Venus created in 1510. It is oil on canvas and measures 108 by 175cm. The reclining figure is used across the whole width of the painting making a long‚ continuous slope of body where the goddess’ curves echo the curves of hillside‚ easing the viewer’s gaze and relaxing the eyes. The landscape
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Sartre’s use of hell as a dramtic device in the play ‘Huis Clos’ is highly effective. It gives him a platform to explore his philosophical themes‚ in particular the objectifying gaze of the other‚ self deception‚ bad faith as well as the issue of human freedom and responsibility. It allows him to shock the audience by challenging their pre-conceived notion of hell. By shying away from the stereotypical view of hell Sartre challenges his audience to become introspective and ask uncomfortable questions
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"How Shakespeare Changed the Sonnet World" Although sonnets have been modified by individual poets and adapted to changing literary expectations‚ they usually still retained certain characteristics of the traditional Italian sonnet. Especially in terms of subject matter. Those early modern poets paved the way for Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ which diverges significantly from the traditional sonnet subject matter. His sonnets mark a turn towards a more sincere interiority‚ and take on many more subjects
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The Lady of Shalott by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson Copyright Notice ©1998-2002; ©2002 by Gale Cengage. Gale is a division of Cengage Learning. Gale and Gale Cengage are trademarks used herein under license. For complete copyright information on these eNotes please visit: http://www.enotes.com/lady-shalott/copyright eNotes: Table of Contents 1. The Lady of Shalott: Introduction 2. The Lady of Shalott: Text of the Poem 3. The Lady of Shalott: Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson Biography 4. The Lady of Shalott:
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This is a chapter from her book The Male Body. This chapter explains her thoughts on the use of the male body in advertising. Bordo explains how and why she first got interested in looking for new advertisements of males in magazines. Bordo explicitly depicts her thoughts on how people look at the male body‚ how it was used in advertising‚ movies‚ and our culture overall. She also goes into how over time the use of male bodies has changed in our culture. Bordo uses a lot of pictures and actual
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Zapien’s eyes were watery and bloodshot as I spoke to him. I believed Zapien may have been under the influence of an alcoholic beverage. I had Zapien follow the tip of my finger with his eyes to determine if he had horizontal gaze nystagmus. I saw that Zapien did have horizontal gaze nystagmus and lack of smooth pursuit. I smelled a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from Zapien’s breath as he spoke. I asked Zapien if he had anything to drink. Zapien told me that he drank two beers (Modelo
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The media has to have a story involving every single culture‚ ethnicity and race. The news does not always entail pleasant perspectives about minorities‚ and often when they relate to minorities‚ it’s under the crime form of news. Singling out minorities is often happening on the news stations we view today‚ and to my knowledge crime is not only committed by minorities‚ sure a good percentage is held accountable‚ but one hundred percent of crime is not committed by minorities‚ making the left over
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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was an American painter and art critic who studied socially relevant art and produced realist artwork during the majority of his career. Wanting to depict the “authentically lived experience” in each of his paintings‚ he painted in a representational style during the height of the Abstract Expressionism’s dominance. He did not find much inspiration to construct pieces stemming from abstract ideology. An example of Porter’s natural yet highly objective style of painting
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witness to art movements from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art‚ and refused to follow any of them. Instead‚ she developed a unique‚ expressive style of portrait painting that captured the psychology of individuals. Inspired by the concept of male gaze in art‚ Neel’s work stands as a metaphor for the feminist movement during the period. In her portrait of Margaret Evans‚ Alice Neel explores a woman’s position in society by the honest almost uncomfortable way she paints the expectant mother of two
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During the 19th century the role of women was a silent one‚ opposite to the lives of the bold bourgeoisie male flâneur. One of the ways women could obtain a form of independence was through one of the world’s oldest professions‚ prostitution. The wave of modernity brought on an abundance of prostitution in Paris‚ thus the theme of the brothels‚ and sex workers became a prominent subject in art. For many Modernist artists the depiction of the prostitution was a means for shining a light to the sexual
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