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Raphael, one of the most influential artists during the Italian Renaissance, skillfully utilized depth, perspective, and the interplay of shadow and light in his brilliant paintings. Throughout his career, he frequently depicted the Madonna as a reoccurring subject. One example of this is the Madonna of the Candelabra, a dark and shadowy portrayal that exemplifies…

The Maus series of books offers a powerful narrative about an individual’s firsthand experience during the Holocaust, diverging from the traditional novel format. These books employ comic panels to effectively communicate the story. Particularly controversial is the utilization of animals to represent various races, a depiction that amplifies the impact of the Holocaust’s atrocities compared…

The Hunger Games started out as a book published in 2008 by Suzanne Collins; soon after came Catching Fire and Mockingjay. In 2012, it became a four-part film series. The setting to the story is in a future post-apocalyptic time in a country called Panem. The country is divided into 12 districts, 1 being the…

The Balcony scene takes place in a private, secluded garden that is surrounded by walls. These walls are symbolic as they represent the barriers between Romeo and Juliet and they are high which represents the dangers they are facing by seeing each other against their families’, the Montague’s and Capulet’s, wishes. The Balcony scene is…

Art provides a variety of functions in society and the sheer volume of functions that it provides is so vast that it would be almost unfair to limit those functions to any small subset. However, if there were to be any specific generalizations made about the function of art in society it becomes important to…

Feminist art is a specific art form that has been dedicated to explore and examine the explicit forms of physical violence, pain and anguish experienced by women in a world dominated by the patriarchal system. Awakened to the consciousness of misogyny, women renounced their passive acceptance to social pressures and intended to show their intolerance…

I am writing to inform you that you are hereby charged with the heinous crime of murder, as the cause of many deaths and misery. You are at fault for all that has happened in the fair Verona, Italy, and are now dually charged with the following crimes: Two counts of murder in the first…

Time travel is a plot device almost as old as science fiction itself. It seems that as soon aswe have permission to create whatever technology we want we are using it to explore and change the past and future. From Star Trek’s “The City on the Edge of Forever” to Terminator 2: Judgement Day to…

ORATORICAL PIECEI am a Juan dela Cruz. I am a fighter by blood and a believer by heart. I live in a free country. Although I may have a small voice, I have a big dream—a dream to master the art of spear. To our distinguished members of the board of judges, to my equally…

Every year there are a number of prizes, awards and scholarships that an artist can win; many of which offer money, travel and recognition that can be very important in an artist’s career. The Archibald Prize for portraiture is one of Australia’s oldest and best-known visual arts awards, and each year, in accordance with the…