Marilyn Chin’s “How I Got That Name” is a poem that serves as a criticism on how Asian-Americans in their efforts to fit into western society have lost part of their cultural identity. Lines 36 through 57 compose the second stanza of this poem. The second stanza of this poem has an overriding tone of outrage. Chin begins the second stanza with the use of an ironical device “Oh‚ how trustworthy our daughters‚ / how thrifty our sons!” (lines 36-37). Chin then proceeds by telling us how Asian-Americans
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Pop art is an art style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s featuring images of the popular culture such as comic strips‚ magazine ads‚ celebrities‚ and supermarket products. This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans‚ washing powder‚ comic strips and soda pop bottles‚ the movement turned the commonplace into icons. Some
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Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light. He painted “Grainstack” the way he saw it; not the actual color that we know it was‚ but the colors that the sunset made it appear. When Warhol painted “Marilyn Monroe” he used non-representational
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will compare and contrast the feeling of isolation faced by the characters in Marilyn Chin’s Moon and Murakami Haruki’s Super-frog Saves Tokyo. The way they adopted to regain connection to the society and to reduce the feeling of loneliness and isolation would also be examined. A comparison would also be made between isolation caused by inter-ethnic factors and intra-ethnic factors. Moon was the first story of Marilyn Chin’s book‚ Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. It was a Chinese American revenge
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Andy Warhol Best-known for his silk-screened photographs of Marilyn Monroe‚ Jacqueline Kennedy‚ Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley‚ Andy Warhol accustomed artists and critics worldwide to use the art of borrowed imagery. Replicating previous artwork from decades before him‚ Andy Warhol became the founding father of appropriation‚ that has now become a symbol of postmodernism‚ and an artistic approach for an era in which concepts of innovation and authorship are thoroughly questioned. This theory
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the norms of society. A relatable example that was used to show the norms of society and how hard people try to fit them‚ is the body shapes of women. Each culture and time has their different standards for how people should look and act. In 1947 Marilyn Monroe was a beauty icon but if she was compared to someone thought to be beautiful today her figure would seem too full. Many girls have self-esteem issues today because they cannot perfectly
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IWT1 Humanities Western Governors University Pop Art and Surrealism Surrealism was a style of art and literature that arose in the 20th century‚ emphasizing the subconscious or spontaneous meaning of imagery created by reflex or intuition (Surrealism‚ 2013). Surrealism began in Europe and developed from the Dadaist period. Surrealism is distinguished by an irrational‚ improbable collection of impressions. While similar to the Dadaist period‚ it was less violent and more artistically based. This
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Research Paper: Andy Warhol Background: Andrew Warhola‚ better known under his artist’s name Andy Warhol‚ was an American painter‚ graphic artist and designer‚ filmmaker and main representative of the pop art movement. Warhol was born on the 6th of August 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania in a working class family. His parents were immigrants from Czechoslovakia. From the age of eight‚ Warhol became very interested in drawing‚ movies and photography. Later Andy Warhol finished an apprenticeship as
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Part One: Introduction to Pop Art The Pop Art movement “uses elements of popular culture‚ such as magazines‚ movies‚ … and even [brand name] bottles and cans” to convey a message about the artist’s views on society. Using bold coloured paintings‚ soft sculptures‚ and printmaking‚ artists would create facsimiles‚ similar reproductions of popular merchandise and collages. The purpose was to emphasize the banality of any given mass culture. This was a response the post-war conservative society which
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Artist Name: Andy Warhol Title of Artwork: Marilyn Monroe Year Created: 1962 Media Used: Screen Printing Dimensions: 2054 x 1448 x 20 mm Location: Tate Cultural And Historical Contexts: 1. I think it reflects the time because it was the beginning of pop art and Marilyn monroe was famous and lots of people around that time were doing lots of pop art of famous models and actresses. Many Artist were also doing pop art that were comic style and one of those artists are Roy Lichenstein. 2. I think
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