Essay Examples Page 4

Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun is noted as a very prominent woman/artist in the World of the Eighteenth Century art. She is known for her work as a portrait painter. Her most famous works are included in the series that she had painted at age twenty-four of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Vigee-Le Brun was a woman of so many…

As I thought about the role of women in Europe in the 20th Century, I tried to make comparisons and put that information into the context of my own life. I thought of women from history who had influenced my opinions, and then began to think of the women in my family who had molded…

During the early twentieth century, many new accomplishments and changes were happening in the United States. Accomplishments such as the first plane being built by the wright brothers in 1903, to the first man walking on the moon in 1969. The art world also had many new accomplishments and changes, as new styles were being…

Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to escape imprisonment in concentration camps by Nazi soldiers,…

The play Romeo and Juliet is a romantic drama set in Verona, Italy in the 15th century. Romeo and Juliet are the children of two very wealthy families, the Capulets and the Montagues. However there is known hatred between these two families, that have been feuding for many years and are infamous for their vicious…

At the start of Act 3 Scene 2 Hamlet seems to be aware of the importance of the player’s performance and instructs them not to over do the performance. He tells them not to be larger than life as this will cause the audience within the play and the Elizabethan to start laughing and this…

The Crucible is a play based on a true story set in the 17th century, about a closely-knit community in Salem, Massachusetts which from the accusations of girl – Abigail Williams – led to a witch hunt all over the town which ended up having over half of the town hung and the other half…

In the 18th century, there was a period that we called Neo classicism. In this period most of all paintings had the same characteristic which are dark and simple background colors, very masculine, stressed heroism, frieze, sharp edges, more geometric and flat. As we seen in Jean Ingres paintinga€””The Turkey’s Slave”, we could see from…

The piece of work I selected caught my attention as soon as I set eyes on it. It is “Female Gable Figure Dilukai” a 25 2/3-inch high wooden figure of a nude woman with her legs straddled. The piece seemed to be very crudely done. It appeared to be chiseled, very abstracted and very unrealistic….

The environment was major contributing factor to the evolution of Australian art in the 20th century. The elemental landscape; isolation and distance, the imposition of the mythical and the visionary on the landscape, national identity the universal and the regional and the demise of Arcadia and romantic idealism interweave magnificently to present the impact of…