Before beginning on a paper of this nature, it is always necessary to make a few comments and statements of intention. First, since this is a paper on an entirely factual and noncontroversial subject, the information must ...

This paper is an exploration or the value of the formal elements of modem abstract painting. It is centered around the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian who were among the first and most influential artists ...

In the following study I have endeavored to come to an understanding of a man, the growth of a principle and a Kindergarten system, in hopes that it might reveal to myself and the readers of this paper a more complete ...

We follow La Farge in this paper through his childhood with its eighteenth-century overtones, into the Paris of the mid-century. We see the artist evolve from an interested observer to a diligent and devoted ...

The tendency of modern art toward dehumanization poses an apparent paradox for aesthetics. Concerned primarily with purifying art of all human content, modern art nonetheless seeks to embody deeply human meanings. The ...

The author presents a collection of 18 poems inspired by the spirit of Haiku, each evoking the landscape of a location from Appalachian Mountains and drawings that also demonstrate the same focus on place.

The Ayer Collection of the Newberry Library in Chicago has 217 original drawings by George Catlin bound in two volumes, entitled by Catlin, "Souvenir of North American lndians". Although not listed in the public catalogue, ...

The author describes his senior collection of figure drawings and paintings.

As an Art History major, I feel that this was an extremely valuable experience with applied art. As an artist, it was a sobering experience, showing me the necessity for seriousness and persistence if one is to avoid the ...