Painting Book Reviews Samples For Students

Willis, the Dali Reading

The overall thesis of the article is the identification of the source of Dali’s inspiration. In this case, Willis is trying to prove that St. John of the cross inspires most of Dali best art works. He sets his path in identifying some of the art works that have come later after the meeting with the Spanish Father.
Dali described himself as a Spanish mystic of his time (1950) and believed himself a saint of Spanish whose divine purpose is to rescue painting from imprisonment in the blasphemous aesthetics of the modern world. He considered his work divine inspiration, ...

Black artists like Archibald Motley try to depict their struggle with the western white concept of God in their art by depicting racialized biblical subjects by including religious imagery in black genre scenes. The motif of suffering Christ in paintings engages issues of African American cultural identity that ranges from the depiction of crucifix in black genre to conflation of crucified Christ and the lynched black man.
The main intention being to symbolize Christ as a device charged with racial and religious meaning. In Motley’s painting, we become aware of an old woman concentrating on sewing with a white ...

Throughout the book, several characters discuss the differences between Western and Eastern ways of painting. Two major parts of that difference are style and anonymity. One initial difference lies in the purpose of painting. As Enishte says, “Every picture serves to tell a story If there’s something within the text that our intellect and imagination are at pains to conjure, the illustration comes at once to our aid But painting without its accompanying story is an impossibility” (Pamuk, 27). In the Eastern view, art exists to serve the story, not as something worth existing in and of itself. Likewise, ...

A commercial exchange is a process which involves two parties; the seller and the buyer. The seller offers a product to the buyer expecting something in return which is usually in form of money. The product may be in form of a tangible good or service offered and the buyer may be a consumer or a business customer (Schindler 1-7).

One fundamental characteristic of a commercial transaction is that it is a voluntary interaction since both the buyer and the seller exchange the goods and services voluntarily and after the transaction both are in a better position than before. The seller becomes richer while the buyer receives ...

Charles Dickens and Ford Madox Brown

REALISM, EXPLOITATION AND THE RISING MIDDLE CLASS

Charles Dickens’ Hard Times is typical of the author’s social consciousness and biting, satirical style. The novel criticizes the exploitative amorality of 19th-century Industrial Age England, which was transformed, economically and socially, by the rising middle class. The country’s middle class espoused economic equality and opportunity, but in many cases simply parroted the behavior of the nobility, to which most aspired. The realism of other artists, such as the English painter Ford Madox Brown, portrayed the day-to-day realities of life for the working underclasses.

Keywords: Hard Times, Charles Dickens, Industrial ...

Exam answers

“spirit of the time” Zeitgeist does not mean the same thing to everyone because it is like a snapshot of culture at any given time for any given medium of art, etc. Although some believed that Zeitgeist in art could represent an organic unity so that the unity created a total spirt.

Primitivism

art movement that viewed non-Western cultures and included the motifs from that culture into art forms (painting, ceramics, weaving, etc); respect for these cultures as better in some way from western culture

What is the difference between Modernization, Modernity and Modernism?

Let’s take a modern person, a modern person can accept the new art and ...

Architectural designs are usually drawn mainly from the landscape. According to certain landscape conceptions, landscape design is conceived in the minds of the architect (Moore, 98). By conception in the minds, it becomes an art thus architecture has a direct connection to art. From a closer point, art is influenced greatly by culture. Being part of culture, architecture can have a direct root in culture of the people around the architectural designs.
Looking at chapters 14 and 15 of the quoted book, architectural roots in culture are illuminated and several examples given in support of the points. In the arguments, the ...

Introduction

In the most traditional of African cultures, the duties of a woman’s role in society was never deemed as capricious, much less being awarded the honorary title of representation of an ideology known as ‘feminism.’ Yet, the memoir-enriched fictional novel, “So Long a Letter,” (Une si Longue Lettre – in French) by Mariama Ba inspired much hope for African women to convey the collective plight of their positions to the world. The book is remarkable in a number of profound ways. The book is a diary-type of letter written from the female protagonist Ramatoulaye her best friend from childhood, Aissatou. Ramatoulaye is mourning ...

Introduction

Having goals and dreams is something that every person in this planet has in common. All people make dreams, although these dreams greatly vary in terms of its being time-bound, the size of the dream, and everything else. The idea remains the same though. Every person has his own dreams and this truth has existed for the past thousands of years. Being casted in one of the mainstream movies or even TV series in Hollywood can be anybody’s dream, although it is not in any way a simple one, or something that anyone can easily achieve.
Hope can ...

Summary of “The Drawing of the Dark” by Tim Powers

Tim Powers begins his story in “The drawing of the Dark” presenting the lead character, the Irishman Brian Duffy, who is attacked on the streets of Venice. After his assailants give in and retreat, he meets the old sorcerer Aurelianus, who offers him a job as a bouncer in the Zimmerman Inn – the brewery of the Herzwesten beer in Vienna. Duffy, a former mercenary who used to live in Austria and fought against the Turkish Army in Mohacs, accepts the offer and starts on his journey. Upon his arrival at Trieste he finds an odd tavern, where he orders a cup of wine. ...

“This is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an anti-religious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again,” says Dr. Richard Dawkins in the introduction to his book The Greatest Show on Earth (17). This book is an organized presentation of copious numbers of the examples that support the evolutionary change over time via the process of natural selection. It raises many issues to a reader’s mind, and it helps provide a fuller understanding of the theory of evolution for the reader. ...

Book Review - Making a New Deal

Lizbeth Cohen's book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 tells the story of those people in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s who labored in factories and manual labor positions. The book starts off with the 1919 wave of strikes that occurred among labor forces and continues through the next two decades, showing the ways in which the Depression and the New Deal affected industrial workers in Chicago. A durable union movement was created from the ashes of these economic hard times, with workers throughout the city coming together to support each other. According to Cohen, "this ...