Essays on Aesthetics

Dante Rossetti combines two great works to highlight his pre-Raphaelite artistic views, through his poem “The Blessed Damozel”. The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood was a group of painters, poets, and art critics, who seeks to reform the artwork that was being made at Raphael’s time. Rossetti incorporates...

In order to unify the people of a nation or race, a regime must find an enemy for their people to unite against. For the Nazi regime, the national and racial enemies of the German people were everywhere. From Bolsheviks to Jews, the Nazis had...

In this paper, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange will be analysed through several Baroque elements that are present and developed further in neobaroque aesthetics. Antirealism, point of view, spectacle, and violence are among the most common ones, and represent the core of the neobaroque peculiarity...

I want you to visualize a glass with half of water inside, is it half-empty or half-full? Some people might say half-full and some people might say half-empty. But, what do these things mean? Why do some people see it as half-full but some see...

From the time of very early human civilization, aesthetic judgments have been subjective, meaning the value of different pieces and forms are may vary from individual to individual. If asked who has a better painting between two famed artists, there is no truly correct answer...