Preview

Essay on Twitter

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
409 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Essay on Twitter
Carmen Ji
Instructor Vogel
Art100
3/25/2013
Critique of Exhibition “Intimacy” At the beginning I didn’t really understand why Zoe Bray used “Intimacy” as the title of the exhibition, until I appreciated those works again and again, I finally knew what it means: the artist wanted the audience to get to know what’s in her eyes, being her, sharing her inner-most feelings and make a unity of understanding both the artist and the works. The work that resonated with me the most was the oil painting Muse (2003). This is a painting of Zoe Bray’s husband’s (then boyfriend) naked body. The scene is taken in morning in a bedroom. The whole picture is dim, only with a small beam of light casting on the man’s body through the curtain, reminds people of privacy and intimacy. Generally, the tone of the painting is brown and grey indicating an intimate and peaceful atmosphere. The man is lying in the twisted sheets. His legs are relaxed, placing on the bed. He has one of his arms bent under his head, seems to be in deep sleep. It is a small painting (9”*12”), so the content is limited, but the emotion that the artist is trying to conduct is very gripping, the only thing in your eyes in the man’s beautiful body, you concentrate on that, the longer you stare at the body, the more impressive it seems to be. Comparing to other works, the paint layer of this work is especially exquisite, which tells people that the artist’s great devotion of passion in this work. One work that I don’t like is Unia Lauzirika (2010). Even if Zoe Bray is a naturalist still I think she should paint one at least be faithful to the reality. The man in this painting is wearing a white shirt. However, the edge of the shirt isn’t there so it makes the man as if he is wearing a polo-shirt! Besides, the portraying of the body part is much too neglected, the white color gives me a feeling that the man is actually clothed in white clay. I’ve seen the photo version of the man, and honestly speaking,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    Barton's pictures are so stylised that anyone who sits for a portrait be prepared to be transformed into an iridescent, bug-eyed line drawing embraced by exotic animals, cast adrift on a sea of dots. In other words, don't expect psychological realism. Throughout Barton’s artworks, her ever-present theme is motherhood, which appears in the most surprising incarnations. She treats the business of sex, procreation and nurturing as if it were straight out of a dramatic television show. The everyday occurrences of a woman's life are transmuted into a heroic quest, with mothers and daughters turned into characters from science fiction, like her painting “You are what is most beautiful about me, a self-portrait with Kell and Arella”.…

    • 1733 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The painting tells the story of Beauty and the Beast in one image. It reminds me that love comes in all shapes and sizes and that you shouldn’t judge a person by their appearances. Not everyone is who you think they are at first glance. I love…

    • 408 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Pablo picasso - int 2 art

    • 977 Words
    • 3 Pages

    When doing portraiture artists tend to exaggerate colour and tones to get across the feelings in a picture or to exaggerate the importance of something or someone in a picture. I have chosen to compare and contrast the work of two portraits, first of all I will talk about ‘weeping woman’ by Pablo Picasso and I will secondly talk about ‘Woman with a veil’ but Raphael Sanzio.…

    • 977 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Nordau gives the example of a painting by the artist Valdez. The subject is barbaric and vulgar, and yet, with a fresh perspective, Nordau argues that it is a truly beautiful art piece. Sensual beauty is not what art is always about. If you have an open mind, you can experience the intellectual beauty in almost every art piece. Nordau explains that you can feel the raw emotion of the painting, and maybe that is exquisite enough, all on its…

    • 506 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the 1980’s, female artist addressed the dominance of cultural perceptions regarding female agency, pleasure, and spectatorship. In order to make their voice heard in a white male dominant art industry, they created works of art from paintings to films that challenged the social stereotypes and ideologies about female identity. This essay will define these three perceptions and examine the artworks from artist such as Julie Dash, Kobena Mercer , and Jenny Saville. These artists paved a way for the feminist movement through the use of disturbing the normative constructions of femininity, racial identity, and the body.…

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kehinde Wiley Analysis

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages

    More often than not, it shows a solitary figure, an attractive man in his 20s, enacting a scene from an old-master painting. Dressed in contemporary garb — a hooded sweatshirt, perhaps, or a Denver Broncos jersey — the man might be crossing the Swiss Alps on horseback with the brio of Napoleon or glancing upward, prophet-style, golden light encircling his head.In layman’s terms, his art is a skilled remix. He rearranges racial power dynamics, conceptions of beauty, gender, and “the gaze.” It makes us think about pop iconography and the history of portraiture” Deborah, S (2015, January 28) Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects The New York…

