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Often in dictatorial and imperial regimes, art has always been a powerful medium efficiently and masterfully utilized to maintain support from the public.  The different art forms are the bearers of a leader’s vision and mission for his people and for himself. Architecture is no stranger to this misuse. The prime example of art as…

http://www.vsaarts.org             This website is dedicated to the artistic expression of people with disabilities. The most interesting section is the Meet the Artists link. This link is somewhat hard to navigate but it provides a wealth of information about the artists and exhibitions showing their work. The site also has links to a comprehensive list…

Seneca’s plays were not acted; Yet in spite of the ”act that the “burden was placed upon the language” and so became rhetorical declamations, Seneca, nevertheless, “-ollowed the path along which Eu- ripides led. n2 These differences will perhaps be better understood if viewed at first historically. Both Euripides and Seneca lived in turbulent times….

Major Petkoff and Catherine are typical secondary characters, with funny occasional opinions and repetitive comments, such as those of the “electric bell” or the so famous unique “library” in all Bulgaria. They are characters that would normally be used to lower the tension in different types of plays. Yet, Arms and the Man, is a…

SpongeBob Squarepants created by Marine Biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg is an animated TV series about a yellow sea sponge that lives underwater in a pineapple in this town called Bikini Bottom. He is energetic and has a pet snail named Gary. His best friend, Patrick Star, lives two houses down from him in a…

Abstract. Buddhism is considered the most important religion in Oriental Asia. Developed from Indian roots, it has affected culture, politics, philosophy and even standards of living for the past two thousand years in two significant countries of Oriental Asia: China and Japan. As the major religion in both countries, Buddhism is very similar in China…

The Gebusi, written by Knauft, was written with the intention of sharing the author’s discoveries during his stay with and study of the Gebusi people in Papua New Guinea. Starting in the early 1980’s, he traveled to Papua New Guinea and lived with the Gebusi people. At that time, they were still in their traditional…

Islamic Art Art is the mirror of a culture and its world view. There is no case to which this statement more directly applies than to the art of the Islamic world. Not only does its art reflect its cultural values, but even more importantly, the way in which its adherents, the Muslims, view the…

To have a deeper understanding of the French modernist painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and his masterpieces, together with his contemporaries, first we have to delve into the art movement that they have pioneered — Impressionism. But before that, it is just proper to discuss Realism, the movement that came before it. The rising Modern Age…

The art of classical societies includes music, architecture, sculpture, literature, and paintings. In chapters three and four of Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Janetta R. Benton and Robert DiYanni describe the different varieties of arts that evolved within Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Etruscan Civilization, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. Each…