The line‚ "It’s a lot harder than it looks." --malignant: what inspired this film? do you have experience with cancer‚ or read a story/article? it’s a very internal film‚ a psychological study - reminds me of david lynch and surrealist film. i would guess that you do not mean everything in this film literally‚ but indulge me as i delve into the film’s symbolic framework. you seem to represent the human as a set of machines operated by a conscience‚ represented by a woman. you
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Art is a part of our daily life and is present in numerous cultures across the world. It can affect our mood in a positive or disturbing way. Art provides us with a broad understanding of self-awareness and emotions. It allows us to express our imagination and human creative skills. Art grants us a distinct insight into our history. Pablo Picasso is one of the most profound artist of the twentieth century‚ but was deeply rooted in the art of the past. Guernica is powerful because of color and lighting
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Film authorship‚ or auteurism‚ is a way in which film can be categorised according to the stylistic and narrative elements of the director. Auteur theory usually attributes the creation of a films artistic style solely to the director. Film authorship can be explored as a commercial‚ textual‚ or critical category as explained below in relation to the films of director David Lynch. The concept of the director as “auteur” was brought about in an article by French film critic Alexandre Astruc featured
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delicacy simulated by his subconscious. This synthesis of imagery based on the desire of the dreamer is the same mechanism used by Mendeleev to build the foundation of the modern periodic table (Strathern‚ 14) and Salvador Dali to create his unique surrealist art. Both Mendeleev and Dali’s dreams of discovery are projections of the spatial and sensory desires that the two individuals could not easily express in their most common conscious state. In these lucid dreams‚ the brain takes normal objects
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War & Art Bounded by the First World War‚ the period of 1920-1945 witnessed the hardships of the Great Depression and the destructive slide into political conflict. Throughout these dramatic times‚ during both the highs and the lows‚ artists responded to the world in which they lived in dramatic fashion. The events certainly had rippling effects upon all aspects of European life. In this time‚ artists and musicians had little choice but to react to the times to express their feelings and remain
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Born July 6‚ 1907 in Coyocoán‚ Mexico City‚ Mexico Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón began life with great struggle. Kahlo’s mother‚ too ill to care for or feed her newborn‚ hired an Indian wet-nurse to breastfeed and care for the newborn. Kahlo was raised in the family’s home where she was born‚ later named La Casa Azul (The Blue House). Polio caused Kahlo to lose a great deal of control over her right leg and foot‚ but did not slow the adventurous child. During her youth Kahlo studied photography
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Matthew Morris LITR 2357 Dr. Virginia Hampton 6 December 2014 Literary Analysis Is the dream a reality or the reality a dream in The Circular Ruins? "The Circular Ruins" (Las Ruinas Circulares) is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940‚ it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) and the 1944 collection Ficciones. This story is arguably the most allegorical
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When reading the title‚ we often associate a love song as something jaunty‚pleasureable‚ and celebrating‚ or its other extreme‚ regretting‚ nostalgic‚ and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer‚ the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view‚ which makes the reading more personal as the reader is using “I” instead you or he. From this concept stem the ideas that this poem is about hopelessness or happiness‚ communal
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humble beauty with several layers of meaning and rich sentiment. Tan’s distinguished mixed media illustrations contain an infusion of riveting metaphors‚ fantasy‚ subtle symbolism and a mixture of art techniques ranging from cut paper collages to surrealist paintings. The combination of figurative language and imagery communicates to the reader a strong sense of emotion and feeling‚ yet the meanings are left to ones interpretation and imagination. It is a journey of self discovery. Fittingly‚ The
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Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by Sarah Shea HUMN406-01 Professor Nelson Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain People often ask what constitutes good art. Who decides whether or not a piece is art and whether it is good art or not? Marcel Duchamp challenged popular notions of his day about what art actually is. Duchamp‚ a French artist living in New York at the turn of the century‚ believed that it was up to the artist to determine what art is. Duchamp is most famous for a type of sculpture he created called
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