Citations: Sayre, Henry M. A World Of Art. 6th Edition. Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2010. 1, 3, 35, 42. Print.…
The piece I have chosen for this Response Essay is a Hydria Offering (Funerary Water Pitcher) attributed to the Mound Painter; it is dated c. 340-330 BC. This particular piece is located at the British Museum in London. The material is ceramic and is one of the best examples of a funerary pitcher that would be placed in a tomb. The vessel is symmetrical and has a sense of purpose, to commemorate the death of the occupant of the tomb with the presenting of gifts to the deceased.…
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper (after restoration).Leonardo’s “Last Supper” is a priceless piece of art with much hidden meaning and obvious talents bestowed upon a wall. Leonardo was able to use his skills in creating a very detailed and a very naturalistic piece of work that would be remembered for hundreds of years. He was also able to create characters with amazing individuality. Not only was his portrayal of the characters magnificent, but the symbolism he used which emphasized the story being told in the “Last Supper”.…
When involved with life’s daily routines it seems as if time on earth will go on without end. Priorities become distorted, but vanitas paintings remind us that life’s journey has an end, and the things we concern ourselves with aren’t all that important when looking at the big picture of life and death. Although the mortality theme is in each vanitas, the artists express their meaning individually with use of color, iconography, and other artistic techniques. Two vanitas that are worth comparing are the Wheel of Fortune that was painted in 1977 by Audrey Flack and Vanitas, painted by Juan de Valdes in 1660.…
Achievers have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.…
‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity, its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio, art critic.…
Obesity is the condition of being very over weight. Did you know this condition has affected millions of Americans throughout out the United States! People who are obese deal with many negative health factors throughout out their lives. These include depression, anxiety, and sometimes even death. Most people that deal with this medical issue have many social problems. Something has to change! With so many Americans living such unhealthy lives, they are becoming disabled from living happy normal lives. People who are overweight should also try to increase their exercise levels and eat healthier in order to maintain healthy lifestyles and overcome obesity.…
‘The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.’ -Pablo Picasso…
This kind of iconography is well precedented in early renaissance painting and the religious depictions are fairly commonplace.…
‘Persimmons and silk’ was printed in 1997 by Cressida Campbell, an Australian artist born in Sydney 1960. This piece of artwork is a woodblock print, drawn directly onto a plywood block using a linear drawing technique and is …cm x …cm. The theme of this print is a still life composed of flowers and fruit on a silk tablecloth. It is not a symmetrical print; while it is very balanced it is asymmetrical in design. In the left foreground there is a bowl of persimmons and the flowers are in the middle ground. The viewpoint is so close up there seems to be no background. When the viewer looks at this piece of artwork they almost feel as if they are standing right above the table. There is also a sense that it is slightly Japanese in the use of colours and setout, and particularly in the pattern of the tablecloth.…
Gossiping is done by everyone even children. In William Faulkner’s “ A rose for Emily” he uses “the town” in a gossiping narrative format to let the reader know how the town operates, so by having everyone talk about Emily it helps the reader best know her. “The town” talks about Emily throughout the story letting the reader know how she feels about herself and everyone else, and how she acts toward them.…
For my art analysis paper, I decided to select a work of art that can be found on page 465 in the textbook, the full title of the oil on canvas piece is called, The Old Guitarist, by the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso’s artistic phrase of the piece is during the years 1901-1904, during his Blue Period, which began after a close friend of Picasso committed suicide in Paris. Throughout those years Picasso, began painting many canvases portraying the miseries of the poor, the ill, and those cast out from society. The piece, The Old Guitarist, gives viewers a sense of representation of Picasso’s feelings and mood during his Blue Period.…
Power and Control is the main theme in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo & Juliet. Power is presented by fate, love and parental control.…
Being a little kid with parents who have jobs, where they are gone all the time, can really change when that parents or parents lose their job. A whole circle of events happen, the parents become depressed, as do the children or other parent. The effects of a parents losing their job could be fatal.…
It was a Monday morning at my high school and the topic of everyone's conversation was the past weekend. Usually explaining how drunk or how stoned they were and the uncontrollable mishaps that they didn't even remember until the next day if at all. For example, they tell me and are other friends that weren’t there "Man, I was soooo wasted last night, I must have drank like a case of beer and like half a bottle of vodka" or “Man I was so stoned, I must of ate my kitchen dry”, all told with smile of excitement hoping to do it again the next weekend or day. This regular occurrence got me thinking, why do we brag ourselves and praise others for accomplishing something that requires absolutely no skill and is dumb? In short, why do we get drunk or stoned?…