Belle Reprieve - Split Britches (1990) - A creative theatrical staging
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Split Britches represents a significant antithesis to modern theatre's established rules of cultural formation. It develops empirically and implements a distinct value orientation of culture by actively promoting the diversity agenda. The foundational artefact of this paper is the primary...
Ugolino and His Sons - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1870) - Stylistic Analysis
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's "Ugolino and His Sons" is an outstanding artistic representation that reflects the sentiments of unbearable anguish and paternal suffering in the decomposition of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, who served as a subject for Dante Alighieri's famous "Inferno." This...
Boats in Collioure - André Derain (1905) - An Exploration of André Derain's Art
Artwork commentary - 4 pages - Arts and art history
A. Derain was born in Chatou in 1880 to a middle-class family. He began painting in 1895. From 1898 to 1899, he studied at the Camillo Academy in Paris. He met H. Matisse in 1901 at the Louvre, where he began copying works in a caricatured manner. In 1901, he rebelled against his family, who did...
Corpus about Artist's Identity et Love
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Document 1 is a web article entitled Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship. It was written by Louis Menand and published on December 3, 2018, on the New Yorker. Document 2 is a web article entitled Was Shakespeare the Real Author of His Plays? It was written by Barbara Maranzani on June...
Refuge of Art - Andy Goldsworthy
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist born in 1956. His sensitivity to the beauty of nature comes from his childhood working on farms. After that, he studied Beaux-Arts at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic in Lancaster. This explains why his works combine nature and contemporary art and...
Is art an efficient answer to the political and social injustice faced by poorer classes?
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Arts and art history
"Some might say that the world is a mess right now. Others point out that it could be worse. In our war torn world, it depends on who you are and where you live". That's how the article from the Huffington Post, called "Artists as Activists : Pursuing Social Justice" and written by Amy...
