How was your understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? Work Used: The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami During the interactive oral‚ cultural and contextual considerations of Murakami’s “The Elephant Vanishes” were discussed‚ providing me insight into these topics. One question that was raised was why is Murakami so popular? Murakami makes his stories relatable‚ this is how he develops interest in the reader. Many of his
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Shereidy Mancheno Frida Kahlo was one of the most influential Mexican artists of the 20 th century; her artwork has been revolutionary to modern art. Significant biographical and historical incidents influenced the artwork of Frida Kahlo throughout her artistic career. Kahlo’s life was reflected through her artwork; her body of work was the novel of her life. The artist’s work was greatly influenced by her bus accident which handicapped her for life. Kahlo had strong ties to her Mexican heritage;
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is “human expression of objects by painting‚ etc” (10). The words “human experience” adds meaning to art. Artists reveal their inner thoughts and feelings through their work. When we study a painting by Salvador Dali‚ the strange objects and the surrealist background portrays the eccentricity of the painter. Some ideas cannot be explained verbally. They can only be shown via a medium. We can get across what is in our minds or our hearts by a stroke of a brush‚ a drop of paint‚ a row of words‚ or something
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well written well written Dutch Interior by Mark Santangelo Joan Miro created a surrealist painting‚ a style that expresses the subconscious using imagery in the subject matter‚ Dutch Interior shows a man playing the guitar at a table. There are animals and a women sitting around him listening to the beautiful sound. Miro used a wide array of colors especially green and white to emphasize a happy day. He uses complementary colors to allow the colors to clash and have things stand out and
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Litsa Mouka 1 I know very well‚ but all the same… A study of fetishism I know very well‚ but all the same... A study of fetishism in relation to cinema This dissertation is an exploration into the different ways cinema utilises processes of fetishisation to evoke desire and disavow lack. In all cases it will show how the basic notion of fetishism functions as a symbolic substitution for the lack and as such‚ how it imposes itself onto the structure of film and the experience of watching/looking
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real in this world. Artist can express their deepest desires and dreams that once wore not possible to express through art‚ as real as in this day and age with digital photography and its tools. On the other hand there was one of the greatest Surrealists painters Salvador Dalí‚ who through painting expressed his dreams and imagination‚ “One might think that through ecstasy we would have access to a world as far from reality as that of the dream. – The repugnant can become desirable‚ affection
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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two works‚ Peplos Kore‚ Greek Archaic‚ ca. 530 BCE and Aphrodite De Milo‚ Greek Hellenistic‚ 2nd century BCE using the elements of design as well as Feldman’s method of criticism. Material: Aphrodite De Milo and Peplos Kore are both made of marble. Aphrodite de milos missing pieces of marble and absence of attributes made the restoration and identification of the statue difficult. A whole range of positions have been suggested: leaning against a
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What is fashion photography? In general terms‚ it is a photograph that is done to specifically display or depict clothing and/or accessories as visual advertising. The majority of the times the purposes of photographs are to document or sell the prevailing style or custom of dress of the time. What the term fashion photography stands for has changed and evolved over time‚ and there are key photographers who have influenced this change. Even though the main component of a fashion photograph is to
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Spanish artist that is considered the personification of surrealism. Dalí was born in 1904 in Cataluña‚ Spain. He spent the early part of his life with his rich parents and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Then‚ he moved away to join the Surrealist movement in 1934. He spent most of his live doing this in Madrid‚ Spain; Paris‚ France; and New York. The style that he used was surrealism‚ but he painted his portraits and other paintings realistically. Surrealism is the type of style that is
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Francesca Woodman’s Practice and Process depicts the very definition of physical theatrical embodiment. Francesca Woodman and her visual practice and process will be examined in this essay with emphasis on her embodiment of self and mind within her photography process. Woodman is the photographer‚ the model and the viewer in her practice. She captures distinctive‚ deliberate imagery‚ curated by her body and mind forming a unique feminine identity. I will discuss the specific process Woodman undertook
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