Essays on Illusion

Having the chance to do a painting on your own is a form of expression of your being and your imagination. Sometimes, it creates an illusion for its viewers and to engage them with the painting itself.
In terms of art medium, oil on canvass would be the most efficient coloring medium to utilize. It can bring vivid colors and transform the painting into a realistic image of a garden. The colors can easily be mixed together to produce a combination of bright and warm colors. Since, it depicts a patch of wall from a garden, the palette includes Continue reading...

The Allegory of the Cave describes the shadows on the cave wall, which was taught to the prisoners as he reality since birth. It also depicts humans as prisoners of their own body.
Plato wants to tell us that the prisoners who were inside the cave believed that what they see on the cave wall is the reality that in fact, it was just the reflection coming from the fire and objects behind them. When one of the prisoners was released and witnessed what the reality looks outside the cave, he realized that shadows were just illusions.
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In order to represent ideas and imagination well, art and design professionals need to study and understand communicating these visually. Whether the image is as complicated as the paintings in art museums or as simple and direct as a street sign, all these images are first formed using the basic element of lines. Lines are always used as a foundation to any image or design.
When lines are effectively used, they can signify orientation of an object, suggest direction or enhance it even more by suggesting continuity. If lines are formed in a group, they can create complex forms Continue reading...

Instruction

Introduction
Araby is one of the most fascinating works by James Joyce. It is about a young lad who narrates the story and who leads a blithe life in a Dublin surrounding. The boy falls in love with a friend’s sister and watches her steps every morning. Hen the boy and the girl finally spoke, she mentions about a foreign bazaar right in town. The speaker later became obsessed with the plan of buying the girl presents from the bazaar.
One major theme in the Araby is disappointment. The narrator is eventually faced with realism when he visits Continue reading...

Artist of OP Art

Artist of OP Art

Introduction

Op art refers to the artwork that involves the paintings and sculptures based upon illusion. It is described as an “Optical Art” that revolves around movements and directly attacks an eye. It uses optics and by having an immense use of disorientating and optical effects, the paintings are finalized by using brilliant colors, geometrical shapes, and different patterns. OP art is mainly an abstract art in which forms, lines, and space play a major role of bringing out a painting of ambiguous nature. In other and simple words, an op art is an illusion of Continue reading...

Essentially, the concept of charter schools that perpetuates the ‘rhetoric of choice’ appears to be an ideal system to facilitate equal access to educational opportunities. Nonetheless, the discussion in the article illustrates the illusion of choice. The arguments in the article present historical and current evidences that prove the illusion of choice in charter schools. Historically speaking, one of the earlier concepts of choice in education was desegregation. Desegregation, however, offered individuals limited choices. People made their own choice but these choices were influenced by other factors such as existing policies. This aspect of the discussion reveals that the Continue reading...

Hindus consider the Vedic texts as sacred. Adi Shankra is a 9th century Hindu mystic and commentary of the Vedic texts that explain the philosophical view of Advaita Vedanta. Different authors debate on Shankara's intent of writing concerning Oneness of Brahman and Atman and the interconnection between them. The main discussion in this essay is to explicate and qualify the truth based on Shankara’s writings. The paper will investigate whether Shankara exaggerates delusional nature of the external world as well as how one comes to know the connection between Atman and Brahman.
According to Shankara, direct experience is Continue reading...

There are numerous and outstanding philosophers who have contributed to the field of philosophy and in particular on issues relating to religion. Sigmund Freud is a man who has been variously described by other scholars. Peter Gay in the biographical introduction of ‘The Future of an Illusion’ describes Freud as an atheist, who is fully convinced about the idea, and demonstrates a high degree of consistency and aggressiveness in atheism. In his book The Future of an Illusion wrote in 1927, Sigmund Freud describes various aspects relating to religion, its origin, development and the future. In essence, Freud observes Continue reading...

When I was a child I set all my efforts to find out how the world was working. I believed that there were invisible bonds between every creature. Consequently, I spent hours on end trying to investigate whether animals could talk, and where my elderly neighbors disappeared. The most precious thought for me was that on the other side of the planet there was the same person as me. I had an illusion that somewhere in another county the boy of the same age was living in the same house. He also went to school, ate ice-cream at the Continue reading...

Introduction

Individuals hold different ideas regarding ‘reality.’ People base these concepts on sensorial perceptions, which mean that some of the experiences one holds about the world revolve around a deception, which prevents them from understanding the truth. Plato dug into the idea of sensorial deception in “The Cave” and “The Matrix,” which mimicked the story and explored realism of deception.

