Essays on Art Movements

In my essay I want to examine work of two great artists who lived and fought during the First World War – Eric Kennington and Christopher Nevinson. Many artists attempted to capture war through their art in different ways and styles, its brutality and soldiers’...

“New York has never been a utopian place. It’s grittier, more crowded, less pleasant. People who come here don’t come to be comfortable. They come to be excited.” -Robert Christgau. It was the early 1960s when New York’s underground art scene sprouted from the ground....

Four centuries ago, Dutch and Flemish painters began producing hyper-realist Still lifes depicting symbolical objects such as skulls, books, burning candles, musical instruments and decaying flowers – seemingly freezing them beyond time. This subgenre of Still life is referred to as Vanitas and began as...

Edward Said was a Palestinian literary activist and theorist following the French philosopher Michel Foucault and post-modernists. He was a key theorist of the post-colonial movement, aiming to put race and ethnicity into social theory. Foucault was a great influence on the development of Said’s...

For hundreds of years, nations have exerted control of other nations for economic and geographical power and the Middle East is one of the most well-known. European nations, specifically Great Britain, colonized the Middle East for their gain and with the area colonized, along with...

Orientalism was an essential part of the imperialist mechanism of control and expansion. Although colonialism is over, the systems of thinking; talking and representing which formed the basis of colonial power relations still persist. A key mechanism in this regard is social media in present...

Since the very beginning of Islam being propagated by the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, there has been strong opposition from those that disbelieved in, or felt threatened by its message of sincerely worshipping one creator and submitting to his way and instructed by his...