Art essay samples

Blake’s artwork permeated various themes and motifs. Fair to say, that an important element of his work was a deep, raging inner world that brought charges and was claimed by critics as “madness”. However, ignoring the accepted rules, loss of a common framework – is not yet the madness. Admittedly, Blake’s creative freedom is based…

The animated film Grave of the Fireflies by Japanese director Isao Takahata is based on Akiyuki Nosaka’s autobiographical novel and is an attempt to reconsider and revise Japan’s traumatic experience of World War Two. Written in 1967 and shot in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies shows the war through the eyes and experience of two…

The art of painting is mysterious. For long centuries people used to pay attention to this colorful craft that depicts simple things from different angles. Many talented painters, either known or unknown, have been creating a great stuff of wonderful pictures that have become world’s great achievements. The science of history of art has developed…