... based on various perspectives. However, there are many factors that contribute to its meaning. Expression, entertainment, and education are three facets that give art its meaning. Art is a means for the artist to express him or herself. Through it the artist can unashamedly and completely express their feelings. Artists can use ... felt like doing it opened up a new realm for her. She found much more happiness in her work because it was expressing her. Art is an extension of oneself. It is more than just what the audience is looking at, but it is also what the painter is drawing ... It ...

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... the freedom that comes with capitalism. This freedom that comes with capitalism also comes with art. Benjamin alludes to the idea that mechanical reproduction had eliminated the Marxist type restrictions upon art. With the modern technology that is available today, art has evolved into a free flowing array of forms. In the beginning of the essay, Benjamin includes an excerpt from Paul Valery that states ... that art cannot be unaffected by our modern knowledge. We have evolved into a time when art encompasses many forms such as photography and film. The film ... , for example, is a mode...

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... to take over the world, they manage to retrieve the device and give it to the president. Many western conventions were evident throughout the film. Examples of art exist within the film. One such example is dance. In order to impress the president's daughter, who only dances ballet, Juni does a ballet-like dance. ... much he cares, going to the extent of learning the only way she"ll dance so that he will have the chance to dance with her. Another art form within the film was music. At the end of the film after Carmen and Juni finished their mission, Juni plays a song with a screeching g...

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... both beautiful and sad as well as speak volume without words. If there is one thing that links us all as individuals it is the art of music. It is easily one of the most pure forms of expression that we have. It isn't bios to color, religion, race or sex. That lesson alone is one we can all learn and take ... ...

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... , our feelings, our thoughts and points of view. Movies reveal our problems. In a word, they are the creation of people's vision of life. I must say that cinematography is a great art. It is a representative of the culture of different countries on the international level. We can get acquainted with all the traditions of this or that country, its people's ways of ... Moscow offices. With competition reduced, new companies were formed, including the third of the three important Russian producers, Yermoliev. During this era, Russian filmmakers innovated a unique approach to the new art. On...

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... with its audiences and brings to life conflict and tension in a way that other things can't. I think that the final purpose of drama is that it is an art form. As with other art forms it is created to be seen and heard. It is to be observed and analysed by others in their own ways and means different things to every person ... things to different people in different situations, but there are basically four purposes. To persuade people to think a certain way, to entertain, to tell a story and to exist as an art form. ...

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... of the process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and in the end creating a finished film or in this case a documentary. It is an art of storytelling. An editor is a person who practices editing by assembling the footage. However, the job of an editor isn't simply to put pieces of a film together and cut off ... or presenters performances to effectively "re-imagine" the film or give the message to make everything work. Editors play a very important role in the making of a film and its different forms and when it is well-practiced, the viewer ...

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... advent of the computer, therefore, the advent of computer animation, all animation had to be produced by hand. Every single frame had to be drawn by hand. This form of art did not come about instantly. Many people helped in making animation what it has become today. Throughout the 1800's and the 1900's, many tools and techniques were invented to aid ... the ability to show loops, which were film strips where the beginning and ending were glued together. Cel animation was soon after created. Cel animation is one of the simplest forms of film techniques. Along with analogue computer graph...

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... happening all around the world. Besides advertisements on TV give us information about different products and it makes easier to choose things to buy. Moreover, it is one of relxing forms. TV shows entertain people when they are tired or lazy to go out. Most of the youth like TV channels like MTV or VIVA because of great variety of music ... clips and others entertaining shows. And finally, it is a kind of learning. There are a lot of documentary films, which show us the life of wild animals, old civilizations and art creation. But TV has a lot of disadvantages too. The first one is tha...

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... . All three of Luhrmann's films, "Strictly Ballroom" (1992), "Romeo and Juliet" (1996) and "Moulin Rouge" (2001), have been influenced by his passion for the theatre and his love for different art forms. Luhrmann as an Auteur has had his work accredited by receiving a large number of Australian awards, some Baftas and for "Moulin Rouge" he also achieved some Oscars. In his films ... ...

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... an American movie will be entertained, guaranteed. American films are made to entertain the viewer with more low-culture derived forms of entertainment: comedy, action, violence, sex, etc. Films made elsewhere, Italy's "Il Postino," for example, contain high-culture derived entertainment vehicles: art, irony, love, mystery, drama, etc. A European film does not appeal to the wide range of viewers that an American ... ...

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