Yale Center for British Art Essays

  • Vase 31849: Herakles Fighting The Nemean Lion

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    Herakles’ first labor: that of the killing of the Nemean Lion. It is a black-figure amphora B from 550-500 BC. An Athenian vase, it is currently held on the market in London at the Sotheby’s Art Auction. It has been published in the Sotheby sale catalogue under the code, “10.7.1990, NO.278,” while at the Hesperia Art Auction in New York it was under the code, “27.11.1990, 2, NO.28”, and some photographs are also in the Beazley Archive. The choice of an amphora for this depiction is quite clever as often

  • Brutalism in Art

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    visible way of art, and every building has a certain type of style that resembles and tells the story of the time and place they were built in. Several movements took place during the 19th/20th Century. Some of the movements were: Art Nouveau: It is characterized by having an abundance of odd shapes such arcs, curves, and designs. This style was prominent particularly in Paris, where the artist Siegfried Bing displayed this kind of style in the “Maison de l’Art Nouveau”. The Art Nouveau artists

  • Art Analysis: Diana

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    She neither dominates nor hides in the Yale Center for British Art. Her size appears realistic, and she floats slightly above eye level. Diana extends from the main wall on a partition, and she stands directly in the viewer’s line of sight; it is impossible to pass from one side of the gallery to another

  • Disney's Argumentative Essay

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    formed the California Institute of the Arts through the merger of two existing art and music schools: LA Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. Walt believed in the school and how it could shape artists, saying: “CalArts is the principal thing I hope to leave when I move on to greener pastures. If I can help provide a place to develop the talent of the future, I think I will have accomplished something.” CalArts quickly became the most prestigious art school in the United States, and was

  • Aaron Beck: The Father Of Cognitive Therapy

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    Aaron Beck According to Beck Institute, (Beck Institute) Aaron T. Beck M.D. is universally acknowledged as the father of cognitive therapy. He is also recognized as one of the world’s leading researches in psychopathology. The American Psychologist has quoted him as “One of the five most influential psychotherapists of all time.” He has been given credit for modeling the fact of American psychiatry. History of Scholar Aaron Beck’s hometown was Providence, Rhode Island. He was born on July 18th,

  • Walt Disney Biography Essay

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    December 1966 -BIOGRAPHY During a 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana. David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo DaVinci." A pioneer and innovator, and the possessor of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known, Walt Disney

  • Paul Rand: Father Of Modern Graphic Design

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    of advertising, book, magazine, and package design. By the late 1940s, he had developed a design language based purely on form where once only style and technique prevailed (Heller). Rand did not set out to be a radical. Trained in the commercial art bullpens of New York City, he thoroughly understood the needs of the marketplace, while at the same time frowning on esthetic standards that impeded functionality. He modeled himself on Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier, each of whom advocated

  • Racism, Racial Profiling and Segregation in America

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    I walked into the State University Student Center one morning, a disturbing sight immediately struck me. The sight that lay before my eyes was not only very disturbing but also very common at State University. Although the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown vs. The Topeka Board of Education declared segregation illegal, our student center today probably looks the way diners looked sixty years ago. Blacks are sitting in a secluded section of the Student Center; while whites are sitting in their own self-designated

  • Romanticism

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    Newton P. Comparative Literature. London: Feffer & Simons, Inc, 1971 Thompson, E.P. The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age. New York: The New Press, 1997. Walling, William, Kroeber, Karl. Images of Romanticism: Verbal and Visual. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

  • The New White Man's Burden

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    Throughout the course of history, nations have invested time and manpower into the colonizing and modernizing of more rural governments. Imperialism has spread across the globe, from the British East India Company to France’s occupation of Northern Africa. After their founding in 1776, the United States of America largely stayed out of this trend until The Spanish-American War of 1898. Following the war, the annexation and colonization of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines ultimately set a precedent

  • The Changing Function of Victorian Public Parks, 1840-1860

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    structure of Victorian England during this time and J.M. Milton's quote reflects this reality. In the mid-19th century, public parks in England began to emerge in response to a rise in pollution and lack of open space within newly industrialized urban centers in places such as London, Derby, Birmingham, and Manchester.(2) The first public parks were funded by private benefactors who were often times the owners of the factories that created these tainted environments. Influencing this environment-friendly

  • Noah Webster and the American Dictionary

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    total of 26 languages—including Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit—in order to research the foundation of his own country's native tongue. Published in 1828, this book embodied a new pattern of lexicography. Its 70,000 entries surpassed Samuel Johnson's 1755 British masterpiece not only in scope but also in authority (King 73). Noah Webster’s Calvinist family was typical of the colonial times; born in “modest circumstances, Noah longed for elite social status” (Bush 1508). His father farmed and worked as a

  • Romanticism's Sublime Style in Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Billy Budd

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    it could be a toss up between his nagging wife or the "company of odd-looking personages" he meets in the mountains. Essentially it is Longinus, a first century philosopher, who is first credited with introducing the idea of the sublime into the arts (Weiskel 8). Longinus suggests five sources of sublimity in literature: "(1) the ability to conceive great thoughts, (2) intense emotion, (3) powerful figures of speech, (4) the choice of noble words, and (5) harmonious composition of sentences" (Kennedy