Question 1

The matrix raises questions relating to reality, which resemble those asked by Plato in “The Cave.” Plato asks readers to envision human beings as captives who live in a dark cave located underground. Furthermore, he insists that individuals live in Continue reading...

Summary of Chapters 1& 3

Chapter 1 deals with texture, defining it as a quality on the surface of a work of art that affects the senses of touch and vision. There are three types of texture in art: physical texture that refers to the actual texture of surface and materials, visual texture, which is illusionary and invented texture, which is also based on illusion by using seemingly irrelevant shapes to create a recognizable ensemble.
When creating texture an artist should take into account the texture of the material itself as well as that of the surface in which he/she applies it. The creation Continue reading...

The St. Louis Arch is a large commemorative sculpture located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Its form is an inverted, weighed cantenary curve (Grigonis, 2011). A centenary curve is the shape that a chain forms if it is allowed to hang from the two ends by its own weight. In order to replicate the curve of the St. Louis Arch, the links in the middle chain must be of lighter weight than the links at the end of the chain, thus the curve is described as “weighted.” The designer, Eero Saarinen, chose this type of curve to Continue reading...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk
This video exhibits a simple optical illusion, but an extremely impressive one. It tricks our mind at the moment when we are pretty sure of our cognitive capabilities. Our mind, being a highly sophisticated machine, records history and past experiences within the neural circuits of our visual system. This learning, embedded in our minds, helps us to interpret what we see. We usually interpret any three dimensional object based on the simplified prototypes or models that exists in our neural library. When images are carried from our eye to our brain, it undergoes a complex system of processing Continue reading...

Literature :

The Perfect Poster
The poster is a pictorial and striking representation of the Susan Laurie-Parks ’ attempt to make the audience understand the novel message given by her in “The America Play”, wherein she uses the look alike of an iconic president to draw the interest of the audience. This poster too focusses on the foundling father’s image to catch the eye of the viewers. Just as the dramatist uses repetition as a tool to highlight how history can be interpreted and reinterpreted,the mirrors in the poster shows endlessly repetititive images. The audience love sensational aspects of the Continue reading...

Bram Stocker’s Dracula is a movie based on novel which is based on an illusion of existing creatures. Hughes points out that, the movie creates an illusion that vampires and humans can live together taking into consideration the fact that vampires can transform to humans (12). The creation of the movie is aimed at making the audience creating a mental picture of non existing creatures and the relations to the human life. Additionally, the vampire abilities in the film are imaginative creations aimed at depicting the extra ordinary abilities of the creatures. In an argument by Hughes the Continue reading...

Jay Gatsby was a mysterious man who was seen to create himself, or at least some sort of illusion of himself that he wanted people to see. He was self-conceived because of a dream that he had, yet in the end, he was crushed by reality. The story written by Fitzgerald shows the visions people had for America. It represents their struggles through characters. The story shows that there is no such thing as the American dream, and that the dream should stay a dream forever. Gatsby, as a character, suggests that once the dream is realized, it becomes Continue reading...

‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” starts with Peyton Farquhar standing on bridge, with his hands tied behind his back and a noose around his neck. His execution is near and he diverts himself from reality and focuses on his imagination in which he is with his wife and children. Again he opens his eyes and sees driftwood in water below. Soon he imagines himself as the driftwood floating and escaping from water, away from his executioners and near his home. He finds his way home, travel throughout the day and when he is about to embrace his wife, Continue reading...

In the world of today’s cinema, 3-D technology is making a comeback. No longer a kitschy gimmick used in the 1950s to bring extra ticket sales to monster movies, it has turned into a phenomenon that turns normal 2-D movies into stereoscopic blockbusters. 3-D films such as the 2009 film Avatar rule the box office, creating landscapes that pop out at the viewer and take them into a new dimension. To this day, more and more blockbuster films are adapting the Avatar model and releasing more and more movies in 3D, mostly due to new technologies and methods Continue reading...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and Continue reading...

Death of a Salesman is a story that represents the real and contemporary American society and their dreams and aspirations. It is a story of the common people and their dreams. The title itself reveals the tragic end of the protagonist Willy. As far as the tragic flow of the story is concerned, it can be studied as the modern version of the Aristotelian tragedies, though it can be a comparative analysis with some resemblances and some differences. The story fulfils many parameters of the tragedy. Only the difference is that unlike the typical Aristotelians tragic hero, Willy does Continue reading...

