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This article goes through the differences between Art Deco and Art Noueau with the specific focus on lighting. The way the article picks one specific element to compare makes the difference between the two styles very obvious. One major difference is that the Art Noueau lamps needed to be turned on to be seen as art where the Art Deco lamps were pieces of art without even being in use. Several specific designers were descibed as well as their lighting pieces. The article was very interesting, because lighting is not something that is usually thought of as art but it can be if seen through an Art Deco lense.

Thompson, Krista. "The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop." Art Bulletin 91.4 (2009): 481-505. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.\n\nThis article dives into the effect of hip hop and it culture. It shows the influence of hip hop on music videos, clothing, art, and everything else. It focuses the influence of hip hop on black youth.

Potter, Polyxeni. "Sometimes the naked taste of potato reminds me of being poor.". (Cover story)." Emerging Infectious Diseases 15.6 (2009): 1001-1002. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. Potato Eaters is one of Van Gogh's more famous pieces. This article interprets what the painting means. It was also one of Van Gogh's first major pieces. This painting is of peasant family sitting around a dinner table eating potatoes. Van Gogh relates to the poor very weel, because believe it or not while he was alive he was not financially stable. He uses dark colors and their is one light of a lamp, which is supposed to, "explore the relationship between the cycles of nature and rural life."

Stuckey, Charles F. "Claude Monet: Impressionism's leading light." USA Today Magazine 124.2606 (1995): 36. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This article talks about the history of the Impressionism Movement and more specifically, Claude Monet. It goes on to describe the movements unique techniques and how it went from childish stokes to opening to realms of abstract painting. From there, it tells the readers of the many great acheivements Monet contribited to Impressionism and to art in general.

Wilkin, Karen. "A fresh look at Van Gogh." New Criterion 24.4 (2005): 28-32. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article scopes painter Van Gogh's drawings. His drawings are found to have many different styles. Van Gogh uses the reed pen in a lot of his drawings to create these styles. The reed pen allows him to to draw staccato lines, dots, hooks, crochets and bars to represent perceptions of light and color. The landscape in his drawings that he drew towards the end of his life showed a lot of ferocity which the article examines.

Tucker, Paul Hayes. Claude Monet: Life and Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Print. This bibliography goes through the life of Claude Monet and the kinds of paintings he painted as he grew older, how he went from the start of impressionism to series paintings and his Giverny Gardens. The author goes on to say that Monet's achievement is "as being almost exclusively concerned with air, light, and particular moments in time rendered spontaneously in heightened color and broken brushwork."