At some point in our lives we have all encountered art. When thinking about the topic of art, creations such as paintings, drawings, and sculptures run through our minds. In today’s society, art is extremely prevalent. There are now more mediums than ever, which people can utilize to produce breath-taking artworks. Though everyone is familiar with art, people have difficulty coming up with a set definition for the term. Art is not the same as it was in the past, and is different throughout various parts of the globe. Some people are interested to get a deeper understanding of the concept and learn why it doesn’t have a specific definition.…
“Home”, a pastiche vignette written by Kenny Quach, resembles Cisneros's vignettes because of the similar literary styles, including symbolism and imagery, that are applied. A major symbol in the pastiche is represented in two posters in the narrator’s room. The posters the narrator directly sees are “two nice cars. A purple Bugatti and yellow Lamborghini” (Quach). The author utilizes the nice cars to symbolize the narrator’s potential wealthy future. Furthermore, the symbols portray the narrator to be a positive determined character who is a believer, never gives up, works hard, and will one day reach the potential fate. The narrator’s potential fate helps the readers to discover the universal theme of the future is just a reward for…
What would you do if you were the third child having to hide your whole entire life? Well in the book “Among the Hidden” by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is very suspenseful. In their town that they live in they are only allowed to have two children, but one family decides to have three. Luke, as the third child is not allowed to step outside, he has to stay hidden, because they are too scared the population police will come and get him. Therefore this book is a mystery, because it leaves you with a cliffhangers. The book is told in first person point of view, the genre of “Among the Hidden” is a mystery. “Among the Hidden” is rather short at 153 pages.…
Thesis: I am analyzing two paintings, “Rachel Weeping” by Charles Willson Peale, and “Virgin and Child” by Hugo Van Der Goes. I will be concentrating on the differences between the two paintings which were created in two very different time periods, in two very different worlds, during two very different points in their creators respective lives; making these paintings that seem similar as first glance, almost polar opposites.…
2. How does the work attempt to express the personal views of the Artist? The artwork automatically portrays that the artist likes to play around with her artworks, and doesn’t make them in an ordinary manner. It shows us the abstract and unusual side to art.…
Student paper (p. 3): The Awakening is about the story of a young wife who is awakened to her sexual needs that cannot be fulfilled within the confines of her conventional marriage (Clark, 2008). Nevertheless, Edna Pontellier is awakened to a yearning for freedom, a relation to and understanding of herself that she has not been aware of missing in the past. In the text, Edna identifies with the masculine interest of her father who the narrator remarks had managed or coerced his wife into her early grave. However, when Edna is awakened to the hidden potentialities she possesses, it is the yearning for freedom and the desire to overcome the limitations imposed on her from outside that determine her actions.…
Eighteen year old Madeline Whittier is no ordinary girl, she suffers from SCID, a Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. She is fundamentally allergic to everything and has to live in a decontaminated house. She haven't left her house in seventeen years. So you would imagine she doesn't get many visitors except her mom and her nurse, Carla.…
In this painting “The Deadline” (Artist Facing Blank Canvas) painted in 1938 by Norman Rockwell, the artist illustrates a moment when the painter is confused on what to do next. The controversy in the painting shows how the painter have gathered all of the necessary tools but needs to come up with a game plan to get the ball rolling. Most of the time when an artist is viewed they have already come up with a creative idea for a painting but this particular artist is having some struggles on an idea to get on track. Rockwell tells the story about why procrastination can be a bad choice. He understands the conflict between the importances of the artists meeting the deadline but maybe the situation could have been more beneficial if she had done…
