Gothic art

expressionist masterpiece, which became highly successful and is generally regarded as one of the first horror films. The film set design is one giant graphic art piece. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is unanimously agreed to be both a prime example of German Expressionist cinema. The film is also something of an enigma, combining as it does, a mixture of gothic, psychologically motivated narrative, and Expressionist set design. The film’s influence on the horror

4. Discuss how visual artists and/or filmmakers interpret psychoanalytic theories such as the monstrous-feminine or the uncanny within their practices. Discuss these contexts in relation to three artists, and to your art making process. Please choose at least 3 artworks. The idea of the uncanny was first discussed during 1906 by Ernst Jentsch in his essay of “On the Psychology of the Uncanny”, and was further explored by Sigmund Freud’s essay, ”The Uncanny”, in 1919. In Freud’s essay, this psychological

Phip Murray’s art history writing, through which her lecture manifests, highlights a key concern for the advocacy of an early settler, Marcus Clarke’s, writing. In speaking through his work, she begins to deconstruct her approach in analysing art history, or more specifically art history writing. Unassuming, Murray eases the audience into the content of the lecture. She begins with general interests sited across her writing. Enthused by the specificity of a place, culture and society at a point

How did visual art change the culture and the influence of modern art today, from the Jacobean and Elizabethan eras? Well, to put into perspective, the Jacobean era was best known for the literary and visual arts, which was ruled by James I of England. Comparing it to Elizabethan art, it was heavily influenced by the European Renaissance ideals. But most importantly, the art that was composed around this time, was immensely based around Queen Elizabeth’s liking. “The distinctions between the early

Visual art and construction can be integrated within one another through different mediums. Frank Lloyd Wright shows this in the building, Fallingwater, while Wim Delvoye presents it in his piece, Caterpillar 5bis. These two men have very unique and different styles but in the end they both relate to art and construction. Whether it be art in construction or construction in art there is no doubt that the two have crossed paths. Frank Lloyd Wright is an architect who lets art influence his construction

history of art, historians can find connections throughout the centuries. Artists from the beginning of humankind have been inspired by the world around them. From the Apollo 11 stones to present day, history and culture have provided inspiration and have been the focus of various pieces. Examining artwork from the 15th-18th century, viewers can be shown a whole world that would be unknown to us without these artist’s contributions. History, religion, and cultural events have sculpted the art world,

period was emerging and becoming an accepted form of art in Germany after the First World War. The film exploded on the art world not only in Germany but made its way to France. France lifted the ban on German cinemas due to its popularity. It eventually spread to the United States. This film is seen as one the great horror stories of all times. Expressionism is part of the larger art movement known as modernism. German Expressionism incorporated art, literature, drama, and film. Stage producers accepted

ancient history era or anything else that we had studied at class, I did happen to stumble upon a stunning pair of stained glass window murals! Though these Victorian Era painted windows didn’t come from the Medieval or Gothic Eras, I believe that the origin of this style of window art is justifiable to talk about given the resemblance to the painted glass of the previously

A Hunger Artist, by Franz Kafka, and the graphic novel representation of A Hunger Artist, by R. Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz are hugely different takes on the same story. In Kafka’s original, the reader is “observing” The hunger artist’s art, which is fasting. In comparison, Crumb and Mairowitz version offers a version of the story in a way that the reader may not have been able to decipher in the original. Franz Kafka’s original is told with an omniscient third person narrator. The all-knowing

Politics, and Glory was a chapter focused on art and how leaders, of different cultures, used them to portray themselves, or their governments, in a new or better light. Some key topics that covered the ideas of Power, Politics, and Glory were; The glory of the ruler, The power of state, War, and Peace. The glory of the ruler is what I thought of when reading the title of this chapter and is why I chose it. The glory of the ruler was really a focus on the art that rulers created for the single purpose