Essays on Art Movement

Postmodernism is the literary movement following World War 2, which left writers with a sense of paranoia due to various disasters which occurred in the last half of the 20th century. Unlike modernism, which depicted a world on the edge of disaster, postmodernists portrayed the world to be a chaotic place beyond redemption. Fahrenheit 451...

Ever since it began, architecture was the process of planning, designing and building as it led on towards many architectural styles to be enhanced through time. After a dramatic progression of architectural design, the Art Nouveau movement was introduced. The style thrived between 1890 and 1910 throughout predominantly Europe and the United States where it...

Everyone’s heard of Andy Warhol, famous for pioneering the 1960’s movement of pop art and his commercialisation of everyday objects and celebrities. Following WW2, Warhol captured the mass production and consumer culture boom through his art. Most notably, his Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) piece which summarises these ideas. Warhol painted thirty-two canvases of Campbell’s soup...

Modern day art can be described as a spiritual by virtue of its revelatory, revitalising and contemplative capacities. However rather than reminiscing on the relationship between modern day art and religion, one should ponder on, the nature of the dialogue between art and spirituality, how do the two come together and what form and medium...

Orientalist artworks flourished in the 19th century when Europeans started to discover eastern countries, from the middle east to northern Africa. The East was believed to be a place where luxurious and forbidden pleasures could be indulged in – a completely different world to the west. Artists portrayed these images of the East through intense...

‘Architecture that is popular with people is usually termed as pop architecture’ (‘Encyclopedia. Com, 2019’). Pop art as a movement started in the 1950’s post World War II and took nearly twenty years to become a part of mainstream architecture . This essay intends to talk about buildings that fall under the category of pop...

Forty-two years after its first publication, the groundbreaking text by Said (1978), Orientalism provides a counterpoint for the imperial discourse about the non-Western Other, the Orient against the Occident. It is a rounded critique of the West’s representation of the East as an inferior, exotic, uncivilized, and a primitive “Other” which was illustrated both theoretically...

It is well known that the imprint of feminism has had a lasting impact on our culture and continues to be one of the most influential topics around the globe. There have been countless methods that have been used to bring attention to issues in such an advancing world. However, I believe one of the...

Some of us might enjoy admiring art, some of us have no clue as to what it means and if you are a curious soul, you might want to know what it means. Art is, when boiled down to a basic meaning, a means of communication and each artist has a language of his own...

The definition of the term Orientalism has been devised by Palestinian and intellectual critic, Edward Said in 1978. Said composed a deep criticism on Western Oriental studies and how the concept of ‘Orientalism’ and the image of the ‘Oriental Other’ was scheme of imaginative fictions; created by the European-West to justify colonial dominance and imperial...