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The bright and vivid background color and the woman’s gesture drew me to this particular piece of art. The brighter color gives people a sense of happiness and that’s why I like it. His painting style is different from the original impressionism, so I want to know the…

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.” I agree with Matisse. I believe created this painting to show how beautiful natural things are, that is why the women are naked. Anatomy, is beautiful. In today’s world, the body is viewed as sexual, but it is more than that. Seeing naked paintings might make one feel uncomfortable, but why? Why is our anatomy something we hide and sexualize? I do not mean that we should not wear clothes but I strongly believe that before we feel uncomfortable seeing a naked painting we should recognize that it is more than just a naked woman or man. We should celebrate instead of shun, just like the women in the painting all expressing forms of joy and happiness. When looking at this painting, the eye naturally flows from one section to the next by using directional forces painted by Matisse. He also creates scale and proportion by using different shades of color and sizes of the women and scenery to show the size relation of one thing to another and the painting as a whole. Matisse had a very successful and influential life, some high points are his pieces Dance I & Music 1909 and Piano Lesson in…

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Art Criticism Paper

    • 529 Words
    • 3 Pages

    There is not much negative space in the piece, but the man has black rectangles all over his body. This is significant because it depicts the sharpness and boldness of a man in contrast to the woman who wears circular patterns all over her body. This is where the biggest contrast is. The emphasis is on the couple because of the bold bronze color that the couple is painted in. The contrast to the background helps it pop. The elements communicate a very content mood. The couple seems very passionate and sexual towards one another. The artwork is balanced very well. Every inch of the painting is painted in, and the top and bottom are filled in. There is a sense of depth because of all the contrasting colors. The picture looks very three-dimensional. The artwork has a rhythm that feels as if the viewer could feel the couple’s passionate…

    • 529 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Social Networking sites requires that users ability to easily learn how to use the site. It also helps to communicate with some friends and relatives that lives a 100 miles away. A social network is made up of individuals that are connected to one another by a particular type of interdependency. Pete Cashmore once said, “Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun.” (“Privacy is dead..”). Meanwhile on social networking, many people used it for advertising and entertainment but some people have suffered from cyber bullying.…

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    art of the 90s

    • 253 Words
    • 1 Page

    In my opinion the painting is beautiful because as it shows harmony in element and its contrast and its balance are used well. To represent the people the ambition of their life as what they want to achieve. To help us realize what’s important in our life. According to artist point of view, the painting represents peace and harmony. It inspires people with techniques. That people with his techniques. That help them in achieving there good in life.…

    • 253 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Social Network Essay

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Clearly the most valuable strategy Zuckerberg uses is differentiation. Being a college student himself at the time of Facebook start up, he uses his personnel knowledge to understand what college students want. Being at Harvard the pressure is on to perform well, leaving little time in a student’s life to socialize. Meeting people with less time involved is a service that Facebook provided. The exclusivity to college students gave the site a differentiation that appealed to college students. The scene where his friend is asking if he could find out if a girl in one of his classes is in a relationship is an example of this differentiation. This conversation then spawns the idea to add relationship status as a feature to Facebook thus making it even more appealing to college students.…

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Social Media Essay

    • 422 Words
    • 2 Pages

    1) Research a particular company’s use of social media including at least three (3) different social media sites.…

    • 422 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Social networking sites peaked the year 2007. These sites encouraged online social connections. Early sites such as SixDegrees.com and Friendster allowed people to manage a list of friends. One drawback to these sites was that they did not offer users the ability to publish content like blogs.…

    • 1618 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    For millions of people all over the world, Facebook has become an integral part of life. Facebook has become a widely accepted means of communication. It is a never-ending virtual social gathering filled with adopted puppies, baby announcements, political views, viral articles and videos, events, groups, organizations and fan pages. I recently read an article entitled, "Why do people use Facebook?" that suggests this social networking site meets two primary human needs: (1) the need to belong, and (2) the need for self-presentation. The article also acknowledges demographic and cultural factors as they relate to the belonging need, and the variation of personality types on Facebook usage. My fascination with Facebook is mainly as a way of staying in communication with friends and family, most of whom are thousands of miles away. As a stay-at-home military spouse currently stationed in a rather remote base in Alaska, being able to maintain a constant relationship with those so far away is a crucial part of my everyday life here in the tundra.…

    • 735 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays