Describes the influence of Japanese art upon Japanese culture. Examines how the art is depicted in their everyday life with the use of kanji, the Japanese form of writing.

Tempera painting is often the preferred medium of artists because the paint is nontoxic and the colors are clear, bright and pure, enabling the paper to use greater detail. Andrew Wyeth's "Scuba" is used as an example.

In "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum," Finbarr Barry Flood expresses many ideas concerning Islamic iconoclasm.

Provides an analysis of Hellenistic art in ancient Greece. Describes how the advancement in sculpture in the Hellenistic period is the shift from idealism to realism.

Discusses the role of art in society. Examines why it is needed. Debates public funding of the arts.

In the late 1880's in Missouri two men named Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood created a revolutionary instant pancake flour mix. They created the trademark of a black woman in an apron, and red bandanas after seeing a performance of a song entitled "Old Aunt Jemima." This popular song of the time inspired them to use this very image as their company logo. The way they did this was by taking the image of a stereotypical depiction of African American women as servants, and portrayed these servants as fat, unattractive, but happy. Aunt Jemima is a characteristic of most advertising (at this time called reconstruction advertising) with African American women, showing how their place was in the kitchen and to serve the public

Censorship in films and other mediums is uneeded. The author cites sources that maintain that richness of today's films would not be present with government monitoring its contents and that films don't cause people to harm each other.

Evaulates the exhibition, Change of Europe. Describes how the main point was to represent change in European History through colors and shapes.

Explores the history of Chinese ceramics and the classic Chinese ceramic traditions. Details the decline of the quality of porcelain. Describes the current status of pottery in China.

Compares art from the Middle Ages and the Renaisance. Analyzes how artwork reflects changes in society and culture.

Questions what is art. Maintains that art has to have a process, convey a meaning, use instrument(s) other than your hands to create the masterpiece and it has to make the audience think.

Provides an analysis of early Greek architecture, sculpture, and architectural sculpture. Describes how three beliefs really define Greece and its perspective, humanism, reason and order. Details how these three beliefs are reflected in Greek art.

A comparison of the art of the early Medieval era and early Christian art and an analysis of art's transition into the Middle Ages and its desent into the schematic.

Provides a personal reaction and analysis of Pre-Historic art. Explores the history of Paleolithic art, known to have started around 32,000 years ago. Provides examples of some of the earliest signs of sculpture.

Examines the world of clothing and fashion design. Describes the influence of art on fashion. Concludes that fasion is an interactive art form where the wearer is an essential element of the art.

Hand sewing is a very ancient form of art that was practiced by early people for more that 20,000 years ago. In the beginning sewing was very primitive. Needles of bones or animal horns and threads of animal sinew. In 1755 in London, a German immigrant, Charles Weisenthal, patented a needle designed for a mechanical sewing machine. Unfortunately there was no machine made for it until 1790, when Thomas Saint, the cabinet maker from England, created a complete sewing machine.

Provides a brief overview of artists, paintings, and sculptures of the Italian Renaissance period in art. Examines the significant influence the art has had on society and future art.

A formal interpretation of two paintings by 1940s abstract artist Jackson Pollock: Mural 1943/44, and Blue Poles. The interpretation compares the two paintings with regard to line work; shape; texture; color; movement, surface composition, and tonal structure; style, and technique.

Provides a comparison of art created in the Agean sea region to art created in Ancient Egypt. Describes how the civilizations and the art focus on completely different situations and substance. Considers which civilization produced the more advanced art.

Attempting to define the term art, this essay's author explores writer Oscar Wilde’s take on the subject. The works of painters Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili and writer Jack Kerouac are explored. The argument is made that art defines itself.

Analyzes the Exploritorium perception exhibits, Far out Corners and Reverse Masks. Describes the use of Parallax, the angular shift of an object against a background due to the change of the observer's position of motion.

Essay examines the real meaning of "Wabi-Sabi" by Leonard Koren.

Describes how the ideas of the thinker, writers, and scholars of the time played a major role in the art of the Renaissance. Explores how the new Renaissance ideas formed by the people are displayed in the art of the era.

An analysis of Gothis and Romanesque art and architecture.

Essay gives instructions to reading tarot as well as the brief history on the subject.

Examines the 2004 Sydney Biennale Exhibition, an international showcase of contemporary art. Discusses how the show challenges preexisting notions of postmodern art and the contemporary world.

A personal essay that attempts to define art and what an individual should look for when purchasing and critiquing art.

Art examples that illustrate how the use of lines are perceived in paintings or drawings. Lines can bring a viewer into the picture and feel good about looking at it or they can turn the viewer away. Lines can be chaotic or they can be neat and orderly.

Discusses the Leonardo da Vinci painting, The Last Supper. Provides biographical detail on the artist. Examines symbolism in the work. Describes why the painting is the greatest painting ever created during the Renaissance.

The desire to grasp insight into our spiritual beingness created an interest in metaphysics along with a new marketing twist for products and gifts. And while I would love to say that they are wrong, I cannot . So I will just degrade them as being ignorant and inherently stupid.

In the John Berger's short story "Ways of Seeing," a tale is told about a man and a woman's perception of color after they have never left their home for more than 50 years. The story is told to show how one's environment plays a role in how art is perceived.

Essay describes how the arts often serves as a universal form of communication.

An overview of four different types of art -- painting, music, theater, and dance -- as means through which we express ourselves, whether it be to record history or reveal spiritual truths, and whether the form is visual or performing art.

What is art?  Examines different mediums and definitions of art, quoting various artists.

Provides an analysis of a Window Display depicting a wedding reception. Describes the display and the feelings it elicits.