his essay‚ Mr. Berger strengthens that of logos‚ the rhetorical strategy that uses the persuasion of logic. John Berger uses this example by the mention of a study done on Fran Hals showing the overall reviews of his artwork done by hundreds of volunteers. Each one was
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Ways of Seeing is a very thin book‚ with few words‚ yet it is an extremely influential book‚ and confronts several important aspects of art‚ unlike any other author. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history in Ways of Seeing. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art‚ and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks‚ mainly oil paintings concerning class‚ race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. Berger
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BAROQUE NATURALISM IN SPAIN: VELAZQUEZ The greatest master of Spanish painting and one of the greatest painters of the Baroque was Diego Velazquez. Inspired by the simple‚ realistic paintings of Caravaggio‚ his approach to art would fly in the face of the flamboyant trends in his day and go even further in the direction of “naturalism.” Surprisingly‚ when he was twenty-four‚ the honest realist was appointed the court painter to the king. More surprisingly‚ Velazquez succeeded in his new role without
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Who Possesses Agency? Michel Foucault’s work in which he titled Panopticism‚ he explains his views on power; how it is operated‚ obtained and sustained. He based the word panopticism on Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon - an architectural design of a building that enables the one who possesses agency to see each cell that a subject of power is incarcerated to. Foucault writes that “Visibility is a trap” (Foucault‚ 286) because the tower is used to “induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent
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In John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing‚” his use of artist jargon makes it difficult for the casual reader to comprehend a lot of the points he makes. A section that demonstrates this can be found in the first full paragraph on page 145. Berger uses phrases such as “compositional unity” and “harmonious fusion” when analyzing the paintings Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House and Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House. His language can be understood by different readers in drastically different ways‚ which
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sense of fashion. At the commencement of my thoughts it came to me that the royalty didn’t reflect on his fashion but reflected upon his pose. A pose by which the painting itself was named after. Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen by Dutch artist Frans Hals made in early sixteen hundred. Left wrist on his hip‚ chin held high‚ body turned at a slight angle as he had his left foot in front of his right and his right hand holding his sword. Besides the fashion‚ he held this sword by the grip of his right
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John Doe Professor Jeffrey Oderlin English 1B 22 September 2011 The Enigmatic Meaning They call her “The Enigmatic Woman‚” yet the painting at first glance is quite banal. It looks a lot like any run of the mill portrait with the subject positioned in the center while she sits facing and staring directly at the viewer. Even the colors are boring in this painting with its abundance of earth tones with different mellow shades of faded green‚ brown‚ blue‚ and burnt orange. The picture itself
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In the modern age of the eighteenth century‚ the Rococo style of art was an artistic revolution‚ spreads through the Europe with hopes and dream from the emerging middle class. This Rocco art style showed elegant and beautifully‚ with the scenes of classic love stories and fantastical dreams of romance. Fragonard‘s the oil painting‚ "The Swing" has created in 1766. It is located in the Wallace Collection‚ London‚ United Kingdom. The image has shown as a major masterpiece of the Rococo style. The
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Laurence J Stybel Frances Rampar‚ President of Rampar Associates‚ drummed her fingers on the desk. Scattered before her were notes. She had to put the pieces together in order to make an effective sales presentation to Harold Wallace. Hal Wallace was the President of the Wallace Group. He had asked Rampar to conduct a series of interviews with some key Wallace Group employees‚ in preparation for a possible consulting assignment for Rampar Associates. During the past three days‚ Rampar
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1614-1620. Italian Baroque. pg. 683. 6. Josd de Ribera. Martyrdom of st. Philip. c.1639. spanish Baroque. pg. 688. T.Yelazquez. Las Meninas. 1656. Spanish Baroque. pg. 691. 8. Rubens. Elevation of the Cross. 1610. Flemish Baroque. pg. 698. 9. Frans Hals. Archers of Saint Hadrian. c. 1633. Dutch Baroque. pg.704. 10. Judith Leyster. Self-Portrait. c. 1630. Dutch Baroque. pg. 705. 11. Rembrandt Van Rijn. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp . 1632. Dutch Baroque. pg.706. Rijn. Night Watch. 1642. Dutch Baroque
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