The portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger around 1592‚ often called “The Ditchley Portrait‚” is filled to the brim with representations of Queen Elizabeth and her ability to rule England with a firm but forgiving hand. Though it may seem at first to be an uneventful scene‚ it is possible to uncover a new symbol or layer of meaning with each examination. In the painting‚ Queen Elizabeth stands atop the country of England‚ a pair of gloves in one hand and a fan in the
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King Lear: Motifs Shakespeare uses many motifs to expand on the themes of the story. His most-used motif revolves around filial responsibility. Each of the two plots contains characters who betray their fathers. Goneril and Regan flatter their father‚ King Lear‚ and then betray him. The drastic change that occurred in their attidtude towards their father is clearly evident through Goneril’s speech before: "Sir‚ I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight‚ space‚ and
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Jan van Eyck’s work‚ The Arnolfini Portrait‚ is a famous piece of Flemish portraiture with a lively history of interpretation (Hall xviii). Most interpretations of the work hinge upon the symbolism found in the iconography of the work‚ while others rely upon the presumption that the work is nothing but masterfully rendered naturalism‚ while still others apply various modern art history methodologies. In this paper I will provide a brief survey of the leading interpretations and methods that have
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My Career Goals as an Artist My goal is to attain a career where I can express my artistic talent and passion for art as well as open my mind in ways that I could never do in any other field .To obtain these goals‚ I must set a track. After considering many other career opportunities‚ such as the army‚ attempting to obtain a job at Boeing‚ and looking into various other art colleges ‚to name a few‚ I have found that the Art Institute of Seattle has just the programs I’m looking for and just what
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Tale" which is staged in the Bronx‚ New York‚ circa 1968‚ many narratives as well as visual motifs are present. The movie mixes many narrative structures such as the intertwinement of race‚ morals‚ and a kid growing up in the Bronx during this time. It also demonstrates the larger picture about the mafia and the power that seems to overcome everyone who gets involved. A prime example of a bound visual motif in this film is a scene in the very beginning of the film. A small boy named Collegeno always
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leading artists in the 16th century. One of his most famous works known as the Mona Lisa‚ was created in a time referred to as the High Renaissance. At this time education was valued‚ and art was advancing with mathematical‚ and liberal techniques that incorporated reality with the complementary‚ or "ideal"(pg.633). Another leading artist of Florence was Raphael‚ who found himself doing newlywed portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi. Divinci‚ the first to complete the portrait of Mona
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time of writing‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne was facing the impracticality of his literary vocation as the economic support for his growing family” (Bunge 46). Nathaniel Hawthorne felt misunderstood as an artist and used his story The Artist of the Beautiful to represent what he was going through. In the Artist of the Beautiful Owen Warland has a love and need for beauty‚ where is everyone else feels the need for objects to be useful. As one critic mentioned‚ “Warland has a disinterested search for the
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The opening Act of King Lear uses the motifs of nature and the unnatural‚ sanity and madness‚ and “nothing” to reinforce the downward movement in Lear’s perception of his own identity. For example‚ at the beginning of the play‚ Lear expresses his awe at the serenity of a beautiful world: “With plenteous rivers‚ and wide wide-skirted meads…” (I‚ i‚ 66). As the plot moves forward‚ the motif of the unnatural becomes present and indicates the negative trend of Lear’s own identity. Specifically‚ when
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Memory A motif can be described as a recurring subject‚ theme or idea found in a literary‚ artistic or musical work. These are structures or literary devices that can help to develop a major theme within a work. In One Hundred Years of Solitude there are several motifs that contribute to conveying the theme of a cycle of solitude that the characters are unable to escape from. In his novel‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates an imaginary town called Macondo where the inseparability of the past
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The sun becomes one of the most important motifs in Albert Camus’ "The Stranger". The imagery Camus uses when describing the sun sets the stage for the climax of Mersault’s murder of the Arab. More than anything the sun is depicted as a distraction to Mersault. It causes him to do things he would not normally do and clouds his judgement‚ causing him to commit a serious crime which will cause his own death. The sun is in a way a representation of the constraints society places upon Mersault. The effect
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