Art Criticism of Barricade by Jose Clemente Orozco The painting Barricade by José Clemente Orozco is made using oil on canvas. It is 140 by 114.3 cm and it portrays five men that are closely placed together. To the left of the portrait there is a shirtless hunched man giving his back to the viewer and has his right arm extended to the right. He is holding a red cloth in his right hand. He has two bullet straps going over his shoulders and strapped across his back. To his right there is another
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Redaction Criticism and Textual Criticism Introduction Imagine yourself excitedly waiting for a movie‚ about your favorite novel‚ to come out. Finally the day comes when it starts showing in the theatres. You used all your connections to be able to get premiere tickets for the movie. You are about to watch the movie about your favorite novel… Coming out of the theatres‚ you feel cheated. All the excitement‚ all the hype left you disappointed. You say to yourself‚ this isn’t what was in the
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originated from a dream that she conjured up. It shows a young woman staring at herself in a mirror‚ her body animatronic‚ with an electrical face exposed. This is a successful piece of art because it gets people to let their minds wander and think about what the possible meanings are behind the art. An effective piece of art also catches and keeps audience’s attention‚ which this one definitely does. And it also lets the audience feel something to the piece. This abstract drawing gets the audience to
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2300 (06) WK 11 Out-line Art & Design Criticism The following is a quote from Barnett Newman‚ “I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it’s impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work‚ I feel I might as well talk about it.” An example of his work is “Onement.” There are six topics for art criticism. The first is verbal description‚ what does the viewer see? Second is formal analysis‚ what are the elements and principles of art and design present in the work
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1 Translation Quality Assessment A case study of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘the Killers’ Translated by Najaf Daryabandari According to Newmark’s translation criticism Marjan Tavakoli Kerman Institute of Higher Education May 2014 2 Introduction "The Killers‚" Ernest Hemingway’s story about two hit men who come to a small town to kill a former prizefighter‚ was first published in the March 1927 issue of Scribner’s Magazine. Hemingway was paid two hundred dollars for the story‚ which was
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Pieces of artwork contain an assortment of pictorial conventions that tells us the story about the object. Such is the case for Marble capital and finial in the form of sphinx. This work was believed to have been from the Greek culture during the Archaic period in ca. 530 B.C. This marble capital and sphinx was initially placed on the grave of a youth and a little girl. The sphinx is a legendary creature that has a lion’s body and a human head. This figure was acknowledged in a variety of forms throughout
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Night Mentioned the word “night” always brings people infinite reveries. It can be luxuriant romance‚ children’s dreams or deep thinking. In Elie’s story Night‚ what people feel is endless fear and sorrow. It is a tragedy of a nation‚ a brutality of another nation‚ what is more‚ a silence of the whole world. In the story‚ a millions of Jews were kidnapped from their homes by the German Nazis and were forced to work in concentration camps because of their Jewish heritage. In the German concentration
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Oedipus accepts the fate‚ as well‚ and gouges his eyes out‚ exiling himself from Thebes. Although generally accepted as a play of fate‚ many people have made criticisms against this claim. One critic in particular‚ Kurt Fasso‚ in his criticism “Oedipus Crux‚” believes this fate was not truly Oedipus’ – he just accepts it as his own. His criticism is valid‚ for it touches on points that do in fact prove his theory‚ in a single persuading and convincing piece‚ particularly concerning the discrepancies
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Literary Criticism (Written report) PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH IN LITERATURE Psychoanalytic literary criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which‚ in method‚ concept‚ or form‚ is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself‚ and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition. As Patricia Waugh writes‚ ’Psychoanalytic literary criticism does not
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I choose the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. It is a book about his experience‚ and also his family’s experiences throughout the holocaust. This book follows Elie and some of his family and friends from shortly before the holocaust all the way to his first moments being a free man. It describes his memories‚ his hopes‚ and his dreams. At certain points he almost gave up but he continued‚ survived‚ and got his horrifying message out to the world so people can look back on one of the worst parts of human
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