Category: Artists

Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist’s culture. As man evolved over centuries, his views of the body also transformed. Our tour definitely showed the drastic changes in different cultures’ art. Each culture and era presents very distinct characteristics. Through time and experimentation, we have expressed our …

In 1992, singer, musician, and composer Erik Clapton released “Unplugged”, a cd recorded during his tv special on MTV. This program was part of a series of programs performed by different artists, playing almost no electrical instruments. His cd won the Grammy Awards for best album of the year, best pop male vocal, best rock …

Durring the nine-teen twentys and thirties the music scene was as popular as ever. There was the Jazz Era durring the twenties and the Swing Era durring the thirties. Merging into the early twenties a type of improvised music , called Dixieland Jazz was being recorded. Famous artists includeing Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory were …

Holy Smokes, Kids! It’s Marxism in the Media!!“To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions. I put in my pictures everything I like. So much worse for the things—they have to get along with one another.”The above quote raises some interesting questions one must consider about the …

During the era known as the Renaissance Europe emerged from its economic troubles of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also the Renaissance was an age in which artistic, social, scientific and political thought turned in new directions however. The most important changes during the Renaissance were the changes that took …

painting of TurnerSimilarities between the music of Debussy and the painting of TurnerThe music of Claude Debussy and the painting of J. M.W. Turner are, in most people’s minds, two entirely different things. However, each man was considered the founder of impressionism in his own artform. Impressionism was a movement in late 19th century European …

Are MP3s a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waitingto explode on us? Many people say they are good, while others say they are notjust bad, but horrifying to musicians that want to make it to the top. MP3sare widely used by teenagers on their computers usually illegally, and theirdistributors are constantly …

An Era Of PunkSex, drugs, and rock and roll was the rallying cry for a movement that changed American culture forever. Rock androll first startled the American scene in the mid-1950s, but no one then could have predicted the remarkable vitality and stayingpower of this new music. The early tradition of rock has gone through …

The Napster software (http://www.napster.com), established in May of 1999, allows Internet users to share and download MP3 files directly from any computer connected to the Napster network. The software downloads a client program from the Napster site and then connects to the network through the software. This allows sharing (uploading and downloading) of MP3 files …