Essays on Art Movements

The word Patron is derived from the Latin word patronus which means protector of dependents, this essentially is derived from pater, ie; father. The term patronage is thus a gendered terminology and female patrons have been limited to the confines of the patriarchal realm while...

In Italian the Renaissance is pronounced “Il Rinascimento” and Italy was a primary place when it came to the Rinascimento, but what made Italy the destination of the Renaissance? Other countries such as France, Germany, and England went through similar culture changes, but Italy was...

Italy was unlike any other place in Europe. It was divided into independent city-states, each with a different form of government. Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, was an independent republic. The city became the cultural center of Europe and of the Renaissance. Renaissance Italy...

The italian renaissance was a massive growth for both society and other parts of life, such as stock rises, new discoveries and overall improvements on life. The term “renaissance” is actually the French term for the word “rebirth” this could be a reference as to...

Society has only recently accepted the subjectivity of art. We have been bending the rules of artistic expression and value, aesthetic norms and traditions, questioning what can and cannot be art. However, this liberation of artistic expression did not occur naturally. It, as radical changes...

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Fauvism — an extension of Post-Impressionism combined with Neo-Impressionism — are French artistic revolutions that had profound influences on the artistic community and share a universal popularity. Throughout history, artists strove to capture the world around them in attempt to document the...

Art before the Second World War was predominantly centered around Paris and other European centers. The turn of the twentieth-century brought along with it an expansive range of movements attempting to move further from the old classicism and naturalism. The idea was that the turn...

In post World War II abstract expressionism was the art movement that took over American art culture in the 1940s, after being developed in New York by the New York School of art; a club made up of select artists. Abstract expressionism borrowed elements from...

The world is constantly changing and there is nothing one can do about it. Literature changes along with the rest of the world. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point in the world...

T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ creates a sense of disillusion as one of the central ideas of modernism through the inclusion of it as one of the key themes in this work. Unlike the romantic period that preceded it, the...