Jack Huston once said “Rule number one is ‘don’t get too attached to a character.’” He was talking about fictional characters‚ but the same can be said for real life. In the short story “American History‚” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ a girl named Elena becomes friends with a boy named Eugene‚ but she is devastated when she finds out that he will be moving soon. The moral of this story is not to get so emotionally attached to someone. Elena got so attached to Eugene because of how similar they are. She
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Venice Ishibashi Ella Russel English 112 17 April 2016 “That is the best part of beauty‚ which a picture cannot express‚” Francis Bacon observes in his “Essay on the Subject.” And yet for centuries‚ we’ve attempted again and again to define beauty from social‚ cultural and religious perspectives. But in spite of establishing numerous theoretical definition‚ we continue to try for a substantial‚ solid and material structure to define women’s beauty. “Attitudes toward beauty are entwined with our
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On painting Summary and Analysis The selection from Leon Battista Alberti’s On painting is mainly divided into 5 paragraphs numbered 25 through 29. Just as the title suggests‚ the text deals with the art of painting and its virtues. It talks about the benefits painting offers to the artist and why they are valuable‚ as well as showing the importance a work of art gives to the object being painted. While referring to many examples in history‚ Alberti also compares painting to the other “crafts”
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“Eiffel Tower” I’m going to critique a two- dimensional piece of art. This is a painting called “Eiffel Tower” and the artist is Robert Delaunay. It is a French painting painted in 1924. The media is oil on canvas. It was a gift to the Dallas Museum of Art from the Meadows Foundation‚ Incorporated in 1981. This painting consists of mostly curved and diagonal lines. The curved lines appear in the upper left quadrant where it forms a circular park that is broken into four sections. The curved
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misinterpret the Blue Horse I as representational. However‚ Franz Marc’s oil painting cannot be: representational because although the viewer can tell there is a horse in the painting‚ but horses cannot be blue; nonrepresentational because the image refers to something in the natural world; or realism because this painting is not something we actually see on top of the hills. The artist painted a horse and anyone who looks at the painting will‚ without a doubt‚ know it is a horse. In addition‚ a viewer can
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2.Oil painting‚ life-size portrait painting and the use of perspective 3. The history paintings dramatise and recreate various episodes of British imperial history. These paintings celebrated the British—their power‚ victories and supremacy. One such painting is the one shown below. The discovery of the body of Sultan Tipu by General Sir David Baird‚ 4 May 1799‚ painted by David Wilkie This painting‚ like most imperial history paintings‚ aims to project the superiority of the Britishers over
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The Small Boats‚ Houses oil painting art piece was painted by Jennifer Bartlet on 1987 (B.1941). The original painting Is 118 in. x 168 in. x 2 in. and is currently being displayed as part of the Contemporary Art Collection in the Orlando Museum of Art. The artist uses several interesting art elements in this two dimensional piece. To begin with‚ the space within this painting plays a major role when visualizing both pieces of the painting. For instance‚ on your left side the viewer is allowed
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Every morning when I walk by my family’s dining room‚ I see a beautiful painting. It has many colors that all work so well together. There is a mix of pink‚ green‚ blue‚ red‚ and orange. It is an abstract art piece. The artist of the painting is named Pamela Munger. She was an English teacher who showed her creativity while teaching. Being a teacher grew her passion for art‚ so she began to start painting. She mainly uses acrylic paint. She also uses brushes and palette knives. Pamela and her husband
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not be beautiful to others. Beauty can be found anywhere‚ at any time and any place. From the Jim Germaux’s exhibition in the Roper Gallery the painting Parallel Play was the most striking work of art. Not only is this work eye catching‚ but it so abstract it requires you to just stop and examine the artwork. There are various aspects of Germaux’s painting that create beauty through compositional elements beyond nature. The visual elements in this artwork include: line‚ shape and implied mass‚ color
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traditional Navajo sand paintings and the magery taken from them as subject matter that is being woven into rugs and artwork that is being sold for profit. This has resulted in a heated debate that has literally split the Navajo people into two separate groups‚ those that don’t mind the use of sand painting imagery and those that feel that it is wrong to use the symbols and forms of a sacred ritual for common artwork. This has sparked such a storm of controversy because the sand paintings are a Navajo art
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