Race and concepts of racism have changed from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries in various ways. Concepts of race have continually transformed and progressed in various ways. According to Dr Cooke’s lecture, in the early sixteenth century, associations of race surfaced with breed, families and lineages. It was important to trace the bloodlines and tracing genealogy. From then onwards especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, more emphasis on race was more on religious descents than on biology (Dr Cooke, The Historical Roots of ‘Race’). For instance, the works of Carolus Linnaeus and Comte de Buffon on Continue reading...

Poem analysis is usually done according to the author’s perspective. The analysis of the poem is done to project the real motive behind the author’s piece of art. When analyzing a poem, there are two approaches that are applicable. One focuses on the outer view of the poem which uses the actual view and characters used by the author. The second approach looks at the poem in an angle of the author’s sentiments. In this paper I will review three poems; Mountain Boomer, Bodacious and Firetread The Last. The three poems have almost similar themes but Continue reading...

Richard Bach’s Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, published in 1977, is the memorable follow-up to his extraordinary bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Unlike Bach’s earlier offering, Illusions did not receive mass audience admiration, but rather became a cult classic. There is a proverb, a quote, a saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” That is what happens in Illusions when Richard Bach, a renowned author from the West, encounters Donald Shimoda, a self-proclaimed ‘messiah’ from the East, who ends up becoming Bach’s spiritual teacher, and teaches him that everything in the world Continue reading...

Religion is defined as a belief. It is associated with discipline, either in mental, physical or psychological (Howe 1). It is identified as what underpins logic and emotions in everybody. In recent years, the place of any religion in the society has significantly been contentious. Unsurprisingly, there have been factions that compete within the religion that is contained in the society. Whatever the form, religion may have major social impact in certain societies. This can either be evil or good (Howe 1). In fact, religion plays a role in the world today since there is no person who does Continue reading...

In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces a strong theme of Puritan religious beliefs. His narrative vehicle for this is Satan who, throughout the story, destroys the protagonist’s faith. “Young Goodman Brown” is of the more well-known stories exploring 17th Century Puritanism and, even on a first read, it is clear why. Hawthorne depicts the chosen situation carefully and convincingly to the reader, not only entertaining them but also informing them as well. Certainly the element of this story that stands out the most dramatically is that of Satan and the means he adopts to manipulate the protagonist. Continue reading...

The question as to the continuity of personhood is a question that has been addressed to Buddhism since it’s beginning. In Henry Clarke Warren’s Pali translation of select passages of Buddhist Sacred Books, “Buddhism in Translations” there is a scene where a between The Buddha and a wandering ascetic who demands desperately for an answer of the Buddha to his question, “Whether or not the Saints exist after their death?” The Buddha saw this as a dualistic question, and gave him a nonduelist answer which stemmed from the basic phenomenology of Buddhism. The Buddhist answer the question Continue reading...

The continuous technological innovations have been changing the society ever since and covers a broader aspect of the existing technologies used by humans. The television and film mayhem which continued to bring fun and entertainment into the faces of the movie goers is constantly undergoing a process of change and innovation. In the early years since the invention of the camera and television, many filmmakers and producers have tried to produce films for the society’s entertainment and also as a replacement for the traditional vaudeville and theater plays. Cinema had become a greater advantage since it attempts to Continue reading...

Organization

Arthur miller's award winning play death of a salesman where Willy loman is the salesman driven by the emerging values of post war capitalism and materialism and wanted his sons to adopt the same. The conflict arises when his sons cannot do the profit or money-making. The play becomes of what was popularly known to be the American dream. This paper aims to analyze this over reaching theme that explicitly critiques. The paper also aims how the play impacted the American public considering it was published when capitalism was booming. It is important to understand how the people responded Continue reading...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories.
Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when Continue reading...

Plato spent a great deal of his time trying to reconcile Heraclitus and Parmenides who held divergent views on identity and being. This is the problem that logically, one thing cannot change with time and remain identical or the same. Parmenides’ view is that being is at rest while Heraclitus’ view is that being is changing. Heraclitus maintained that reality was constantly changing. On the other hand, Parmenides insisted on the unified and changeless nature of reality. The antagonism between Heraclitus and Parmenides, two philosophers who lived in the pre-Socratic age, provoked a lot of arguments which at some Continue reading...

Hinduism is an ancient religion. A Hinduism religion is dominant in the countries like India and Nepal. Hinduism is a religion with no founder or the date of origin is unknown. In addition, there is no single scripture and the set of teachings is not commonly agreed. Hinduism is derived from the word “India,” refers to variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed in India over thousands of years. In the world, Hinduism is the oldest living religion. Conceptually and historically, it is associated with the other religions like Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. It includes wide variety Continue reading...

Keynesian and Monetarist Policies in Macro Economy

In the macro economy, there are policies, which are employed to control the economy of a country. The policies are the Keynesian or demand sided policies and the supply sided policy, which is also referred to as Monetarism policy. Monetarism is currently classical economics and Keynesianism is Mercantilism economic policies. These policies have various differences on how they are employed to control the economy. Keynesian school of thought claimed that the Classical thought is rigid in their assumptions in that they advocated for price flexibility and full employment, but, on the other hand, they were rigid in their advocating Continue reading...

The makeup, diet product, and cosmetic surgery industries spend billions of dollars each year advertising their wares and services to women, and profit even more because their advertisements are so successful in convincing women that they truly need these items or procedures. Advertisers have many methods used to seduce women into buying products, including creating the illusion that there is an “ideal” beautiful woman, providing testimonials about their products from celebrities, and promising impossible results with altered, deceitful images retouched with computer graphics programs like Photoshop.
The most obvious method that advertisers use to persuade women to buy their Continue reading...

It is more important to discover new ways of thinking of what is already known than to discover new data or facts. To what extent do you agree with that statement?
Daniel J. Boorstein once said, "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge." Life is about discovery; as we move through our days, it becomes important to absorb, synthesize and assimilate knowledge in whatever form we can. In this way, we can understand how better to life our lives and do what we will with our given faculties. There are two ways in Continue reading...

Philosophy of consciousness, undoubtedly, takes a leading position in Anglo-American philosophical thought of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. Numerous publications, devoted to the problems of consciousness are an indicator of that. Philosophy of mind is a branch of analytical philosophy, which studies philosophical aspects of consciousness problem. The central theme of philosophy of consciousness is relationship between consciousness and brain. In this context brain poses a problem of mind-body, while consciousness is understood as either the aggregate mental states, accessible only to the living being experiencing them, or as a state of monitoring internal Continue reading...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man That Was Used Up” is an astounding dramatic farce involving the search for truth of an unnamed narrator to discern the true secret of a distinguished war hero, General John A.B.C. Smith. Along the way, Poe illustrates a Civil War-era society that brims with a very specific type of cultural revisionism and American exceptionalism that belies the true ugliness of the nation’s atrocities underneath. Looking at this story in the context of the Jacksonian era, in which Indian removal was a very prevalent cultural practice and the upper class lionized Continue reading...

Human body is made of senses that humans use in everyday activities to determine perception of data and hence make decisions. The perception has several reasons that help the humans to belief in the accuracy and inaccuracy of the perceived data. There are five reasons of believing in the accuracy of the data. These include, touch, and smell, hearing, taste, and sight.
When one touches something, the sense determines the perception. This can either be cold, hot, rough, smooth, etc. the message is automatically sent to the brain for interpretation. The brain then determines the mode of reaction to Continue reading...

Among the saleable list of material items romance has been included both as a commodity and as an exchange means for other commodities. Taking advantage of the feebleness of humans’ inability to control their appetite and conspicuous growth in that weakness, the media has assisted immensely in fueling the concept of love as an idea, a mere delight for entertainment or a clown for the circus. The needs of just one man are unlimited and as he evolves, as years pass by, there is an expansion in the list of things to buy. Off which most are irrelevant to Continue reading...

A young Prince is haunted by the spirit of his murdered father. The son has hardly slept or eaten since he heard the news. Stunned with grief he will not be counseled by his lover, family, friends or ministers of the military or the court. He prowls the castle nightly, a somnambulant lost in the coma of his will’s paralysis. At last the smoldering embers of revenge burst into flame and he wakes to restore justice and order to his world. His decision is swift and unequivocal: War on Denmark!
This, of course, is Prince Fortinbras whose quest Continue reading...

Team is a group of two or more individuals who, in order to achieve a certain goal, coordinate their actions and labor force. There are three key components in this definition. Firstly, to create a team at least two people are needed. Sometimes organizations consist of big teams but, as a rule, their number does not exceed fifteen individuals. Secondly, team members regularly interact with each other. Third, the work of the team members is aimed at achieving a certain goal, whether it is developing a new tablet, vehicle or writing a textbook. Students, for example, are often grouped Continue reading...