In approximately 1669-1670‚ during the Dutch Golden Age‚ Johannes Vermeer completed his painting The Lacemaker in the baroque style. The artist Johannes Vermeer creates a sense of calm and solidarity in his work‚ The Lacemaker‚ by portraying the figure in a dreamy fashion‚ using dull colors‚ and by making the figure seem intent on her work and distant. The woman making lace in the work is portrayed in a dream like fashion. This is created by the slightly fuzzy edges of the shapes in the work. However
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Executive Summary For “premium” chocolate maker Scharffen Berger (SB)‚ quality is king. Their distinct process creates a “taste experience” second to none‚ an unparalleled quality that must be maintained despite apparent capacity issues. To satisfy the rising market’s demand for its product‚ it must address three primary issues related to capacity: bottlenecks‚ expansion‚ and economies of scale. The current bottleneck in the Conche (output=1‚344 kg. /day) will be remedied with the installation
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often idealized‚ not ugly or deformed‚ nor does she appear to age. She is represented as an ideal form from a male perspective‚ which has lead to a highly objectified ideal represented numerous patriarchal societies throughout the western world. John Berger stated in the 1972 BBC documentary television series Ways of Seeing: “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at” (Ways of Seeing). This quote clarifies the male gazer’s distortion of the female form through the creation of a ‘better
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Bryan Washington Professor H. Alvarez English 1A 17 March 2013 Essay #2 “Both John Berger in “Ways of Seeing” and Michel Foucault in “Panopticism” discuss what Foucault calls “power relations.” Berger claims that “the entire art of the past has now become a political issue‚” and he makes a case for the evolution of “ new language of images” which could “confer a new kind of power” if people were to understand history in art. Foucault argues that the Panopticon signals an “inspired” change in
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spoken about. John Berger expresses that men and women have different types of social presence. Men are measured by the level of power they offer in different forms‚ such as economic‚ physical‚ and moral. A man’s own presence suggests that an individual may or may not be able to do for you as individual yourself because it may be fabricated. Although‚ a woman’s presence may indicate what can or cannot be done to her due to her daily activity contributing to her own presence. Berger then states‚ a
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‘Het Melkmeisje’ Op het schilderij ‘Het Melkmeisje’ van Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675) zie je een vrouw (een dienstmeid‚ zo te zien aan de kleding die ze draagt) melk schenken uit een kan. Ze staat bij een kleine tafel die tegen de muur staat aangeschoven‚ vlakbij het raam. Op de tafel liggen een tafelkleed‚ een blauwe doek‚ een pot‚ een mand met soort van bord waar ze de melk inschenkt‚ een homp brood en en paar stukken brood ernaast. De kamer is redelijk kaal. Achter haar hangen nog een mand
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When Griet and Vermeer first meet in the kitchen of her parent’s home‚ Griet is laying out and chopping vegetables. She puts them out in a very organized way‚ and Vermeer immediately takes notice. When he questions her for separating the colors as she has‚ she tells him‚ “the colors fight when they are side by side‚ sir.”(5). This shows she recognizes which colors look best together‚ and which clash. Most people would never bother to divide their vegetables in such a way. Griet speaks of other people
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For this painting Johannes Vermeer used charcoal‚ chalk‚ tempera‚ white lead‚ red and yellow ochre‚ vermillion and oil paints in various tones most of which he grinded up himself daily. No one knows how Johannes Vermeer made the initial drawing for this painting but it is thought that preliminary drawing on the canvas was to act as a guide during the painting and also intended to fix the significant contours of the composition. Once the initial outline drawing was finished he began the underpainting
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painting or advertisement‚ they perceive and interpret differently. As John Berger says‚ "we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves" (156). We see things differently from one another and in the beginning we see things‚ but without language and understanding‚ we cannot explain what it is we see. The way we see things is predetermined by different factors such as our own experiences and status. Berger provides an example two paintings by Frans Hals. The two paintings are
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Although John Berger and Anthony Appiah discuss very different topics in their essays Ways of Seeing and race‚ they are very similar in several ways. I found that the two have similar writing styles. Although Berger’s is a little bit more complex than Appiah’s‚ I found that they both write using extremely long sentences and difficult vocabulary. Aside from writing styles‚ I also found Berger and Appiah similar in their views. Both seem to go against the normal view of society. For example‚ in
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