Julie Dowling is one of Australia’s best known contemporary artists. Born in 1969 as a white-skinned Aboriginal in the Perth suburb of Subiaco and growing up in the outer bushland suburb of Redcliffe, Dowling faced many rejections and abuse throughout her childhood which is conveyed in her artwork. As an artist, Dowling concerns herself with the ideology of Aboriginal identity and their ancestors’ perspective of Australian history. Consciously merging the art styles of European and indigenous conventions into her work, Dowling establishes the links between her background and that of her relatives. Dowling draws upon many experiences, but mostly from what she describes as “...a culturally disposed family..” Julie Dowling, being apart of the Badimia language Aboriginal group, having a single mother, and living of welfare payments, is a product of generations of displaced and rejected women and thus through her artwork highlights the issues which were faced by thousands of aboriginal women through the “White-Australia” period. As an artist, Dowling incorporates different concepts to convey her ideas, including Renaissance art and Western Art. Her work is strictly intimate and therefore the meanings conveyed are often easy to make sense of. Dowling’s work has been described as ethnography, recording the injustices and discrimination against Aboriginal people. As part of her art education, Dowling was awarded a Diploma of Fine Art at Claremont School of Art in 1989, a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 1992, an Associate Diploma in Visual Arts Management at Perth Metropolitan TAFE in 1995 and Honorary Doctorate in Literature (Painting) from Murdoch University 2002. Throughout her career, Dowling has exhibited her works at national and international levels, which include art galleries such as notably at Art Fair Cologne in 1997, Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art.…
Every artist knows that his or her body of work will be broken down in various details and judge for what is presented. It is up to critics to analyze these things to determine whether it’s a classic, a masterpiece, or just a worthless piece art. With a child’s mind, it could be the best thing that was ever created and the child does not even care what it is. Children think with simplicity and fun, whereas with adults, we analyze everything.…
The short stories “The Birth-mark” and “The Artist of the Beautiful,” both written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846, demonstrate and attempt to symbolize the boundaries of beauty in society. In “The Birth-mark,” the young and exquisite Georgiana has simply one imperfection, a red hand-shaped birth-mark on her cheek, which her husband, a prominent chemist by the name Aylmer desires to have removed. In “The Artist of the Beautiful” the young Owen Warland, former apprentice of Peter Hovenden, in his watch making shop, strongly encourages Owen to focus on the practical instead of the beautiful, in fear that his shop will fail as a result of Owen’s inattentiveness and obsession to detail. Georgiana and Owen, from “The Birth-mark” and “The Artist of the Beautiful” respectively, are both members of society who to some extent, sacrifice their preconceived notions of beauty as they yearn for the approval and admiration of those closest to them. This act ultimately leads to the demise of their efforts and the fruition of their submissive mindsets.…
When she was twelve years old, her father encourage her to take lessons in copying plaster casts and drawing. At the age of sixteen she applied to the Königsberg Academy of Art, because she was a female her application wasn’t accepted. Kollwitz’s earliest drawings represent hard working people during their…
Randolph dipped his brush into a little water-filled vinegar jar, and tendrils of purple spread like some fast-growing vine. “Don’t smile, my dear,” he said. “I am not a photographer. On the other hand, I could scarcely be called an artist; not, that is, if you define artist as one who sees, takes and purely transmits: always for me there is the problem of distortion, and I never paint so much what I see as what I think: for example, some years ago, this was in Berlin, I drew a boy, not much older than yourself, and yet in my picture he looked more aged than Jesus Fever, and whereas in reality his eyes were childhood blue, the eyes I saw were bleary and lost. And what I saw was indeed the truth, for little Kurt, that was his name, turned out to be a perfect horror, and tried twice to murder me…exhibiting both times, I must say, admirable ingenuity. Poor child, I wonder whatever became of him…or, for that matter, me. Now that is a most interesting question: whatever became of me?” As if to punctuate his sentence he kept, all the while he talked, thrusting the brush inside the jar, and the water, continually darkening, had at its center, like a hidden flower, a rope of red. “Very well, sit back, we’ll relax a minute now.”…
This quarter I read the book Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements. Bobby Phillips, a fifteen year old boy was an average kid until one morning, he woke up and couldn't see himself. He was invisible!! There doesn’t seem to be any reasons or explanations on why this had happened. Bobby meets a blind girl named Alicia. They build a large bond and become very close with each other. Time is running out to figure out what happened to Bobby and how to get him back to normal. Back to being seen again.…
In general, authors follow a pattern when writing. Some may use foreshadowing or irony in all of their work, while others may have characters that are alike. Sarah Orne Jewett is no exception to this generalization. Her poems, stories, novellas, and books commonly contain similar traits. Sarah Orne Jewett, an author best known for her local color works, often wrote in first-person, used allusions and historical references, and set her stories in the New England area.…